-The Hindu On May 5 this year, Tarun Sehrawat, a photographer with Tehelka, sent me a link to his most recent photo-essay on Abujmard, a Maoist-controlled area in Chhattisgarh. Tarun and I met on assignment in Dantewada in summer 2010 and had stayed in touch. A month-and-half later, last Friday, I attended his funeral after a fever he contracted in Abujmard proved fatal. Tarun died of cerebral malaria; he was 22. I came...
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PDS activist Ambika Dubey shot dead, daughter points finger at police-Mahim Pratap Singh
-The Hindu He stopped truck to expose denial of full quota of grain A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of an activist fighting corruption in the PDS who, his daughter alleged, was shot dead by the police on Saturday in a village in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh. When Ambika Prasad Dubey (55), who had been working to bring out corruption and leakages in the Public Distribution System, and some...
More »Jairam denied entry into Naxalite-affected Bihar village-Faizan Ahmad
-The Times of India Sitamarhi (Bihar): The Sitamarhi district Administration on Sunday prevailed upon Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and persuaded him not to venture into Naxal-dominated areas. The minister wanted to visit a village for verification of rural development work there. Led by the SP, the district Administration asked the minister not to go to Giddha gram panchayat under Runnisaidpur block, 35km from the district headquarters. "We have received reports that...
More »Rajasthan girl says she's under threat to accept her child marriage
-IANS Jodhpur: A 20-year-old girl has sought protection by the Rajasthan authorities from members of a village community council who, she says, are threatening her with serious consequences if she did not accept her childhood marriage, officials said on Monday. She also requested the district Administration officials to annul her marriage that was solemnised when she was a mere five-year old, they added. The girl, Rekha Kumari, is a resident of Peepar city...
More »RTI Act hit by judicial obstacles, says report-Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times Though the high courts in the country are supposed to deliver justice in Right To Information (RTI) cases, they are the very institutions that make implementation of the law difficult, a study by a government institute has found. The study conducted by the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, which evaluates the efficacy of the transparency law, finds that many high courts have prescribed rules for RTI in violation...
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