Almost a week after RTI activist Amit Jethava was shot dead near the Gujarat High Court, the minister-in-charge of RTI Act on Thursday denied any move to frame a law to protect RTI activists while the Central Information Commissioner said it was the “job of the police” to protect them. “There is no proposal before the government to frame a specific law to protect RTI activists,” Minister of State for Public...
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Govt. to introduce Bill to protect whistleblowers
The government on Thursday said a Bill to protect whistleblowers is in the final stage of formulation. “A Bill to protect the persons who make public interest disclosures is nearing finalisation,” Minister of State for Public Grievances Prithviraj Chavan said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. “There have been reports in the Media and government has been informed about the increased threat to RTI (Right to Information) activists. Such incidents...
More »‘Nearly 200 women killed every year after being branded witches'
Citing National Crime Bureau statistics, a Dehra Dun-based NGO has said that nearly 150-200 women are killed every year in the country after being tagged as ‘witches.' Jharkhand tops the list with 50-60 witchcraft-related murders every year, followed by Andhra Pradesh, where the number is around 30, Haryana with 25-30 and Orissa with 24-28 deaths, Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) chairman Avdhash Kaushal said. According to a study conducted by RLEK,...
More »“Journalists under attack in Orissa” by Priscilla Jebaraj
Journalists have come under increasing attacks in Orissa over the past year, caught between aggressive industrialists, political corruption and competitive Media houses. “There have been 12 physical attacks on reporters, stringers or camera persons this year, and six cases of threat and intimidation, up from three attacks in 2009,” says a special report brought out by the Free Speech Hub, an initiative of the Media Foundation. With the State being on...
More »‘Paid news' interferes with concept of free, fair and objective press: Pratibha Patil by Jiby Kattakayam
Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year goes to Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu “Today issues are trivialised and trivial issues become headlines” “Audiences, readers still welcome well-researched stories” President Pratibha Patil on Thursday said the recent phenomenon of ‘paid news' could distort news and this interfered with the concept of a free, fair and objective press. Speaking after presenting the 4 {+t} {+h} Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards at the Taj...
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