-Frontline Interview with Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Rural Development. THE passage of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013, is being perceived as a major achievement by the United Progressive Alliance government. The Bill that has replaced the colonial Land Acquisition Act, 1894, went through several changes in order to arrive at a middle path, a term coined by Union Minister for...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Sex predators, traffickers target kids at will in Delhi -Neelam Pandey
-The Hindustan Times For the past three years, Kunwar Pal is looking for his missing 12-year-old son. He tries to follow every lead that he gets and travels across the city and nearby towns in the search of his son who went missing in November 2003 from Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. He regularly visits the police station, where he had registered a missing persons' complaint and pastes photos of his son...
More »Rapid urbanization a cause for concern: PM -Rohan Dua & Vibhor Mohan
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday expressed concern over the rising number of slum-dwellers due to rapid urbanization and said even private entities would be given financial support to construct houses for the urban poor under the UPA's 'Slum Free India' scheme. "Today, we have 90.6 million people living in slums and this could swell up to 100.4 million by 2017," the PM said after handing over...
More »Statistics show love is the most potent killer -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Love is what makes life worth living but, if the latest crime statistics are anything to go by; it remains a potent killer in India. While love affairs and sexual relations were the third most common cause for murders in the country in 2012 - after personal vendetta and property disputes - they accounted for most murders in seven states, including Andhra Pradesh, Uttar...
More »RTI Judgement Series: PIOs at PMO and MEA clueless about information
-MoneyLife.in The CIC remarked that it was a sad reflection on two of the most important offices in India if the knowledge of where the information is held is not available in both places. This is the 172nd in a series of important judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi that can be used or quoted in an RTI application The Central Information Commission (CIC), while allowing an appeal, directed...
More »