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UPA's 'Bharat smiling' feebly -Subodh Varma

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The UPA is strenuously denying that this campaign is its earthy version of the NDA's "India Shining" campaign, but few are buying the denials. Launched as a "multi-media" campaign to highlight its achievements in two successive terms at the Center, it has been christened by political observers are UPA's " Bharat Smiling" campaign. The spirit of the campaign, says the publicity material given out by the...

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RTI activist fights social boycott in Himachal

-IANS TISSA, Himachal Pradesh: When a right to information (RTI) activist in Himachal Pradesh exposed misuse of public funds some years back, he did not expect that his fight for truth would expose him and his family to threats and social boycott. Manjur Mohammed, 26, who hails from remote Naila village in the Muslim-dominated Kalhel panchayat of Tissa block of Chamba district, has been facing the wrath of his fellow villagers....

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'RTI Act cannot be applied to co-operative societies' -Linah Baliga

-The Times of India MUMBAI: "After the Constitutional Amendment and the status granted to the co-operative societies of self-governance, the RTI Act would be applicable to the Co-operative Society. More particularly after it being self-governed by Maharashtra State Ordinance of 2013 laying down the by-laws, rule, regulations, procedure and modalities," says the legal opinion of Senior Advocate Firoze Andhyarujina, which was released on Friday by Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society (BCAS), at...

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Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya

-Frontline   But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...

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PIL alleges PIOs under RTI avoiding giving info; HC seeks response -Harish V Nair

-The Hindustan Times The Delhi high court on Thursday sought the Centre's reply on a public interest litigation which alleged that public information officers (PIO) and the appellate authorities under the RTI Act are "resorting various tactics to avoid providing information" to information seekers. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath issued notices to the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, Delhi government, Central Information...

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