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ED may issue 7th summons to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in excise policy

New Delhi, Feb 19 (PTI) The ED is expected to issue fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said on Monday. The ED sources claimed that a local court has prima facie held Kejriwal guilty of “disobeying” the earlier notices issued to him in this case, warranting the seventh summons. Kejriwal, 55, refused to depose before the federal agency for the sixth time on Monday with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) saying the ED should wait for the court’s decision instead of repeatedly sending summonses to the CM,

Arrest of Chanda Kochhar, her husband in loan fraud case amounted to abuse of power by CBI: Bombay High Court

Mumbai, Feb 19 (PTI) The arrest of ICICI Bank’s former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a loan fraud case was “without application of mind and due regard to the law”, amounting to an “abuse of power”, the Bombay High Court has said. A division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai and N R Borkar had on February 6 held the Kochhars’ arrest as illegal and confirmed a January 2023 interim order passed by another bench granting them bail. In the order made available on

Sandeshkhali: Supreme Court stays Lok Sabha panel notice to West Bengal chief secretary, DGP on complaint of BJP MP

New Delhi, Feb 19 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the notices issued by the privileges committee of the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the West Bengal chief secretary, DGP and others over a complaint of “misconduct” filed against them by BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar. Majumdar sustained injuries last week as BJP workers clashed with police personnel after being stopped from going to violence-hit Sandeshkhali in West Bengal. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwla and Manoj Misra took note of the submissions of senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the state

Have chronic pain? You’re more likely to be a woman and less likely to be believed by doctors

Sydney, Feb 19 (360info) If you are among the one in five adult Australians experiencing chronic pain, then you are more likely to be female. Not only that, if you’re female you’re less likely to be prescribed or recommended medication by your doctor — be they male or female. That’s because, as a recent experimental study of simulated and actual chronic pain patients showed, clinicians underestimate pain in female patients. This is not a uniquely Australian phenomenon: Gender differences in the experiences and treatment of pain holds true across many different age groups, countries, and causes of chronic pain. This

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