-Scroll.in They had beaten a 55-year-old man to death in June 2017 on suspicion of carrying beef in his van. A Jharkhand court on Friday convicted a local Bharatiya Janata Party worker and 10 others for lynching a Muslim trader in June 2017. The convicts had beaten a 55-year-old man to death in Ramgarh district on suspicion of carrying beef in his van. A petition the prosecution filed to treat a 12th...
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As Number of Murdered RTI Activists Rises to 67, It Is the Modi Government That Needs to 'Act Rightly' -Venkatesh Nayak
-TheWire.in When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for "acting rightly", is the government "acting rightly" by not doing enough to safeguard them? Yet another Right to Information (RTI) activist in Gujarat has paid with his life for demanding transparency. On March 9, Nanjibhai Sondarva (35), a resident of Manekvada village in Kotda Sangani taluka of Rajkot district, was allegedly clubbed to death by six people. The deceased’s father has claimed that...
More »PMO Asked to Explain How Divulging Demonetisation Info Will 'Affect Economic Interests' of India -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Three related pleas before the Central Information Commission throw up numerous facts on demonetisation, including how Ambedkar’s photo was proposed to be printed on new notes. New Delhi: With the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) being reticent about the events around demonetisation that was announced late on November 8, 2016 and refusing to part with information about it in response to a query filed under the Right to Information Act, the Central...
More »Want to file RTI? Head to this Kanpur tea stall -P Samuel Jonathan
-The Hindu KM Yadav of Kanpur emerges as a saviour for rural people GUNTUR (Vijayawada): An RTI activist from Uttar Pradesh, who runs his office from a tea stall in Kanpur, has emerged as an unlikely saviour for people tired of making rounds to government offices. Krishna Murari Yadav may not flex his muscles like Munna Bhai, but earned the title of K.M. Bhai from the residents of villages around Kanpur for addressing...
More »Lokpal selection meet on March 1
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A committee headed by the Prime Minister will meet on March 1 to process the names to be considered for the country's first Lokpal, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday. The committee will include the Chief Justice of India, the Lok Sabha Speaker and the leader of the single largest Opposition party in the Lower House, attorney-general K.K. Venugopal told a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi...
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