Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday gave permission to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to organise a march in Bhainsa, Nirmal district on March 5.
The HC ordered the right-wing organisation to hold the rally with not more than 500 individuals and to organise it 300 meters away from places of worship.
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s (RSS) ‘Padha Sanchalan’ (march) and ‘Sharirikh Pradarshan’ at Bhainsa for Sunday, February 19 were denied permission earlier by the High Court.
The RSS had appealed that ‘Sharirik Utsavam’ was a bi-yearly practice at the town level. Members dress up in uniforms, carry out processions on the streets and end it with physical performances and speeches.
The town, which borders the former Naxal breeding ground of Adilabad, made headlines at frequent time intervals for communal clashes, internet outages, and daytime curfews.
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SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday issued regulations governing the live broadcasting and recording of proceedings in courts and tribunals in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The High Court Registrar General, Shahzad Azeem, released the rules on Monday under the title “Live Streaming and Recording of Court Sessions Rules of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, 2023.”
Per rule 5, it is strictly forbidden to record proceedings on audio, video, or by any other method than what is required by the regulations.
The laws further state that live streaming is prohibited during court procedures involving marriage, gender-based violence against women, sexual offenses, and instances covered by the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO Act).
Also, cases that the bench believes may incite animosity among communities and perhaps lead to a breakdown of law and order will not be streamed live.
Furthermore, cases that the bench believes may incite animosity among communities and perhaps lead to a breakdown of law and order will not be streamed live.
Moreover, live streaming will not be available for any other matters in which the Chief Justice or the bench has given a special directive.
Any individual or organization is prohibited under Rule 9 from recording, distributing, or transmitting live-streamed proceedings or archival data through print, electronic, or social media.
It further states that any unauthorized usage of the live stream will be punishable as an offense under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, the Information Technology Act of 2000, and other provisions of law including the law of contempt of court.
Without the prior written consent of the Court, the live stream cannot be reproduced, copied, transferred, uploaded, posted, edited, published, or reprinted in any way.
As per the Rules, court proceedings in matrimonial matters, cases concerning gender-based violence against women, cases concerning sexual offences and cases under the POCSO Act would stand excluded from live streaming.
(Reuters) – Europe’s benchmark stock index rose on Monday, supported by gains in all major sectors, rebounding from its worst weekly performance this year.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 1.11% to 462.79 points at 7:52 am (Brasília time). The Index fell 1.4% last week after higher-than-expected US inflation data fueled bets the Federal Reserve will continue to raise borrowing costs.
All of the euro zone’s major sectoral indexes advanced in early trade, with gains of 1.2% to 1.6% in riskier parts of the market, including oil and gas, technology and autos and auto parts.
Miners, among the biggest losers last week, jumped 0.8%. Defensive sectors such as healthcare and telecommunications posted the smallest gains.
In LONDON, the Financial Times index advanced 0.81%, to 7,942.85 points.
In FRANKFURT, the DAX index rose 1.51% to 15,440.04 points.
In PARIS, the CAC-40 index gained 1.58%, at 7,300.89 points.
In MILAN, the Ftse/Mib index appreciated by 1.78%, at 27,466.36 points.
In MADRID, the Ibex-35 index registered an increase of 1.28%, to 9,319.40 points.
In LISBON, the PSI20 index appreciated by 0.54%, to 6,016.70 points.
The lack of knowledge has an impact on patients. According to the CDC, a fatal overdose from marijuana is highly unlikely — though people have died from doing something dangerous while under the influence of cannabis. But patients have had negative reactions after trying cannabis to treat symptoms of a disease they anecdotally heard it may help.
Anne Hassel was initially a believer in the healing properties of marijuana. She pushed for legalization in her home state of Massachusetts, and even did jail time on marijuana-related charges. After weed was legalized for medical use in 2014, Hassel — now 55 — quit her job as a physical therapist and went to work in a dispensary.
She used marijuana because she “thought it helped … physically and mentally,” but stopped after being diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning and developing suicidal ideation. She blames both on poorly tested, high-potency concentrates that became more available after legalization.
“That’s what burns me up; that the most susceptible people, who might have lung issues and other problems, are using this substance,” Hassel said.
Arnsten says she screens for family or personal histories of mental health problems or heart disease before recommending cannabis — and recommends patients don’t choose smoking or vaping as their method of consumption. However, other doctors simply hand out a recommendation without a long discussion — and many patients try medical marijuana without ever consulting a doctor like Arnsten.
Some states, cities and even hospitals have come up with creative ways to fill in the gaps left by the lack of regulation or a formal connection to the medical system. A bill in New York would require that state insurance agencies cover medical cannabis expenses for patients. Patients and a medical marijuana company in New Mexico, meanwhile, have filed a class-action lawsuit against some of the state’s largest health insurers with the intention of forcing them to cover medical marijuana.
Universities have popped up with training programs for the medical cannabis industry, like the graduate program in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics now available from the University of Maryland’s pharmacy school. The program intends to make sure people working in the cannabis industry, including dispensary workers giving recommendations from behind the counter, know how to read and contextualize scientific research and how to guide new consumers in a healthy way. Other states, like Utah and Pennsylvania, require a pharmacist to be on hand in a dispensary. But most states still do not require any type of credentials or training for medical dispensary workers.
“The states are like a patchwork of regulation, and they’re doing a really crappy job, honestly,” Hassel said. “You’re having cracks and people are taking advantage and [others are] being harmed.”
Patients who get their medical marijuana card through Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, meanwhile, don’t pay for the visit — which saves them about $200.
“The way that we’re doing it is safer. We have access to the person’s entire medical record, we get results, we talk to a psychiatrist or other treating providers,” Arnsten said.
Even this solution, however, is only triage. Of the thousands of people that Montefiore has certified for medical cannabis use, only one-quarter purchase medical cannabis more than once.
“Most people said, ‘I couldn’t afford it,’” Arnsten said. “We’ve removed that [cost] barrier, but we haven’t been able to change that barrier of how much the products cost at dispensaries.”
Most Mondays, Amie Carter frequents a little bar in Flint with a giant red chili pepper mounted over the door. She meets friends to sip beers and play pool.
“My therapy [is] shooting pool and shooting darts,” Amie explained, describing her escape from the daily stress of being a full-time caregiver. “I get to listen to loud music. I don’t need to think about anything going on. And all I need to focus on is making that shot.”
Between shots, she chats with friends — a pool stick in one hand and a Budweiser in another. Chilly’s bar is another extension of the medical marijuana world that Amie has built up around herself and other patients in Michigan. The bartender, none other than fellow medical marijuana caregiver mom Ashley Morolla, walks over to see whether anyone needs another round.
Each parent or grandparent Amie knows has a different expertise — cannabis for pain management, or reducing seizures, or treating autism. If you are part of this community, you’re likely to find someone who has done hundreds of hours of research on the uses of cannabis for a specific ailment, and has extensive advice on how to trial different strains, doses and products until you find the right product.
Amie has pamphlets she leaves at the doctors’ office, offering consulting services to help patients get the right marijuana products. She’s taught other parents how to make cannabis oil capsules at home, and how to administer cannabis in liquid form for kids who can’t swallow pills.
Amie and her community have created their own solution to the country’s Swiss cheese medical marijuana laws, and worry that a major federal revamping of the state medical programs could put that in jeopardy.
“Leave the patient caregiver system alone. We can get our clubs, and we can really help the people that really need it,” she argued.
The network Amie has created, though, has one big catch: it is completely separate from the traditional medical system, which the majority of Americans still engage with — and no number of pamphlets, Facebook groups, or local events will find every potential patient or parent and ensure they all get accurate medical information and guidance.
“I don’t blame anybody for not wanting to get into this arena who’s in traditional medicine, because there’s so much that feels uncertain,” Arnsten said. “On the other hand, I do feel that our patients — particularly chronic pain patients — are using these products, or they want to consider using these products. … And we need to be able to answer those questions for them.”
Erin Smith contributed to this report.
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All stakeholders to work towards the common goal of road safety & reducing road fatalities: LG to officers
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 25: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired a high-level meeting to review the Road Safety measures in J&K, at the Civil Secretariat.
The meeting was attended by Sh Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to Lt Governor; Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary; Sh RK Goyal, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department; Sh Dilbag Singh, DGP; Sh H. Rajesh Prasad, Principal Secretary, H&UDD; Sh Shailendra Kumar, Principal Secretary, Public Works (R&B) Department; Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, besides senior officers from Traffic Police and UT administration in person and through virtual mode.
During the meeting, the Lt Governor took an appraisal of the implementation of directions issued with regard to improving the Road Safety in the UT and steps taken since the previous meeting.
Sh G. Prasanna Ramaswamy, Administrative Secretary, Transport Department presented the detailed Action-taken report on the status of major infrastructure projects (IDTR Kot Bhalwal & ICC, Samba); enforcement activities by Traffic & Motor Vehicle Department; working of District Road Safety Councils, action taken by road owning agencies for improving the safety of the roads, Installation of CCTVs along roads by NHAI and Police; status of Intelligent Traffic Management System in JMC and SMC, streamlining of Integrated Road Accident Database (IRDA).
While reviewing the enforcement activities being undertaken by the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Department, the Lt Governor directed for taking strict action against the violators who temper with speed limit devices installed in their Vehicles.
The Lt Governor also enquired about the completion of works related to identifying black spots along highways and utilisation of the road safety fund.
The chair was informed that 100 unauthorized cuts have been plugged, besides crash barriers along 98.65 Kms and 3104 speed limit signages have also been erected since April 2022.
Appreciating the efforts of all stakeholders for their commendable efforts towards improving road safety in UT, the Lt Governor asked them to develop a robust mechanism to check the health status of drivers.
The Lt Governor further asked the concerned departments to conduct causative analysis of road accidents for multi-pronged road safety strategy. He also issued directions to complete the works of crash barriers installation at the identified spots.
“All stakeholders to work towards the common goal of road safety & reducing road fatalities,” the Lt Governor said.
Reviewing the process of installation of CCTVs along roads on National Highways, the Lt Governor asked the concerned agencies to complete the work well within the stipulated timeframe.
He further stressed on addressing the issues of old vehicles, if any, running on roads, checking overloading and unauthorised hoardings.
Directions were also issued for completing Inspection and Certification Centre (ICC), Samba, Institute of Driving, Training and Research (IDTR), Kot Bhalwal, Jammu and Intelligent Traffic Management Systems at JMC & SMC and making them functional at the earliest. The Lt Governor stressed upon active cooperation of all the stakeholders and effective measures for road safety and appropriate interventions to reduce road accidents.
“This could be a concern if those levels were sustained over the long term,” said Weihsueh Chiu, a professor of veterinary physiology and pharmacology at Texas A&M University, which conducted the analysis of EPA data collected between Feb. 4 and this past Tuesday.
The findings, which the school posted on Twitter on Friday, come after weeks of rising anger among residents skeptical of the government’s assurances that they faced no health risks. Some local residents have complained about unusual ailments such as bloody noses and dizziness.
“It’s hard to trust anybody right now, for everything that we’ve been through,” resident Courtney Newman said at a town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday evening. Newman said her son has had daily bloody noses and that she developed “skin issues” since returning home after evacuating because of the chemicals.
Chiu acknowledged that it’s difficult to determine from this initial data that the concentrations are responsible for any residents’ specific ailment, partly because EPA’s data averages levels over multiple hours, which may not reflect brief spikes.
An independent research team from Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon University — which is located in Pittsburgh, about an hour from the crash site — are collecting their own data with a mobile monitoring van that could reflect short-term bursts, though it will likely be a week or two before that analysis is complete.
EPA, which has had workers on the scene since hours after the Feb. 3 crash, reiterated in a statement that it has not detected levels dangerous in the short-term.
“EPA’s 24/7 air monitoring data continues to show that exposure levels of the 79 monitored chemicals are below levels of concern for adverse health impacts from short-term exposures,” the agency said. “The long-term risks referenced by this analysis assume a lifetime of exposure, which is constant exposure over approximately 70 years. EPA does not anticipate levels of these chemicals will stay high for anywhere near that long.”
Chiu agreed the levels should drop as the cleanup continues but said East Palestine residents should keep an eye on air quality data over the coming weeks to be sure.
“We weren’t trying to be alarmist,” he said. “It was just that nobody had done any interpretation of these levels, to our knowledge.”
The analysis found high levels of acrolein, which in liquid form is used as a component in the manufacturing of other chemicals or as a pesticide. It wasn’t carried in that form on the train, according to Norfolk Southern’s inventory, but can be formed as a byproduct of burning petrochemicals or via cigarettes or vaping.
“These levels are not because people are vaping right outside of the monitor,” Chiu said. “I’m not sure of the source but because it’s a combustion product, maybe it’s possibly from when they burned the material.”
Acrolein is an irritant in the respiratory tract, and research has found it can cause nasal lesions in animals after long-term exposure, Chiu said. It may also cause cancer with chronic exposure, but additional research is needed to determine that.
The median concentration of acrolein picked up around East Palestine was 0.14 micrograms per cubic meter of air. That comes with a hazard quotient — a measurement of chemicals’ non-cancer health risk — of 7, according to Texas A&M’s analysis; quotients over 1 are of concern. An EPA survey in 2014 found that Columbiana County, where East Palestine is located, had a quotient of 0.83, slightly below the average U.S. county quotient of 0.89, according to the Texas A&M researchers.
The highest sampling this month in East Palestine showed concentrations of 0.8 micrograms, with a quotient of 40.
EPA said the levels of acrolein being detected are within levels typically found in the air as defined by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Eight other chemicals showed higher-than-normal concentrations, though none surpassed a quotient of 1. However, chemicals can add up cumulatively to cause concern.
Vinyl chloride, a chemical that was burned off by Norfolk Southern days after the crash to prevent an explosion, is one of the substances showing higher than normal concentrations in some parts of East Palestine.
Some of the other chemicals may have come from the burning of crude oil or are being emitted by evaporating petrochemicals that soaked into the ground after the crash. Among them are benzene and naphthalene, both of which can cause cancer or — through chronic exposure — non-cancer ailments such as blood disorders, cataracts, respiratory issues and reproductive effects, according to EPA’s website.
The team from Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon is gathering independent data on about 80 chemicals in the air via its mobile monitoring van. Chiu said they plan to conduct a detailed analysis and release more information in a week or two.
The partnership was formed to study air pollution in the wake of Superfund disasters and is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, Chiu said.
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New Delhi: Four advocates were on Thursday appointed as additional judges in the high courts of Madras and Allahabad.
According to separate notifications issued by the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry, advocates Prashant Kumar, Manjive Shukla and Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal have been appointed additional judges of the Allahabad High Court in that order of seniority for a period of two years.
The Supreme Court Collegium recommended their names on January 17 along with six other advocates for appointment as additional judges. The other six were elevated recently.
In another notification, the ministry said advocate Venkatachari Lakshminarayanan is appointed as an additional judge of the Madras High Court for a period of two years.
The apex court Collegium recommended his name on January 17 along with Victoria Gowri and others, including advocates and judicial officers. She has since taken oath as an additional judge of the Madras High Court.
Additional judges are usually appointed for a period of two years before being elevated to permanent judges.
Backward classes given high priority in MLC election: AP Tourism Min
Chittoor: Andhra Pradesh Tourism Minister Roja on Wednesday alleged that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief N Chandrababu Naidu and other TDP leaders were misusing the police.
She also claimed that her party honoured 14 backward castes by giving them MLC tickets. Chandrababu is the only person who knows how to use the police system, she alleged.
“People are not in a position to trust Chandrababu and Telugu Desam Party. TDP will not get even a single seat in the next elections.
TDP leaders are making provocative comments in Gannavaram. After the 2024 elections, Chandrababu will be kicked out of Hyderabad,” she said.
She also said that although TDP leaders are cursing the CM . CM Jagan Mohan Reddy is always working for the welfare of the people.
“If TDP workers raise their mouths, we will answer them with our hands. The state stands first in ease of doing, GSTP,” she concluded.
SRINAGAR: Kupwara district has huge potential in the industrial sector and thermal power generation as there are around 17 lakh metric tonne major mineral deposits available in different areas of this frontier district.
Quoting data available with Geology and Mining (G&M) department an official handout said that 9 Lakh metric tonne Lignite deposits are available at Nichahama and Hangnikkot areas of the district, and have huge potential of thermal power generation. Likewise, at Awoora and Zirhama, there are 8 lakh metric tonne high quality Marble deposits which can revive the industrial sector and can provide ample employment opportunities in the district.
District Mineral Officer (DMO) Kupwara, Dr.Shujat Ahmad Qureshi in a statement said that Geology and Mining department has seized 440 vehicles including heavy earth moving machines used in illegal mining and transportation of raw material from different areas of Kupwara district during the financial year 2022-23, adding that a fine of Rupees 60 lakh has been realized from the violators (owners of seized vehicles), besides, seizing raw material worth rupees 20 lakh.
The DMO further said that he along with his team launched a crackdown in different areas of Kupwara district, following the directions of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, Dr Doifode Sagar Dattatray to curb the illegal mining and its transportation.
Dr Shujat said that all of his staff has been put on alert to monitor illegal mining in the district.
On the occasion, the DMO warned the offenders to desist from the illegal extraction of minor minerals, adding that stern action under rules shall be taken against them.
He said the vehicles were seized under Mines & Minerals Act 1957 under section 21 delegated under the J&K Minor Mineral Concession, Storage, Transportation of minerals and prevention of illegal mining rules 2016 issued vide SRO 105 of 2016.
According to DMO, rate fixation of raw materials in the district has already been accorded and sale and purchase of minor minerals is being done online through http://www.geologymining.jk.gov.in, besides, rates have been notified which are available on different portals of Geology and Mining department.
He said that the ordinary sand (meshed) at source would cost Rs 28 per Cft, nallah bajri at Rs 16 per Cft, nallah boulders at Rs 6 per Cft, nallah mukh (GSB) at Rs 4 per Cft, ordinary clay at Rs 3 per Cft, crushed bajri (10 mm) at Rs 23 per Cft, crushed bajri (40 mm) at Rs 18.50 per Cft and crusher dust at Rs.25 per Cft.
Moreover, DMO added that in case extra rate is demanded by the mineral concessionary or mineral dealer licensee, people can contact the DMO Kupwara, accordingly such offenders will be fined under law.
While giving further details District Mineral officer Kupwara said that there are 24 e-auctioned blocks in Kupwara district out of them 14 are functional leased-out blocks while the rest 10 are under process.
