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Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...ition he not be further identified, won his asylum petition in 2001 after proving that he had been repeatedly ...s a "cure" for being gay. Neilson said the woman's petition was rejected initially by immigration officials because the abuse had been carried out in private, b...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...on before handing regional governor Maciej Klima a petition for Kaczynski. "I'm a doctor myself, and I'll be your advocate," Klima told them, according to PAP. A similar demonstration took place in Katowice, in the heart of Poland's Silesian industrial region. Poland's state-employed medical workers are...

Shisha Owners Mobilise Against July 1 Smoking Ban in England

...sha campaign" which has attracted 500 members. A petition on the prime minister's website had recorded 9,439 signatures by Thursday. A paper petition circulating in London has received nearly 20,000 signatures. "The shisha is part of our culture, i...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...acred in Hinduism. Thousands have signed an online petition supporting Shambo and a video stream broadcasts live from Shambo's pen in the temple. An assembly government spokesman said, "Wales, in common with many other countries, implements a control policy, based on testing and the slaughter of animals be...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

... of Dipankar Datta last month rejected Saha's writ petition against WBMC president Ashok Chowdhury and secretary D.K. Ghosh on the grounds that he was an NRI and a US citizen and so not entitled to get any "information" under the RTI act in India. According to Saha, the ruling was blatantly wrong on severa...

Students Join Hands to Save Green Cover in Delhi

...students of Delhi University (DU) have forwarded a petition to the vice chancellor Deepak Pental objecting to ...nwealth Games. Signed by 75 faculty members, the petition highlights the importance of green cover and pleads the vice chancellor to stop this move. Asserti...

Chocolate-makers Reverse Decision to Go for Animal Enzyme

...e and e-mail complaints. Forty MPs also signed a petition to voice their opposition. Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, said the company had listened to customers and decided to reverse its decision. "The consumer is our boss and we had lots of feedback from consumers who were unhappy about the ...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

...man rights activist group, filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377. The petition was filed in the wake of the report of a medical team that visited Tihar Jail in Delhi and reported ...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

..., paints, lube oils, tires and other products. The petition is also seeking restrictions on other uses and lab...Sierra Club's Environmental Quality Program. The petition claimed the unrestricted manufacture and release of NPEs poses serious threat to the environment and...

Child Seeks Compensation for Medical Negligence

...darjung Hospital here to file their replies to the petition by Aug 3. In a petition filed later, the father of Jai, whose right leg had to be amputated due to alleged medical negligenc...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

... of Dipankar Datta last month rejected Saha's writ petition against WBMC president Ashok Chowdhury and secretary D.K. Ghosh on the grounds that he was an NRI and a US citizen and so not entitled to get any "information" under the RTI act in India. According to Saha, the ruling was blatantly wrong on severa...

Court Issues Notice to Venugopal Over Fund Irregularities

...AIIMS) Director P. Venugopal and three others. The petition was filed by a former patient alleging// that the ... their replies by May 17 to the allegations in the petition filed by Abdul Mabood. The court also summoned the record of the magistrate's court after counsel ...

Court Refuses to Intervene for Law on Surrogate Motherhood

... turning down the plea. Roy in a public interest petition had alleged that many foreign nationals were hiring Indian women as surrogate mothers to use their wombs to have their babies conceived. After the birth, the foreigners take away the child to their respective countries, she told the court. "The soc...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

.... (The court has reserved orders on the Novartis petition challenging the validity of the an amendment to the patent laws. Citing that amendment only the Controller had rejected the drug firm’s patent application.) Apart from the Novartis case, another prominent appeal to come up before the Appellate Boar...

People Before Patents

...nes produced in India, the MSF stresses. On the petition page the organization screams, PEOPLE BEFORE PA...n the southern Indian state of Madras. While the petition challenging the rejection of its patent application has been referred by the Madras High Court to an...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

... Court has already reserved its orders on the main petition by the Novartis challenging the constitutional validity of the Section 3(d) of the Patents (Amendment) Act. Novartis contends the amendment contravenes the trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and also Article 14 of the Indian Consti...

Private Clinics on Public Land Must Treat Poor Free: Court

.... Pronouncing the judgement on a public interest petition filed by a voluntary organization, Social Jurist, the court said, "Non-compliance of the directions would attract contempt of court." "Free treatment means both consumable and non-consumable. No money should be charged from the poor patient, who ar...

FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics

...ded that the ruling was in response to a citizen's petition from a patent attorney that was filed in June 1995. However, even if rival drug makers were to file an application for the drug, the respective company could still face a patent suit from Glaxo as the patent in the US is not due to run out until 2...

Pepsi to Put Caffeine Content on Labels

..., comes as consumer and health groups increasingly petition for the clear labeling of caffeine in order to avoid unnecessary risk for vulnerable consumers, such as children and pregnant women. "We're simply giving consumers more information. We started phasing these labels in several months ago on many of ...

Delhi High Court Set Deadline to Reconstitute Medical Council of India

....R. Malhotra, while adjudicating a public interest petition by a medical professional, Dr Girish Tyagi, also directed the central government and MCI to ensure funds for the election. Dr Tyagi had sought early reconstitution of the MCI, due for almost a year. The court issued the directions in the presenc...

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