-The Hindu In an incident that has assumed a communal tinge, a group of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad supporters allegedly assaulted a girl at her college in Bellare, Sullia taluk, on Tuesday afternoon. The FIR, however, was registered by the Sullia police only on Wednesday evening, with a counter complaint coming immediately from the accused. The students had allegedly roughed up the final year B.A. student for not participating in the ‘Bharat...

-PTI Five persons were arrested on Thursday in connection with the devastating fire at a cracker manufacturing unit at Mudhalipatti near Sivakasi, even as the toll mounted to 39. The arrested were four persons who had taken the Omshakthi fireworks factory complex, where the fire broke out, on lease and its foreman, police said. The condition of over 40 of the 70 people injured was stated to be serious in various Hospitals. The licence...

-Frontline A study finds that institutional support alone cannot help reduce maternal mortality in India.  THE high rate of maternal mortality in India has been a cause for national concern, especially on account of the focus on reaching the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Although there is a growing realisation that it will be difficult to meet the MDG targets by that deadline, there is a renewed interest in the...

-The Hindustan Times Despite crores being spent on HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaigns, it still remains an anathema — even for doctors and nurses. Why else would an HIV positive woman in advanced pregnancy be forced to go home when she came to the Hospital to deliver? What's worse, the woman, (name withheld) from Dahapada village under Remuna block, was left unattended for 2 hours after she delivered in an ambulance on way...

-The Hindu The government has appealed to the junior doctors not to link the compulsory government service with guidelines issued by the Medical Council of India as both are different issues. K. Ratna Kishore, Principal Secretary, Health, Medical and Family Welfare, said here on Tuesday that the compulsory government service for one year to all the non-service candidates after completion of PG course was part of the State government policy to improve...