After the National Information Commission (NIC) issued an order in the name of the Finance Ministry to give information requester Taranath Dahal, an RTI activist, a copy of the report of the committee formed by Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to investigate practice of tax avoidance through fake VAT bills, the ministry provided it to him. Though the ministry provided incomplete information to the requester, it is, however, a good beginning...
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Supreme Court asks Centre to clear stand
-PTI The Supreme Court Friday granted the Centre three weeks to spell out its stand on the extent of immunity enjoyed by Army personnel under the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other laws for fake encounter killings. The bench passed the direction on CBI's application for vacating the stay granted by the apex court on the trial in a J&K court relating to the killing of six youth by...
More »Lavasa Corp officials face 5 years in jail
-The Times of India The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Friday filed a criminal complaint against Lavasa Corporation and 15 people, including nine directors and six senior officials, for alleged violation of environmental laws. Sources in the ministry of environment and forests said that with this final pre-condition for clearance met by the Maharashtra government, the Centre would soon clear the project allowing work to continue on the first phase of...
More »Nine Malegaon blast accused secure bail by Mateen Hafeez & Rebecca Samervel
Nine persons accused in the 2006 Malegaon serial blasts that left 31 dead got bail on Saturday. The Maharashtra ATS had arrested them claiming that they belonged to outlawed SIMI and aided a Pakistani in carrying out the attacks. The NIA, which has taken over the probe after Swami Aseemanand's confession that a saffron group was behind the blasts, did not oppose bail. Two of the nine, Shaikh Mohd Ali Alam Shaikh...
More »Can the Planning Commission be reinvented? by Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Indivjal Dhasmana & Vrishti Beniwal
Caught in the middle of a maelstrom of controversies, the Planning Commission has been accused of being disconnected from ground realities. Its 12th Plan hopes to fix that. A short while ago, the Congress general secretary and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, remarked that members of the Planning Commission are not in touch with the ground realities in India. He could have been somewhat influenced by his father, former...
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