-The Times of India JAIPUR: A doctor conducted drug trial on heart patients but seven of them died during trial of the drug. Moreover, another doctor conducted drug trials of different companies and 10 of his cancer patients died during the trials. An RTI filed by a government-run Indore hospital Dr Anand Rai exposed deaths leading to drug trials in entire country. Answering to the RTI, office ofdrug controller general, ministry of...
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Court: having sex when there is intention to marry is not rape-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu A man having sex with a woman he intends to marry, with her consent, cannot be said to have committed rape if for some reasons the marriage does not take place, the Supreme Court held on Monday. A vacation Bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra said: "Consent may be express or implied, coerced or misguided, obtained willingly or through deceit. Consent is an act of reason, accompanied by...
More »CAG talks about misappropriation of funds in MGNREGA scheme
-The Hindu Chennai: The Tamil Nadu story concerning the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) appears to be no different from some other States, when it comes to irregularities in payment of wages, even though the amount involved is much less here. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG), presented in the Assembly on Wednesday, talked of misappropriation of funds in three ways - inflating the number of workers,...
More »A son gets a mother -Ramendra Singh
-The Indian Express Kanpur: Vijai Kumari got bail in 1994. But it took two decades for her to leave Lucknow women's jail, as son Kanhaiya, born in prison, raised money for a lawyer and a bond Vijai Kumari named her son Kanhaiya, after Lord Krishna. It was on the suggestion of a doctor-like in the mythology about the Hindu god, he was born in jail. For the next two decades, as...
More »6 tribals rescued from Karnataka -Satyanarayan Pattnaik
-The Times of India KORAPUT: Underpaid and tortured at workplace, six tribals were rescued by Malkangiri police in association with their Hassan counterparts in Karnataka on Saturday. According to sources, an agent identified as Rama Khillo of Sileru in Andhra Pradesh had lured these people, aged between 20 and 25 years, from Malkangiri district's RAC 1 village underKorkunda block with promises of better livelihood at Hassan on April 5. "These people were taken...
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