Golden Retriever suffocates to death in car as owner spends hours at Goa casino, dog attempted to chew vehicle mat trying to surviveA Golden Retriever died tragically from heat and suffocation inside a locked car in Panaji after its owner spent more than four hours at a ...
07 Apr, 2026, 02.49 PM IST
UP CM Yogi at Janata Darshan orders time-bound action on grievances, warns against land grabsYogi Adityanath held a “Janata Darshan” in Gorakhpur, where he heard grievances of around 200 people and directed officials to resolve issu...
26 Mar, 2026, 01.52 PM IST
National Medical Commission rules allow complaints against doctors: GovtThe National Medical Commission (NMC) faces criticism for allegedly rejecting patient appeals, despite existing regulations allowing them. ...
04 Aug, 2025, 03.14 PM IST
Private hospital ordered to pay Rs 34 lakh compensation for delaying ICU treatment over consentWockhardt Hospitals in Nashik must pay ₹34 lakh to the father of a deceased patient. The consumer commission found the hospital negligent f...
30 Jul, 2025, 04.25 PM IST
37-year-old Kanpur techie dies after hair transplant surgeryVineet Kumar Dubey, an engineer, died after a hair transplant in Kanpur. His wife, Jaya Tripathi, filed a police complaint. She alleged med...
12 May, 2025, 02.42 PM IST
Father fights against doctor's medical negligence leading to son’s death; SC awards Rs 15 lakh compensation, holds hospital responsibleThe Supreme Court held a hospital in Andhra Pradesh liable for a patient's death due to a doctor's negligence. The case pertained to the de...
28 Apr, 2025, 04.55 PM IST
India needs a robust system to protect doctors from bogus lawsuits & ensure accountability for negligenceIndian Medical Association (IMA) praised GoI for criminal reforms absolving medical fraternity from liability under Section 304(a) of IPC, ...
24 May, 2024, 11.42 PM IST
UP doctors suspended due to unethical activities, complaint of negligenceTwo doctors have been dismissed and suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government following accusations of black marketing and unethical activi...
22 Apr, 2023, 09.43 AM IST
Even death of patient on the face of it cannot be medical negligence: Supreme CourtSupreme Court added, "the doctors are expected to take reasonable care, but no professional can assure that the patient will come back home...
20 Apr, 2022, 09.40 PM IST
Maharashtra forming expert cell to protect doctors against complaints by patients' kin: Govt tells HCState Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni told a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni that the cell will compris...
07 Jul, 2021, 02.05 PM IST
HC suggests Maha consider forming cell of well-trained cops to deal with complaints of medical negligenceThe court was hearing a bunch of PILs on management of resources related to COVID-19, and another on rising instances of attacks on doctors...
11 Jun, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
Hospital has right to insist on payment but prime duty is to take care of patient: NCDRCA bench of presiding member S M Kantikar and Dinesh Singh awarded the compensation to the deceased patient's wife Yashumati Devi noting tha...
30 Aug, 2020, 04.24 PM IST
Over 3,000 US employees file class action suit against CognizantThis is a fallout of Cognizant’s announcement in October that about 6,000 of its employees in the content moderation business for Facebook ...
16 Mar, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
Doctor liable for acts of his team assisting in rendering treatment, says NCDRCNCDRC held the hospital and the treating doctors guilty of medical negligence and said that they were liable for the death of the three-yea...
30 May, 2019, 08.12 PM IST
Service of nurse who severed infant's thumb should be terminated: Mamata BanerjeeBanerjee's statement comes a day after a nurse severed the thumb of an eight-day-old boy at a government hospital in north Bengal's Balurgh...
14 Jul, 2015, 04.20 PM IST
SC to examine doctors' liability for negligence in case of free treatmentsThe district consumer forum dismissed the plea on the ground that the victim was treated for free and hence the case did not come under the...
03 Jul, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
- Record Rs 1.73 crore payout in medical negligence case
NCDRC ordered that a compensation amount of Rs 1.73 crore should be paid to the US-based husband of a child psychologist who died in Mumbai...
22 Oct, 2011, 08.52 AM IST