-The Times of India NEW DELHI: When Bharat (name changed) was summoned to the Sarita Vihar police station on Wednesday, he braced himself for the usual round of beatings and questioning. But to his surprise, the B Tech graduate - who for a while had taken to snatchings to "make up for the loss of a mobile phone" - was escorted to an air-conditioned hall and offered refreshments. More than 100 people...
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Three of a Family Commit Suicide in Gujarat Due to Poverty
-Outlook Bhavnagar (Gujarat): Driven by abject poverty, three members of a family, including two girls, allegedly committed suicide behind the railway quarters here today, police officials said. "Fed up with financial crisis, Asha Parmar (35) today committed suicide by consuming poisionous substance along with her two daughters Jaishree (9) and Bhavika (4). Before taking the extreme step, she also made her two daughters consume the poisonous substance," Delta 'B' Division police inspector...
More »Inferior drugs disturb doctors-Shuchismita Chakraborty
-The Telegraph The medical fraternity is worried over the seizure of sub-standard and fake drugs, at times lethal for patients. police on Wednesday seized 30 boxes of suspected spurious drugs from a cart in the Gandhi Maidan area. Station House Officer of Gandhi Maidan police station Rajbindu Prasad said nobody could produce transaction bills for the consignment. The drugs seized were ofloxacin (for respiratory tract infections), oflozen (for typhoid), ossopan (calcium tablets prescribed...
More »Delhi can’t send forces for polls
-The Telegraph Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said today that New Delhi had turned down the state's request for 300 companies of central forces for the panchayat elections. Mamata said the Centre's inability to spare forces was the reason that held her back from making such a request that was necessitated by a court ruling. But sources in the state election commission said the state had done "too little, too late" and the...
More »Govt plans to tie up organ donation in more red tape -Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Instead of simplifying the process for organ donation, the Centre seems to be imposing more bureaucratic hurdles and adding to the trauma of donors' family members. A draft of fresh national guidelines for organ transplant says forensic departments of government hospitals will play a pivotal role in organ donation. The problem, say experts, is that grieving relatives may have to wait longer-first, for busy, overworked forensic experts...
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