
Will act against those hiking medical oxygen price, Kerala govt. tells HC
The Hindu
Private hospitals appeal against ‘sudden price hike’ by supply agencies
The State government on Friday informed the Kerala High Court that stringent and timely action would be taken against those who violate the government order against hiking the price of liquid oxygen as well the order of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) capping the price of medical oxygen. The submission was made by the government counsel when a writ petition by the Kerala Private Hospitals Association against the hike in medical oxygen price came up for hearing before Justice V.G. Arun.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











