-Down to Earth Are people more important or IPL, Court asks associations of drought-hit Maharashtra and Mumbai The Bombay High Court has rapped the Mumbai and Maharashtra cricket associations for scheduling 19 of the 60 matches to be held during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur even as the state reels under severe water scarcity. The court stated that Maharashtra ought to prioritise its water usage according...
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Govt widens choice of birth-control methods for women -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In order to give women wider choice, the government has introduced a mix of birth-control measures, including injectable contraceptives and new oral PILls, under the national family planning programme, health minister J P Nadda has said. Age-old condom brand 'Nirodh' has been given a makeover with a new logo and communication strategy, led by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador, to give a boost...
More »Will Delhi’s odd-even rule work? -Manas Paul, Parijat Upadhyay, and Boishampayan Chatterjee
-The Hindu Business Line It can, with the right approach and changed mind-sets. Tackling pollution’s a bigger issue The odd-even formula is to be tried out once again in April, after its initial trial implementation in January this year. Repeated PILot testing assumes importance as an attempt to initiate behavioural change, making it acceptable before its permanent enforcement over time. If this is so, two obvious questions arise: How effective is the current...
More »PILibhit fake encounter: 47 policemen get life imprisonment for killing Sikh PILgrims -Sangeeta Ojha
-India Today All 47 policemen convicted for killing 11 Sikh PILgrims in three separate fake encounters in 1991 in Uttar Pradesh's PILibhit district have been sentenced to life by a special CBI court today. All 47 policemen convicted for killing 11 Sikh PILgrims in three separate fake encounters in 1991 in Uttar Pradesh's PILibhit district have been sentenced to life by a special CBI court today. Last week, the court had held the...
More »Rights group lobbied with EU to push Modi on FCRA -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day before the India-EU summit on March 30, international human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch wrote to the European Union brass complaining how the Modi regime was using the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act to restrict foreign funding oto Indian NGOs like Greenpeace India and ones run by activist Teesta Setalvad, besides stifling free speech by those critical of the government. Intelligence agencies have taken note...
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