Day: February 17, 2020

Air India flyer seeks damages over data breach

Rajiv Bansal takes charge as Air India CMD

8:34 pm February 17, 2020

Mumbai: Senior IAS officer Rajiv Bansal on Monday took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of disinvestment-bound Air India. This is the second time Bansal has taken over the reins of the national carrier. He had served as the CMD for little over three months in 2017. He replaces Ashwani Lohani, who completed his […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Goa to get largest super-specialty facility under PMSSY

8:30 pm February 17, 2020

Panaji: The country’s largest super- specialty medical block under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) will be inaugurated within next six months in Goa, state health minister Vishwajit Rane said on Monday. The facility is coming up in Bambolim near the Goa Medical College and Hospital and the state will invite Prime Minister Narendra […]

Speeding school bus overturns in UP, 14 students injured

8:26 pm February 17, 2020

Gorakhpur (UP): Fourteen children were injured on Monday when a speeding school bus overturned in Shohratgarh area of Siddharthnagar district here, police said. The incident took place in the morning when the bus carrying 25 children of Saraswati Shishu Mandir lost control and overturned, they said. The injured students were rushed to the hospital where […]

CBI arrests former SI in custodial death case

8:24 pm February 17, 2020

Kochi: The CBI has arrested a former sub-inspector of a police station who is the prime accused in the alleged custodial torture and death of a man in Idukki district last year. Sabu K A, who was the sub-inspector of Nedukandam police station when the incident occurred, was arrested by CBI sleuths from Thiruvananthapuram unit […]

AIDS serious problem, should be tackled on war-footing: Mizoram guv

8:21 pm February 17, 2020

Aizawl: Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai on Monday called for concerted efforts to control and fight the growing HIV/AIDS prevalence in the state. Delivering his customary speech on the opening day of the Assembly’s Budget Session, Pillai, who assumed charge in October last year, said AIDS was a serious problem in the state, which “should […]