scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Thursday, January 8, 2026
TopicNegligence

Topic: negligence

Delhi police registers FIR against unknown persons over roof collapse at Dargah that killed 6

FIR filed under BNS sections 290 (negligent construction), 125 (endangering life and personal safety of others), and 106 (death by negligence).

Air India fails to provide pre-booked wheelchair, kin claims injury to 82-year-old grandmother

In a post on X, Parul Kanwar accused the airline of negligence, which caused her grandmother to collapse at New Delhi airport. Air India has denied these allegations.

Rajkot gaming zone fire: Bodies being returned to kin as spotlight remains on negligence

FIR says proprietors never filed for fire NOC, AC wires not covered or insulated. Proprietor Dhawal Thakkar is currently absconding.

NHRC holds meeting on patients’ and doctors’ rights, discusses medical negligence

Other dignitaries present on the occasion included eminent doctors, senior health officials, representatives of various government departments, and members of the National Medical Commission.

‘Difficult to define gross negligence’ — IMA urges govt to clarify doctors’ prosecution under new laws

IMA has written to home ministry stating that jail term for doctors charged with causing death by negligence should be considered only when probe officer is ‘satisfied of recklessness’. 

IMA welcomes lower jail term for medical negligence, but it’s fighting for total ‘decriminalisation’

Before Parliament passed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Indian Medical Association wrote to Home Minister asking for death by medical negligence to be treated as civil, not criminal, matter.

On Camera

MEA should stop living in dread of Trump. We’ve lived through Nixon before

Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

India’s defence sky gets a solar boost: Army orders iDEX solar-electric drone 

Indian Army has inducted loitering munitions, kamikaze and surveillance drones for over Rs 5,000 crore post Operation Sindoor from various domestic firms.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.