HEADLINES
- New Railway Minister, Mukul Roy is non-commital on rollback of freight fare hikes as it was hiked before the budget came into place
- Army Chief's allegations of offers of a bribe result in pitching the ministry against the army top brass
- Uproar in Parliament over Arvind Kejriwal's comments against MPs with criminal charges, as all parties stand united; he is served a privelege notice by the Lok Sabha Secretriat
NATIONAL NEWS
- Supreme Court tells centre that it must take corrective action on illegal clinical trials
- The Supreme Court on Monday granted a further time of six weeks to the Centre to file its response on a writ petition highlighting the alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs being conducted by pharmaceutical firms on adults, children and even mentally ill persons;
- The Supreme Court was hearing a writ petition in this matter. The petitioner said that as per guidelines, the subject should know the nature and purpose of experiment; the method and means by which it was to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which might come from the experiment.
- Protests mark the 10th anniversary of the introduction of Bt cotton
- Acclaimed Marathi poet 'Grace' passes away
- Celebrated Marathi poet and author Manik Godghate, popularly known as ‘Grace,' passed away on Monday morning fighting cancer at the Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital here. He was 75 years old;
- He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for his prose Varyane halte raan (The forest swings with the wind) in 2011, which according to many of his readers should have come much earlier in his life. He was decorated with Vidarbha Bhushan in 2011. His works include Churchbell and Mitva in prose, and Sandhyakalchya Kavita , Rajputra and Darling , Sanjbhayachay Saajani and Chandramadhaviche Pradesh in poetry.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Obama pledges nuclear cuts at the Nuclear Security Summit at Seoul, while hitting out at North Korea and Iran
EDITORIALS, OPINIONS & COLUMNS
- Read this article on BRICS and the proposal to set up a development bank between the members. The BRICS members are scheduled to meet in Delhi in the next month
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