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The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court of framing the “Menstrual Hygiene Policy for School Going Girls” approved by the Union Health Ministry. The Centre referred to a top court order of April 10, 2023, and said the Union Ministry of the Health and Family Welfare framed the policy over menstrual hygiene of female school children which was approved by the minister concerned on November 2, 2024. The top court was hearing a PIL filed by Congress leader and social activist Jaya Thakur seeking directions to the Centre and states to provide free sanitary pads to female students between Classes 6 and 12 and ensure separate female toilet facilities in all government, government-aided and… Read More »Menstrual Hygiene Policy For School Students Approved: Supreme Court Told

Several civil society groups and student organisations of the Kuki tribes have condemned what they call “barbaric actions” of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), a day after 10 men from the Kuki tribes were killed in Manipur’s Jiribam district. Three children including two babies, one of them a two-year-old, and three women from the Meitei community are also missing from Jiribam since yesterday. The police in the ethnic violence-hit state had in a statement said a CRPF post and a police station came under attack from “armed militants” in Jiribam, neighbouring Assam. After a gunfight that lasted 45 minutes, 10 bodies and several weapons including AK and INSAS assault rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade… Read More »Kuki Groups Allege “Barbaric Actions” By Central Force, Day After 10 Killed In Manipur “Encounter”

China’s second fifth-generation stealth fighter jet is making a debut at its largest air show, taking centre stage at the event and becoming the second nation in the world after the US to have more than one fifth-generation fighter jet. The Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter is a twin-engine, single-seater supersonic jet developed for multirole missions. J-35 is the second fifth-generation fighter China has developed after the J-20.  J-35’s design is similar to the US Lockheed Martin F-35, the only difference is that the former is twin-engine and the latter has one engine. China is known for copying the design of several aircraft – The J-20 and the US F-22 Raptor are similar in design except… Read More »China Unveils Its Second 5th-Gen Fighter, Looks Exactly Like This US Jet

SWITZERLAND – Switzerland legalised assisted dying in 1942 on the condition the motive is not selfish, making it the first country in the world to permit the practice. Doctors can prescribe drugs and administer them or had them over for self-administration. A number of Swiss organisations such as Dignitas offer their services to foreign nationals. UNITED STATES – Medical aid in dying, also known as physician assisted dying is legal in 10 states: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, plus the District of Columbia. Oregon was the first state to legalise it under a law which came into effect in 1997. It allows mentally competent patients who are… Read More »Insight: These Countries Offer ‘Assisted Dying’ Or Are Considering It. How It’s Done

A high-tech marijuana operation, using imported seeds and full-spectrum grow lights, has been busted in Greater Noida and an English graduate from Meerut has been arrested. Police said the man cultivated at least 100 marijuana plants, including premium (OG) and other varieties, at his flat in Beta-2’s Parsvnath Panorama society, selling the produce from each of them on the dark web for between Rs 50,000 and Rs 60,000. He was inspired to get into the drug trade after watching web series and used to gather information on growing marijuana on the internet, said an official. Briefing reporters on Tuesday, a senior police officer said the accused, Rahul Chowdhary, would grow premium marijuana (OG) in flower… Read More »Imported Seeds, Full-Spectrum Lights: High-Tech Marijuana Op Busted In Noida