-PTI More than three months after RTI activist Shehla Masood was shot dead in a broad daylight here, investigators are still groping in the dark. Shehla's murder, outside her residence in the posh Koh-e-Fiza locality of Bhopal on August 16, had sparked strong reactions among RTI activists. After the local police's probe into the killing failed to yield any result, the Centre ordered a CBI probe into the incident following a request made...
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Kolkata fire: Knee-jerk reactions stifling due process of law by A Mathur
A tragic fire broke out in the Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital in Kolkata early Friday morning in which 91 persons have died, making it one of the worst tragedies in any hospital in India. Many patients died while asleep.The government has ordered a judicial probe which shall run parallel to the inquiry under police's detective department. AMRI hospital, where the unfortunate incident occurred, is a private hospital and...
More »Government website on Bhopal gas tragedy shows old figures
-IANS For over a year now a section of a Madhya Pradesh government website has not updated information on the Bhopal gas tragedy. And the facts and figures it gives out are two-three years old. The section of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, a part of www.mpinfo.org, was last updated Dec 9, 2010, while the facts and figures mentioned on it are of 2008 and 2009. The site, which has 10...
More »MGNREGA scheme: 61 cases of under-payment of wages
-PTI Government said a large number of complaints relating to implementation of its flagship MGNREGA scheme, including 61 cases related to underpayment of wages, have been received from all over the country. Minister of State in the Rural Development Ministry Pradeep Jain 'Aditya' told Lok Sabha that 24 of the 61 complaints pertaining to under-payment of wages emanated from Uttar Pradesh alone. The data showed that 14 such complaints were received from Rajasthan...
More »Supreme Court awards Rs. 2 lakh for illegal custody by J Venkatesan
Teacher running coaching centre wins appeal against M.P. Government The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to pay a compensation of Rs. 2 lakh to a teacher running a coaching centre for handcuffing and keeping him in police custody without any valid reason. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai, however, rejected appellant Hardeep Singh's plea for prosecution of the Jabalpur Collector and other government officials for want...
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