-The Times of India BHOPAL: If you go by some of the photographs on smart cards used for making payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rewa district, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, the late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh and other well-known people are all labourers, though with different names. Many such cards, carrying pictures of celebrities but having names of locals, have...
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No end to caste violence in Pabnawa village, two more Dalits attacked again -Vishal Joshi
-The Hindustan Times Kaithal: Just when the elders from both Dalit and Ror communities were deliberating on putting an end to caste tension at Pabnawa village, a group of youths from the dominating community allegedly attacked and injured two Dalits on late Tuesday night. One of the injured Ram Mehar, 23, was admitted to the advance trauma centre of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, in a...
More »RTI applicant told to collect info personally from sarpanch -Bharat Khanna
-The Hindustan Times Mansa: In a bizarre reply under the Right To Information (RTI) Act, officials of the zila parishad had asked an RTI applicant, Hardev Singh, a resident of Dhingar village, to collect information from his village sarpanch personally. Besides, the authorities have also violated RTI norms by sending a copy of the application to the village sarpanch, who is supposed to submit the information sought by the applicant to...
More »Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has no cash, owns a 1996 Maruti car
-IANS Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not have any cash in hand and owns a 1996 Maruti car, unlike many of his colleagues. This was revealed by the affidavit he submitted to the returning officer in Assam on Wednesday while filing his nomination papers for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections. Manmohan Singh stated that his total annual income is Rs 40,51,964. The Prime Minister also declared his total movable assets to be...
More »SC to hear plea to rein in cyber cops
-The Telegraph The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear an application to restrain police from invoking Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, till its constitutional validity is decided by the courts. A vacation bench scheduled the hearing on a petition seeking a stay on proceedings relating to an FIR lodged against Jaya Vindhyalaya, a civil liberties activist, for posting "objectionable" material on Facebook against Tamil Nadu governor K. Rosaiah and an...
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