-Outlook The Uttar Pradesh government today reluctantly admitted before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that illegal sand mining was going on in the state and not even a single environmental clearance granted for it in Gautam Budh Nagar district. "We (UP government) have not caught anyone till now. It's there Lordship. Yes it (illegal sand mining) is going on," the counsel, appearing for Uttar Pradesh government and its Chief Secretary, said. A five-member...
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Abortions in Mumbai up by alarming 61% in 3 years -Sanjeev Shivadekar & Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The city has seen an alarming 61 % rise in the number of abortion cases over the past three years, according to the BMC statistics received by the public health department. The city recorded 27,256 abortions in 2012-13 against 16,977 abortions registered in 2010-11 , reveals the BMC data on abortions conducted in public and private hospitals in its jurisdiction. But government officials find nothing suspicious in this...
More »Watershed moment -Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Timescrest.com Three successive CAG reports warned the Uttarakhand govt about the consequences of multiple hydropower projects, and their unpreparedness in the face of disaster. The advice was ignored. With aim of turning Uttarakhand into Urja Pradesh, the state has committed to building 680 dams, currently in various stages of commissioning, construction and planning. The powers that be have expedited the clearances for these projects. However, when it came to the issue of credible...
More »Mobile clinics conduct sex test on fetuses -Seethalakshmi S
-The Times of India BANGALORE: The pre-natal sex-determination racket has gone mobile in Karnataka. A three-member team from the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee was in for a shock last week after it caught a radiologist red-handed with his mobile ultrasound machine at a bus-stop in Doddaballapur, 43km from Bangalore. The modus operandi was simple: The radiologist would come twice a week to the bus-stop where his agents would turn up with...
More »A flood of complaints against Delhi cops in 2012 -Dwaipayan Ghosh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: It is yet another dubious distinction that Delhi Police could have done without. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2012, Delhi (in UT/States) has reported the highest number of complaints made against per 100 policemen (17), highest in the country. It is followed by Madhya Pradesh (14.7) and Chandigarh (10.1). The national average was just 3.7 in 2011. This is the...
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