Explained: Why the Police Fails at Handling Riots
Mar 10, 2020 By: N.C. Asthana (The Hindu) There is a popular myth, often fostered by the police itself, that the force requires ‘orders’ from their superiors, i.e. the political executive, in order to ‘act’.
RTI data reveals huge mismatch in J&K apple procurement claims of governments
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Delhi violence: WGHR calls on NHRC to assert statutory mandate
Feb 28, 2020 New Delhi, India A coalition of human rights groups today reminded the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of its statutory mandate, which empowers the Commission to take suo motu action in the face of human rights violations, particularly acts of omission and commission by pu
Citizenship (Amendment) Act: Some facts vs ‘mythbusters’
Dec 17, 2019 (Economic Times) By: Sanjoy Hazarika GoI has reached out to those opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) with a series of tweets, statements and declarations at political rallies.
RTI-ed records reveal J&K's General Admin Dept. works at cross purposes with DoPT delaying application of Central RTI Act in J&K
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The Northeast, India’s volatile periphery
Nov 21, 2019 (Nationalia.info) Surrounded by five countries and connected to the rest of India by a tiny corridor between Bhutan and Bangladesh, the Northeast symbolizes the distant and forgotten periphery of New Delhi.
Between hope and despair: A review of Sanjoy Hazarika's book 'Strangers No More'
(The book Reviewindia.org) A journey through the eight States of North East India, the present book is a sequel to Sanjoy Hazarika’s earlier published and much acclaimed title Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India’s Northeast.
India's Chief Justice under RTI Act
Nov 14, 2019 On 13th November, 2019 a 5-Judge Constitution Bench of India's Supreme Court unanimously held, as the head of that Court, the Chief Justice of India is covered by The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act).
ECIL directs disclosure of information about EVM and VVPAT deployment in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections while BEL and Election Commission equivocate under the RTI Act
Image courtesy: https://www.news18.com/ Nov 11, 2019 By: Venkatesh Nayak Readers may remember reading my despatch from September 2019 in which I had explained how Bharat Electronics Ltd.
