-Orissa Diary   More than 20 tribals belonging to primitive Dangaria Kandh community from Niyamgiri area Thursday joined the anti Posco movement to express their solidarity to the ongoing  ovement at Posco proposed site. The tribals, armed with traditional weapons, came in a procession to the protest site near Govindpur village and joined the villagers. The villagers have formed a human barricade to prevent entry of government and company officials to the proposed...

-The United Nations   About a billion people, if they wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes, are facing some pretty off-putting and sometimes gruesome graphics on the package cover, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, marking the success of its warning campaign. In its third annual report on the global tobacco epidemic, launched today in Montevideo, Uruguay, the agency said more than one billion people in 19 countries...

-The Hindu   Bill aims at making ethical committees looking into trials ‘robust' A legislation to monitor the entire research on human bodies by a single authority is likely to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament, according to V.M. Katoch, Secretary, Department of Health Research. The Bill will seek to make the ethical committees, presently looking into clinical trials on human beings, ‘robust' by constituting a monitoring mechanism over them. It was felt...

-PTI   The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a high-level Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former apex court judge B P Jeevan Reddy to monitor the investigation and the steps being taken to bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks. Besides Justice Reddy, who will be the chairman of the SIT, the apex court also appointed its former judge, Justice M B Shah as the vice-chairman of the panel. A bench...

Not satisfied with a probe ordered by the Chhattisgarh government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to immediately take over the investigation into the incidents of violence that occurred in March in Morpalli, Tadmetla and Timmapuram villages in Dantewada district or its neighbouring areas. A Bench of Justices B. Sudershan Reddy and S.S. Nijjar, in an order on a writ petition filed by Professor Nandini Sundar...