-PTI Corruption in India has worsened over the past year, according to a new study released by Transparency International, a Berlin-based anticorruption group. Journal reports according to Transparency International's corruption perception index, India scored 3.1 on a scale from zero to 10, where anything below five is bad news. Last year, India scored 3.3. The country's rank is better than Pakistan (No. 134) and Nepal, which at rank No 154 is perceived...
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Half of HIV patients in ASIa live in India by Aarti Dhar
The prevalence is 18 per cent in South India, says UNAIDS report India houses half of ASIa's HIV patients and is way ahead of China in disease burden. It also finds a place in the list of 22 countries prioritised for preventing mother to child transmission infection, according to the latest UNAIDS report, drafted jointly with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). About 48 lakh people...
More »J Dey murder: Jigna sent mail to gangster from office computer, says police by Sukanya Shetty
Four colleagues of arrested journalist Jigna Vora have recorded their statements in the presence of a magistrate in connection with her alleged role in the murder of senior journalist J Dey. According to the police, Vora, who was working as deputy bureau chief with The ASIan Age in Mumbai, had allegedly used her office computer along with her personal computer to send e-mails. “Four colleagues from the technical department in her...
More »This year will be world’s tenth warmest on record, UN report finds
-The United Nations Temperatures this year are the tenth highest on record since 1850, and the highest ever in a year which experienced a La Niña event, a meteorological phenomenon which is supposed to have a cooling influence on Earth’s atmosphere, a United Nations agency reported today. The findings are among the highlights of the provisional UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Statement on the Status of the Global Climate, which provides an...
More »Dam ban challenged in Supreme Court
-The Hindu The film has nothing to do with Mullaperiyar dam, says producer-director Producer-director Sohan Roy on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Tamil Nadu Government's ban on screening of his film Dam 999 in the State. Mr. Roy in his writ petition questioned the subjective satisfaction of the Chief Minister (on whose directions the impugned November 24 order was passed), arrived on by “narrow political objectives.” He said the order had...
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