It’s Time India’s Police Reclaimed Its Lost Time
By Basant Rath (The Wire) The 73-page report was titled ‘8 Hours Dream of Police’. Constable Ravindra Pandurang Patil of Mumbai police had, in his 17 years of service, sent the same report to successive police commissioners.
No rules, SOPs for ordering preventive detentions under J&K PSA
Image courtesy: http://www.elections.in While replying to an RTI application filed by members of the J&K RTI Movement (led by Dr.
On the Brink of a Disaster, India’s Quest for Climate Justice
By Prayank Jain India is one of the most vulnerable countries when it comes to natural disasters. The impact of climate change is becoming exceedingly severe and warrants urgent action and dialogue on loss and damage at the international level.
Top Human Rights Man Here, Tells Of Risks In Our Region
(Fiji Sun) On the occasion of Human Rights Day, the director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative feels optimistic after recent talks in Fiji.
Ease of doing business studies are incomplete without the parameter of "corruption"- RTI intervention reveals poor state of action taken on corruption in major cities
Image courtesy: flickr.com By Venkatesh Nayak Readers may recall, much has been made of India’s 30-point jump in the latest round of World Bank’s rating of 190 countries for the Ease of Doing Business (EDB).
Police in torture of Ashok Kumar must be held to account; CHRI
November 25, 2017 New Delhi, India Condemning the severe torture allegedly perpetuated by the Haryana Police on Ashok Kumar, earlier the prime suspect in the death of school student Pradyuman Thakur, CHRI demands that the Haryana Government demonstrate swift and effective accountability in the
Bonding political party donations with secrecy: FinMin, ECI and RBI have no information about Electoral Bonds scheme
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Sexual predators in uniform
New Delhi, Nov 5, 2017 By Niriksha Sanghvi and Pavani Nagaraja Bhat (The Citizen) On July 31, 2017, an incident of sexual assault was reported in the Maoist-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
Negotiations for return of J&K Hydel Projects
Background to the RTI Intervention Readers may recollect my email alert disseminated in April 2016 about the NHPC's earnings from hydel projects in J&K. NHPC supplied figures under the RTI Act to show that it had earned more than Rs.
CHRI co-hosts 5th national RTI convention in Bhubaneswar
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) co-organised the 5th National Convention of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) at Utkal Mandap, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.