-Hindustan Times A reply under the Right to Information Act, recently, disclosed that “Lokpal is provisionally operating from the Ashoka Hotel. In the absence of a permanent office in the national capital, the country’s apex anti-corruption body, Lokpal, set up to look into complaints against public servants, pays a monthly rent of Rs 50 lakh to government-owned Hotel Ashoka for the office space it occupies in the five-star luxury hotel. A reply...
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Tremors within Chhattisgarh govt over encounter probe report: 'Cabinet misled' -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Sources told The Indian Express that the state government decided to table the report after a hurried Cabinet meeting late Saturday. During the meeting, sources said, at least two ministers claimed the Cabinet had Been “misled” earlier about the contents of the report. The report of the Justice V K Agarwal enquiry commission, which found no evidence to support claims by security forces that 17 people killed in...
More »How Agnes Kharshiing uses RTI to battle Illegal mining in Meghalaya despite the risks -Makepeace Sitlhou
-The Indian Express A voice in the dark: Agnes Kharshiing remains undeterred as she awaits a response to her latest RTI application with the Urban Affairs department about land acquired for an upcoming medical college in Shillong. New Delhi: I didn’t know of Madalyn Murray O’ Hair until a feature film on her life, The Most Hated Woman in America dropped on Netflix. She was irreverent; she had a mind of...
More »Why are there objections to the Transgender Persons Bill? -Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu Does the Bill address issues of gender and identity? Does it consider the appeals and the concerns of the community? The story so far: Parliament has made into law the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, which had Been framed for the welfare of transgender persons. The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 5 this year, a month after its introduction in the House, and the...
More »GDP makes it official: India's economy is on a graveyard spiral -Sunitha Natti
-The New Indian Express The latest growth print also implies that restoring both India's fastest growing economy tag and the ballyhooed USD 5-trillion target will be further delayed It's official. India's economy has Been reduced from flesh to bone with September quarter GDP growth crashing to a 26-quarter-low of 4.5 per cent. Just a quarter before, it grew at 5 per cent, which now appears respectable than the latest print. The Central Statistics Office's...
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