-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday came down heavily on the Delhi government for pollution in the Capital and underreporting the number of trucks that enter Delhi. “The Centre says old diesel vehicles do not cause pollution, the Delhi government says vehicles from outside do not cause pollution either. Something must be wrong somewhere,” the bench stated after the Delhi government said that only 41 of 759...
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Vyapam scam: UN body calls for probe into death of journalist Akshay Singh
-PTI UNITED NATIONS: The head of a UN agency mandated to defend freedom of expression has called on Indian authorities to investigate the mysterious death of TV reporter Akshay Singh while covering the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, saying crimes against journalists must not go unpunished. Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Irina Bokova expressed condolences to Singh's family, friends and colleagues and urged the authorities to...
More »Somersault in govt plea for Aadhaar
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre today urged the Supreme Court to vacate its two-year-old stay on making Aadhaar cards mandatory for welfare benefits, praising the "tremendous success" of a programme Narendra Modi had trashed as a "scam" while in Opposition. Moving an application in the apex court, the government pleaded that the court stay was hobbling various social-sector programmes, including the direct benefit transfer schemes. It said that while beneficiaries' money was...
More »Malnutrition glare on Gujarat -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: For 10 months, the Narendra Modi administration withheld from the public the findings of a study by India's government and Unicef that charts "unprecedented" improvement in child malnutrition over the past decade but shows Gujarat in an unflattering light. Under pressure after The Economist reported the findings a fortnight ago, the government last week released the national-level data from the Rapid Survey on Children. But it is still...
More »Drug pricing policy irrational, re-examine it, Supreme Court tells Centre
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to re-examine its drug pricing policy for essential medicines, calling it "unreasonable and irrational" as the price of some medicines is at around 4000% higher than what has been fixed by some state governments. A bench headed by Justice TS Thakur asked the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers to analyze and give explanation why the controlled price of...
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