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.

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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Rohtak, February 29
With a view to ensuring transparency in the functioning of the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council, the Right to Information (RTI) Act will soon be implemented in the council. This was stated by Dr Vijender Singh Ahlawat, newly elected vice-chairman of the council, while addressing a news conference here yesterday.

The Supreme Court Tuesday began probing the constitutional validity of the controversial changes in the law on office of profit which the Congress-led government brought about allegedly to shield 40-odd parliamentarians.

'The amendment in the Act was brought to protect 40 MPs from disqualification. The desire of bringing an amendment with retrospective effect raises an important question of propriety,' said senior counsel Harish Salve, opening his argument before a bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan.

Today, the U.S. Senate
approved Senator David Vitter's (R-LA) amendment to prevent Indian Health
Service funds from being used to pay for abortions.

Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, issued the
following statement:

"I applaud the Senate for voting to prevent Indian Health Service funds
from being used to pay for abortions. The majority of the Senate has now
shown they agree with most Americans that government funding of abortion is
morally wrong.

"Current Indian Health law prevents funding of abortion by referencing

The Forward Markets Commission (FMC), India's commodity markets regulator, will notify certain regulations of the recently amended commodity law in the next 10 days, a senior official with the regulator said.

"We will notify regulations relating to brokers and vigilance mechanism in 8-10 days," said B.C. Khatua, chairman, FMC told reporters on the sidelines of a press conference.