-The Times of India   An RTI Activist was attacked by four people, two of them believed to be cricket bookies, with a chopper and hammer in subur-ban Kandivali in Mumbai, police said. According to police, the Activist, Mehul Kataria, 39, was walking on the road on Friday night when the assailants started thrashing him. The accused ran away when people gathered around the place. Kataria was rushed to the nearby...

-The Indian Express   National Advisory Council (NAC) member Aruna Roy has sought UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s intervention in implementing the Karnataka High Court ruling — that the wages under the NREGS cannot be less than the minimum wages prevailing in the area — across the country. Roy has termed the delinking of the wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act as a “more...

When Activists of the Right to Food campaign attacked Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia over the Rs 32 per capita per day cut-off for poverty line, Vijay Jawandhia — a farm Activist from Vidarbha — asked a counter question: “Why are you happy with a minimum wage of Rs 100 per labourer per day under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), when salaries have been revised several...

-The Hindu   ‘Experts will address safety concerns' Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday promised to set up an expert group to address the “legitimate concerns” of those protesting the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, but he has also clearly indicated that the project would go forward. Dr. Singh, who met a multi-party delegation from Tamil Nadu as well as Activists and citizen representatives, assured them that “the government will not compromise on safety in...

-The Times of India   The government's decision to recast policy guidelines for TV channels, which in effect has held out the threat of canceling the licence of news channels if they are guilty of five "violations", has created an outrage among broadcasters and civil rights Activists who have described it as a knee jerk reaction and demanded an immediate withdrawal of the order. Broadcasters feel that blocking a news channel can't depend...