QUACKS: Union Health Ministry’s Data According to the Union Health Ministry’s data, 57.3% of personnel currently practising allopathic medicine do not have a medical qualification. Officials say CMs of all States asked to take appropriate action under the law against …
All I-T Dept communication to have Document Identification Number (DIN) Every communication to be issued by the Income-Tax Department on or after the 1st of October, 2019 will now have a Document Identification Number (DIN). This intends to insure proper …
What is a notifiable disease? A month after Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan asked the Delhi government to make malaria and dengue notifiable diseases, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has initiated the work to notify malaria in the capital. …
COMPETITION LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE The government had constituted a Competition Law Review Committee last October to review existing laws. A Committee constituted to review competition law has recommended introduction of a green channel fast approval of mergers and acquisition, in effect proposing to move towards more of a …
RBI issues final norms for regulatory sandbox The RBI issues final norms for regulatory sandbox taking into account inputs received after a consultation process that began in April. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday issued the final framework for …
Swachh Survekshan 2020 Centre’s new app for waste collection Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs launched the Centre’s new app for waste collection named Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020), the SBM Water PLUS Protocol and Toolkit, Swachh Nagar an …
No harmful chemicals in PET bottles PET bottles are safe, a comprehensive evaluation by the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore has determined The CFRTI analysis, commissioned by an industry body, concluded that antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, …
PM-JAY to Include Cancer Treatment ‘Government realised that cancer care costs were causing massive financial crisis among people’ in order to resolve this issue PM-JAY is to Include Cancer Treatment PM-JAY to Include Cancer Treatment will soon be covered under …
SUPREME COURT REGIONAL BENCHES Naidu concerned over backlog of cases Vice-President Naidu concerned over backlog of cases he suggests setting up of special judicial tribunals and a Supreme Court Bench in Chennai he bats For Regional Benches Of Supreme Court …
The role of cancer stem cells in maintaining and spreading a tumour has remained a hypothesis until recently. Now, a group of researchers from Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, have shown that in a common type of ovarian cancer, cancer stem …











