-The Times of India NEW DELHI: KartikSawhney had to wage a battle before being allowed to study science in class XI. The CBSE was not convinced Kartik, who is completely blind, would be able to handle the 'visual inputs' - graphs, diagrams, models - required for science. The doubters got their answer on Monday. Kartik scored a 95% aggregate in science with computers in class XII. The DPS, R K Puram, student...
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From Bofors to 2G, the same fate-Arun Kumar
-The Hindu The parliamentary committees on the howitzer scam and the stock market scandal protected the powerful and failed to fix accountability. The same is true in the spectrum case The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and...
More »Ranbaxy's dark chapter-Bhupesh Bhandari
-The Business Standard Why have Indian authorities woken up to the Ranbaxy case only now? The matter had been simmering for several years The Ranbaxy affair is one of the darkest chapters of India's business history. The company has admitted it fudged data so that it could launch its products in the United States. It has now paid $500 million as a penalty to settle the case. It is worse than Ramalinga...
More »Indian capital has 13 times more toilets for men than women-Nita Bhalla
-Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The Delhi high court has called on local authorities in the Indian capital to provide more public toilets for women after it heard that there were more than 13 times more toilets for men in the city, the Times of India reported on Thursday. According to the report, there are 3,712 public toilets for men, compared to 269 for women in 10 out of 12 zones...
More »No end to caste violence in Pabnawa village, two more Dalits attacked again -Vishal Joshi
-The Hindustan Times Kaithal: Just when the elders from both Dalit and Ror communities were deliberating on putting an end to caste tension at Pabnawa village, a group of youths from the dominating community allegedly attacked and injured two Dalits on late Tuesday night. One of the injured Ram Mehar, 23, was admitted to the advance trauma centre of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, in a...
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