I got Covid test again, please pray result comes negative: Afroz Alam Sahil
By theokhlatimes I got Covid test again, please pray result comes negative: Afroz Alam I am feeling better with your blessings. I got test again and please pray that the result comes negative. These are the lines of Okhla-based journalist and well-known RTI activist Afroz Alam Sahil. He posted this information on his timeline a few […]
Afroz Alam Sahil on his new book ‘Lockdown Diaries’ and people who launched it
By UNSA KHAN 2020 has been a year full of new experiences, life lessons and uncertainty. While some people were bound to stay at home with their families, some had to live away from their families for months. A pandemic like this has happened in many years where ‘social distancing’ turned out to be the ‘New […]
India fully digitizes Hajj process
By SANJAY KUMAR NEW DELHI: India has become the first country in the world to entirely digitize the Hajj application process. “This will ensure that Indian pilgrims get information in India about the building and room allotted to them, as well as transportation details for travel after reaching the airport in Saudi Arabia,” India’s Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar […]
2G to CWG: the RTI amendment will make it harder to unearth corruption
Filing RTIs allowed journalists and activists to get to the truth, but that might change. By Veena Nair Since January, The Indian Express is still waiting on responses to 300 RTIs that its filed. With the recent introduction of the RTI (Amendment) Bill, journalists are only going to find it harder to get information from the government. “No party likes […]
The Round Table Society of Kirori Mal College organises a seminar on RTI
BY DU BEAT The Round Table Society of Kirori Mal College organized a seminar and workshop on ‘Right to Information (RTI) and its role and achievements’ on Thursday, 20th February in the college seminar room. The event started with a welcome speech by Dr. S.P. Gupta, principal of the college, in which he welcomed and […]
India court convicts Batla House encounter accused
By SHAFAQUE ALAM Conforming to the charges leveled by Delhi police on Batla House encounter, a Delhi court on Thursday convicted the lone accused, Shahzad Ahmad in the controversial 2008 encounter case which had left two youths and a police inspector dead. Rajender Kumar Shastri, additional sessions judge convicted Ahmad for killing Delhi Police special cell […]
How pharma giants use litigation to evade fines
By Shonali Ghosal Pharma companies have been fleecing the consumers by overpricing their medicines. As of 31 January, the total amount overcharged by companies stands at a mind-boggling Rs 2,596 crore, according to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA). This figure is for the period since 1997 when the regulatory body was set up. On the […]
How the Nitish Kumar govt’s advertising budget sky-rocketed
Information revealed under RTI on the advertising budgets of two successive governments in Bihar shows that the Nitish Kumar government splurged on advertisements in the print and electronic media. By Pallavi Polanki At a time when a raging controversy has broken out over the Press Council of India’s report on the Nitish Kumar government’s record on […]
Wikileaks: The Global Intelligence Files
On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, […]
Wikileaks: The Global Intelligence Files
On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, […]