-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...
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54 lakh ha covered as kharif sowing picks pace; cane area up
-The Hindu Business Line New delhi: Sowing in the current kharif season has commenced in right earnest with an area of 54 lakh hectares (lh) brought under cultivation till Friday, according to data released by the Agriculture Ministry. A total of 55 lh was covered during the same period last year. This is despite the fact that the total live storage capacity in 76 reservoirs used for irrigation stood at 22.66 billion...
More »75% households feel corruption went up, 27% say paid bribe: Study
-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...
More »Close to a quarter of households in 13 states have faced corruption in 2018, shows a recent study
The present NDA government led by the BJP at the Centre came to power in 2014 on the planks of development and anti-corruption. However, contrary to PM Narendra Modi's slogan of 'Na Khaunga, Na Khaane Doonga' (meaning ‘would not take bribes, nor would let anyone accept bribe’), a new report by the delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS) shows that almost three-fourth of Indian households think that the level of...
More »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...
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