-The Times of India The Cabinet on Thursday will consider a Bill providing for time-bound delivery of services like pensions, passports, caste certificates, ration cards and tax refunds with a penalty of Rs 250 a day subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000 for default. The right of citizens for time-bound delivery of goods and services and redressal of grievances Bill is to be enacted under the concurrent list, which means all...
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DRDO job made me terror suspect, says Aizaz Mirza
-The Hindustan Times Former employee of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) Aizaz Ahmed Mirza, who had been arrested on terror charges and was released on bail on Tuesday, claimed he was innocent and had worked hard to get the job. Mirza, 26, had been arrested along with journalist Muthi Ur Rehman and two others in August 2012, on charges of plotting a terror attack. His brother Shoaib Mirza is the...
More »Police reforms Kashmiris can do without-Salman Anees Soz
-The Hindu While the people of Jammu & Kashmir have a deep-rooted mistrust of state institutions, there are also substantive and unacceptable provisions in the proposed legislation While much of the country is focused on the budget and its implications for the economy and individual pocketbooks, Kashmir is focused, with much trepidation, on a draft police reform bill. This in itself gives one a sense of the disconnect that exists between Kashmir...
More »Probe sought into CoP expenses
-The Hindu Activists allege needless spending Hyderabad: Members of United Forum for RTI (UFRTI) and Its Time to Make a Difference (ITMD) on Sunday demanded a high-level probe into the way the funds of Conference of Parties (CoP 11), the biodiversity meet hosted by the capital last year, were utilised. The members, while addressing presspersons, alleged that “unnecessary expenditure” was taken up by departments, including the police, GHMC, HMDA, APIIC, National Green Corps...
More »Response to 'A Cost-Benefit Analysis of UID'-Sumathi Chandrashekaran, Shekhar H Kumar, Smriti Parsheera, Ila Patnaik, Madhavi Pundit, Suyash Rai and Ajay Shah
-Economic and Political Weekly A debate on the study "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Aadhaar" conducted by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy which was discussed in the EPW of 2 February 2013. Sumathi Chandrashekaran, Shekhar H Kumar, Smriti Parsheera, Ila Patnaik, Madhavi Pundit, Suyash Rai, Ajay Shah A debate on the study “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Aadhaar” conducted by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy which was discussed in...
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