-The Times of India NAGPUR: Giving privilege to the right to privacy, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court ruled that personal information, which serves no public interest, can't be disclosed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. Allowing the writ petition (WP NO. 2157/2012) filed by Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (Mahatransco) Limited, which challenged the order of state information commissioner, Justice Vasanati Naik held that such non-disclosure of personal...
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Sebi asked for details on RIL-RPL deal in insider trading case-Anirudh Laskar, Aman Malik and Khushboo Narayan
-Live Mint Information commission asks Sebi to disclose details of consent order proceedings, identities of entities involved Mumbai/New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed India’s stock market regulator to disclose all details related to the insider trading case involving Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) in 2007, in a move that could have a bearing on not just the functioning of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), but also the...
More »UIDAI launches public data portal for Aadhaar
-ANI The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched its 'public data portal' for the Aadhaar project in line with the national data sharing and accessibility policy (NSDAP) 2012. The portal will enable the public to access several anonymised datasets generated in the UIDAI ecosystem. The public data portal is in consonance with the larger vision of the Government of India to make data available through data.gov.in. The UIDAI has also been...
More »Missing detail in coal records haunts govt -Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India The mystery of the missing detail in official files on why some coal block applicants won while others lost out is proving to be the biggest hurdle in the Centre's bid to ward off the threat of the Supreme Court scrapping all allocations. Aware that an unfavourable verdict on Coalgate will be a body blow to its bid to push-start the economy, the government is planning a careful...
More »Harassment shackles women-Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu In the second part of personal accounts on street harassment and violence in the Capital, The Hindu’s Bindu Shajan Perappadan explains why she doesn’t call the police for help.... It last happened over a fortnight ago during a routine round of Central Government offices at New Delhi’s Shastri Bhavan. A man brushed against me, pretended to look surprised when I protested, and then sniggered as I walked away. Perhaps I...
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