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Kolkata, Nov 14: Suspended Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh, jailed in the Saradha chit fund case, was admitted to a Kolkata hospital in the wee hours of Friday after attempting suicide inside his high-security prison cell. Ghosh, a member of Rajya Sabha, was rushed to the SSKM Hospital in the city after reportedly consuming more than 50 sleeping pills. Doctors carried out a gastric suction on him. His

London, Nov 14: Global gold demand fell to its lowest in nearly five years in the third quarter as Chinese buying slid by a third, the World Gold Council said on Thursday, putting it back behind India as the world's biggest gold consumer. Total gold demand fell 2 per cent to 929 tonnes in the third quarter, the data, prepared in conjunction with GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters, showed. That is

Bilaspur, Nov 13: The surgeon, who conducted sterilisation surgeries on 83 women at a state-run camp which claimed the lives of 12 women in Pendari village in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, has been arrested. Laparoscopic surgeon Dr R K Gupta was taken into custody from his relative's place in neighbouring Balodabazar district late last night, Inspector General of Police, Bilaspur Range, Pawan

New Delhi, Nov 13: An eight-year old Indian-origin child prodigy is among experts who will address a cyber security conference starting Thursday, where Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh is also listed as a keynote speaker. In his address at the summit on November 14, the US-based whizkid Reuben Paul will highlight and demonstrate the need for developing the current generation with

New Delhi, Nov 13: The surgeon under scanner for botched-up sterilisation surgeries in Chhattisgarh, R K Gupta, violated a Supreme Court order which allows a maximum of 30 operations in a day with two separate laparoscopes only in government facilities. Also, a doctor cannot perform more than 10 sterilisations per day. Despite this, Gupta performed about three times the permissible number of

Mumbai, Nov 12: The 13-day-old BJP government in Maharashtra today won the trust vote in the Assembly but the passage of the confidence motion triggered a huge controversy with Shiv Sena and Congress contesting the procedure and claiming it had failed to prove majority. Calling the development a "black day" in the history of the state, the two opposition parties announced that they would register

Mumbai, Nov 12: Hours before Devendra Fadnavis government faces trust vote, the Shiv Sena today said it will vote against it in the Maharashtra Assembly. "Shiv Sena has decided to sit in opposition. We will vote against the trust vote," senior Sena leader Ramdas Kadam told reporters at Vidhan Bhawan here. "We have lost faith in them (BJP)," Kadam said. After Sena president Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai, Nov 12: The mood in BJP seemed upbeat as party strategists fine-tuned their strategy to win the trust vote in the Maharashtra assembly on Wednesday. BJP expects to sail through on NCP's support. "NCP legislators will either remain absent during the trust vote or support BJP," said a BJP strategist. "Either which way the NCP decides, BJP will win the confidence motion," he added. An NCP

New Delhi, Nov 11: Asserting that ASEAN is at the core of India's 'Act East' policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today headed to Myanmar to attend the Summit with the ten-nation grouping and the East Asia Summit. Modi left by a special Air India plane for Nay Pyi Taw on the first leg of his 10-day, three-nation tour that will also take him to Australia, where he will attend the G-20 meet, and

New Delhi, Nov 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to play the role of chief spokesperson of the government by giving him additional charge of the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry. Jaitley was on Sunday freed of the defence portfolio so that he could concentrate on the next budget and economic reforms. Jaitley was also told by Modi that his