Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide's plant here, the Indian government agreed to the 'terms' set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world's worst industrial disaster as a 'railway accident'. 'We have obtained top secret documents dated Feb 28 and March 5, 1985, that show that Union Carbide...
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SC agrees to hear graft case against Hazare-run NGO
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a PIL seeking a CBI probe into alleged siphoning off of funds given to an NGO Hind Swaraj Trust run by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and issued notices to the Centre and Maharashtra government. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai sought the governments' response on a petition filed by lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma accusing Hazare of siphoning off of...
More »Every eighth urban child in India lives in slum: report by Vinaya Deshpande
Every eighth urban child in India in the age-group of 0-6 years stays in slums, according to ‘Slums in India – A statistical compendium 2011' published by the Union government. “... about 7.6 million children are living in slums in India and they constitute 13.1 per cent of the total child population of the urban areas of the 26 States/ Union Territories reporting slums,” the report compiled by the National Buildings...
More »Give concrete proposals on state funding of polls, GoM tells Law Min
-Express News Service The Group of Ministers on Corruption has asked the Law Ministry to formulate "concrete proposals" on constitutional and statutory amendments that would be required to introduce state funding of elections. According to a government statement, the Law Ministry had made a presentation to the Group of Ministers on this subject on September 30. After that the ministerial group had directed the ministry to formulate specific proposals, excluding such areas where...
More »‘They are supari killers, jungle mafia' by Ananya Dutta
In the past, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had maintained “there are no Maoists in West Bengal” and that the situation in Jangalmahal region in the State was the result of “infighting among the Marxists,” but the Chief Minister on Saturday lashed out at the rebels, without naming them outright, labelling them “supari killers,” “jungle mafia” and “cowardly goons hiding in the forests.” A little over a year ago, at a...
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