Chandigarh: A massive fire broke out in government-run Guru Nanak Dev Hospital in Amritsar Saturday but a major tragedy was averted as patients and their attendants were all safely evacuated, police said.
Three floors of the building have been damaged but hospital authorities said no one injured in the incident.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has expressed anguish over the incident, and said that he was monitoring the relief work.
I t is the sign of the times, transcending geographical frontiers, that democracy is being grotesquely distorted, giving a...
Read moreDetails
In a landmark verdict, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, that country’s highest judicial authority, on 11 September convicted former president...
Read moreDetails
An American scholar has written a book in which he tries to explain China’s recent rise. Dan Wang’s thesis is...
Read moreDetails
India’s top anti-corruption watchdog, the CVC, has just delivered a stinging reality check to the CBI, and it’s not a...
Read moreDetails
