Author: Gauri Mandkikar

An independent investigation into Britain’s tainted blood scandal has recommended that the country compensate thousands of people affected with HIV or hepatitis with over 10 billion pounds ($12.70 billion), according to a report released on Monday, May 20. The contaminated blood scandal is one of the deadliest health disasters in the history of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS). In response to thousands of patients affected by tainted blood in a decades-long scam that a damning investigation revealed was hushed up and mostly preventable, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed regret on Monday. Sunak apologized sincerely to the House of…

Rescuers were having difficulty getting to the scene of the incident on Sunday when a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed when it was flying over deep fog across mountainous terrain, an Iranian official told Reuters.  The official stated that Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian’s lives were “at risk following the helicopter crash,” which occurred when they were returning from a trip to the country’s northwest border with Azerbaijan. The official, who remained anonymous to Reuters, stated, “We stay positive, but the details coming from the crash site are very worrying.” According to an…

  Mamata Banerjee cautioned against adopting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). She also charged that misleading material was published in BJP commercials. Banerjee declared that “those granted citizenship will be thrown behind the bars by branding them as foreigners” during speeches at successive election rallies in Daspur and Gopiballavpur. The announcement made by the Central government on Friday that it had awarded citizenship to 14 individuals under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, according to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was described as a “lie”. During the Lok Sabha elections, she referred to the statement as “politics”. At rallies in West Bengal,…

Delhi Police claimed that two calls they received from an unidentified person inside Mr. Arvind Kejriwal’s house using a phone number that belonged to Ms. Maliwal alerted them to the harassment. AAP leader Swati Maliwal has spoken out about the incident with Delhi Police after going silent for four days. Maliwal is at the center of an alleged harassment case involving party leader Arvind Kejriwal’s aide, Bibhav Kumar. The opposition BJP and the ruling AAP are engaged in a bitter political battle as a result of this. Based on the complaint, Bibhav Kumar is the target of an ongoing legal…

After running a pro-Russian and anti-American campaign, Fico, a three-time premier, and his leftist Direction – Social Democracy (Smer) party won Slovakia’s legislative elections on September 30, 2023, making a political comeback. Robert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia, was shot on Wednesday afternoon and is currently receiving medical attention. The Slovak government agency claims that he is in a potentially fatal condition. The 59-year-old prime minister was shot in the stomach, according to TA3, a Slovakian TV station, after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in Handlova, which is located around 150 kilometers (93 miles)…

What is Cold Lava? Like a deadly river of wet concrete, cold lava, or “lahar,” rushed down from Mount Marapi, in Indonesia destroying everything in its path. According to the USGS, frozen lava has the potential to be much more deadly than molten lava since it will bury and smash everything in its path with unrelenting fury. Cold lava is a combination of volcanic material, debris, and water that moves more quickly than molten lava rivers that erupt during volcanic eruptions. This phenomena happens when water on a volcano’s slopes combines with debris and volcanic ash to form a dense…

On March 21, 2024, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Rick Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, became the first person in history to receive a kidney transplant from a pig. Despite the fact that organ transplants using genetically modified pigs had failed in the past, Slayman’s operation was heralded as a historic first. The 62-year-old guy reportedly had hypertension and Type 2 diabetes as well. In 2018, he underwent a human kidney transplant; however, the transplant failed after five years.  This event made him famous. Slayman was released from the hospital two weeks following the transplant to recuperate at home, but…

The foreign secretary has said that prohibiting the UK from supplying Israel with weapons will only make Hamas stronger. He stated on Sunday that stopping military sales is “not a wise path” and would only help Hamas. When asked if the United Kingdom would follow the United States in threatening to cut off Israel’s supply of offensive weapons in the event that it launched an attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Foreign Secretary David Cameron responded that the two nations could not be compared because, in contrast to the United States, Britain provides very little of Israel’s armaments.…

P.P. Jadhav, the Sessions Court Judge, found Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar guilty and gave them life sentences. Virendrasingh Tawade, Vikram Bhave, and Sanjeev Punalekar have all been absolved. Who Was Dabholkar? From Maharashtra, India, Narendra Achyut Dabholkar was a physician, social activist, rationalist, and writer who lived from 1 November 1945 until 20 August 2013.He was the founder of  the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra) established in 1989 and rose to the position of president. Four days after he was assassinated in 2013, the state of Maharashtra enacted the Anti-Superstition and Black…

On Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde applauded the Bombay High Court’s decision to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv, respectively, and that individuals opposing the move were tied to the opposition MVA. The Bombay High Court dismissed a slew of petitions contesting the Maharashtra government’s move to rename Aurangabad district as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Osmanabad as Dharashiv saying, “What’s in a title”. Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor, sitting as a division bench, determined that the petitions were without merit and that the state government’s notification (requesting renaming) was not subject to intervention. …