Protocol to protect RTI activists in the works

The Union rural development ministry is working on a protocol that will protect  activists who work to expose corruption using the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Activists exposing corruption cases often face harassment from government officers and local goons, or are implicated in false cases. According to the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), nearly 174 cases of murder and harassment of RTI activists have been recorded in the past four years.

Utkal Asbestos sues Bihar government over Nitish remark

Utkal Asbestos Limited (UAL) has sued the Bihar government over chief minister Nitish Kumar's remarks about asbestos. The chief minister had promised to “puncture construction of hazardous asbestos factories in the fertile state”. While stating this, he had endorsed a statement issued by Awadhesh Narain Singh, chairperson of Bihar Legislative Council, who said, “buying asbestos is akin to buying cancer”.

NGO moves Supreme Court; seeks CBI probe into MGNREGA funds scam in Bihar

A Delhi-based NGO has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, demanding a probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the embezzlement of Rs 6,000 crore in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in Bihar.

Bihar pushes to interlink rivers, tame Kosi

Bihar launches agriculture roadmap

Bihar has launched an agriculture roadmap for the state, with the aim of ushering in a ‘Rainbow Revolution’.

Can President Mukherjee redress this farmer’s grievance?

The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, who will be in Bihar for two days starting October 3, may face some embarrassing moments during his maiden v

Time for course correction

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will be rewriting the budget from today. This became clear late in the afternoon yesterday when state elections results were declared and the Congress party was routed in three of the five states that went to polls.

Kind to cash

It is logical for India to be one of the few countries to spend about two per cent of its gross domestic product on the social sector. After all it hosts the world’s largest number of poor. But it sounds illogical that nearly three-fourths of it is the cost of reaching development to the poor. To reach one rupee of development, India spends Rs 3.65, according to its own official estimate. To put it in perspective, India needs to triple its development budget to ensure each rupee currently allotted reaches the intended beneficiary.

Kind to Cash

A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.