-The Indian Express The Fate of 157 government-approved global clinical trials seemed uncertain on Monday as the Supreme Court ordered the Centre to wait for its nod while the authorities re-examined the cases under the new regulatory regime. Making it clear that clinical trials being conducted in India must be done for the benefit of the people here, a bench of Justices R M Lodha and S K Singh directed the government...
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Dangers of letting cars dictate city design-Anumita Roychowdhury
-Down to Earth If any other cause was responsible for so many deaths and injuries as we see on our roads it would have been a state of emergency Sunita Narain-our colleague and friend-was seriously injured in an accident while cycling yesterday. A car hit her and fled. This cruel act of crime and heartlessness could have shattered our faith in humanity had it not been for the kind act of the...
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-The Hindu Number of people killed in accidents up 8% annually in past decade: Study New Delhi: "Cyclists and pedestrians account for more than half of all road Fatalities in the country, but they draw public disdain and policy hostility," a study by the University of Michigan and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has observed. The study also indicates that the number of people killed in road accidents in India have increased...
More »Underweight and Stunted Children: The Indian Paradox -R Nithya
-Newsclick.in Recent studies have shown that even as India fares better than many developing regions of the world on several indicators of growth and development such as GDP, per capita, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, etc., the number of malnourished children in India is significantly high. What explains this paradox? The Union Cabinet recently approved a multi-sectoral nutritional programme proposed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to reduce...
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-The Hindu Bangalore: The foot-and-mouth disease appears only to be spreading geographically and in intensity across the State, even as the Animal Husbandry Department reiterates that the cattle disease is "under control". By Wednesday, the disease had claimed 3,060 head of cattle (since September 1), according to official figures with the department, a significant jump from last week's casualty figure of 2,060. Another 23,500 animals have been infected with the virus, as...
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