Opening a new chapter of charges against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, this time for attempting to subvert the judicial process, the noted danseuse and social activist Mallika Sarabhai claimed that the Chief Minister had “bribed” her lawyers to derail her Public Interest Litigation petition before the Supreme Court on the 2002 communal riots in the State. Ms. Sarabhai told a hurriedly convened media conference on Sunday that an affidavit filed...
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In China's battle against newborn deaths, lessons for India by Ananth Krishnan
China has reduced deaths among newborn babies by almost two-thirds in little over a decade — an unprecedented success rate that a new study says holds lessons for countries like India still struggling with high neonatal and maternal mortality rates. Deaths among newborn babies fell from 24.7 per 1,000 in 1996 to 9.3 in 2008 — a 62-per-cent decrease — according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal on...
More »NIA impleads in PIL against RTI exemption
-The Times of India Close on the heels of an application by Delhi Special Police Establishment, popularly known as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to add it as a party in the petition pending before the Kerala High Court challenging the exemption of central investigation agencies from the purview of Right to Information Act, 2005, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also approached the court to make it a party. When...
More »Let there be no starvation deaths: Supreme Court
-The Hindu The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretaries of all the States to specify how much additional foodgrains were required for them under the Public Distribution System to ensure that there was no starvation death. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, passing orders on a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties on streamlining of the PDS, granted two weeks for the States for...
More »State to introduce new system to curb graft
-The Hindu It will reduce interface between officials and people; will provide 20 certificates within 10 minutes: Kiran In a bid to curb corruption by reducing interface between the officials and the common man, the State government will shortly introduce a new and transparent system for providing 20 certificates required by an individual within 10 minutes, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar has said. Speaking at a function organised by Gandhi Global Family and...
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