-IPS News UNITED NATIONS- When the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their deadline in 2015, there will still be a critical setback: millions of people in the developing world without full access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and electricity in their homes. Conscious of this shortcoming, the 193-member General Assembly hosted a two-day high-level meeting, which concluded Wednesday, to address three thematic issues: water, sanitation and sustainable energy, specifically in...
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Smuggled Medicines Save Lives -Ashfaq Yusufzai
-IPS News PESHAWAR, Pakistan- They are contraband, yet a large number of Pakistanis have come to depend on drugs made in India and smuggled into Pakistan. Patients as well as doctors say these are cheap and effective, even as law enforcers look the other way. The two countries do not have a trade agreement on drugs, but markets in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north of Pakistan do brisk business in India-made...
More »Education institutions need law to address violence against women -Priya M Menon
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The rape of a 20-year-old student of Amrita University by her college mates more than a week ago has raised questions about the manner in which the university has handled the issue. Educationists and lawyers say that educational institutions need to report such criminal offences to the police and offer support to the survivor. The student was allegedly raped on February 23 by twin brothers Akhil and...
More »Vigilance complaints pile up as Delhi Police doesn’t know password -Shalini Narayan
-The Indian Express After 8 yrs of portal being set up, lapse found, 2 officers get ‘training'. New Delhi: Over 600 complaints regarding the Delhi Police forwarded by the Central Vigilance ComMISsion to an online portal have been pending for the past eight years. The reason: the Delhi Police didn't know the password to access the portal or how to operate it, a lapse that went undetected since 2006. In January finally, two...
More »PMO pulled out all stops to weaken eco, forest norms-Nitin Sethi
-The Hindu Some changes were ordered on the direct instructions of the Prime Minister The Prime Minister's office has repeatedly ordered and orchestrated dilution of environment and forest clearances in order to fast-pace industrial projects, documents with The Hindu show. In a series of orders and MISsives sent to the Union Environment and Forests Ministry over 2012-2013, the PMO instructed that regulations and norms had to be diluted or done away with. These...
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