-The Hindu Petitions have challenged constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law after a marathon 38-day hearing that spanned four months. A five-judge Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan heard the argument of all the...
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Govt said buy VVPATs from private sector, Election Commission said no, will hurt public faith -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express In 2013, the Supreme Court ordered the poll panel to introduce VVPATs in a phased manner, and the Commission has committed to have it in place by the time of the 2019 general elections. New Delhi: ARGUING that the involvement of private players could hurt the credibility of the electoral process, the Election Commission (EC) rejected the government’s proposal to buy voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) units from private...
More »Telangana doles out agri credit assistance; farmers get Rs. 4,000/acre
-The Hindu Business Line CM demands NREGA cover for farm labour Hyderabad: About 58 lakh farmers in Telangana will get a financial assistance of ?4,000 each for every acre of land they own under a programme launched by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao today The State government has allocated ?12,000 crore for the scheme in the Budget for 2018-19. The farmers will get ?4,000 each an acre in the kharif and in...
More »In Maharashtra, 22 babies died daily within 28 days of birth: RTI reply
-The Hindu Doctors emphasise need for protocol for newborn intensive care Mumbai: As many as 13,541 children under the age of five died in the State in a span of 11 months, a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. A study of 11,532 deaths between April 2017 and February 2018 by the health department revealed that 65% of the children — 22 a day on an average — died in the first...
More »RTI lock off travel details
-PTI New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Bureau of Immigration, an agency exempted from RTI Act disclosures, to give a person details of his travel as he needed it for defence in penal proceedings that landed him in jail. The CIC underlined that any impediment to a person's self-defence would be a breach of human rights. The case pertains to RTI applicant M. Dinesh, who had sought information related to...
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