The controversial three-and-a-half year long medical degree -Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) -- has now got the backing of Planning Commission's all powerful high level expert group on universal health coverage. The panel has in its report (finalized on Sunday and available with TOI) "endorsed" the all new BRMS cadre and said that as a career progression incentive, they should be promoted to the level of pubLIC health officers...
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Coal mining poLICy: The dismantling of the 'go, no-go' poLICy may do little to improve supplies of coal by Avinash Celestine
In March this year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the houses and businesses of a few top industrialists in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, home to one of the subsidiaries of India's biggest coal miner, Coal India (CIL). Dhanbad is more widely known in popular imagination as home of the infamous 'coal mafia', which spread a reign of terror across the coal mining districts of the then undivided Bihar in the...
More »RTI ‘transgressing into govt functioning’, Moily wants a debate by DK Singh
Denying any rift between Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram, Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily today called for a “national debate” on the scope of the Right to Information Act (RTI), saying it “transgresses into the independent functioning of the government”. This came in the context of Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy citing a Finance Ministry note that has brought the spotlight on Chidambaram’s role in the 2G...
More »Note sets slow-bomb ticking by Sanjay K Jha
The 2G note has exposed the deep political rift in the top echelons of the UPA regime, spreading fear among insiders that the row will trigger repercussions within the Congress as well as the government in the coming months. The Congress leadership has decided to fully back the home minister for now but future responses will depend on the assessment of the Supreme Court. The apex court will decide whether P....
More »Govt hints at CBI ‘study’ of note on PC by Samanwaya Rautray
A note prepared by the Centre’s counsel and circulated among journalists today suggested the CBI would “study” and “consider” a finance ministry note that appeared to cast aspersions on P. Chidambaram in the 2G scandal. “The new documents, filed for the first time before this court, will naturally be studied and considered by the CBI as usual and may be covered in the next status report,” the note prepared by P.P....
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