-The Hindu 'FIR has to be mandatorily filed' Kolkata: Almost 420 first information reports ( FIRs) have been lodged in connection with around 920 deaths inside sewers in the country between 1993 and January 31, 2020, as per the data tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The numbers, given in response to a question by Chandra Prakash Joshi, also show a huge disparity in the...
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Missing at birth: on sex selective abortion and infanticide
-The Hindu Serious efforts must be made to deter sex selective abortion and infanticide Few things cast a long shadow on human failing as much as sex selection does. To choose on the basis of gender and eliminate new life if the gender is not ‘favourable’ can easily be among humanity’s worst moments. Last week’s case of infanticide in Tamil Nadu’s Usilampatti, historically notorious for its crude methods of killing female babies,...
More »No citizenship records available for CM and Governor, says Haryana Secretariat in RTI reply
-The Hindu It says the query can be directed to the Election Commission Chandigarh: The Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Haryana does not have records pertaining to proof of citizenship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, his Cabinet colleagues and the Governor. A Panipat-based Activist last month sought information on the proof of citizenship of the Chief Minister, all the Ministers in the State Cabinet and the Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya under the Right...
More »Step-wells, done well -Aasheesh Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Restoring baolis can help combat the Capital’s water problem, as well as conserve an age-old engineering marvel They say you cannot walk more than a few hundred yards in Delhi without colliding with history. Along with the hundreds of monuments lining up the national capital are some home-grown marvels of indigenous engineering. These stepwells, or baolis, commissioned by the erstwhile rulers of Dilli not just helped propagate the message of water...
More »Don't know who are 'Urban Naxals': Govt replies to RTI query -Ashok Upadhyay
-IndiaToday.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and many senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have used the term 'Urban Naxals' in public speeches to attack their opponents. The Left Wing Extremism Division in the Union Home Ministry does not have any information on who are 'Urban Naxals' and where do they operate. This was revealed in an RTI application filed India Today TV. This comes close on...
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