-The Times of India Commerce minister Anand Sharma deserves our sympathy. Driven by the way India's domestic politics is playing out, he is fast emerging as the person who has become the face of the country that, in Bali, threatens to kill WTO's Doha round after 12 years of fruitless negotiations. It need not be this way. India needs to show more flexibility at this moment as long-term consequences of a...
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Delhi High Court orders CIC to decide RTI complaints on merit
-PTI The CIC cannot leave the disposal of complaint filed by an RTI applicant on the public authority as it is obligatory for the panel to decide on merit of the plea, Delhi High Court has held. Hearing a complaint filed by an activist, Justice V K Jain said it was obligatory for the Central Information Commission to decide a complaint on its merit instead of simply directing the Central Public Information...
More »She wins her share of land from brother but loses her family -Chander Suta Dogra
-The Hindu Landed communities in Haryana thwarting women's rights to inheritance Jhajjar (Haryana): Hawa Singh is an 80-year-old, rheumy patriarch with a failing voice that one has to strain to hear. But mention his two daughters and their two year old legal battle with him to claim their share of the ancestral property and fire flashes inhis eyes and the voice acquires strength. "There is no question of giving ancestral land to...
More »CVC recorded 113% rise in graft-related plaints in 2012 -Josy Joseph
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Reflecting the larger national mood against corruption, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) saw a staggering jump of over 110% in the number of complaints received by the integrity institution last year. "The Commission received more than 37,000 complaints during 2012 as compared to 17,407 complaints in 2011 which is 113% more than that of previous year," says the annual CVC report. Among them were over...
More »Taking steps to ensure compliance with EU food norms: Govt
-PTI NEW DELHI: Admitting to increased stances of rejection of food consignments by EU in the last three years, government today said it is taking steps to ensure compliance with the European norms. To a question that whether reports about increase in notifications by the European Union against food exports from India due to presence of contaminants are correct, Minister of State for Commerce D Purandeswari said: "Yes". There have been an increase...
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