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The University Grants Commission-administered and the National Testing Agency-conducted National Eligibility Test was cancelled just a little after the NTA-coordinated National Eligibility cum Entrance Test’s last-minute annulment – after it was revealed that question papers were leaked and both examinations compromised.

उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में स्वयंभू बाबा साकार विश्व हरि उर्फ भोले बाबा के सत्संग में मची भगदड़ से अब तक 121 लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है. दर्जनों लोग घायल हैं. मरने वालों में ज्यादातर महिलाएं और बच्चे शामिल हैं. 

The Hathras stampede has left behind at least 121 dead, most of them women and children. And the role played by self-proclaimed godman – Baba Sakar Vishwa Hari alias Bhole Baba – as well as district authorities is under the scanner. The administration had allowed 80,000 people to gather at…

As a religious event turned into a site of chaos at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, families of hundreds of dead and injured scrambled to locate their loved ones – searching hospitals across the region “without much help” from the administration.  

As independent journalists decoded the general election results on YouTube last month, at least a dozen of them received copyright claims on older videos, rendering those videos ineligible for monetisation. 

भारत ने T-20 का विश्वकप जीता तो कई चमत्कार देखने को मिले. भारत रात 11 बजकर 31 मिनट पर विश्वकप का फाइनल मैच जीता. 11 बजकर 40 मिनट पर प्रधानमंत्री का बधाई वाला वीडियो आ गया. नौ मिनट के अंदर. लेकिन प्रधानमंत्री की यह चटकवाही, यह फुर्ती, यह पूर्व प्लानिंग…

In September 2019, weeks after the Modi government in India stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status through unilateral constitutional changes, the British Labour Party adopted a resolution at its annual conference condemning “the recent actions of the Government of India to revoke Article 370 and 35A of the…

Post independence, even after the reorganisation of India’s internal boundaries with the implementation of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, new states continued to be carved out. Not on linguistic lines as the Act had done, but reportedly to meet regional demands and address inequalities in regional development. 

More than 50 people died and over a 100 are estimated to be injured in a stampede at a satsang, or religious event, in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, as per the Indian Express. The number of those dead, a majority of whom are women, is likely to increase.  

In the pleas challenging the IT Rules amendment, the centre defended its fact-check unit and told the Bombay High Court that not preventing fake or false news would violate the fundamental rights conferred by Article 19(1)(a) of the constitution, Livelaw reported.

This report is the third instalment of a series on medical negligence. Read the previous parts here.