-The Telegraph The party suspects that the removal of Ravi Shankar Prasad in the cabinet shuffle could be linked to fear of a controversy erupting in the upcoming Parliament session The Congress on Saturday said the latest report by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India points to a scam in the ministry of electronics and information technology, suspecting that the removal of Ravi Shankar Prasad in the recent cabinet reshuffle could...
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PMO Restricts MeitY From Revealing How PM CARES Got 'gov.in' Domain Name -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in With the Prime Minister's Office insisting that the Fund is not a public authority, an application had sought information about how it received a domain name that was exclusively restricted to government websites. New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) recently restrained the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) from disclosing in response to an application filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) as to how the PM CARES...
More »RTI data: IITs not following reservation rules for faculty -Priyanka Sahoo
-Hindustan Times None of the 22 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have more than six teachers belonging to the Scheduled Tribes (ST) community, while 18 of them have 10 or less candidates from the Scheduled Castes (SC) category on their faculty rolls. Seven IITs had 10 or less faculty members from the other backward classes (OBC) community. The data was revealed by 22 of the 23 IITs in response to a query...
More »9.27 lakh ‘severely acute malnourished’ children identified until November 2020, says govt -Uzmi Athar
-ThePrint.in The Women and Child Development Ministry's response to an RTI query underscored concerns that Covid-19 could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among the country's poorest. New Delhi: More than 9.2 lakh children in India are ‘severely acute malnourished’, with the most in Uttar Pradesh followed by Bihar, according to government data, underscoring concerns that the Covid pandemic could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among the poorest of the poor. An...
More »Electoral Bond Sales Jumped by Nearly 16 Times During 2021 Assembly Polls -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The State Bank of India has refused to reveal which political party received how much money through this. New Delhi: The sale of electoral bonds during the assembly elections in April this year was over 16 times more than what it was during the previous tranche of sales, in early January. This information was obtained from the State Bank of India through a Right to Information query. Though the RTI applicant had...
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