-The Hindu Fears of plastic in eggs dispelled by laboratories in the State, but BJP wants samples tested at Central units Kochi: It has been a great egg scare in Kerala after hoaxers floated the theory that eggs sold in supermarkets in the State were not natural and actually came from Chinese factories full of toxins and plastic. The ‘Chinese eggs’ scare gained ground over the past few days after Malayalam media in...
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The End TB strategy -Soumya Swaminathan
-The Hindu The Global TB Report 2016, recently released, has revised the estimates for the tuberculosis (TB) burden in India upwards. The country has 27 per cent of the global burden of incident tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths. For the year 2015, the updated estimate of incidence (new and relapse TB cases per year) is 2.8 million cases. India diagnosed and notified 1.7 million incident TB patients...
More »SC stays commercial release of GM mustard till October 17 -Subhayan Chakraborty
-Business Standard Court to hear petition against release, field testing of all GM crops on that day The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the commercial release of the genetically modified (GM) variety of mustard till October 17, on a petition that this could have severe consequences on the environment and human health. The petition, filed a day earlier by an Aruna Rodriguez, had sought a moratorium on open-field trials and commercial release of...
More »GM mustard may be stalled indefinitely -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu SC will hear petition on Friday; comments invited by environment ministry have to be vetted Even though transgenic mustard (GM mustard) may have been declared safe by a government sub-committee, it may yet remain in the can for an indefinite period. On Friday, the Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition by anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) campaigner Aruna Rodrigues, who argues that the Centre’s preliminary clearance to GM mustard, named Dhara Mustard...
More »Compensate prisoners incarcerated more then term: CIC
-PTI The country’s largest prison Tihar has been asked by the Central Information Commission to develop a system of giving compensation to inmates who have been incarcerated for a duration more than their sentence period. The Commission has also directed the prison authorities to suo moto disclose the process of compensation to such prisoners as part of their obligation under the Right to Information Act. “Strangely the courts treated the MLA and the...
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