-The Deccan Chronicle Shashidhar Mishra could have spent his entire life as a street vendor in his native village at Begusarai, Bihar. But he decided to get the information kept in the government files unlocked by filing more than 1,000 RTI applications. The reward he got was death. He was killed in his native village by unidentified gunmen in February 2010. Mishra is among at least 16 RTI activists who have...
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One man against a corrupt state system by Brijesh Pandey
WHEN ITANAGAR businessman and chairman of the Sango Lamte Foundation Payi Gyadi embarked on his crusade against dishonesty, he did not bargain for this. Four FIRs, one attempt to frame him by planting weapons in his car, and countless ‘offers’ to reach a ‘compromise or die’. His crime: exposing that the current Arunachal Pradesh Health Minister Atum Welly’s son and daughter had got government jobs based on fake certificates. It all...
More »Rahul slips into Maval, shows sympathy but offers no balm by Manoj More
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday made a quiet visit to Maval where three farmers were killed in police firing on August 9. Two hours after he left, the families of victims described the visit as a “show of sympathy” while the agitating farmers said he has rubbed salt on their wounds by not giving them a hearing. Rahul arrived in Maval around 10 am and went straight to the...
More »Villagers prevent officials, police from entering Posco site
-The Times of India Posco officials and police faced a major stumbling block at Gadakujang village, the site of the company's proposed steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district, as a large number of irate villagers prevented their entry into the area on Thursday. Many agitated villagers prevented the entry of police forces by blocking the road at Gadakujang. Last week, the Posco authorities had started land-leveling works after acquiring about 1,980 acre land...
More »Rahul Gandhi visits Pune farmers, says killings in police firing in Mawal wrong
-PTI Rahul Gandhi on Thursday termed as "wrong" the police firing on agitating farmers in Mawal in Pune district as he visited the families of those killed in the incident and joined a prayer meeting. Making an unscheduled visit to a cluster of villages in the area, the AICC general secretary met the families of the victims - Shyamrao Tope at Sadawali village, Moreshwar Sathe at Shivrane village and the family of...
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