Seeking information under the Right To Information (RTI) Act in Karnataka has just got tougher, as the State government has found a Supreme Court order a convenient tool to delay providing information under the law. Gone are the days when the Public Information Officers (PIOs) were bound to provide information within 30 days as laid down in the RTI Act, 2005. Under the new scheme of things, it will take an...
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Protest against appointment of accused in illegal mining
-The Hindu Samajika Parivarthana Janandolana (SPJ) and Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), Karnataka, have appealed to Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda to rethink the appointment of IAS officer E. Shivalingamurthy to the Post of the Director of Women and Child Welfare Department. An appeal In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, SPJ State organiser Y. Mariswamy has said Mr. Shivalingamurthy is one of the three IAS officers against whom a high-level committee,...
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India seems to have arrived at the threshold of polio eradication, but should it lower its guard? ON January 13, India achieved what had only two years ago seemed impossible in the immediate term. The country, which, given the epidemiological data in the new millennium, had come to be regarded by health experts around the world as one that would be the last to achieve freedom from polio (poliomyelitis), recorded no...
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Questionable drug trials on mentally challenged persons by doctors in Indore emphasise the need for strict enforcement of medical ethics. IN what appears to be a page out of Robin Cook's medical thriller, government and private doctors in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, reportedly carried out clinical trials of various medicines on some 233 patients who had gone to them seeking psychiatric treatment. As in Cook's famous book Coma, in which a medical...
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At a time when paper and plastic money is the pivot of pecuniary transactions, a Postgraduate in statistics from Ranchi University has turned the age-old barter system into the bedrock of a unique cradle in a hamlet on the outskirts of the capital. Students of Bhavna Vikas Vidyalaya at Konki village in Kanke block, some 20km from Ranchi, are basking in academic glory in lieu of vegetables. Yes, you heard that...
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