-TheWire.in Of the 194 lawmakers, 72 are from the Congress and 41 from the BJP, the Cobrapost investigation found upon analysing over 2,000 affidavits submitted between 2006-16. New Delhi: Investigative website Cobrapost, which had earlier this year exposed some media houses succumbing to the lure of Hindutva advertorials, has now claimed to have discovered that 194 Indian politicians made false submissions regarding their permanent account numbers (PAN) while reporting their income to...
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Manoranjan S Roy, RTI activist, interviewed by Ashutosh Sharma (National Herald)
-National Herald He fears for his life and safety of his family, admits the activist from Mumbai, explaining his reluctance to speak to the media and appear on TV. Visiting the national capital for filing his petition before the Supreme Court, Manoranjan S Roy resisted attempts to drag him to TV studios. Life for him had changed ever since his RTI applications revealed discrepancies between the supply and deployment of Electronic...
More »State's Forest Department's status report on 17,000 trees to be cut -Pankaj Jain
-India Today Noida: The Delhi High Court has put a stay till July 4 to not to cut any more trees in the Capital, putting on hold a controversial mega-project in the city to make way for government officers' houses and a commercial complex. India Today has the exclusive statistics of a status report prepared by the Forest Department officials of the Delhi Government on 17,000 trees to be cut for the...
More »A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi -P Sainath
-RuralIndiaOnline.org Imagine a democratic protest where a million farmers, labourers and others march to the capital and compel discussion of the exploding crisis of the countryside in a special three-week session of Parliament India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian. It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis is no...
More »Kathua gang rape: HC frowns on media houses for disclosing victim's identity
-PTI New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today frowned upon media houses for disclosing the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was gang raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, and asked why action be not taken against them for "injustice to the privacy and dignity of the victim". The high court also prohibited the media from revealing any further identity of the victim by any means, including name...
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