-PTI CBI is probing the role of two senior BJP politicians in the mysterious death of RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal and a new team of the agency is camping there to further investigate the matter. Sources in the agency said the probe is being looked into by a new team after the Bhopal unit could not make any headway in the case. The sources said names of two senior BJP leaders...
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FSA set for pre-poll rollout by Subodh Ghildiyal & Nitin Sethi
The National Food Security Act shall be rolled out starting next financial year spread in phases running up to the Parliamentary elections, in what could be an attempt to do the loan-waiver trick in 2014. The government has finalized the bill bringing it substantially closer to the National Advisory Council recommendations. The government has resolved most of the issues that had been in contradiction with the NAC advice and intends to...
More »Govt blank on Sonia travel
-PTI An attempt to use RTI to get details of Sonia Gandhi’s trips abroad, including that in August for surgery, came to nought as no government department appeared to have the information to share. Kailash Kanwar of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, filed an application under the RTI Act for details of foreign trips in the past two years by the chairperson of the UPA and the National Advisory Council. The application sent to the external...
More »Sonia signal to Anna: Look within... why ‘hue and cry’, we will bring Lokpal
-The Indian Express In an apparent attack on Team Anna, Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today said that corruption cannot be eradicated by mere slogans, and those creating a “hue and cry” should look within. Sonia was forced to cancel her scheduled rally at Gauchar Chamoli (Uttarakhand) because of “a viral fever” today and in her speech read out at the venue, she underlined that her government was committed to...
More »Self-regulation is no regulation, says Katju
—PTI Dismissive of the news broadcast industry's self-regulatory mechanism, Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has said if TV channels do not want to come under the PCI they should choose another body like the Lokpal. “Self-regulation is no regulation and news organisations are private bodies whose activities have a large influence on the public and they also must be answerable to the public,” he said. On Sunday, Justice Katju wrote...
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