Day: September 7, 2011

The CBI unit of Pune has taken over the investigations in the sensational murder case of RTI activist Satish Shetty.…

(Application deadline Friday September 30, 2011) Inclusive Media for Change, a CSDS-based initiative that runs a clearing house of ideas,…

Anna Hazare’s campaign may lead to a new Lokpal Bill, but it has legitimised middle-class vigilantism and other kinds of…

The global ‘farmland grab’ in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa has become competitive, with companies from Asia, including India…

About 30,000 farmers in Maharashtra are feeling cheated. The soybean seeds they had purchased from the state seed corporation, Mahabeej,…

-The Business Recorder   Surging flood waters in northern and eastern India have affected millions of people, forcing many from…

-IANS   About 750,000 people could die in East Africa over the next four months due to famine, if enough…

-Outlook   A farmer sitting on a dharna along with other peasants to protest acquisition of land for the proposed…

A Right To Information (RTI) activist has alleged that the assistant public information officer of the Greater Ludhiana Area Development…

The flawed Bill on food security has not received the kind of publicity that the Lokpal Bill has, but that…

-The Indian Express   While the alleged murder of event manager-turned-RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery,…

Private schools may no longer be able to refuse to provide information under the RTI Act under the pretext of…

-IANS   The Delhi government’s scheme replacing the Public Distribution System with cash transfers is a "total fraud" as the…

India is the worst among the six top Asian economies when it comes to the representation of women in the…

-The Hindu   A committee comprising representatives of people from different walks of life has been constituted for ensuring the…