-ThePrint.in Data shows 99.9% of all electoral bonds bought so far are worth Rs 10 lakh or 1 crore. These bonds do not bear name of the donor. New delhi: Electoral bonds, brought in to make the system of political funding “more transparent”, seem to have further concentrated donations in the hands of corporates and other high net-worth donors, instead of democratising them. Nearly 100 per cent of the bonds purchased so...
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Editors Guild Slams Patna HC Gag Order on Muzaffarpur Shelter Abuse Case
-PTI The guild noted that the court, instead of protecting media freedom, has issued an order that has effectively curbed it. New delhi: The Editors Guild of India today condemned a Patna high court order restraining the media from reporting on the probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter abuse case and appealed to its and Supreme Court’s chief justices to review the decision. In a statement, the media body said such restrictions on reporting...
More »Begging and Criminality -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org On Wednesday August 8, the delhi High Court decriminalized begging in the capital. In the course of its hearing it had raised the question how begging could be an offence in a country where the government was unable to provide food and jobs; its final verdict is in line with this thinking. Of course there was no central legislation, or legislation relating specifically to delhi, that had criminalized begging earlier;...
More »Uttarakhand HC slams tribunal chairman for strange order; imposes cost on central govt
-PTI The Central Administrative Tribunal’s Nainital bench had been hearing the case filed by Sanjiv Chaturvedi in the matter pertaining to adverse entries made into his appraisal report of 2015-16 by AIIMS, New delhi, where he was working as Chief Vigilance Officer from 2012 to 2016. Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for passing a “strange order” on a plea made by the central...
More »GDP back series data: National Statistical Commission seeks public comment on panel report
-PTI New delhi: The National Statistical Commission (NSC) has sought public comments on a panel report which showed that the economy grew at fastest pace under the Congress rule, amid a political row over the growth numbers. The report of the panel, constituted by the NSC, was made public last week. The government has maintained that the GDP Back Series Report 2011 was an unofficial document that has not been accepted by it....
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