-The Hindustan Times Indian high courts were supposed to deliver justice in Right To Information (RTI) cases. But, they have themselves enforced rules that make implementation of the transparency law --- RTI Act --- difficult.     A study done by a government institute ---- Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration --- aimed at evaluating efficacy and reasonableness of rules prescribed under RTI Act finds that many high courts have prescribed rules to...

-Live Mint To maintain his constant stream of RTI petitions, Agrawal says he gets ideas from day-to-day observations, news reports, government insiders, whistle-blowers and journalists. In the summer of 1985, a cloth merchant in Chandni Chowk, the crowded market in the old quarters of Delhi, received a call in response to a letter he had written to the papers asking why his favourite weekly television serial, Rajani, could not be aired daily...

India Inc. was aghast at the recent report of a parliamentary committee that recommended that a new draft land acquisition law limit occasions when the government may intervene to acquire land for use by private firms. But in a paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly last month, Delhi University economics professor Ram Singh laid out data that supports the committee’s recommendations. Mr. Singh argues that government-driven land acquisition is generally...

-The Times of India BERHAMPUR: A tribal outfit has demanded the eviction of Tibetan settlers in Gajapati district's Chandragiri area. The CPM-backed Adivasi Dalit Vikas Samiti said the government must return lands in the settlement area to landless tribals. The district Administration has ordered a survey to demarcate plots allotted to the Tibetans by the government. "We demand the Administration to expedite the survey," said CPM's Gajapati district unit secretary L Ramgopal Rao....

-The Times of India KOZHIKODE: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has appointed 42 additional doctors in the rural areas on temporary basis in the wake of rain-related diseases being reported from various parts of the district, according to NRHM district programme manager Dr A Baburaj. The doctors thus appointed on an emergency basis have been posted through the NRHM under the compulsory rural service scheme of the state government. The appointments were...