What can power do to a political party’s financial health? Quite a lot, it seems. An RTI query by a Chennai-based Activist shows that the income of India’s longest-ruling national party, the Indian National Congress, increased from Rs 69.55 crore in 2002-03 to a whopping Rs 467.57 crore in 2010-11. Documents accessed by Activist V Gopalakrishnan show that the jump is even more evident when figures from 2003-04 are compared with...
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Shehla Masood Murder Case: BJP MLA to be Quizzed
-Outlook BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh is among the 18 persons who will be quizzed in connection with the murder of RTI Activist Shehla Masood, police sources said today. Singh is among the 18 persons who were either in contact with Shehla or who spoke to her regularly on her cellphone, they said A notice would soon be sent to the Bhopal MLA, who would be called and his statement recorded, the sources...
More »RTI Act almost defunct in state by Anindo Dey
Even as the state tries to provide a corruption-free government with the Lokseva Guarantee Bill, a similar venture by it earlier has fallen by the wayside. With no chief information commissioner (CIC) in the state for the past five months the much-trumpeted Right To Information (RTI) Act, which aims to bring in transparency, has almost become defunct. Incidentally, Rajasthan had taken the first steps in bringing this law in the...
More »Madhya Pradesh puts EOW, Lokayukta police out of RTI ambit by Mahim Pratap Singh
The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to take the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and the Lokayukta’s Special Police Establishment out of the ambit of Right to Information Act. In an order passed on Thursday by the General Administration Department (GAD), the government has declared that the provisions of the RTI Act will not apply to the EOW and the Lokayukta police. Several high-profile cases of corruption involving government officials and politicians are...
More »Lok Sabha agrees to Anna's demands, passes Lokpal resolution
-The Times of India On a motion moved by Pranab Mukherjee, Lok Sabha on Saturday passed a resolution conveying the sense of the House on the Lokpal Bill. After the passage of the resolution, Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the Lok Sabha till Monday. There was some confusion over whether the resolution was passed by a voice vote or not. Apparently, no voice vote took place. "Thumping of the desk is akin to passing a...
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