BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes are found to be associated with the increased risk of breast cancer as well as ovarian cancer. In 1990, a team of scientists from University of California, Berkeley declared the association of BRCA 1 gene (present in long arm of chromosome 17) with the risk of breast cancer.[ii] In […]
The National Food Security Act, 2013 Aims to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to the people to live a life with dignity. It also provides ways and means for the revitalization of agriculture in the country. While the Act specifically calls for
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Introduction: The long awaited Lokpal Bill, passed in the Parliament in December 2013 has brought hope of corruption free India, to the citizen. The Lokpal Bill 2013[i] seeks to provide a mechanism to erase corruption in the public governance and the matters connected thereto. The term Lokpal (The people’s protector and caretaker) was coined by
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