-The Times of India Gurgaon: The state health department has asked medical officers in the city to keep tabs on the ultrasound centres of the city. In a measure to curb female foeticide, the department has made it mandatory for pregnant women to present their ID proof. The director general of the health department on May 3 directed officials concerned to give guidelines to the Hospitals and the private centres to check...
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How the right to pension will affect you
-CNN-IBN More than 3000 working poor are right now agitating at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, under the banner of Pension Parishad as the curtains are up on the 'right to pension' campaign. Spearheaded by Aruna Roy, the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan leader and member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), the campaign seeks universalisation of a minimum pension of Rs 2000 per person per month for all elderly citizens of...
More »SIT rejects amicus curiae's observations against Modi-Manas Dasgupta
It dismisses as “false and fabricated documents” fax messages claimed to have been sent by Sanjiv Bhatt The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team has totally disagreed with the observations of amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, and said no case can be made out against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 communal riots under any of the Sections of the Indian Penal Code mentioned by him. Mr. Ramachandran, in his...
More »RTI activist’s family cries foul, asks cops to change probe angle
-The Hindustan Times Family members of Ravinder Balwani, the RTI activist who had died in a hit-and-run accident on April 24, have alleged foul play and requested the Delhi Police to investigate the case as one of murder. Balwani, who retired in 2010 as manager of Transco, was fighting against leaders of political parties and corruption in the power department. “On the day of the accident, he was coming back from a...
More »National Rural Health Mission scam: Senior IAS officer detained
-PTI Senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla was today detained here and questioned by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. A 1981-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, 55-year-old Shukla was detained while on his way to the airport, official sources said, adding the CBI had repeatedly summoned him to appear before the agency for questioning. Though CBI officially maintained that he had neither been detained...
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