-The Times of India Are all vaccines recommended by your paediatrician actually required or merely pushed to favour vaccine companies that reward the biggest association of paediatricians in India? A key official of the Indian Academy of Paediatricians (IPA) has raised serious issues of funding and conflict in an open letter to the president. The association, one of biggest for paediatricians in India, is heavily dependent on funding from vaccine manufacturers, he...
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Passport rules changed to help single mothers, orphaned children
-The Hindu Birth certificates not needed any more; grievances will be now handled on Twitter. In a move to speed up and simplify the passport delivery process, the government on Friday announced a series of steps that would help single mothers, orphaned children, and sadhus obtain passports with ease. Announcing the changes that will relax the need for birth certificates in the application process, Minister of State for External Affairs General (retd.) V.K....
More »Parliamentary panel hears adverse views on demonetisation -Dilasha Seth & Amit Agnihotri
-Business Standard The demonetisation drive has hit job creation, beside adding to the stress on banks New Delhi: Demonetisation is expected to negatively impact the overall economy and job generation, a number of economists told Parliament's standing committee on finance. Reserve Bank governor Urjit Patel was to come but could not; he will do so on January 18. The panel heard four economists — former chief statistician Pronab Sen; Mahesh Vyas, head of...
More »Demonetisation: Was RBI given enough time to discuss note ban, Manmohan Singh asks House panel -Anand Mishra
-The Indian Express Manmohan Singh also suggested that the panel — which is looking into the demonetisation decision — call government officials to depose before it hears RBI Governor Urjit Patel. New Delhi: During a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance on Thursday, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to know whether the RBI was given sufficient time to hold deliberations on the government’s demonetisation move. He also suggested that the...
More »Do not want politics to shift to courts: Supreme Court
-PTI New Delhi: "We do not want politics to shift to the courts," the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while hearing arguments on whether a political party can file and pursue a public interest litigation (PIL). "The apprehension is that this will shift politics to the courts. We do not want this. We do not want politics to shift to the courts," a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V...
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