-The Telegraph Chandigarh: The chief ministers of neighbouring Punjab and Haryana have agreed to cooperate on action against sex determination centres, which are illegal, and female foeticide. Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh of the Congress today responded to a Twitter appeal from his Haryana counterpart, Manohar Lal Khattar of the BJP, and ordered the Punjab health department and police to launch a crackdown on sex determination centres operating in Punjab. "I appeal to...
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Generic prescription hurdles
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Regulatory efforts to get doctors in India to prescribe medicines only through their generic names, initiated about 15 years ago, will need to overcome legal challenges and resistance from sections of doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, experts said. Senior pharmacologists and industry analysts have also said it will be misleading to presume that prescriptions with generic names will automatically translate into lower medicine bills for patients as studies...
More »Census puts Muslim divorce rate at just 0.56%
-NationalHeraldIndia.com The divorce rate among Muslims in the 2011 Census is lower than among Hindus. And while there is no survey on cases of ‘triple talaq’, the incidence could be as low as 1% of the total While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, TV channels and the Supreme Court are all concerned over the ‘regressive’ practice of triple talaq, here are 10 facts that put the issue in perspective. *...
More »Will Modi Be Able to Provide Housing For All? -Bilal Khan and Ane Gupta
-TheWire.in A number of internal loopholes within the Housing for All scheme seems to be denying housing to those who need it most. “We have a dream for 2022. The poorest of poor should have a house of his own. And that house must be equipped with electricity, water and other facilities. There should be hospitals and schools in the neighborhood”. This is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the occasion...
More »Indian trains smash records in running late, 800% jump in number of trains arriving more than 15 hours late
-JantaKaReporter.com Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has often been dubbed by his criticis as a Twitter minister because of his prolific use of the microblogging site to resolve minor inconveniences of passengers. However, on major fronts, his department has made no progress at all. In some cases, the performance of Indian trains have alarmingly worsened under Suresh Prabhu as the minister. The number of accidents has risen with total losses of lives also...
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