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KARNATAKA - BENGALURU - 28/09/2016 :  Zakia Soman, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, in Bengaluru on September 28, 2016.    Photo: K. Murali Kumar.

‘India needs codified Muslim family law’

Interview with Zakia Soman, co-founder, BMMA.
AKSHAY DESHMANE
Concrete road that will soon ferry coal laden trucks being built over farmland without landowners' consent.

Losing in India

While the Chief Minister dreams about the heights that he hopes Jharkhand will achieve, the farmers who stand to lose their land to make way for indus
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets newly sworn-in Chief Information Commissioner RK Mathur at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Photo by Vijay Kumar Joshi  (PTI1_4_2016_000026A)

All talk, little information

Comparison of RTI data show that the Narendra Modi government has not been as good for right to information as its predecessor, the Manmohan Singh reg
AKSHAY DESHMANE
NEW DELHI 17/05/2017: Arghya Sengupta,founder and Research Director at Vidhi , in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo Sandeep Saxena

For a judicial accountability mechanism

Interview with Arghya Sengupta, founder and research director at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.
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‘Casteism a reality in the judiciary’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, Supreme Court advocate.
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BL 17-1-2014 MUMBAI: MAHARASHTRA:(PHOTO TO GO WITH SIBI ARASY FROM DELHI) Shailesh Gandhi, RTI Empowered Citizen . Pic by SHASHI ASHIWAL

Diluting a right

Civil society groups feel that the draft RTI Rules, 2017, are fundamentally against the right to know. Particularly worrying is the provision that all
AKSHAY DESHMANE
VISAKHAPATNAM, ANDHRA PRADESH, 09/01/2017: Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and national convenor of Safai Karmachari Andolan Bezwada Wilson in an interaction with The Hindu in Visakhapatnam.  
Photo: C.V.Subrahmanyam

The Dalit identity dilemma

Interview with Bezwada Wilson, national president of the Safai Karmachari Andolan.
AKSHAY DESHMANE
NEW DELHI, 16/09/2015: A scene at OP Department of Guru Gobind Singh Hospital as the Dengue cases increased in the Capital on September 16, 2015. 
Photo:Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

In poor health

Government health establishments in the national capital lack infrastructure and facilities and the private ones are unaffordable.
AKSHAY DESHMANE
NEW DELHI, 28/10/2016: Monaj Sinha, Minister of Communication, along with J.S. Deepak, Secretary, Telecom, addressing a press conference in New Delhi on October 28, 2016. 
Photo: Kamal Narang

Dubious transfer

Was J.S. Deepak, Chairman of the Telecom Commission, shunted out to the Commerce Ministry because he had raised several issues relating to Jio?
AKSHAY DESHMANE
Chandigarh 11/03/2017:
Punjab Congress President Capt. Amarinder Singh flanked with party leaders Harish Chaudhary and Asha Kumari celebrates after a landslide victory for party in assembly polls in Chandigarh on Saturday, March 11 2017. Photo: Akhilesh Kumar

Return of the Congress

By voting the Congress to power, Punjab has opted for continuity and change. A series of tactical errors seem to have stopped the widely predicted AAP
AKSHAY DESHMANE
Lambi: Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal announces Jarnail Singh as AAP Candidate from Lambi against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at an election rally in Lambi on Friday. PTI Photo   (PTI1_20_2017_000329A)

Change on the cards

The Aam Aadmi Party appears to have an edge over its rivals in Punjab although voters in the three regions are divided between the Congress and the ne
AKSHAY DESHMANE in Bathinda,Amritsar

Targeted strike

The NDTV India case illustrates how the Programme Code enables subjective action by the state against TV channels.
AKSHAY DESHMANE
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