Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain. For more than 50 years, the journal has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to review studies on the health effects of environmental…
JIND: A Kanungo was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe from a retired army officer. The Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) announced a rigorous imprisonment sentence of five years to Jasbir Singh, a local Kanungo, for accepting a bribe from a retired Army officer. The court also…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a panel advocate of the Indian Bank in Kolhapur for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1.70 lakh from a complainant.The central agency reported that the arrest was made on Tuesday. The advocate had initially demanded a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh, which was later…
The former chairman of the Bank of China, Liu Liange, was on Tuesday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption and illegal issuance of loans. He was found to have accepted bribes worth over 121 million yuan (USD 16.8 million), a court in Jinan city in China’s eastern Shandong Province said in its…