-The Hindu The intention behind the move to make the CAG a multimember body is not to activate the Shunglu Committee’s report but a desire to clip the auditor’s wings During the last few days there have been many comments on the report that the government of India was considering a proposal to make the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) a multimember body. The move has been widely seen as...
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India second in keeping tabs on netizens -Ishan Srivastava
-The Times of India CHENNAI: India ranks second globally in accessing private details of its citizens, next only to the US, if the latest data from Google is to be believed. The transparency report by the internet search giant lists out requests it received from governments across the world to access information on the users of its various services. In the first six months of 2012, India made 2,319 requests involving 3,467...
More »Gandhi Would Have Insisted That India Stand By Us: Suu Kyi
-Outlook Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today said had Mahatma Gandhi been alive he would have been "vocal" about his "disapproval" of India's stand regarding her country. "I think Mahatma Gandhi would have been very vocal about his disapproval," the Noble Prize winner, for whom Gandhi has been one of the greatest influences, told Karan Thapar at CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme. "I think he (Gandhi) would have stood by us...He would...
More »Multi-member CAG plan still on table -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India Denials notwithstanding, the government indeed has been considering the idea of turning the Comptroller and Auditor General into a multi-member body as minister of state in Prime Minister's Office V Narayanaswamy said last week. Although the government had dropped the idea of turning the CAG into a multi-member body, agreeing with the federal auditor that the existing structure with a singular head was fine, it dusted off the...
More »'Election Commission Cannot Replace CrPc' -RK Misra
-Outlook The Gujarat High Court on Friday struck down a directive of the Election Commission of India terming the limitations on cash movement above a stated limit as unconstitutional The Gujarat High Court on Friday struck down a directive of the Election Commission of India terming the limitations on cash movement above a stated limit as unconstitutional, drastic and violative of personal liberty and privacy of individuals even if it was...
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