Right to Information Act (RTI) activists have planned a state-wide agitation to protest against the politicisation of the State Information Commission. A meeting of RTI activists held in the city on Sunday had agreed on an action plan on this score. Accordingly, the Save RTI Campaign would begin with a state-wide rally to sensitise people. Activists have alleged politicians were treating the RTI as a government department dividing information commissioners’ positions...
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Ex-CJI ready to reveal income, but not I-T details by T Ramavarman
Former Chief Justice of India and National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan has told the income tax authorities he is ready to reveal his total income, but details of his I-T returns cannot be disclosed. Justice Balakrishnan, facing a rough weather following allegations of his family members having amassed illegal wealth, made these statements in his affidavit filed before the additional commissioner of IT in Kochi. The...
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A meeting will be held here on April 13 to further discuss the recent murder of MGNREGA whistle blower Niyamat Ansari by Maoists in Latehar district to be attended by Human Rights activists and civil society members. The long-standing debate on Ansari's character and the role played by him has drawn attention of Human Rights activists from all over the country. The MGNREGA activist was killed at a time when he...
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Even as India celebrates an impressive jump in the literacy figures in the past decade, a staggering eight million children are still out of school. Worse, 21 per cent of the teachers at the primary level are without adequate qualification and as many as 9 per cent schools have only the one teacher. Releasing the achievements in the first year of implementation of The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...
More »Leprosy: India's hidden disease by Richard Cookson and Seyi Rhodes
Leprosy has officially been eliminated in India, yet 130,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Richard Cookson and Seyi Rhodes report on the plight of the patients shunned by society Narsappa was just 10 years old when he was told he had leprosy, but the news changed the course of his life forever. People in his Indian village immediately began to shun him and told his parents that he had to...
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