-The Times of India A day after TOI front-paged an 'appeal' to both sides to seek common ground for the sake of the nation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote to Anna Hazare, who has been on fast for eight days, saying the government would request the Lok Sabha Speaker to "formally refer the Jan Lokpal Bill to the standing committee". This panel would consider all versions, including the government's, Team Anna's...
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RTI activist's murder bleak reminder of unsolved killings
-PTI The shocking murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood on August 16 was a bleak reminder of at least two such incidents in the past involving the women victims, who some way or the other had been associated with public life and died under mysterious circumstances, sources in local police said. Congress leader On February 15, 1997, the burnt body of Congress leader Sarla Mishra was found in her flat in the South...
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Shehla Masood’s assassin was obviously someone from among those she was never afraid to target as an RTI activist. Shehla’s life was on fast track — always in a hurry to set right wrongs being done by those entrusted with powers under the Constitution. It was brutally cut short by a killer last Tuesday. Conceding Union minister Jairam Ramesh’s demand to immediately arrest the killers, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh...
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The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday agreed for a CBI inquiry into the death of RTI activist Shehla Masood. She was found dead in her car on Tuesday. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked the Home department to begin the process after Shehla’s family called on the DGP seeking a probe by a Central agency. The family said they did not trust the local police. The FSL and post mortem reports had said...
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WHEN ITANAGAR businessman and chairman of the Sango Lamte Foundation Payi Gyadi embarked on his crusade against dishonesty, he did not bargain for this. Four FIRs, one attempt to frame him by planting weapons in his car, and countless ‘offers’ to reach a ‘compromise or die’. His crime: exposing that the current Arunachal Pradesh Health Minister Atum Welly’s son and daughter had got government jobs based on fake certificates. It all...
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