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Govt may consider introducing legal safeguards for healthcare workers: parliamentary panel

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Govt may consider introducing legal safeguards for healthcare workers: parliamentary panel

‘Healthcare professionals are vulnerable to “violent attacks” by relatives of patients, in cases where patients die during treatment.’ Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi The government may consider introducing appropriate legal safeguards for healthcare workers, who at times face violence from relatives or attendants of patients, a parliamentary panel has said. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs … Read more

Hold monthly adalats for differently abled persons: legislative panel

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Hold monthly adalats for differently abled persons: legislative panel

Monthly adalats shall be held in panchayats to look into issues and complaints raised by differently abled people, according to the Legislative Assembly Committee for women, children, and differently abled and transgender persons. The panel will submit a recommendation to the house to this effect, said U. Prathibha, chairperson of the panel, after holding a … Read more

Sinking islands: NGT asks coastal zone authorities to integrate expert panel recommendations into island management plans

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Sinking islands: NGT asks coastal zone authorities to integrate expert panel recommendations into island management plans

The panel was constituted by the Principal Bench of the tribunal after it took suo motu cognizance of The Hindu report titled ‘India’s sinking islands’ published on March 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: K.K. MUSTAFAH The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has decided to issue notices to the Coastal Zone Management Authorities (CZMAs) in the coastal … Read more

NGT forms panel to simplify and enforce guidelines for Vinayaka idols’ immersion 

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NGT forms panel to simplify and enforce guidelines for Vinayaka idols’ immersion 

In its revised guidelines, CPCB states that as far as possible, immersion of Vinayaka idols in rivers, ponds and lakes shall be encouraged only at designated artificial confined tanks.  | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a committee, headed by Additional Chief Secretary, Departments of … Read more

Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan in 8-member panel on simultaneous polls

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Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan in 8-member panel on simultaneous polls

Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. File | Photo Credit: Agencies The Law Ministry notified on Sunday the eight-member committee on holding simultaneous polls under the chairmanship of former President Ram Nath Kovind. The committee will have Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, former Leader of the Opposition in … Read more

KGMCTA statement unfortunate, says action panel

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KGMCTA statement unfortunate, says action panel

An action panel supporting Adivaram native K.K. Harshina has termed as unfortunate the statement of the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) opposing legal action against the doctors and nursing staff on duty during an alleged botched C-Section surgery performed on her at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode in 2017. A release on … Read more

Hema panel report: RTI reveals provisions to prohibit illegal, offending acts on women in Malayalam cinema

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Hema panel report: RTI reveals provisions to prohibit illegal, offending acts on women in Malayalam cinema

The Hema Commission report to address issues of sexual harassment and gender inequality in the Malayalam film industry has recommended key provisions to prohibit illegal and offending acts against women in the sector. The provisions to be included in the proposed Kerala Cine Employers and Employees (Regulation) Act 2020 have emerged from the Right to … Read more

Manipur violence | Supreme Court to pass orders on August 25 to facilitate proper functioning of Justice Mittal panel

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Manipur violence | Supreme Court to pass orders on August 25 to facilitate proper functioning of Justice Mittal panel

Women belonging to the ‘Meira Paibis’ (a group representing Meitei Society) hold torches as they stage a demonstration demanding restoration of peace in violence-hit Manipur. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court will pass orders on Friday to facilitate the proper functioning of Justice Mittal panel set up to oversee relief for victims of … Read more

Private engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh demand implementation of Srikrishna panel recommendations on fee structure

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Private engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh demand implementation of Srikrishna panel recommendations on fee structure

Managements of private engineering colleges in the State on Friday reiterated their demand for the implementation of recommendations of the national fee committee constituted by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and headed by Justice Srikrishna. Speaking to The Hindu, Choppa Gangi Reddy, president of Andhra Pradesh Private Engineering Colleges Managements’ Association, pointed … Read more

Row over British Journal of Psychiatry abortion paper saw panel quit

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Row over British Journal of Psychiatry abortion paper saw panel quit

Prof Coleman worked for 20 years as a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio. Her research appeared in a brief submitted to the US Supreme Court as part of successful efforts to overturn the historic Roe v Wade judgment, which guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion … Read more