If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's, it indicates the paradox of its citizen occupying the same space as his Latin and UK counterparts, yet living in conditions similar to those in Africa. Setting this hypothesis aside, let us...
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MEA asked to comply with RTI Act
-The Times of India The Central Information Commission has directed the external affairs ministry to comply with the norms of statutory suo-moto disclosures to be made under the Right to Information Act. The move comes following a complaint that some information given on the ministry's website under Section 4 of the RTI Act, which relates to proactive disclosures by a public authority, was not complete and comprehensive. Complainant SAUrabh Sharma alleged that the...
More »For Kolkata thana rioting, police blame themselves by Madhuparna Das
Two days after a mob of 300 Trinamool workers and supporters stormed a police station in the heart of Kolkata, asSAUlted policemen and vandalised government and private vehicles, the police have filed a preliminary report of the rioting — and indicted their own men. The mob, comprising members of two clubs in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s south Kolkata neighbourhood, fought street battles with policemen from Bhowanipore police station who had asked...
More »RTI activists plan meet, may press
-The Indian Express The RTI activists in the state have decided to hold a meeting in Porbander near Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana fast venue with a plan to approach the central government for introducing a bill to safeguard RTI activists across the nation. Around 200 RTI activists from SAUrashtra and other parts of Gujarat gathered at city’s Juhapura area on Sunday to extend their support to the family of RTI activist...
More »In Malegaon, A Long Wait by Smita Nair
Accused No 1 Noor-ul-Huda, 26 Labourer, Arrested on October 22, 2006 A month after the Malegaon blasts in September 2006, two policemen walked up to the house of Noor-ul-Huda at Jaffer Nagar on a Ramzan evening. They took Noor with them, telling his father they would send him back in 10 minutes. “Five years have passed. How long is their 10 minutes?” asks Noor’s father Shumshuz Zoha. This wasn’t the first time Noor...
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