It seems the people's representatives are oblivious to the fact that making phone calls costs money and they have to pay bills like the man on the street. Altogether 405 present and former members of Parliament owe Rs 7.30 crore to public sector Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd for bills not paid for years. Every MP is entitled to two fixed line telephone connections – one in Delhi and other in his...

The Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry has moved the Cabinet note on the revised Sports Development Bill for inter-ministerial consultations. The Bill seeks to bring about accountability and transparency in the administering of sports. Dissent note The Bill, which has drawn support from various quarters including eminent sportspersons and members of the civil society, is aimed at bringing about efficiency and transparency in the working of the national sports federations and seeks...

The contentious revised Sports Development Bill has got a fresh thrust with the Aruna Roy-led civil society group, the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI), throwing its weight behind the move to bring about transparency and accountability in the running of sports in the country. The NCPRI statement signed by Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan along with others like Ms. Roy, Nikhil Dey, Shekhar Singh and Anjali Bharadwaj has...

-The Times of India   If the proposed Lokpal will cure administration, RTI will help it. Hence both were complimentary to each other, said Satyanand Mishra, chief information commissioner (CIC), government of India.  The government wants that the corporate houses should also abide by the Right to Information (RTI) Act, falling on then lines of the government offices.  Mishra said that India Inc will also have to accept transparency and for this they can...

-The Economic Times   Leading IT company Infosys today disapproved the idea of bringing corporates under the ambit of the Right to Information Act by saying that they were already accountable to several regulators in the country.  "We are reluctant (that) we should be included (under the Right To Information)," Infosys Executive Co Chairman S Gopalakrishnan said at a CII even here.  He was responding to a query on whether the Indian corporates should...