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The Hindu
05-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply on plea against blocking of YouTube channel '4 PM'
The Supreme Court on Monday (May 5, 2025) sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition seeking quashing of the order blocking YouTube channel '4 PM'. A Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan agreed to hear the plea and issued notices to the Centre and others seeking their responses on the petition. The plea, filed by Sanjay Sharma, who runs the YouTube channel, has sought a direction to the Centre to produce the blocking order with reasons and records, if any, for blocking the channel. It has also sought a direction to quash the blocking order after calling upon the Centre to produce the blocking order with reasons and records. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioner, said no notice was issued to the petitioner before the blocking order was passed. "The whole channel is blocked and no reason," Mr. Sibal said, adding "the only information I have is from the intermediary". "Ex-facie it is unconstitutional," he said. The Bench, while issuing notice on the plea, said the matter would be heard next week. The plea has sought quashing of Rule 16 of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009. Rule 16 says strict confidentiality shall be maintained regarding all the requests and complaints received and actions taken thereof. The plea has claimed that the order blocking the channel was arbitrary and unconstitutional.
The Hindu
04-05-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
Kozhikode MCH fire: Five-member team to probe incident
A five-member expert team, led by the Superintendent, Government Medical College Hospital, Kottayam, has been set up to inquire into the inconvenience suffered by patients while smoke engulfed the PMSSY block of the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, on the night of May 2, after a minor explosion in its UPS room. K.V. Viswanathan, director of Medical Education (in-charge), who held a meeting at the hospital on Sunday (May 4), told the media that steps would be taken to repair the equipment damaged during the incident. The casualty section and the MRI scanning unit there will not resume services soon. However, those shifted to private hospitals would be brought back. A total of 151 patients — 114 to other wards in the hospital, 12 to the Government General Hospital, and the rest to private hospitals — had to be evacuated after the incident. Inpatient services would be resumed at the block. Mr. Viswanathan said that Health Minister Veena George had ordered an inquiry into the incident soon after it happened. The inquiry report would be submitted as early as possible, he added. Meanwhile, a temporary casualty ward has started functioning at the old block of the hospital.
Hans India
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
SC to hear on Monday plea against two shifts in NEET PG 2025
The Supreme Court is slated to hear, on Monday, a plea filed by the United Doctors Front (UDF) challenging the National Board of Examinations (NBE) decision to conduct the NEET PG 2025 examination in two shifts. The petition demands that the examination should be conducted in a single and uniform session across the country. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan will take up the matter for hearing on May 5. The plea, filed through advocate Satyam Singh Rajput, said the conduct of NEET PG in two shifts with different question papers leads to inevitable variation in difficulty levels, thereby subjecting candidates to unequal standards of evaluation. "This violates Article 14 and Article 21 of the Constitution, which guarantee equality before law and the right to fair opportunity," it said. The petition added that the statistical normalisation process adopted by NBE lacks transparency, public consultation, or expert scrutiny, and the normalisation formula operates on the "flawed presumption that difficulty levels across shifts and the ability of candidates are identical". It sought the top court's intervention to conduct NEET PG 2025 in a single and uniform session, apart from seeking an interim stay on the examination scheduled for June 15. In relation to the NEET PG 2024, which was also conducted in two shifts, several petitions were filed before the Supreme Court challenging the lack of transparency in the conduct of the examination. NEET-PG aspirants had challenged the NBE's practice of not disclosing question papers, answer keys, or response sheets of candidates, apart from questioning the introduction of two shifts, the normalisation method, and the change in the tie-breaker criterion.
