Medical negligence, overcharging, substandard care, wide spread production of spurious drugs by pharmaceutical companies, bribery of doctors by pharmaceutical companies with trips to foreign countries including sundry pleasures, even financing education of their wards abroad, drug procurement scams, underhand commissions, a wide spread racket in medical college admissions, glaring failure of regulators like Medical Council of India (MCI), Nursing and Dental Councils and Drug Controller in ensuring quality of drugs and services, speak volume of rampant corruption in healthcare across diverse

नई दिल्ली: 'सौंदर्य को देखकर आदमी क्रूर भी हो सकता है। आदमी दो साल की लड़की को देखकर रेप की भावना से भर सकता है। उस विकृति को पालने के लिए सौंदर्य उपासक होने की जरूरत है।' यह टिप्पणी समालोचक विश्वनाथ त्रिपाठी ने 'पाखी' पत्रिका के 'टॉक ऑन टेबल' कार्यक्रम में सुख व नैतिकता पर चल रही बहस में की थी। 

On Gautam Navlakha’s Prosecution: In some ways, I had always expected the news of Gautam’s arrest. Over the last 25 and more years that I have known him, first as a friend and comrade in anti-communal mobilisations in the early 1990s and then as a part of family, the one thing which has stood Gautam apart is his ability to stand up for his beliefs, untampered by the caution of costs that he may have to bear. 

On the morning of August 28, 2018, several human rights activists from various parts of the country were arrested and the homes of few others were raided. ‘Urban Naxal’ is the new unceremonious epithet that has been conferred on these activists by sections of our cacophonous media. The raids, conducted by the Maharashtra Police, were carried out as part of a probe into the violence at Bhima Koregaon – triggered by an event called Elgar Parishad held in Pune on December 31, 2017. One such ‘Urban Maoist’ is the 81-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy.

अनमने ढंग से राजनीति करते रहे और विरोधियों द्वारा 'पप्पू' के रूप में प्रचारित राहुल गांधी को देश का एक तबका धीरे धीरे थोड़ी गंभीरता से लेने लगा है। मानने लगा है कि वह थोड़ा 'बकलेल' तो है, पर अन्य बहुतेरे नेताओं जैसा काइयां नही है। ऐसे में बीते दिनों अपने एक बयान से राहुल गांधी ने अपनी इस छवि का नुकसान कर लिया है।

New Delhi: Historian Ramachandra Guha, who has penned a monumental 1,100-page biography of Mahatma Gandhi, says that he finds double standards in the respect that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), accord to the Father of the Nation nowadays.

Corruption in India has been on the rise notwithstanding the rhetorical hypes of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the contrary. All efforts by the NDA Government including demonetisation, income tax, CBI and  Enforcement Directorate raids against corporate houses, arms dealers and political adversaries during the last over three years has come a cropper. All measures, overt and covert, taken so far to unearth black money and cleanse Indian economy of parallel economy has failed.

India witnessed a disturbing 100 incidents of hate crimes with the rise of Sangh Pariwar during the first half of the current year ending June 2018. With this, incidents of hate crimes have gone up to 603 since Akhlaq was lynched in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, (National Capital Region) in September 2015, for allegedly killing a cow and storing its meat in his fridge. This is based on data collected by various social research organizations in the country and the global human rights watchdog, the Amnesty International.

नई दिल्ली: दलित मोदी सरकार के निशाने पर शुरू से रहे हैं और यही कारण है कि मौजूदा सरकार के कार्यकाल में दलितों पर हिंसा की घटनाएं बढ़ी हैं। यह कहना है दलित कार्यकर्ता और गुजरात के वडगाम से निर्दलीय विधायक जिग्नेश मेवाणी का। 

यहां आयोजित 'यूथ की आवाज' कार्यक्रम से इतर जिग्नेश ने आईएएनएस के साथ बातचीत में मौजूदा केंद्र सरकार को परिभाषित करते हुए कहा, "यह सरकार सांप्रदायिक, जातिवादी, फांसीवादी, पूंजीवादी और नकारा है।"

New Delhi:  The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not ally with the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Gopal Rai, a cabinet minister in the Delhi government, has said, adding that being a part of a post-poll Grand Alliance will depend on the manner in which the electorate votes.

"No," the Delhi State Convenor of the party snapped when asked during an interview with IANS whether there was any chance of an AAP-Congress alliance for the polls.