-The Hindu Chennai: Social activist Medha Patkar met residents affected by the Chennai airport expansion project here in Manapakkam on Wednesday. After meeting the residents at a gathering in Manapakkam, she told mediapersons the State government must denotify the lands acquired from the residents for the expansion work, since Airport Authority of India (AAI) had said that some of the allotted land might not be needed. "Though the experts have told that so...
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RTI brings to light drug trial on humans -Syed Intishab Ali
-The Times of India JAIPUR: A doctor conducted drug trial on heart patients but seven of them died during trial of the drug. Moreover, another doctor conducted drug trials of different companies and 10 of his cancer patients died during the trials. An RTI filed by a government-run Indore hospital Dr Anand Rai exposed deaths leading to drug trials in entire country. Answering to the RTI, office ofdrug controller general, ministry of...
More »In South Bastar, grim battles on to retake Maoist bases-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu JAGDALPUR: With semi-automatic weapons slung over their shoulders, these soldiers are more than just patrolling arterial village roads. They are in the midst of full-scale battles in which several people, mostly non-combatants, are getting killed. Forces have been mobilised in their thousands; dehydrated soldiers are getting evacuated by the Indian Air Force; corpses are removed in huge tractors meant for transporting farm produce; and Maoists are intensifying coordination at...
More »Srirangam farmers up in arms over land acquisition move
-The Hindu Government planning to set up paper board unit at a cost of Rs. 1200 crore TIRUCHI: Farmers of Mondipatti panchayat in Srirangam, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's constituency, are up in arms over the move to acquire their land for the setting up of a paper board unit. The farmers argued that the land identified for the State-owned project had been under cultivation for three generations, and the livelihood of at least 2,000...
More »Jharkhand Special Police Officers caught in a spiral of violence and retribution-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Khunti (Jharkhand): On the night of April 30, worshippers in the Raja Rani temple in Naurhi village in Adki block near Ranchi were singing, chanting and celebrating the new temple in their village when a group of CPI (Maoists) entered the temple and shot Dilip Acharya, the oldest of the three brothers who built the temple, dead as he lay asleep on the floor. The men then addressed...
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