New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the city government's reply to a PIL seeking an order to adopt blood-screening methods like Individual Donor Testing (IDT) through Nucleic acid Amplification Test (NAT) to avoid the possibility of infections being spread through blood transfusion. A bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Jayant Nath issued a notice to the city government's department of Health and Family Welfare and sought the response by July 10, 2013, the next date of hearing.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by a practicing lawyer Jewesh Maneja through advocate R Jawaharlal saying the government should use NAT screening of donated blood in blood banks in the city by the process of IDT. The plea said implementation of NAT will be an important step forward in the prevention of transmission of infections through transfusion and also increase the availability of a safer blood supply.
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03:20 AM, May 09, 2013
Balasore: A fire broke out in Chandipur's ammunition depot in Odisha early Monday morning. The fire broke out at 4 am in the ammunition testing centre of the Proof and Experimental Establishment or PXE. "The fire triggered explosions as it erupted in the magazine store of the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) where shells and ammunition of different capacities and sizes are stored for test," Officer In-Charge of Chandipur police...
08:08 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Tashu Kaushik, who opted out of upcoming romantic-comedy 'Mic Testing 143' for personal reasons, is upset that her images are being used on the promotional posters of the film. She says she is likely to take legal course of action if the makers don't stop using her images. "I don't understand how can my images be used on the poster of a film I'm not part of...
09:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai girl Ashwini Nene has topped the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) - a pre-requisite for admissions to most US graduate schools and for some other countries - by scoring full marks of 340/340, an official said here on Wednesday. Nene, 20, is a student of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Andheri. The GRE results were announced by Educational Testing Services, a US-based organisation that conducts the examinations worldwide. Coached...
11:00 AM, Apr 04, 2013
At the completion of the last preseason tests, world champion Sebastian Vettel said: "We have never had a winter that was less conclusive than this one." ...
11:44 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The 2007 world champion with Ferrari and third overall last year in his comeback season, was hopeful that Lotus could be strong right from the start despite a lack of laps in testing. ...
09:36 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Seven times Formuala One world champion Michael Schumacher has ruled out returning to Formula One as a pundit. ...
11:37 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The German's time of one minute 20.130 seconds was comfortably quicker than team-mate Lewis Hamilton's best lap of 1:20.558. ...
01:15 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Hamilton took advantage of the first blue skies and dry track at the Catalunya Circuit by putting in a flying lap of 1 minute, 20.558 seconds. ...
03:30 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Webber set the pace in cold and wet conditions on the first day of the final F1 pre-season testing session, just ahead of Hamilton of Mercedes. ...
11:02 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Hamilton used a brief dry spell in the morning to record a time of 1 minute, 23.282 seconds on the fourth and final day of testing. ...
12:53 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Perez did a series of shorter runs in the morning and then longer ones in the afternoon. ...
08:53 AM, Feb 21, 2013
With 54 deaths, Rajasthan has seen the maximum casualties this year, followed by Haryana, Delhi and Punjab. ...
04:07 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. ...
03:40 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Research In Motion Ltd said that it had begun a "beta testing" program that allows 120 companies and government departments to try out its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones before their global launch on January 30. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 18, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc is testing a feature that lets users of the social network create "wishlists" of home furnishings, clothing and other retail products, laying the groundwork for what some believe could be an eventual push into e-commerce. Facebook said it is working with seven retailers, including Pottery Barn and Victoria's Secret, to test the new feature that will allow certain users to flag images of desired products by...
09:55 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Environmental issues are increasingly coming in the way of the Indian Navy carrying out live fire testing of various weapons on board ships. Naval sources say that even for testing small weapons, ships have to move far out to sea. This not only means extra expense in terms of fuel but also time. Then theres the fact that in the event of rough seas and during the monsoon,...
02:02 PM, Jul 17, 2012
On the face of it, Veeru K's film seems to be a refreshing entertainer. Tarak is playing a theatre director named Devadanam. The film's rural set-up is fashioned after Mangamma Gari Manavadu, Muddula Mavayya, the makers say. Mike Testing 143 has been shot completely but for three songs and the scenes for climax. "In the coming schedule from the 25th onwards, we will shoot the talkie part in Hyderabad. A...
07:51 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: Almost two months after a Parliament Standing Committee raised an alarm on untested drugs, it has been found that they are still being freely sold in the market. The shocking findings of the Parliament committee had put a huge question mark on the credibility of the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation, highlighting loopholes in drug safety laws. According to its report, 33 new drugs were approved by the...
07:12 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Mugello: Sahara Force India had a busy day on the track, checking out aero balance and tyre compounds, on the third and final day of the Formula One mid-season testing at Mugello on Thursday. Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg shared the VJM05 for the final day of running. While Di Resta completed 34 laps, Hulkenburg was on the track for 55 laps. "It was a much better day and...
10:55 AM, May 04, 2012
