-PTI Directs Maharashtra Chief Secretary to look into the issue Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today expressed dissatisfaction over Maharashtra government’s lack of sensitivity in addressing the increasing number of malnutrition deaths in tribal areas of the State. Hearing a host of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) regarding malnourished children in the Melghat region of Vidarbha and other tribal areas, a Division Bench headed by Justice V. M. Kanade directed the Maharashtra Chief Secretary...
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Make default list public: SC
-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the RBI to disclose the names of borrowers who had each defaulted on public-sector bank loans of Rs 500 crore and above but the apex bank raised objections. The top court, after going through the defaulters' list submitted by the RBI in a sealed cover on March 29, said 57 people had defaulted on loans worth Rs 85,000 crore...
More »SC says jails are overcrowded by 150 %, laments plight of inmates -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu “Fundamental rights and human rights of people, however they may be placed, cannot be ignored only because of their adverse circumstances” Blaming Delhi for paying “little or no attention” to the fundamental rights of under trials and convicts, the Supreme Court said it is “not only tragic but also pathetic” to find that prisons in the national capital, along with half a dozen States across the country, are overcrowded by...
More »A disaster in the making -A Rangarajan
-Frontline Medecins Sans Frontieres warns that the free or regional trade agreements that are being negotiated, which seek to strengthen current patent regimes, are a potential threat to the developing world’s access to life-saving drugs, which it sources mostly from India. WHEN NELSON MANDELA’S GOVERNMENT passed the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act in 1997 to make medicines more accessible to the poor, 39 big pharmaceutical companies filed law suits in...
More »Prashant Bhushan, founder of Swaraj Abhiyan, speaks to Vrinda Gopinath (thewire.in)
-TheWire.in Swaraj Abhiyan founder Prashant Bhushan discusses the Essar tapes and other scams, the role of whistleblowers and his fallout with Arvind Kejriwal. Celebrated lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan has just notched up another victory with the Supreme Court-appointed panel decreeing there was prima facie evidence that former CBI director Ranjit Sinha had attempted to influence the investigation into the coal block allocation scam under the then UPA government. The court’s observation was based...
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