7 blasts in 15 minutes at crowded places in Jaipur; HuJI hand suspected
In one of the worst terrorist attacks, seven powerful bomb blasts rocked the Pink City, killing at least 70 people and injuring another 200 on Tuesday evening. Among the killed were about a dozen women.
Rattled by a series of damaging reports in The Pioneer on the vaccine scam, the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday tried to control the damage but failed to clear the air over its order to stop vaccine production by three PSUs, allegedly to favour private companies.
Learning a lesson from the criticism it invited over the first phase, the Delhi Government has kept IIT-D duo of Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwary away from Part B of the BRT corridor. "They did not attend Tuesday's meeting as they were not needed. The Government and other agencies are enough to give the project the desired shape. We do not want any more brickbats over the project," said a top official.
More than a thousand kilometres away from this election-bound State of Karnataka, when bigwigs of political parties finalised the names of their candidates in New Delhi, they took care of all minute details of caste combinations.