The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has thrown a spanner in the works of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which planned to put up huge hoardings of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s photographs along all national highways. Going a step further, it directed all Central ministries and departments not use the Prime Minister’s photographs without prior approval. “Photograph of the Prime Minister cannot be used by any Ministry /Department without...
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‘It’s time for eye-grabbing rural reporting’
Dismissing notions that readers are not interested in development issues or rural reportage, editors and activists Monday stressed that the media perspective on the issue needed a change as “society is no longer passive”. ‘Can rural reporting be sexy?’– this was the topic of discussion at an event organised by the Foundation for Media Professionals, an independent organisation by a group of Indian journalists, here Monday. “The time has come for rural...
More »EC admits misplacing complaint
The Election Commission has admitted that it misplaced two complaints drawing the panel’s attention to the use of child labour in elections and Dalits being denied entry in some Rajasthan booths. Acting on one of the complaints by advocate Radhakant Tripathy, the commission had issued an order on May 1, 2009, to all state chief secretaries and chief electoral officers to desist from employing child labour in the election process. However,...
More »RTI activist murder: No to 1-lakh supari led to lawyer by Chandan Haygunde
A man who claimed he accepted a supari (contract) of Rs 1 lakh to kill RTI activist Satish Shetty but backed out when he realised his target was “working for the benefit of the common man” led police in Pune to an advocate who has been arrested in connection with the Shetty murder case. Pune rural police today sought court permission for brain-mapping and a narco test on advocate Vijay...
More »Activists form RTI council to safeguard information, whistleblowers by Siddhesh Inamdar
Right to Information (RTI) activists from Pune came together on Sunday and formed an RTI council to serve as a repository of information obtained by various activists. “Once the information obtained by anyone under the RTI is available with a council, there will be less threat to an individual’s life,” said Vivek Velankar, an RTI activist, while speaking to journalists after a public meeting to demand justice for the murdered RTI...
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