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The Economic Times •

125th birth anniversary celebrations: Ambedkar works reprint runs into copyright trouble

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Ringzhen Tundup Shastri: The devout Buddhist who helped RSS reach Ladakh

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Meet India’s first cow minister Otaram Devasi who likes to address himself as “Gaupalan Mantri”

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The Morning Context •

How a firm with links to Ramdev’s Ruchi Soya got preferential treatment

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Haryana CM lobbied to get violators off the hook

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With farm laws as inspiration, environment ministry takes an axe to the forest Act

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Did PMO get its way on India’s controversial new IT Rules?

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How one official helped Tata Steel and Vedanta get away with flouting green law

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Inside a quiet attempt to hobble the National Green Tribunal

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Letter from industrialist prompts minister to scrap environment policy

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HuffPost •

Why Did Unused Electoral Bonds End Up In PM Modi's Relief Fund?

“I found it strange and intriguing because why should one buy an instrument of donating money to a political party and allow it to lapse? If I want to donate to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, I can do it directly,” said Prof. Jagdeep Chhokar, founder director of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Electoral Bonds scheme.

“I found it strange and intriguing because why should one buy an instrument of donating money to a politica...
HuffPost •

Documents Show How Modi, Jaitley Gamed World Bank's Doing Business Rankings

On 3 November, for instance, Modi said, the rankings are an "indicator of India's strengthening economy and quick progress". He said this while answering a question posed by a BJP volunteer from Korba, Chattisgarh, who wanted to know the relevance of the rankings in the life of the 'common man'. Modi further said that the improvement in rankings over four years by almost half —going from 142 in 2014 to 77 in 2018—shows the Indian economy had improved twice over ever since his government was swor...
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BJP Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Won’t Say How He Spent Rs 11 Cr Of His MPLADS Fund Despite CIC Order

NEW DELHI—Union cabinet minister and Lok Sabha member Narendra Singh Tomar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not disclosed how he has spent over Rs 11 cr of his discretionary fund in his Gwalior constituency, despite directions from the Central Information Commission (CIC), HuffPost India has found.

NEW DELHI—Union cabinet minister and Lok Sabha member Narendra Singh Tomar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not disclosed how he has spent over Rs 11 cr of his discretionary fund in his...
HuffPost •

Why is the Indian Army desperate to suppress details of a fake encounter in Kashmir?

Releasing the information, the army has argued in a Delhi high court petition exclusively accessed by HuffPost India, served no public interest, was an "unwarranted invasion of the privacy" of the accused, and would result in public outrage that would "prejudicially affect the security, sovereignty and integrity of India", and affect military operations in the state.

Releasing the information, the army has argued in a Delhi high court petition exclusively accessed by HuffPost India, served no p...
Frontline •

‘A human rights crisis’

IN this email interview, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, tells
Frontline that “accountability for human rights abuses and violations cannot be indefinitely suspended while we wait for a political solution. It is by adhering to human rights principles that tensions can be reduced and the ground prepared for a sustainable solution.” He details the consequences of the denial of permission to the U.N. by Pakistan and India to conduct a f...
Frontline •

New smoking gun?

Among the many high-profile defence deals signed during the tenure of the Narendra Modi government, the Rafale aircraft deal is the only one that has persistently attracted allegations of a scam. A closer look at the developments relating to the high-profile deal over the last three years reveals how and why it has steadily and increasingly become controversial.This deal entered public consciousness in early April 2015 when the Prime Minister announced that India would acquire 36 Rafale fighter...
Frontline •

All talk, little information

IN October 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the inaugural speaker at the annual convention of the Central Information Commission (CIC). The top body for adjudicating matters concerning the Right to Information (RTI) Act was marking 10 years of its existence, and there was curiosity about what Modi had to say about the law.Addressing a large gathering in Vigyan Bhavan, a government-run convention centre in New Delhi, the Prime Minister said: “It is true that Right to Information, first and...
The Economic Times •

Business connections between Vasundhara Raje’s son Dushyant Singh and Lalit Modi to come under ED lens

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Down To Earth •

How Forest Dwellers Use Right To Information For Securing Forest Rights

Kutade and other applicants started receiving answers to their RTI queries in the last week of April. But the answer was the same for all: “Sub-divisional and district-level committees have cleared all land claims made. Appeals against the decision are filed with the district-level committee. However, your application for an (FRA) appeal was not found in our records.” While people had specific queries about their claims, the authority’s response was same for all Milind Thatte, founder of Vay...
Down To Earth •

Nuclear utility grabs land

LATIKA PAWAR had just returned home after working at her mango plantation when she heard a loud noise outside. The 54-year-old called other residents and rushed to her field, a stone’s throw away from her house in Dhaniwre hamlet of Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district. “A bulldozer was moving towards our mango plantations, which are in the vicinity of a proposed nuclear plant. Two days earlier (on May 13), boundary lines with white chalk and yellow paint were drawn through our plantations,” recalls...
Down To Earth •

Lost in reclamation

“Reclamation is an unnatural process because you are interfering with coastlines delineated by nature. So unless you understand how nature has programmed its processes and how coastal features have developed, reclamation will be difficult,” says V Subramaniam, former professor of geology at IIT Mumbai, who is associated with the study. He cites the example of unscientific reclamation at Mahim Bay for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link that led to the destruction of Dadar beach. “They did a rush job for t...
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