In August 2017, images of distraught parents and children dying due to the scarcity of oxygen flooded television screens in India, even as the print media announced the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne viral infection of the brain, in 38 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. In this grim situation, the paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan became a hero for working …
Vijay Rupani has been made a "scapegoat" and he became the victim of the BJP's "internal tussle," Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil said on Saturday. He said the people of Gujarat, who elected the BJP government with high hopes, "will not forgive the party and vote them out in the upcoming assembly elections". Gujarat Congress leader Paresh Dhanani also claimed Rupani's …
IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, named in the phone tapping case of the Maharashtra State Intelligence Department, told the Bombay High Court on Friday that she was being made a scapegoat by the Maharashtra government while the state's chief secretary, Sitaram Kunte, is getting protection. Rashmi Shukla's lawyer, advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, said it was Sitaram Kunte who had sanctioned phone tapping …
Former Managing Director of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, Joy Thomas, arrested in connection with the alleged Rs 4,355 crore scam at the bank, was on Saturday remanded in police custody till October 17. His lawyer Rakesh Singh argued that Joy Thomas was just an employee of the bank and not a decision-maker and was being made a scapegoat as …