The pill that you pop when down with fever or the syrup you gulp for relief from cough are not cure for sure. They can be counterfeit drugs made in some substandard medicine-manufacturing centres as the one sealed in the city today. Operating from a two-storeyed building in the Rajiv Nagar area, the sealed unit was allegedly involved in making counterfeit drugs. The batch numbers of several medicines seized from the...
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Malegaon four pick up pieces after five years by Sadaf Modak
Sitting outside his home in a plastic chair among neighbours, Shabbir Masiullah Ahmed tries to recognise people he is meeting after five years. “You have aged,” he tells one. His brother-in-law Raees Ahmed is trying to bond with his five-year-old daughter who, he says, “has begun to recognise me”. Dr Salman Farsi complains of lack of sleep because of the steady flow of journalists and relatives. These three are among the seven men...
More »Despite HC order, Pondy govt yet to notify RTE Act
-The Times of India By failing to honour a Madras high court order directing the territorial administration to notify the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 before November 1 this year, the Puducherry government has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the last states in the country to comply. The high court in its order dated August 1, directed the Puducherry government to notify the...
More »Grave violations of child rights continue, reveals social audit by Aarti Dhar
Despite 60 years of Constitutional guarantees and two decades after the signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, India's children still continue to face grave violation of their basic rights, an independent social audit has revealed. “We do not have a National Policy for Children defining the ‘child'. In fact, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has time and again recommended that a...
More »World Livestock Report Packs Many Surprises
We see malnutrition as a burden on our conscience, and on our exchequer. We also know it is a daunting task to get rid of child malnutrition. But do we know about the economic benefits on the other side? A new FAO report tells us that India can increase its national income by a massive US$ 28 billion by eliminating child malnutrition. Now that is serious economic gain so read...
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