-The Hindu   Calcutta University has decided to make available answer scripts to students under the Right to Information Act, university officials said on Monday. “We have decided to give photo copies of answer scripts to students under the Act. Each student will have to pay Rs. 500 for getting his duplicate copy of answer scripts…,” Controller of Examinations Onkar Sadhan Adhikari said. The decision of the university, which had earlier declined requests...

-Express News Service The Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Sunday arrested Mushir Ismail Qureshi, the main conspirator in the murder case of RTI Activist and 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case witness Nadeem Saiyed. Qureshi was arrested near the Ahmedabad international airport in the early hours of the day following a tip-off. “Qureshi, a builder by profession and a key conspirator in Sayed’s murder, was arrested after he landed at the...

-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...

Protestors AND supporters of a range of issues find a chance to voice their opinions at Jantar Mantar, reports Priyanka Jantar Mantar is busy readying itself for Sunday, when Activist Anna Hazare will go on a token one-day fast to protest against the government's version of the Lokpal Bill. The day before, the venue is already packed with a few hundred people, with not one but four protests going on simultaneously over...

-BBC   A report on a controversial bill to set up an anti-corruption watchdog has been submitted in India's parliament. The bill was tabled in parliament in August but was sent to a panel of MPs after protests from anti-corruption Activists who said it was too weak. Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare has rejected the new draft too, saying it does not go far enough as it does not include lower-level bureaucracy. He has announced plans...