-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi's shame continues. The National Crime Records Bureau's report for 2012, released on Wednesday, iterates through statistics what every woman in the city knows by experience - that it remains the most unsafe for women among 88 important cities of India. With 5,959 cases of crime against women registered last year, Delhi accounted for a staggering 14.88% of all women-related crimes reported from these 88 cities....
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60,000 sq km of Western Ghats to be green zone -Nitin Sethi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union environment ministry is expected to approve the K Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats and declare around 60,000 square kilometers of the southern hills - spanning across six states - as no-go area for mining, thermal power plants and heavily polluting industries. Sources in the ministry said, the process has begun to finalize the decision after receiving comments from public and state governments on...
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-The Telegraph The Union health ministry has Banned the manufacture and sale of a pain-reliever called dextropropoxyphene (DPPP) amid steadily growing concerns worldwide that this opioid analgesic drug poses several serious health risks, including heart damage. The health ministry, in a drug withdrawal notification, has suspended the manufacture, distribution and sale of all medicines containing DPPP saying the central government has determined that this drug is likely to involve risk to humans...
More »Probed and declared pregnant, tribal brides now ostracized -Manjari Mishra
-The Times of India JABALPUR: Misfortune, like locusts, always arrives in bunches, philosophizes Sona Bai. The Gond tribal girl from Betul district's Neharpur village in her 20s knows this best. Getting booted out of the mass marriage pandal along with eight other prospective brides on June 7 after sarkari dai announced to the world her pregnancy, was only the beginning. Worse things seem to be hurtling down her way. Peeved at the...
More »A grain of common sense-Sreenivasan Jain
-The Business Standard Chhattisgarh proves no cash transfer or UID is needed to make PDS work Viewed from a ration shop in Surguja in the largely poor tribal north of Chhattisgarh, the arguments for and against the food security Bill seem way off the mark. We had travelled there to see first-hand Chhattisgarh's much-celebrated transformation of its broken, corrupt public distribution system (a recent survey found that wastage of PDS grain dropped...
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