In Maharashtra, attacks on citizen-activists have increased with the greater use of RTI; four activists have been killed in the last seven months IN the late 1970s, a woman named Shobha Shirodkar was the victim of a hit-and-run in Mumbai. It was no accident. It was a case of murder because Shobha, who was the principal of a prestigious school in the city, had opposed the land mafia and was believed...

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued show-cause notices to a former and an incumbent Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Delhi Government's Social Welfare Department observing that one of them appeared to have provided false information and the other had not supplied complete information within the stipulated 30 days to two RTI applicants seeking details on some officials booked in two corruption cases. The RTI applications were filed by two...

The bandh call by Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (KSS) in the state on Wednesday, received response mainly in districts of Western Uttar Pradesh like Aligarh, Mathura, Agra, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar. Manvir Singh Teotia, who is heading the KSS, has rushed to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister. The AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi may be present at the meeting, said sources. In Etmadpur area of Agra, farmers clashed with the...

Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Gegong Apang was on Tuesday Arrested by sleuths of a Special Investigation Cell (SIC) probing the Rs. 1000-crore scam in Public Distribution System (PDS) in Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Apang was Arrested outside the SIC office and later produced before a court of Special Judge at Lakhimpur in Assam. The court remanded him to seven days in police custody. Mr. Apang has been booked under...

Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang was on Tuesday Arrested by the special investigation cell for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore public distribution system scam. " Apang was Arrested based on material evidence and statement given by the other accused," the cell's investigating officer M S Chauhan said. Apang, who was summoned to the cell on Tuesday morning, was Arrested under non-bailable sections. He was booked under section...