Welcoming the judgment of the Central Information Commission (CIC) bringing political parties under the ambit of the RTI Act, litigant Subhash Chandra Agrawal said the order will have long-term effect on the country’s political scenario.
After the fair trade regulator competition commission of India (CCI) flagged various concerns regarding the 24-percent stake purchase in Jet Airways by Abu Dhabi-based airline Etihad, Jet has filed its response with the CCI. The competition watchd
Familiarity may breed just contempt. But the overpowering and extended presence of an elder in an organisation produces much more: a morbid sense of alienation within the organisation followed by outright rejection by their own. That is just the p
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the deadline for meeting norms for financial institutions seeking banking licences from 12 months to 18 months. This has given a longer life to the in-principle approval given to these institutions. Ear
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the deadline for meeting its norms for financial institutions seeking banking licences from 12 months to 18. This has given a longer life to the in-principle approval given to these institutions. Earlier, t
Eight tigers dying in the first five months of this year in Uttarakhand has set the alarm bells ringing. The total tiger fatalities this year are likely to be higher than the last year when 11 tiger deaths were recorded in the hill state.
The central information commission (CIC) has ruled that six major national parties come under the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Ac
Undeterred by union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh’s opposition to fresh mining in Saranda, Jharkhand — India’s largest iron ore reserve, and also its largest sal forest — union minister of state for environment a
Here is an irony that will explain a lot of paradoxes about democracy in India. The Congress party comes to power and takes a revolutionary step of opening the government up for scrutiny before citizens through the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
This is the text of reaction from Subhash Agrawal, a prominent RTI activist and one of the two applicants whose complaint led to CIC`s verdict: "This refers to welcome full-bench CIC-verdict holding political parties accountable under
The woman held as a suspected Maoist after a brief car chase in Khammam, the district bordering Chhattisgarh, on Monday was injured in the ambush on Congress leaders on May 25 and was headed for Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh for treatment, accordin
Celebrities craving publicity are often hated for creating needless controversies. But here is another breed on the flipside that is equally weird and works the other way round. Taking the celebrities to task and dragging them to court is perhaps
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is crying hoarse for resources and over fund constraints to address the environmental issues plaguing the country even as the situation deteriorates rapidly. According to a new report of The E
Himachal Pradesh will be leveraging IL&FS’ K-yan, a high-tech multimedia tool, to power education in the state. K-yan comes with a smart board and the set will be distributed by Iris Computers Limited. The tool will be used to re
After the fiasco of a meeting of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) on June 2, N Srinivasan, the cricket board’s president who decided to ‘step aside’ and not resign, justified the decision. He said, “I have n
Khammam police on Monday arrested a woman suspected to be a Maoist operative believed to have been involved in the recent bloody ambush on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh that left 27 people dead. The police believe three other persons t
To me, TM Sounderarajan goes way beyond the cinema mania that lies latent in the psyche of almost everyone. He was a phenomenon that pervaded and penetrated all aspects of post-independence Tamil Nadu. His was not just another voice in a h
So now everyone is coming out of the woodwork and slamming the IPL for being a scam and a blot on cricket. A week ago, for an interminable two months, they were telling us how the IPL is the most exciting innovation ever and just look at the crowd
One night before Super Sunday, it seemed as if Times Now, the hollering flagship of Bennett, Coleman & Company (BCCL) and their stable of newspapers, will have the vicarious pleasure of hogging credit for felling N Srinivasan. But the
In their frenzy over the BCCI’s murky affairs, undergoing plotting and cooking in Chennai on Sunday, news TV missed playing up an interesting piece of news developing in Delhi on Sunday. Arvind Kejriwal, Indian media’s darling-turned-n
