-IndiaToday.in The commission will be headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice VS Sirpurkar. No other court or authority can investigate the case until further orders from the Supreme Court. * 3-member inquiry commission to probe case * Commission has 6 months to complete investigation * Aspects of your version need inquiry: SC to Telangana govt The Supreme Court set up a three-member inquiry commission today to investigate the recent killing of four Telangana...
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Subansiri dam will produce costly power and won't control Assam floods. Why is it still being built? -Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in The electricity tariff would be more than double the average cost in India, an RTI query has revealed. On December 3, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by a Guwahati-based civil society group challenging an order passed by the National Green Tribunal order in July. The tribunal had cleared the decks for the resumption of construction of the contentious Lower Subansiri dam along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The Supreme Court’s endorsement...
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-The Indian Express A voice in the dark: Agnes Kharshiing remains undeterred as she awaits a response to her latest RTI application with the Urban Affairs department about land acquired for an upcoming medical college in Shillong. New Delhi: I didn’t know of Madalyn Murray O’ Hair until a feature film on her life, The Most Hated Woman in America dropped on Netflix. She was irreverent; she had a mind of...
More »Many orders passed by courts have directly or indirectly shrunk citizens' right to information -Satyananda Mishra
-The Indian Express The relationship of the RTI with the judiciary has been fraught from the beginning. Since the RTI Act conferred powers on the chief justice of the Supreme Court of India and the chief justices of high courts of states for carrying out its provisions, all these courts framed their own rules. On November 13, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court passed its order in the Subhash...
More »Population control in India: Plea in SC against Delhi HC order
-PTI The appeal filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has challenged the September 3 high court order, which said it was for Parliament and the state legislatures to enact laws and not for the court. New Delhi: A plea challenging a Delhi High Court order dismissing a PIL seeking implementation of certain steps, including the two-child norm, to control the country’s rising population has been...
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