At least a thousand applications to be file to ask what action has been taken by the govt

Press Trust of India / New Delhi April 26, 2008

In an effort to draw attention to the plight of the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, a major RTI campaign will be undertaken and at least a thousand applications will be filed in the next one week seeking information on the action taken by the government.

At least a 1,000 people, mostly Delhi residents, will send RTI applications to the Prime Minister's Office over the next week seeking answers to long-standing questions regarding the Bhopal disaster.

Posted online: Saturday , April 26, 2008 at 01:19:22
Updated: Saturday , April 26, 2008 at 01:19:22

Thiruvananthapuram, April 26: Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan defended the provisions of contempt of court, saying without them judicial orders will become a bunch of papers and no executive officer will obey court verdicts.

My mother has four sisters and had two brothers. My maternal uncle Mr. Ajay was the youngest among all the siblings. As regards my other maternal uncle, he's the second eldest in line. Since as it happens in rural areas, there's a big age gap between my mother's siblings. My elder maternal uncle is nearly twelve years senior to my mother and was almost twenty years senior to my other uncle Ajay. Well, as a result of this huge gap, my elder uncle Mr.

New Delhi, April 21
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today disagreed with Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan’s views that the Right the Information Act was not applicable to his office.
“I am not questioning the Chief Justice. He is a high constitutional functionary. But since you ask me, I feel we should not keep anything back from people,” he told reporters when asked about the CJI’s views.

Sangrur, April 21
The New Democratic Party (NDP), recently formed here with the motto of providing clean politics and making people aware on various public issues, organised its first seminar on the Right to Information Act (RTI) here last evening.

The union government is mulling yet another amendment in the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act of 1994. The idea is to further strengthen the Act to deter sex determination, which continues unabated despite stringent measures contained in the Act

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Plea to appoint more information commissioners
Deputy Tahsildars should be appointed as head of firkas
COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Retired Revenue Officers’ Association demanded at its recent State Executive Committee meeting here that more teeth should be given to the Right to Information Act.

“With the ever-increasing volume of litigation against the state, there can be no doubt that the judiciary must not only be independent of the executive and the legislature, but also, each individual judge must be entitled to freedom to decide cases to the best of his ability, knowledge and judgement, based on his understanding of the law and appreciation of the facts,” said former Chief Justice of India A M Ahamadi.