Negligence

Two senior forest officials of Madhya Pradesh have been suspended for alleged negligence in their duties after the death of 10 elephants at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.

The Supreme Court on Friday said a doctor can be held liable for negligence only when there was no requisite qualification and skill, or a failure to exercise reasonable expertise during treatment.

The hospital authorities had handed over the body to the family members of the deceased without conducting any post-mortem examination and did not inform the local police station in Cuttack about his death, he said.

Since her appointment, Tina Dabi has been in action mode - she is sometimes seen sweeping roads as part of a cleanliness campaign initiated by her and sometimes reprimanding doctors who were found to be negligent during hospital inspections.

Five days after 45-year-old Vimal Anil Gaikwad died - she fell into an open manhole on a waterlogged road in Mumbai's Andheri - an internal report seems to have cleared the city's civic body, which faces charges of negligence, of any responsibility.

In a case of negligence, two students died of electrocution at a government-run hostel for tribal students in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.

A 33-year-old Rajasthan bureaucrat died last night due to negligence by doctors, her relatives have alleged.

Maradona died in November 2020 at age 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, after decades of battling cocaine and alcohol addictions.

Here we share a list of hygiene tips you can follow to promote better overall health.

Anish Kailash Chauhan, a staffer at St. George Hospital in Mumbai, died after reportedly waiting nearly three hours for medical attention.

A magisterial probe into the deaths of three UPSC aspirants in the flooding of a coaching centre's basement has indicated mala fide violations of several laws by the MCD and the fire

In a heartbreaking incident that yet again raises questions over civic negligence endangering Delhi residents' lives, a 23-year-old woman and her three-year-old son died after falling in a drain during the downpour in the national capital yesterday

The death of three students in Delhi last week - they drowned after the basement of a tuition centre in the city's Rajendra Nagar area was flooded - is due to "negligence", Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.

Bansuri Swaraj mentioned that water from drains flooded the basement of a coaching centre, claiming the lives of three students.

An alternative healer was on Friday found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a diabetic woman who died from medical complications at a "slapping therapy" workshop in the UK.

Two senior forest officials of Madhya Pradesh have been suspended for alleged negligence in their duties after the death of 10 elephants at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.

The Supreme Court on Friday said a doctor can be held liable for negligence only when there was no requisite qualification and skill, or a failure to exercise reasonable expertise during treatment.

The hospital authorities had handed over the body to the family members of the deceased without conducting any post-mortem examination and did not inform the local police station in Cuttack about his death, he said.

Since her appointment, Tina Dabi has been in action mode - she is sometimes seen sweeping roads as part of a cleanliness campaign initiated by her and sometimes reprimanding doctors who were found to be negligent during hospital inspections.

Five days after 45-year-old Vimal Anil Gaikwad died - she fell into an open manhole on a waterlogged road in Mumbai's Andheri - an internal report seems to have cleared the city's civic body, which faces charges of negligence, of any responsibility.

In a case of negligence, two students died of electrocution at a government-run hostel for tribal students in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.

A 33-year-old Rajasthan bureaucrat died last night due to negligence by doctors, her relatives have alleged.

Maradona died in November 2020 at age 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, after decades of battling cocaine and alcohol addictions.

Here we share a list of hygiene tips you can follow to promote better overall health.

Anish Kailash Chauhan, a staffer at St. George Hospital in Mumbai, died after reportedly waiting nearly three hours for medical attention.

A magisterial probe into the deaths of three UPSC aspirants in the flooding of a coaching centre's basement has indicated mala fide violations of several laws by the MCD and the fire

In a heartbreaking incident that yet again raises questions over civic negligence endangering Delhi residents' lives, a 23-year-old woman and her three-year-old son died after falling in a drain during the downpour in the national capital yesterday

The death of three students in Delhi last week - they drowned after the basement of a tuition centre in the city's Rajendra Nagar area was flooded - is due to "negligence", Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.

Bansuri Swaraj mentioned that water from drains flooded the basement of a coaching centre, claiming the lives of three students.

An alternative healer was on Friday found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a diabetic woman who died from medical complications at a "slapping therapy" workshop in the UK.