Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
On March 25, BBC’s Caribbean Service aired its final programmes, ending 80 years of service. The next day BBC took its Cold Warera Russian Service off the air. Officials said the cuts are because of a 16 per cent reduction in funding from the UK government. BBC World Service is …
THE Planning Commission of India has disowned any responsibility for bringing companies involved in public-private partnership (PPP) projects under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The Commission said individual ministries which have tied up with private companies are responsible for these projects. There were several RTI applications filed seeking information …
Madhya Pradesh is the only State in the country, which has linked MGNREGA, Treasury, Food Coupon, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the like with Unique Identity Number (UID) card. Over four lakh registrations have been made in the State and 1.61 lakh cards have been distributed. Initially the work of preparing …
The National Advisory Council, led by Sonia Gandhi, declared that it would have nothing to do with the drafting of the Lokpal Bill now that a joint committee of the government and activists is working on it. But at a meeting on Thursday, the NAC unveiled the blueprint of a …
As expected, recent coverage in the Press has confirmed the feeling that the drafting and the passage of the Lokpal Bill will be difficult. The intentions were fairly clear from the way the Joint Advisory Committee was formed. With five members of the government being the big guns with a …
The Lokpal Bill movement of Anna Hazare assumes that monetary corruption can be separated from policy and that a skewed set of development priorities can peacefully coexist with complete and transparent financial honesty. This is a fundamental mistake. The Lokpal Bill is not ill-intentioned and some version of it is …
A case study of how science is taught in some of the primary schools in Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh reveals that a lack of “cultural capital” does hamper the economically poor students in synchronising with the “education” that is designed in school textbooks and taught by teachers. Middle-class students …
Post independence, India’s leaders, particularly Abul Kalam Azad, advocated an education policy that would be liberal and humanitarian, and set the nation on the path of progress and prosperity. This path was neither a full continuation of the colonial modern nor a restoration of the feudal-traditional. Drawing on progressive ideas …
The proposed Lokpal Bill, notwithstanding all the drama and protest surrounding it in recent days, is just a piece of a much larger agenda of reform of our existing institutions, infrastructure and processes to democratise information, enhance accountability and deliver development to all parts of the country. Today, the country …
DIBRUGARH, Although various educational schemes were introduced in the State to attain full-fledged literacy among the upcoming generation, certain loopholes stand on the way of the implementation of the schemes. The schemes have been introduced keeping at par with the country
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court today seeking quashing of the notification for setting up the Lokpal Bill drafting committee comprising social activist Anna Hazare, the father-son advocate duo, Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan, and others. Since the Lokpal Bill was already pending with a Parliamentary committee, …
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Jyotiraditya Scinida demanded that the proposed Lokpal Act should also be made applicable to all the States of the country. Scindia told mediapersons in Guna on Saturday that the Centre is serious over the issue of corruption and the same was proved …
In an apparent softening of stand, Anna Hazare said on Sunday that Parliament was supreme and he would accept its decision if it rejects the Lokpal Bill.
Chandigarh Districts in Haryana with a higher literacy rate have recorded low child sex ratio and vice versa. This inverse relationship between the literacy rate and child sex ratio has come to the fore in the latest Census figures. The literacy rate of Haryana has increased to 76.64% in 2011 …
NEW DELHI: Eight days after Gandhian Anna Hazare called off his fast demanding a stronger Lokpal law, the joint committee to draft the bill met on Saturday for the first time amid a controversy over a CD allegedly involving eminent lawyer and panel co-chairman Shanti Bhushan. The meeting chaired by …
Open Agenda As Drafting Panel Meets Today For 1st Time New Delhi: A day before the first meeting of the joint committee on the Lokpal bill, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and lawyer Prasant Bhusan said civil society activists would go into the meeting with three major things on their minds
