-The HIndustan Times The images bore an uncanny resemblance to Partition snap-shots. Trains packed with people barely able to find standing room, ferrying refugees in their own land. Even the overflowing toilets were choc-a-bloc with panicky residents of the North-East. Everyone fleeing an unknown enemy, everyone desperate to get back to the security of their own homes. Two trains from Bengaluru chugged into Howrah station on Friday carrying thousands of passengers en route...
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Details of encounters to be provided under RTI
-Deccan Herald The Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission (SIC) has directed the police to provide details of all the encounters that took place in the state in the last 21 years sought by an applicant under the Right to Information (RTI) Act within a period of two months. “The Commission is of the view that the reputation of the police, armed and paramilitary forces will get enhanced if this information is...
More »Accountability, independence can coexist, Centre tells CJI
-The Hindu ‘Bill does not in any way infringe independence of judiciary’ Allaying the apprehensions expressed by Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia, the Centre on Friday made it clear that the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill would not in any way infringe the independence of the judiciary. The attempt to link the Bill with the independence of the judiciary was not based on facts, the Law and Justice Ministry said, in response...
More »Reliance Power got undue benefits in bidding for ultra mega power projects: CAG
-The Economic Times The CAG has questioned the eligibility of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power to have bid for any of the three ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) and said the company would enjoy undue benefits of Rs 29,033 crore over 20 years by using surplus coal at another plant. The CAG said that to be eligible to bid for a UMPP, a company should have implemented projects worth Rs 3,000 crore...
More »NE migrants flee Pune, Bangalore, Chennai
-The Times of India Fearing reprisals over the violence against Muslims in Assam, people from the northeast continued to flee from cities such as Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai, even as ethnic clashes between Bodos and Muslims that began in July spread to Baksa, Nalbari and Kamrup districts on Thursday. More than 3,000 labourers from the northeast living in Chennai thronged the station to take the weekly Egmore-Dibrugarh Express after they heard...
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