-The Indian Express Chandigarh: Less than a week after Congress president Sonia Gandhi viSITed Jind in Haryana to viSIT the family of a rape victim, 30 MPs will be in Jind and Kaithal on October 17 to meet the families of Dalit rape victims. The gravity of the SITuation notwithstanding, the state government seems to have chosen this opportunity to impress the viSITing MPs with its hospitality. Among the various duties assigned...
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UPA hopes to reap dividend from Aadhar scheme -Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India In a significant moment for UPA-II's plans to make cash transfers a reform motif and a pro-poor vote hook, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will hand out Aadhar number 21 crore in the Rajasthan village of Dudu on Saturday. SITuated some 60-odd km from Jaipur, Dudu will be the stage for the launch of a scheme integrating benefits like rural employment guarantee, pensions and state...
More »AFSPA in J&K can’t be revoked: Shinde -M Saleem Pandit
-The Times of India SRINAGAR: Notwithstanding the improvement in the security SITuation in the Valley, Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde ruled out the revocation of the contentious Armed Forces Special Powers Act here on Sunday. The Act gives sweeping powers to the Army including to arrest without a warrant anyone who has committed offence or even suspected of having done so, and to enter any premise to make such arrests. Chief...
More »The vexatious case of PM and the RTI -Saikat Datta
-DNA "Frivolous and vexatious” — these were the words that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used while addressing this year’s edition of the annual Right To Information (RTI) convention. His choice of words raises several disturbing questions. The PM conveniently ignored the fact that there is no legal definition of what constitutes “frivolous and vexatious” and there is unlikely to be one in the future. Will one person’s understanding of “frivolous” be...
More »Visually challenged man wields RTI to surmount mindsets, expose graft -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Shobhu Ram, a prominent activist from H.P., uses the Act to empower others of his ilk in his State Shobhu Ram can be mistaken for just another visually challenged person, who also works as an announcer in the Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation, but beneath the veneer lies a strong fighter for the rights of the disabled in general and for the rights of the visually challenged in particular. Mr....
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