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The RTI battle of the NRIs

Monday 19 October '09

The NRIs in the US have been leading a campaign for their right to use the Right to Information Act from abroad even as the government...
Environment tribunal of no use, says HC

Monday 19 October '09

India's top environmental tribunal is of no use, the Delhi High Court says, adding the body has neither expertise nor infrastructure.
Killing in the heat of passion does not amount to murder: HC

Monday 19 October '09

Does killing a person in the “heat of passion” after a sudden quarrel amount to murder? No, says the Delhi High Court, but only if the crime is committed before the passion can subside.
Budget to staff crunch: Fourth anniv meet shows RTI chinks

Tuesday 13 October '09

Uttar Pradesh’s 11 Right to Information (RTI) commissioners find themselves short of typists as they deal with about 250 appeals a day....
RTI symbol that accountability is key to democracy: Habibullah

Monday 12 October '09

Forty years after he first visited the Valley, Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah recalled his maiden arrival in Jammu and Kashmir as a greenhorn IAS officer....
HC comes to aid of spy who spent 8 yrs in Pak jail

Wednesday 7 October '09

Bougal Ram can now lead a life of dignity. Hired by the Military Intelligence 21 years ago as a “source” for Rs 2,500 a month, he was disowned...
SC slams Delhi HC judge who said the CJI comes under RTI

Tuesday 6 October '09

Apex court appeals Sept 2 order, calls it error in law, academic exercise....
12 yrs and counting: Sukhram’s case drags on in court

Wednesday 30 September '09

Two cases, the telecom scam and the disproportionate assets litigation, have kept former telecommunications minister Sukhram, 86, in the loop of the courts for over a decade now....
HC shows the door to 799 ‘illegal’ staff of MCD library

Wednesday 30 September '09

Seven hundred and ninety-nine “illegal” employees of Hardayal Municipal Public Library, the Capital’s oldest library, have finally been shown the door after the Delhi High Court dismissed petitions filed by a section of employees.
HC shows the door to 799 ‘illegal’ staff of MCD library

Wednesday 30 September '09

Seven hundred and ninety-nine “illegal” employees of Hardayal Municipal Public Library, the Capital’s oldest library, have finally been shown the door after the Delhi High Court dismissed petitions filed by a section of employees.
‘Gorshkov selected after visual examination’

Tuesday 29 September '09

The decision to ink the multi-million dollar deal to purchase Admiral Gorshkov was taken after a mere 'visual examination' of the ship, the Indian Navy has admitted.
Go door-to-door to find disabled children denied education: HC

Monday 28 September '09

The Delhi High Court has asked the state’s Education department to knock on every door in the Capital to identify disabled children who are denied their right to go to school.
HC orders lie-detector tests to trace child

Thursday 24 September '09

This is the story of two women, a drunk, and an ineffective police. Caught in the middle is a two-year-old child whose whereabouts have been unknown for a year now.
The Missing Capital

Tuesday 22 September '09

Mohammed Ataullah, a cart-puller in Bawana, Outer Delhi, worked harder on Monday, like he did on Eid last year.
Hearing impaired youth drives forward in new lane

Monday 21 September '09

Early this year, 25-year-old Rajat Sachdeva applied for a learner’s driving licence. It was rejected outright — simply because he is hard of hearing.
Parking, housing for poor on hold

Friday 18 September '09

Shalimar Bagh multi-layer underground parking lot In September 2008, residents of Shalimar Bagh were asked to choose between neighbourhood park ‘Shiv Vatika’ and a multi-level car parking lot to be built under the green area.
Govt, people tug-of-war holds projects at bay

Friday 18 September '09

Urban development projects in Delhi mostly remain non-starters even as the city chokes.
Trace jawan missing since ’65 war, HC to govt

Thursday 17 September '09

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday decided to take up a son’s quest to bring his father, a jawan who went missing during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war....
Arun Jaitley goes to court, gets back www.arunjaitley.com

Wednesday 16 September '09

The name ‘Arun Jaitley’ is “unusual and entitled to a very high degree of protection”, the Delhi High Court has agreed.
PM’s ‘unauthorised’ neighbour faces eviction, moves HC

Wednesday 16 September '09

The Prime Minister’s neighbour — Delhi Race Club — is facing eviction for not paying dues of over Rs 1.5 crore for its 53.242 acres.
For a decade, court’s warning on risk ignored

Friday 11 September '09

The Delhi High Court spent over a decade warning the government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi that the lives of children in their schools are “always at risk”.
Green weddings no more, MCD to ban use of parks as venues

Friday 4 September '09

From 2010, Delhi will have to start looking indoors to celebrate a wedding.
Assets under RTI, need to live by standards we set: HC rules to SC

Thursday 3 September '09

“Judging is not a job, it is a way of life. Whenever I enter the courtroom, I do so with the deep sense that, as I sit at trial...
HIV-positive, man denied treatment

Wednesday 2 September '09

When “XYZ” (identity withheld) went to a Delhi government-run clinic earlier this year for a cataract surgery for his left eye, he was denied treatment.
Rejecting US couple’s adoption bid, High Court says their ‘real intention’ is to use child as help

Tuesday 1 September '09

Why should American citizens Craig and Cynthia Coates fight a long legal battle to adopt Anil, a nine-year-old mentally-challenged orphan?
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