Government agencies not taking action against defaulters: study More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches for sale of tobacco products came into effect on March 1 this year, small and big manufacturers of pan masala and chewing tobacco are still violating the rule openly, a recent survey by Voluntary Health Association of India and eight other partners has found. The study conducted in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar,...
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India has shortfall of 2.6 million health workers, says report by Malia Politzer
India, which holds the dubious distinction of the highest death rate for children under five and the highest maternal deaths in the world, also has a shortfall of 2.6 million health workers, a report said on Tuesday. The report by Save the Children India said that at 900,000 a year, India has the largest number of newborn deaths and is among five countries that account for more than half of the...
More »The life and death of Shehla Masood by Vandita Mishra
Stories abound in Bhopal of the life and death of Shehla Masood. But among those who knew her, there appears agreement on one point: something was so uncharacteristically passive, so un-Shehla-like, they say, about the dead body slumped in the driving seat of the silver-grey Santro on the morning of August 16, with no evident signs of struggle and a bullet hole in the neck. Some crude clues to the extraordinary...
More »Rs5 lakh reward for information on slain RTI activist Shehla Masood
-PTI The CBI today announced a cash reward of Rs5 lakh for providing information about the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood, who was shot dead outside her house in Bhopal last month. On September 3, a case was registered against unnamed persons by the Bhopal unit of the agency, CBI sources said here. Shehla was shot dead when she was going towards her car outside her residence in posh Koh-e-Fiza locality in...
More »RTI activist files plaint against CS with Lokayukta by Deshdeep Saxena
The Madhya Pradesh government and its top bureaucrat, chief secretary Avni Vaish, have come under the Lokayukta scanner for allegedly organizing a free dinner for about 250 IAS officers with taxpayers' money. The Lokayukta has registered a complaint in the case and information is being collected in this regard. "This is not an FIR," Lokayukta P P Naolekar told TOI, adding that information was being sought on the complaint. The chief secretary...
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