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Analysis of Indian Central Information Commission’s Decision on Disclosure of Immovable Property Statements of Public Officials- February 2010

Below is an analysis by Mr. Vinu Sampath, Programme Coordinator Access to Information Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (C-NES' Managing Trustee is a member of its Executive Board) of a double-bench ruling of India's Central Information Commission (CIC). The Commission has remanded the disputed matter back to the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO).…

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Living with Bandhs in Guwahati

Empty streets, shuttered shops, children playing street cricket and alonely motorbike whizzing past Guwahati’s normally busy GopinathBordoloi road on a Monday morning. A familiar “extended” weekend,thanks to a 12 hour Bharat bandh called on July 5th  by the Oppositionagainst the hike in fuel prices. For some privileged groups, it was merely an additional break and…

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Internship Report: Binita Kakati

The past one month I have been working with C-NES, although I have never thought very highly of NGOs having worked with two before I have found most of them on the whole quite unnecessary, unorganized and in one case lacking substantial motive. You see the initial gusto which characterizes a pertinent issue usually fades,…

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ICT panel discussion draws support from state governments

A vigorous Power Panel discussion on 'Leveraging ICT for sustained development in the North Eastern region', organized by the North Eastern Council, Government of India, and Intel Corporation, involving Members of Parliament, education ministers from Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Mizoram and education commissioners and officials from Meghalaya, Assam and other states as well as scholars…

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Session Science & Health: Does Science Work Against Nature?

SPEAKERS: Michael Specter, Author on Science & TechnologySuman Sahai, Convenor, Gene Campaign speaks on Science and Genetic EngineeringSESSION CHAIRPERSON: Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today SUMAN SAHAI (SPEECH) Ladies and Gentleman it’s a pleasure to be here and it is not very often that you get an opportunity to discuss science and technology and it’s…

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Majuli’s lesson: check, check and recheck facts

The editor of supplements at Mail Today, a unit of the India Today Group of Publications, is probably ruing the day he accepted an invitation from the Directorate of Assam Tourism and Assam Tour Operator Association on a junket “to visit and promote a few places of tourist interest”. Nishiraj Baruah, who wrote the piece,…

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