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Are mpox cases under-reported?

Are mpox cases under-reported?

A new Lancet study based on screening of used condoms from across 16 countries finds current numbers could just be tip of iceberg

16 September,2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
With no regulatory body in place... Who is monitoring private forensic labs?

With no regulatory body in place... Who is monitoring private forensic labs?

Experts warn of a serious threat to the justice system, as private forensic labs mushroom across the country and operate unchecked

15 September,2024 09:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Virginity test finds its way back into medical syllabus

Virginity test finds its way back into medical syllabus

After the syllabus underwent amendments following a HC directive, the National Medical Commission now appears to have reverted to the ‘unscientific’ guidelines of 2019

13 September,2024 10:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Mid-Day Impact: Virginity test removed from MBBS syllabus

Mid-Day Premium Mid-Day Impact: Virginity test removed from MBBS syllabus

Move comes after this paper’s report about unscientific and discriminatory information like two-finger test finding their way back into the textbooks for second and third year students

13 September,2024 10:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Experts hail indigenous test kit for monkeypox

Experts hail indigenous test kit for monkeypox

The indigenously developed kits for mpox will be manufactured by a unit in Vadodara, with a production capacity of one million test per annum

09 September,2024 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Mumbai: Experts want to do away with 3-year law course

Mumbai: Experts want to do away with 3-year law course

According to experts, as the five-year course for legal studies provides comprehensive education, the three-year course may be done away with

07 September,2024 08:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Mumbai: 75 per cent attendance must in law colleges, UGC reaffirms

Mumbai: 75 per cent attendance must in law colleges, UGC reaffirms

Statutory authority has revealed its stand in affidavit before Bombay High Court in a PIL filed by an associate professor from a city-based law college

05 September,2024 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Exclusive: State FSL wants to go mobile

Exclusive: State FSL wants to go mobile

The state FSL has floated tenders for firms to provide customised mobile forensic vans along with its operation and maintenance, forensic kits, manpower, technology implementation for crime scene evidence collection

29 August,2024 06:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
‘Maharashtra housing body's conciliation forum is fully flawed’

‘Maharashtra housing body's conciliation forum is fully flawed’

Referring to the news report in mid-day, Forum for People’s Collective Efforts has written to the Union Ministry for Housing to replace the flawed conciliation forum set up by Maharashtra housing body

27 August,2024 07:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
MID-DAY IMPACT: 'Ancestors’ wish for road to be a reality in our lifetime'

MID-DAY IMPACT: 'Ancestors’ wish for road to be a reality in our lifetime'

Following this paper’s reportage, century-old villages in Maharashtra's Raigad district to finally get road connectivity in a couple of years

25 August,2024 01:23 PM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon

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