-The Hindustan Times The European Union on Friday staunchly defended its decision to re-engage with Narendra Modi a day after it emerged that the Gujarat chief minister had a quiet lunch with the ambassadors of the member countries here early this year, ending a decade-old boycott. The January 7 lunch is likely to be seen as a major boost for Modi, who after his third successive win in the western state, is...
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EU Stresses on 'Accountability' for 2002 Gujarat Riots
-Outlook At a time when Narendra Modi is reaching out to cross-section of people nationally and internationally, the European Union today stressed on the "accountability" for the 2002 Gujarat riots, maintaining that the matter was of "Interest" to everyone. It also said the issue of 2002 riots figured in its meeting with Modi, who had met the EU delegation last month after victory in the Gujarat assembly polls. "Modi came to (have) lunch...
More »Kejriwal, Bhushan to start 'non-profit, public service' TV channel
-The Business Standard Channel to represent people intersted in public issues Anti-corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan, are planning to launch a television channel, which they say, will be non-profit and will focus on public issues. “We are starting a channel which will focus on public issues,” Bhushan told Business Standard. He indicated that the channel would not just be confined to people from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but would be a...
More »A crumbling fourth pillar, and the forgotten politics of boycott -Manav Bhushan
-Kafila.org In a speech delivered at the Reuters memorial lecture in November 2012 at Oxford University discussing the Indian news industry, Prannoy Roy candidly said that ”Indian news is currently in a race to the bottom”. He further added that upon comparing the average TV viewership in India (1 hour) to that in the US (5 hours), one is led to the utterly dismal conclusion that this race is far from...
More »Government tightens guidelines for clinical trials-Vidya Krishnan and Jacob P Koshy
-Live Mint Developments a part of reforms initiated after apex court’s intervention to amend Drugs and Cosmetics Act The health ministry has tightened the norms for clinical trials by making it mandatory for companies to compensate patients who may suffer injury or death while participating in the trials even if they have not been caused by the drugs being tested. So far, the compensation has been restricted only to cases where the...
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