-The Hindu Patna: The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday passed a proposal of the Home Department to grant 35 per cent reservation for women in recruitment of constables and sub-inspectors in reserved and as well as unreserved categories. As per the decision, women will get 35 per cent quota. The decision is part of government's women-centric measures in recent times. Women in cooperatives Earlier, the Cabinet approved 50 per cent quota for women in cooperatives. Special schemes Chief...
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Superior packaging can’t be used to raise prices: High Court to Sanofi SA -Maulik Vyas
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: In a setback to Sanofi SA, the Bombay High Court has dismissed the plea filed by the French pharmaceutical major saying 'superior' packaging cannot be the argument for higher pricing of drugs. The court order also clarified that fixing the prices of drugs in the country will remain in the domain of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority. In its argument, the pharmaceutical company had said it had relied...
More »Vedanta's alumina project in Odisha stuck as SC refers mining issue back to gram sabhas -Samanwaya Rautray
-The Economic Times Vedanta's alumina project in Odisha's Lanjigarh will be stuck for at least five more months, with the Supreme Court today referring the controversial issue of mining the nearby Niyamgiri hills back to the gram sabhas. A bench, comprising justices Aftab Alam, K.S. Radhakrishnan and Ranjan Gogoi, said that the issue of tribal rights, especially their religious rights, had not been determined before grant of permission to mine the hills...
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KEY TRENDS • According to National Sample Survey report no. 583: Persons with Disabilities in India, the percentage of persons with disability who received aid/help from Government was 21.8 percent, 1.8 percent received aid/help from organisation other than Government and another 76.4 percent did not receive aid/ help *8 • As per National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4), the Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR) was 57.2 per 1,000 live births (for the non-STs it was 38.5)...
More »Judges wanted Bhullar sentence commuted -V Venkatesan
-The Hindu Differing with his brother judges, Justice M.B. Shah had actually voted to acquit Bhullar His plea for mercy on the grounds of delay may have been rejected by the Supreme Court last week but there is one more argument his lawyers can make in their final push to save Devender Pal Singh Bhullar from the gallows: the two judges who confirmed the death sentence in a 2:1 split verdict...
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