-The Times of India MUMBAI: Unable to prevent prices of vegetables and fruits from going through the roof, the state government is now promising their supply to Mumbaikars at reduced rates, a promise observers say needs to be taken with a pile of salt. Starting Monday, the government will-for the first time since 1999-sell vegetables and fruits at a price 30% lower than the current retail rate at select co-operative outlets...
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Green cover equal to 23% of Delhi lost in 13 years -Dipak Kumar Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Green cover and water bodies almost equal to a quarter (23%) of Delhi's area have been lost to development works and rabid urbanization in the National Capital Region in just the past 13 years. The first comparative satellite-based study of change in land use in NCR has shown that between 1999 and 2012, the region lost 32,769 hectares of green areas and 1,464 hectares of water...
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-The Hindu That India, the pharmacy of the South, should find itself on the brink of a major TB-drug stock-out is at once shocking and shameful. The fact that an antiquated drug-procurement system and incompetent and irresponsible government departments - which dragged their feet for more than two long years to procure the drugs - could have brought us to such a situation tells us how dangerously poised the national...
More »Ranbaxy drugs fine, say WHO and UK regulator -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In yet another twist to the Ranbaxy scandal, the drug regulatory authority of the UK government has issued a statement clarifying that they have found no evidence of any Ranbaxy product in the UK market having been "of unacceptable quality". Last month, WHO had issued a similar statement. It had said that there was no evidence of any of the Ranbaxy products being of unacceptable...
More »Forty taken ill on NCERT campus after consuming infected water
-The Hindu New Delhi: Over 40 people were taken ill after consuming contaminated water, supplied by Delhi Jal Board, on the NCERT campus near Hauz Khas on Tuesday. While some of those affected are under treatment at various city hospitals including Safdarjung, Rockland and Saket City Hospital in South Delhi, two persons including a four-year-old child allegedly died in the area following complication arising out of drinking unclean water this past Sunday. However,...
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