-The Times of India Four more doctors' registration has been suspended after a court farmed charges against them for their alleged involvement in sex determination. The Rajasthan Medical Council suspended the registration of the doctors after the court framed charges against them, health minister A A Khan said here on Monday. Soon after the provisional census 2011 revealed that the state's sex ratio is on the decline, the medical and health...
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Eighth time lucky for Lokpal Bill? by Mohua Chatterjee
The Lokpal Bill was introduced in Parliament for the eighth time in the 15th Lok Sabha as Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj mentioned on Saturday. But surprisingly, each time the Lokpal Bill was introduced, events took such a turn that the legislation remained elusive. Will the Bill be through after the hype it got following Anna Hazare's movement? Here's a lowdown of what happened each time the Bill was introduced through the...
More »The Topiwala Camera by Anil Dharker
In covering Anna, TV seems to have shed its critical faculties “Corruption,” I remarked the other day on a television channel, “takes more than one form.” We were talking about—what else?—the latest incremental progression in the Anna Hazare saga. “Everyone talks of money corruption, but what about the other kind—‘Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely’? And who has any kind of power now? Only two entities: Anna Hazare and television.” That’s...
More »Media pressure may help speed up food security moves by S Viswanathan
More than two years have passed and there seems to be no progress worth speaking about in making the promised law that will guarantee food for the people. The promise came from the UPA-2 as part of its election manifesto in 2009. It was a time of recovery from a time of economic troubles. The impact of the global economic slowdown came on top of the agrarian crisis and the...
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-The Indian Express Anna Hazare was supposed to break his fast at 10 am on Sunday, but in the event he — and everyone else — was kept waiting while a member of his “team” made an interminable “mission accomplished” speech. When it is something as hydra-headed and intangible as corruption, however, it is difficult to imagine how victory could be defined — and more, since the reduction of corruption is...
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