You said that the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies conducted a survey asking people what they felt about street protest. What did you find? One of the first national representative surveys was the National Election Study held in 1971. This is when a protest culture was beginning to take shape in the country. There was the Naxalite movement and also a time when the Congress was dislodged for the...
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Manipur RTI activist ostracised by Sobhapati Samom
An RTI activist in Manipur’s Imphal East district has been ostracised inhis own village for raising question over the construction of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan school building. Th Biren Singh (55) of Wakhong village fearing the eviction of the village school buildingin future if constructed in the unauthorised land, filed an RTI application enquiring whether the school building was constructed within the school’s authorised (patta) land or not. “Now, the villagers who were...
More »RTI activists unite to confront threats
-Kanglaonline.com “The RTI appellants are targeted by persons holding high office and those in power, we are targeted for requesting information from the government. We have decided to unite to withstand this oppression”, stated W Joykumar, convener of Transparency Initiatives Manipur, a forum of RTI activist formed recently. Briefing media persons at its office, Joykumar said that the forum was set up after a meeting was held by RTI activists and other...
More »HC seeks Centre's stand on whether President, Chief Justices & Governors come under RTI
PANAJI: Bombay High Court on Monday asked the union government to file an affidavit as to whether top constitutional offices such as the President, Chief Justices and Governors fall within the ambit of Right to Information Act. The Goa bench of Bombay High Court asked Additional Solicitor General, Vivek Tankha, who represented the Union, to state the legal position regarding the President of India, Chief Justices and Governors; while state...
More »Mid Day scribe's killing: Sandalwood smuggler may have got Dey murdered by S Ahmed Ali & Mateen Hafeez
The Mumbai police suspect that Mid Day scribe Jyotirmoy Dey may have been killed at the instance of a south Mumbai businessman who is into smuggling of red sandalwood. "Dey was working on a story that could have exposed him. The businessman, through his underworld contacts, executed the murder. This is one of the key motives that has emerged from our interrogation," a police officer said. The businessman offered Rs 10...
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