Choked on salt

Sun block

Rajasthan High Court quashes state mining policy favouring masonry stone miners

The Rajasthan High Court has quashed a state government policy that granted mining leases for sandstone and masonry stone in four villages of Jodhpur tehsil. The court order of March 13 termed the policy as discriminatory. The case details of 19 writ petitions presented in the Jodhpur seat of the high court show that the state government changed the mining policy to favour masonry stone miners over sandstone miners in four villages—Bujhawad, Choukha, Gangana and Rohila Kallan.  

Rajasthan belatedly wakes up to health crisis among mine workers

Bon appetit with sun

Drugs pricing policy in limbo

UNCERTAINTY shrouds the fate of a controversial policy which aims to fix the prices of essential medicines in the country. According to public health experts, the method that the draft National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy in December 2012 will adopt to determine the prices will make essential drugs unaffordable for the people.

Letters - February 28, 2013

Hello Lantana

Look at the sun

Beris to the rescue

Water ATM

As dawn breaks, two queues start forming at the only petrol pump in Lakshmangarh, a small town in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. One, obviously, is of people waiting to get their vehicles’ fuel tanks refilled. The other is in front of a simple metal box mounted on the petrol pump’s boundary wall. People like to call it ATM machine.