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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday admitted a petition that sought judicial intervention to form an expert panel to investigate the side-effects of Covid vaccination.The petition was filed by the parents of two young women who died allegedly due to the side-effects associated with Covid vaccination. They had sought compensation and a scrutiny of vaccination records and treatment protocols.The parents, in their additional petition, wanted renowned medical practitioners Amitav Banerjee, Jacob Puliyel and Sankha Shubra Chakrabarti, to be included in the scrutiny board.The government has objected to the new demands, arguing the latest petition is aimed at delaying proceedings. However,…
As Donald Trump seeks to reshape the federal government at breakneck speed, his administration has encountered a flood of litigation challenging the legality of its early actions in office.With more than 100 federal lawsuits filed since the inauguration, Trump and his administration have effectively been sued three times for every business day he has occupied the Oval Office.Approximately 30 of the 100 lawsuits relate to Trump’s immigration policies, while more than 20 of the cases directly challenge the actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Ten of the cases challenge Trump policies relating to transgender people, and more than…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of its first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump began his second term. The Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Biden administration, in a reversal that could have national implications for urgent care. The lawsuit had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if needed to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The…
Manuel Neuer in action© AFP Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer is set for a stint on the sidelines after tearing his calf muscle during a celebration in Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen. Neuer was seen limping and was subbed out in the second half of the last 16 first leg tie just after Jamal Musiala put Bayern 2-0 up. Neuer’s substitution brought debutant Jonas Urbig from the bench. Bayern issued a statement on Thursday confirming the 38-year-old’s injury, saying Neuer “would be out for the time being”. “It happened while celebrating,” Bayern coach Vincent Kompany…
SEOUL — Fifteen people were injured in an accident in which bombs were “abnormally” dropped by a South Korean fighter jet during an exercise on Thursday, the country’s military officials said.South Korea’s Defense Ministry confirmed that eight MK-82 bombs were dropped from an aircraft during a live-fire exercise that took place in the Nogok-ri area of Pocheon, a city that sits between Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone, the fortified border with North Korea.South Korean Air Force F-35A fighter jets deploy flares during a joint live-fire drill in South Korea near the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon on March 6,…
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge has denied Elon Musk’s request for a court order blocking OpenAI from converting itself to a for-profit company but said she could expedite a trial to consider Musk’s claims against the ChatGPT maker and its CEO. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled late Tuesday that “Musk has not demonstrated likelihood of success on the merits” in his request for a preliminary injunction. She offered to hold a trial in her California courtroom as soon as this fall, “given the public interest at stake and potential for harm if a conversion contrary to law…
President Donald Trump vowed more “swift and unrelenting action” reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress as Democratic lawmakers showed their dissent with placards calling out “lies.” One elderly congressman faces possible censure after he was ejected for shaking his cane and shouting that Trump has no mandate to cut Medicaid. The fallout continues after Trump launched a trade war Tuesday against America’s three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate retaliation from Mexico, Canada and China and sending financial markets into a tailspin as the U.S. faced the threat of rekindled inflation and paralyzing…
New Delhi: Union Health Minister J P Nadda has advocated the inclusion of the latest technological advancements, artificial intelligence, telemedicine and digital healthcare in the revised medical education curriculum. In his address at a post-budget webinar series organised by the Health Ministry on Wednesday, he sought the framing of a curriculum that is more vibrant, meaningful and fit to current challenges and makes optimum use of existing infrastructure and medical faculty. He emphasised the need for adding soft skills to increase the empathy, ethics and communication skills of the medical students and said that “the biggest investment is the investment…
Former South Africa fast bowler Vernon Philander has backed Temba Bavuma to continue leading South Africa in ODIs, saying that the right-handed batter still has a couple of years left in him to be at the helm. Philander’s comments come after South Africa lost their 2025 Champions Trophy semi-final to New Zealand by 50 runs at the Gaddafi Stadium. South Africa were tasked with chasing down 363, and despite Bavuma’s 56, Rassie van der Dussen’s 69 and David Miller’s unbeaten hundred off 67 balls, they eventually made 312/9. “I think he’s a fantastic leader. I think what he…
An alleged key figure in the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting U.S. soldiers at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan appeared in federal court in Virginia following his extradition to the U.S.Mohammad Sharifullah, described by the Department of Justice as an ISIS-K operative, made a brief first appearance hearing Wednesday afternoon in Alexandria federal court on a charge for allegedly orchestrating the attack that killed 13 U.S. military servicemembers and approximately 160 civilians.Sharifullah spoke softly as he answered a magistrate judge’s questions about whether he understood his constitutional rights. Through an interpreter, he acknowledged the federal charge he…