-Outlook Bhopal: With dharnas, rallies and fasts not drawing much attention from the government, people in Madhya Pradesh have resorted to unique ways of protests that have been taken notice of and provided some relief to protesters. In the last few months, Madhya Pradesh witnessed three different kinds of protests that drew the attention of media and the government. A couple of months back, villagers held a 'Jal Satyagraha' against submergence of fertile...

-The Hindu This was discovered during an awareness drive in two Jaipur slums recently Jaipur: The daily struggle of slum dwellers for getting basic amenities and the glaring deficiency in the reach of the much-touted urban poverty alleviation schemes as well as other programmes for welfare of widows, disabled people and destitute children were revealed during an awareness drive launched by two voluntary public service institutions in slum colonies here this week. The...

-The Times of India IAS officer Ashok Khemka's decision to take his Grievances to the media does not seem to have gone down well with the government. Though neither Khemka, who has been transferred 43 times in 19 years, nor the state government has approached the ministry of personnel, officials here appeared to be critical of his going to the media with his complaint of abrupt transfer. The ministry of personnel looks...

-The Hindu Fresh documents with The Hindu show clear and undeniable links between the sudden transfer of senior IAS official Ashok Khemka and his initiation of a probe specifically related to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and his companies, contrary to the Haryana government attempts to establish that the two events were unrelated. The documents belie the claims made by the Haryana government that Mr. Khemka acted on the Vadra-DLF...

-DNA "Frivolous and vexatious” — these were the words that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used while addressing this year’s edition of the annual Right To Information (RTI) convention. His choice of words raises several disturbing questions. The PM conveniently ignored the fact that there is no legal definition of what constitutes “frivolous and vexatious” and there is unlikely to be one in the future. Will one person’s understanding of “frivolous” be...