“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” This quote by US President Ronald Reagan summarises the significance attributed to facts, figures and data and the need to make them freely available across servers and bandwidths. In this age of internet and mobile networks, the amount of information available to us is far more than...
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With No Apologies by Ashok Mitra
The curiosum of a ‘red regime’ with a knack to get re-elected term after term for over more than three decades within the ambit of a full-fledged multi-party democracy has finally disappeared. The Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has not merely lost the poll in West Bengal, it has been made mincemeat of. Its vote share has come down from close to 50 per cent...
More »Dangers of all-powerful Lokpal by Nikhil Dey and Ruchi Gupta
The Jan Lokpal is being vested with sweeping powers, which are susceptible to misuse. The centralised structure of the Lokpal will be ill-suited for sorting out governance deficit. People will be confined to being complainants and applicants. There is need to make the Jan Lokpal people-centric FOR many who quite rightly guessed that the Lokpal Bill drafted by the government would be a non-starter, the alternative merited automatic support. However, little...
More »Orissa appoints nodal officers for CBI probe into MGNREGA
-IBN Orissa government today appointed S K Lohani, the director of Panchayati Raj department, as the nodal officer to assist the CBI team for a detailed probe into the alleged corruption in implementation of the rural job Scam under MGNREGA, official sources said."S K Lohani will work as the state level nodal officer to assist the CBI's special investigation team. The additional district magistrates (ADMs) of six other districts are...
More »Ex-Jharkhand health secy arrested in NRHM Scam by Manoj Prasad
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested former Jharkhand health secretary Siaram Prasad Sinha in a multi-crore rupee Scam in the department. “We are going to prosecute him in the case”,CBI SP S K Choudhary told The Indian Express. The CBI Friday also raided the residence of former health minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi at Bhavnatpur in Palamu in connection with the case. Shahi was not home. Sinha and two other senior...
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