-PTI Seventy five per cent households across 13 states feel that the level of corruption has increased or remained the same during the last one year, while 27 per cent confessed to paying a bribe to avail public services in the last one year, according to a new survey. The 'India Corruption Study' conducted by the Centre For Media Studies covered more than 2,000 households from over 200 rural and urBan clusters...
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Poll fetters off, oil in daily dash
-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: Petrol prices have touched a record high of Rs 76.24 per litre and diesel climbed to a highest ever Rs 67.57 in New Delhi with the oil PSUs passing on to consumers the impact of four weeks of a relentless rise in international prices. The price of petrol rose by 33 paise a litre in Delhi, the highest since the daily price revisions came into force in...
More »Doctors seek changes to sex test rules -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A panel of doctors has called for changes to the rules Banning prenatal sex determination, warning they are depriving rural populations of easy access to the point-of-care ultrasound scans (pocus) needed to diagnose and treat critically ill patients. Doctors associated with the Jan Swasthya Sahyog, which runs a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh, have recommended technology and better policing to improve access to the scans and curb their misuse...
More »In five years, pvt Banks see 450 per cent spike in bad loans -George Mathew
-The Indian Express Among private Banks, ICICI Bank, whose MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar is facing allegations of conflict of interest while sanctioning loans to the Videocon Group, topped the NPA table with Rs 54,063 crore in bad loans. Mumbai: Data over the last five years shows that private Banks have been steadily accumulating bad loans, with a 450 per cent rise in gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of these Banks — from...
More »Death by slow poisoning -Priyanka Pulla
-The Hindu An estimated 10 million people in nine districts of West Bengal drink arsenic-laden groundwater. Priyanka Pulla finds that despite alarms having been sounded over decades, the State government has moved at a glacial pace to tackle the crisis, while people struggle to cope with the symptoms On a Thursday morning at the government primary school in Madhusudankati, a village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, a gaggle of five-year-olds...
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