-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After Dwarka, a cooperative housing society in east Delhi has now gone solar. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated a 140 kWp solar PV plant at Milan Vihar cooperative society in IP Extension on Sunday. According to officials, the plant will generate 1.7 lakh units in a year and the society will earn Rs 3.4 lakh per year as generation-based incentive. Sources said many other housing societies...
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Costlier fuel pushes up WPI inflation to 3.18 per cent in April
-PTI WPI inflation, which was on a declining trend since December 2017, accelerated in April due to an unfavourable base effect, a seasonal uptick in food prices as well as the pass through of rising global crude oil prices. New Delhi: Inflation based on wholesale prices touched a four-month high of 3.18 per cent in April on increasing prices of petrol and diesel as well as fruits and vegetables. The Wholesale Price...
More »Whistleblowers act needed to protect RTI users: Aruna Roy
-PTI Aruna Roy also feels that there is still a need to see the RTI as a larger democratic and people's constitutional tool to make Power truthful and accountable and put pressure on the political establishment, which it cannot ignore or distort. New Delhi: There is a necessity for a whistleblowers act to protect RTI users as the system has “strategised to stall” free flow of information to disemPower and stop such...
More »Secularism at risk as RTI Act weakens, says Aruna Roy
-The Hindu ‘Information Commissioners are not being appointed’ Hyderabad: Releasing her RTI Story Power to The People in the city, activist Aruna Roy, who led the movement for getting the legislation in place, said citizens were moving towards a more challenging and non-transparent environment. “This government has consolidated opaqueness. It has systematically weakened the RTI Act by granting exemptions to CBI and other agencies on security grounds. Electoral bonds are a case in...
More »Call for ordinance on SC, ST Act -P Samuel Jonathan
-The Hindu Supreme Court verdict on the Act could increase the vulnerability of victims of atrocities, says ex-official GUNTUR (Andhra Pradesh): The Central government must bring an ordinance to remove the conditions imposed in the recent Supreme Court judgment in the implementation of the Prevention of Atrocities (SC, ST) Act, 1989 and remove all general observations made about it, said P.S. Krishnan, former Union Secretary, Ministry of Welfare, and member, National Monitoring...
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