-DNA   The Bombay High Court has stayed an order passed by the State Information Commission (SIC) which stated that Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (R-Infra), the Anil Ambani-LED company, is also covered under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A division bench of Justice BH Marlapalle and Justice Nishita Mhatre granted an interim stay and directed the government to file a reply in eight weeks while hearing an appeal fiLED by R-Infra against the...

A draft Bill aimed at redressing complaints against junior government officials is likely to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament to check graft at the lowest level, where most citizens interact with the administration. The proposed Public Services Grievance Redressal Bill will be available to the public for comments and feedback before it’s introduced in Parliament, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said. The proposed law comes at a time when...

Envelopes with cash distributed at BJP press meet A cash-for-coverage scandal has taken the fizz out of Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K.Advani's ambitious Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption and black money with the BJP leaders in Madhya Pradesh “attempting to bribe” journalists for favourable coverage of the yatra. Envelopes containing currency notes worth Rs. 500-1,000 were handed out to journalists during a press conference calLED by local BJP MP Ganesh Singh at...

China on Friday reiterated its backing to the initiative to rebuild Nalanda University, even as the Governing Board of the University held a board meeting in the Chinese capital and discussed the university’s future with the Chinese leadership. The Governing Board, LED by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, was invited to hold a board meeting in China by Premier Wen Jiabao following last year’s meeting of the East Asia Summit, which had...

-The Times of India   Cracks have appeared in Team Anna just a couple of months after they pushed the political class to agree to create a strong Lokpal and galvanized popular opinion against corruption, as members pursue their individual agendas. On Friday, Anna Hazare and other members of the group distanced themselves from their comrade Prashant Bhushan's advocacy to allow a plebiscite in Kashmir Valley on whether it should remain with India,...