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Bhopal hospital treated gas victims as guinea pigs for drug trials #WTFnews

Raipur, (Chhattisgarh), March 26, 2013, Suvojit Bagchi CIC orders disclosure on drug trials in ‘larger public interest’ The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ordered the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Center (BMHRC), a government body, to disclose information related to drug trials… Continue Reading →

Don’t tamper with personal freedom via Aadhar and UID

 Dailyexcelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Government has proposed to increase the scope of present scheme of providing pension to widows and helpless. The present qualifying age of 40 years age will be reduced to 18 years. Disabled will get pension at… Continue Reading →

Achieving parity between mental and physical health

Whole-person care: from rhetoric to reality     Royal College of Psychiatrists –UK – March 2013   Available online PDF [95p.] at: http://bit.ly/YFvjwS        “…..In our society mental health does not receive the same attention as physical health. People with mental health problems frequently… Continue Reading →

UK wakes up to caste bias

Shalini Nair : London, Tue Mar 26 2013, IE For a place that is only one-fifteenth the size of London, Coventry has a large number of gurdwaras. Even that might not have seemed so incongruous considering that Sikhs are the largest… Continue Reading →

More bloodshed expected around POSCO Odisha Project

Residents are worried of further bloodshed if the POSCO Odisha [formerly known as Orissa] project continues Human rights activist Direhdra Panda (left) and human rights lawyer Chandranath Dani, both from India, protest in front of POSCO center��셲 main entrance in… Continue Reading →

Jharkhand: The failed promise of an adivasi state #indigenous #tribalrights

  Richard TOPPO A tribal perspective from Jharkhand describes how the creation of the state, ostensibly for the welfare of tribal populations, has only led to their exploitation and displacement.   Almost a century ago, Katherine Mayo published a book… Continue Reading →

When workers die: “And nobody called 911″

A man is scalded by boiling water and citric acid at a plant. His fate points to a dark reality for temp workers BY JIM MORRIS AND CHIP MITCHELL, Salon.com Carlos Centeno, a Chicago-area temporary worker who died after a workplace accident, and… Continue Reading →

Gujarat HC pulls up state govt on swine flu: why not declare it an epidemic

Ahmedabad, Wed Mar 27 2013, ,IE The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the state government over the prevalence of swine flu in the state and asked why it did not declare the disease “an epidemic”.The court… Continue Reading →

Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future

  Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Mar 26 (IPS)  – Pushed and pulled in opposite directions, the future of Japan’s energy plans in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago is emerging as a… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – Mega Nuclear Power Plant Raises Fear of Fukushima Type Disaster

‘We are staring at the possibility of a man-made disaster in the shape of a nuclear power park’ by Ranjit Devraj, Inter Press Service   Bhagwat Singh Gohil frets for the future of his bountiful orchards in Mithi Virdi village… Continue Reading →

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