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New Delhi:The Delhi High Court today asked a group of visually impaired students, whose hostel was recently demolished, to move to an alternative accommodation given to them, saying they were illegal occupants of government land and cannot claim legal right over it.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar, however, asked the agencies concerned to ensure that the visually impaired students, who were left without a roof in winter, are lodged in proper regular hostels.

The court was hearing a PIL by nine visually impaired students, who have alleged that the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) acted illegally in forcibly evicting them from the hostel in south-west Delhi where they were residing since 2000.

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a number of projects, including a housing scheme for five lakh people and a mega Rs 3,000- crore road, for the development of rural Bengal.

Five lakh people of the state would get houses under the the state government's "Bangla GraminAbasYojna" on January 29, she said, adding that another three lakh had received assistance for building houses under the "Geetanjali" scheme.

The chief minister said this after inaugurating the "MatiUtsav" (soil festival) in Bardhaman to promote the farm sector.

New Delhi January 2

Gujjar, the centuries-old tribal community in Jammu and Kashmir, must be provided with required reservation and other benefits proportionate to their populations in the territory. And the state government should take a call of their primary needs and requirements.

The BJP tribal leader in J&K, Eshfaq-ur Rehman Poswal, who had also contested assembly elections from the BJP ticket in 2014 assembly polls, was talking to the media in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said the government has developed a "good and robust" system of supervising clinical trials by strengthening the regulatory provisions to check any serious adverse effects, including deaths, caused by them.
Patel said in RajyaSabha there have been 378 cases of deaths due to "serious adverse events" in 2016 and 11 of them related to clinical trials based on available status of examination done.

She said a high-powered committee was formed by the government, after the Supreme Court judgement in this regard, which had made recommendations on when to give permission to drugs without holding clinical trials.