Sci&Tech, Medical and Envirnoment:

The Madhya Pradesh government has fined 12 doctors Rs. 5,000 each for conducting drug trials on children and mentally challenged persons and for not maintaining records of tests and treatment and failure to provide requisite details to the Chief Medical and Health Officer.
“While there was no provision in Schedule ‘Y' of the Drugs and Cosmetic Rules 1945 for powers to States to monitor/regulate drug/clinical trials,” instructions were issued to the Madhya Pradesh Health Commissioner and the Chief Medical and Health Officer, Indore to get registered with the Clinical Trial Registry of India

Social networking sites are ideal targets for online criminal activity because of the large number of users, and an apparent high-level of trust among them
The report has come up with predictions covering four main categories —
- big IT trends;
- mobile landscape;
- threat landscape; and
- data leaks and breaches.
Users in 2012 will need to continue moving towards a more data-centric model for effective security and privacy as they embrace consumerisation, virtualisation, and the cloud.
In the mobile landscape, says the report, smartphones and tablet platforms, especially Android, will suffer from more cybercriminal attacks.
Among big IT trends, the Bring-Your-Own-Device era is here to stay. As more and more corporate data is stored or accessed by devices that are not fully controlled by IT administrators, the likelihood of data loss directly attributable to the use of improperly secured personal devices will rise.
For data leaks and breaches, more hacker groups would pose a bigger threat to organisations that protect highly sensitive data.

Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, 2011,
- all Central and State government departments will be mandated to publish a list of services that are electronically available within 180 days and will start rolling them out within five years.
- the delivery of such services is time-bound, penalties up to Rs.20,000 could be levied on errant officials.
The receipt of forms and applications, issue or grant of licence, permit, certificate, sanction or approval and the receipt and payment of money — all of them can be done through the Internet.
It also take cautions that the Bill may overlap with other big-thrust legislation such as the proposed Public Services Delivery Bill and the Information Technology Act, 2000, which talks about delivering e-services through public-private partnerships.