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SC slams Centre for delay in recruitment of judges -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for dragging its feet on the appointment of high court judges, accusing the government of trying to shut down the judiciary. So far, the Centre has cleared only 18 of 77 names recommended by the Collegium for posts of high court judges. With the apex court threatening to summon PMO secretary over this delay, the Centre sought time to...

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Professor designs portable toilet for deep sea fishermen

-The Times of India MADURAI: A portable toilet which could be used by deep sea fishermen ensuring their safety and also hygiene has been designed and patented by the faculty of Kalasalingam University in Srivilliputur. Professor P Jeyakumar, the brain behind the project, said that fishermen who went deep sea fishing spent many days out at sea in the trawlers which were small in size and lacked toilet facilities. Defecation was done...

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Move over, Kerala! J&K has the highest life expectancy in India

-IANS Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has surpassed Kerala as the state with the highest life expectancy in India for all ages, barring life expectancy at birth, according to data released on October 19, 2016, by the Registrar General of India (RGI). The RGI publishes state level life expectancy-defined as the estimate of the average number of additional years that a person of a given age can expect to live -- data for...

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1m Indian TB patients fall off radar every year -Malathy Iyer

-The Times of India MUMBAI: A close-up of India's tuberculosis epidemic shows, for the first time, how a million of the now 2.8 million TB patients go 'missing' or never show up in the Revised National TB Control Programme. Almost 28% of the patients don't have access a government TB centre and around half a million patients either never complete their long diagnostic process or medical treatment, found a joint study by...

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Report on environmental clearance for real estate projects 'not traceable' says ministry -Jayashree Nandi

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The environment ministry has said that a report reviewing the requirement of environment clearance for real estate projects and buildings is now "not traceable." This reply was given on an RTI enquiry filed in July that had asked for a copy of a committee report headed by K Kasturirangan, member, Planning Commission in 2013. The RTI had also asked for a report submitted by an expert...

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