Moneylife, VINITA DESHMUKH | 03/04/2013 Although Supreme Court in its verdict in August 2011 ordered that certified copies of answer sheets is public information under the RTI Act, the Pune University continues to adhere by its 2008 circular which defies the spirit ofthe order and therefore amounts… Continue Reading →
DC | Bengaluru: With the city facing a shortage of clean drinking water, the National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI), based at St John’s Hospital, Bengaluru, is engaged in a project to evaluate polluted rivers around the city… Continue Reading →
Power of RTI After its implementation in 2005, the Right to Information Act came to be known as the sunshine act as it empowered the ordinary citizen for the first time. Now, instead of pleading with babus or netas, the… Continue Reading →
Swatee Kher : Osmanabad, Wed Feb 20 2013, 11:57 hrs Sitting beside a well in Pimpri village, a metal pot at his feet, 70-year-old Vaman Bidbaug hopes he will meet a passerby willing to climb down the well’s 110 steps and… Continue Reading →
HARYANA, Posted on Feb 03, 2013 at 10:05pm IST CNN-IBN Hisar: A Khap panchayat in Haryana‘s Hisar district has reportedly forced a couple to live as siblings. The couple has been married for over a year. Their families alleged harassment and… Continue Reading →
By Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Jan 21, 2013, 03.59 AM IST MUMBAI: A father who is absent cannot get the same rights as a father who is available, said theBombay high court even as it recalled its order allowing… Continue Reading →
Dear All, Lokayat is organising a number of public programs in the coming 10 days. Here is a brief list: Program 1. Republic Day talk on: Constitutional Vision of Education and Neo-liberal Assault: Undoing Dreams of Freedom Struggle Speaker: Dr. Anil… Continue Reading →
VINITA DESHMUKH | 09/01/2013 Moneylife Information commissions are increasingly being lenient in penalising Public Information Officers (PIOs) for not providing information that they should, or being absent at hearings at the information commission. If so, are the information commissioners making PIOs… Continue Reading →
xourtesy- rishabh arrora illustration -tehelka By Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Dec 13, 2012, MUMBAI: Referring to the recent attack on a Kandivli woman with an insecticide spray, the Bombay high court on Wednesday lamented the general lack of fear of the law-and-order machinery,… Continue Reading →
Manoj Mitta | November 2012, Times Crest The higher the penalty, the greater the rigor that the courts are expected to display in arriving at the decision. It is however hard to apply this principle, ironically enough, to the highest… Continue Reading →
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