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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today underwent a successful kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), an official at the premier health institute said. Both the donor and the recipient are stable and recovering well, the official said. Jaitley, 65, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday and taken to the operation theatre at 8 am ...

More than 60 people were killed on Sunday across the country as rain, thunderstorms hit various states throwing life out of gear and leaving behind a trail of destruction. Deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi-NCR. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued severe weather warnings for the next 72 hours for all regions between Kashmir ...

A woman can lodge a complaint under the domestic violence law against the excesses committed by her ex-husband even after the dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with the order of the Rajasthan High Court which held that the absence of subsisting domestic relationship in no manner prevents a court from granting ...

Meteorological department has expressed the possibility of storms and storms in different places on Saturday and Sunday in Uttar Pradesh. According to estimates, in many western and eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh, there will be a storm surge in the next 24 hours with strong winds. These include the surrounding areas including Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Siddhartha Nagar and Balrampur. The ...

Former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Himanshu Roy allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself here today, police said. The 1988-batch IPS officer allegedly shot himself at his residence with his service revolver, he said. Roy, who also served as Additional Director General of Police (Establishment), was rushed to Bombay Hospital, where he was declared dead. Roy, who was joint commissioner ...

The PhD students of the Mechanical Department of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed a special device (Fuel Quantifiers) in order to keep a tab on petrol pump operators from conning the common man. Now on the petrol and diesel pumps, the hacks to burn a hole in the common-mans pocket will not . A special type of device ...

The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the 135-km long Eastern Peripheral Expressway connecting the cities of Haryana and UP on not operational even after it was created. The Supreme Court has ordered that the Eastern Corridor be inaugurated by May 31. If the inauguration is not done by May 31, then the corridor should be opened, any kind of ...

CBI has registered a case in the Indian Army’s recruitment scam case. This is the case of 2016. In this FIR, the names of 41 suspects have been included. Of these, 34 are those who are currently deployed as soldiers in the Technical, Medical and General Branch of the Indian Army. The CBI said that investigation of the case had ...

For the first time since World War II, India has decided to deploy Fighter Plane in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to counter China. The effort of India is to strengthen its hold in the western region of the Indian Ocean, with important Straits of Malacca, Sunda, Lumbok and Ombai Wetar Strait. This will be the first time when Fighter ...

A woman was gang-raped in a moving car allegedly by two men after throwing her child (3) from the vehicle last evening on Delhi-Dehradun national highway here, police said. The child was rushed to a hospital by the villagers. He is out of danger. Later, the 26-year-old victim was also dropped from the car in Chapar area on the highway ...