-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Hundreds of patients, including those requiring emergency treatment, were turned away by Delhi’s top public hospitals on Friday, the second day of the strike called by resident doctors protesting against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill. A 14-year-old girl, who had come to Safdarjung Hospital with chest pain, wasn’t admitted into the emergency ward. “The doctors said my condition was not life-threatening and asked me to...
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Rajya Sabha passes amendments to Motor Vehicles Bill -Shreya Nandi & Shaswati Das
-Livemint.com * The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha last week. It will now require President’s nod to become a law * The Bill was passed by a majority vote of 108-13, while also escaping scrutiny of a select committee NEW DELHI: In what may overhaul the country’s transportation system, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the proposed amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019. The bill was passed by the Lok...
More »The Unrealistic Optimism of Indians on Prospects of Upward Social Mobility -Ranjan Ray
-TheWire.in To rectify this gap between perception and reality, inequality of opportunities and the lack of emphasis on primary education need to feature more prominently in Indian policy discussions. We are constantly reminded of how Narendra Modi started from humble beginnings by selling tea and rose to occupy the position of the prime minister of India. Irrespective of which side of the political divide one is on, there is no disputing the...
More »Bhopal gas tragedy among world's 'major' Accidents of 20th century: UN report
-PTI/ United Nations According to recent estimates released by the ILO, each year 2.78 million workers die from occupational Accidents and work-related diseases (of which 2.4 million are disease-related). The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands of people is among the world’s “major industrial Accidents” of the 20th century, a UN report has said, warning that 2.78 million workers die from occupational Accidents and work-related diseases each year. The report released...
More »Driving the poor man's ascension into a progressive state from a poverty-stricken one -Sandeep Vempati
-Financial Express If ever there was a beautiful word in Indian polity, it shall be none other than ‘poverty’. Existence of poverty, the necessary evil, ensured the Congress and various regional parties win elections after elections through rhetoric, albeit repeatedly but in different forms, and finding a page on their election manifestos. Did any of the ideologically opposite previous dispensations ever knocked the door of the poor man for eliminating the...
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