RTI advocators in Bihar have succeeded in prevailing upon the State Information Commission to impose penalties under The Right to Information Act (RTI Act) on two senior officers of the Madhubani  district administration. On 11th September, 2009 the Bihar Information Commission imposed the maximum penalty permissible under the RTI Act on the Additional District Collector (Apar-Samaharta) and the Circle Officer (Anchal Adhikari) for repeated contraventions of the RTI Act. The Commission...

indian-American human rights activist Mallika Dutt has won the American Courage Award for her work in the U.S. and India. The 47-year-old, who grew up in Kolkata and left for the U.S. at the age of 18, will receive the award on October 1 from the Asian American Justice Center, a leading civil rights organisation. In 1989, Ms. Dutt co-founded ‘Sakhi,’ an organisation that helped south Asian women suffering domestic violence in...

As the 6-year-old son in an upper-class Brahmin family, Bindeshwar Pathak wanted to know what would happen if he touched a scavenger, one of India's "untouchables," stuck at the bottom of the country's social order and fated to collect and dispose of human waste. When he did, his grandmother punished him by forcing him to swallow cow dung and urine, and making him bathe in water from the Ganges. "This...

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प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह को पक्का भरोसा है कि नरेगा  के आगे इस साल का सूखा पानी भरता नजर आएगा लेकिन जमीनी स्तर पर काम करने वाले बहुत से कार्यकर्ता नरेगा की कामयाबी को लेकर अब आशंकित हो उठे हैं, खासकर नरेगा के प्रावधानों में हालिया फेरबदल के बाद। इधर सूखे ने कुल २४६ जिलों को अपनी चपेट में ले लिया है उधर बहस इस बात पर सरगर्म हो रही है...