-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a crippling blow to UPA's showpiece Aadhaar scheme by ruling that it can only be issued to those with proven Indian nationality and cannot be mandatory for accessing public services and subsidies. "In the meanwhile, the Aadhaar card cannot be made mandatory. If anyone applies for Aadhaar card, then you have to verify whether he is a citizen of India...
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India will not accept snooping by any country: Kapil Sibal
-PTI NEW DELHI: India will not accept any kind of surveillance as it has been reported about the US agencies snooping into email and other type of communications of foreign citizens, telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday. The minister also said that the government can take a position on such type of surveillance by a foreign country only when it has complete information about what data and content have...
More »Supreme Court dampens govt hope of mining resumption in Goa -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said considerations of faster economic growth could not be the sole criterion for determining the legality of the ban it has imposed on mining activities in Goa, in remarks which immediately hiked the suspense on what it might do with the desperate pleas to allow resumption of mining which has been the mainstay of the state's economy. In a sharp rejoinder...
More »Let's All Come To The Party-Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri and Shekhar Singh
-Outlook Transparency promotes democracy, more the reason for political parties to come under RTI Act's purview There was great public outrage when legislators in Mumbai beat up an assistant police inspector because he stopped an MLA's car for speeding on the Bandra-Worli sealink. The sentiment was: What arrogance! How can lawmakers have so little respect for the laws they themselves made? However, the amendment in Parliament aimed at removing political parties...
More »The story of filing online RTI is only getting happier-Vinita Deshmukh
-MoneyLife.in After several weeks of disgust over political parties trying to slip out of the RTI Act, good news beckons for citizens in India and abroad who want to file RTI online Do you want to seek information under Right to Information (RTI) about public distribution of grains or demand a copy of your answer sheet in your Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination or seek details about a water conservation project...
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