-The Hindu Chautala echoes Haryana khap panchayat demand; rape not a black-and-white law and order issue, says Renuka Chowdhury Even as the former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, backed demands for new Laws that will allow marriage of teenagers saying it would help end the surge in sexual crimes reported from across the State in recent weeks, a senior Congress leader has said that the State’s rape crisis was not a...
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Infra projects should not fall foul of Forest Rights Act: KC Deo -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu Draft Cabinet note on NIB not sent to me, he says Infrastructure projects that come up on forest land must comply with the Forest Rights Act (FRA), Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has said. No land in a Fifth Schedule area should be handed over to any industry if it violated the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA), Mr. Deo said, responding to a query whether he agreed...
More »20 Delhi kids go missing daily, half are trafficked -Faizan Haider
-The Hindustan Times Around 20 children go missing in Delhi every day. Around eight of them — or 40% — are never seen again, Delhi Police records show. According to police statistics, 1,153 children went missing between July 16 and September 15 this year, approximately half of them trapped by traffickers. While 688 children were found, 465 remain untraceable. Many of the victims are infants. Police said many of the children were...
More »Tribal minister Kishore Chandra Deo to urge governors to use special powers to cancel mining leases in tribal areas -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India After ordering cancellation of mining lease in tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh, tribal affairs minister Kishore Chandra Deo is set to raise hackles by writing to governors to invoke their special powers in the defence of indigenous population. Deo plans to exhort Raj Bhavans to use their constitutional powers under Article 244 by which they can stop implementation of a law or contract if it goes against...
More »The dark underbelly of India’s clinical trials business-Malia Politzer and Vidya Krishnan
-Live Mint Incidents at Bhopal and Indore highlight irregularities and ethical violations in some trials In 2004, doctors at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), established exclusively for treating the victims of the 1984 gas leak, recruited unsuspecting survivors for clinical trials without their knowledge or consent; 14 participants died during the course of the trials. Together with the episode in Indore’s Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital (that Mint reported on 10...
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