The former AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala has moved the High Court of Karnataka challenging the cognisance of offence against her by a trial court in a corruption case against three staff members of Bengaluru Central Prison for providing preferential facilities illegally to her when she was lodged there for serving sentence in a corruption case against the former Tamil Nadu …
Limitations in enforcement of food safety rules have come to light in the wake of frequent reporting of food-borne diseases across the State. Food safety officials say they often grapple with lack of facilities and staff shortage. Each district has an Assistant Commissioner of Food Safety, under whom there is one circle-level food safety officer for each Assembly constituency. Functionaries …
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal for setting up primary health care facilities in civic wards which still have no such units, even as a few officials pointed out that the shortage of health workers may pose a hurdle in staffing these new units. Col BK Oberoi, the standing committee chairman, said that primary health care facilities, …
Elderly people in privately-run care homes account for about three quarters of the country’s COVID-19 deaths. Melbourne, Australia – Neville Vaughan was the “life of the party” at the aged care home, where he lived in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. The Royal Commission also revealed that the government regulator on aged care and safety gave perfect compliance ratings in 2018 and …