Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India’s central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the prophylactic cocktail in the universal immunisation programme in seven of its provinces. Pentavalent vaccine doses, a cocktail of five antigens in a single shot, confers immunity against five paediatric diseases - diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type b (Hib), with the last one considered particularly...
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Shielding whistle blowers: Punjab gives teeth to panel
-Express News Service The Punjab government has decided to include representatives of Home Department, Advocate General’s office and some social activists, including women, as members of the security review committee for grant of protection to whistle blowers. The committee would be headed by the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Security. The state submitted this in the Punjab and Haryana High Court through an affidavit filed by Surinder Pal Singh, SSP Security...
More »HC tells private schools to follow RTE Act
-Express News Service Chandigarh: Making it clear that the Right to Education (RTE) Act will have an overriding effect on all other regulations on the reservation of seats for the economically weaker sections (EWS), the Punjab and Haryana High Court has told the private schools to comply with the RTE Act and the latest Supreme Court judgment on the Act. Disposing of a bunch of petitions filed by private schools challenging various...
More »I&B Ministry defends itself on The Dirty Picture controversy-Aarti Dhar
Under sharp criticism for stalling the television premiere of The Dirty Picture on Sunday, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has said it was only following the directions of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, and the instructions issued by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Prime time Sources in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry said the court order, issued on April 19 in response to a Public Interest Litigation...
More »It’s the executive’s job to fix fuel prices, not court’s: Supreme Court
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Monday said pricing of petrol and diesel determined by a complex mechanism fell exclusively within executive's policy domain and refused to entertain a public interest litigation demanding rollback of repeated sharp hikes in motor fuel prices. Ex-MP P C Thomas had filed the appeal in the apex court challenging a Kerala high court's decision to dismiss his PIL questioning "irrational and hypothetical fixation of...
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