-IANS Asking civil servants to take bold decisions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the government would not indulge in "witch hunting" against them in the name of fighting corruption. " ... it should be our endeavour that there is no witch hunting in the name of fighting corruption," the prime minister said while inaugurating the 7th Civil Services Day event here. "It is our government's commitment to put in place a...
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Woman's plea to SC: Child marriage can't deny me a job-Dhananjay Mahapatra
A woman who was forced into marriage as a minor and suffered years of abuse before obtaining a divorce and qualifying for the Madhya Pradesh state civil service has petitioned Supreme Court that a law to discourage child marriage is being used unfairly to deny her a job. Responding to Ratnarashi Pandey's plea, the Supre8me Court on Monday issued notice to the MP government on her challenging the validity of a...
More »The road to universal health care-K Srinath Reddy and AK Shiva Kumar
Progressive strengthening of public facilities is the only way to reach medical services to the population as a whole. “The best form of providing health protection would be to change the economic system which produces ill health, and to liquidate ignorance, poverty and unemployment. The practice of each individual purchasing his own medical care does not work. It is unjust, inefficient, wasteful and completely outmoded ... In our highly geared, modern...
More »Starving in India: Surviving on Toxic Roots-Ashwin Parulkar
HINDIYANKALAN, India – One afternoon last November, 10 people in this eastern Indian village sat in a circle on a dirt road and told us about their fight against hunger. We wanted to know: What would drive a person to eat a poisoned root? I was on a research assignment with my colleague Ankita Aggarwal from the Centre for Equity Studies, a New Delhi think tank. It was part of a...
More »Google India dropped from civil suit
-The Hindu Google India was on Thursday dropped from the array of defendants in the civil suit filed against social networking websites for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Administrative civil judge Parveen Singh said here that no case was made out against Google India, which stated that it did not operate any social networking website and that it was merely a software development firm functioning as a subsidiary of Google Inc. The court also...
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