RTI reply on line doubling between Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction Stations amuses patrons

RTI reply on line doubling between Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction Stations amuses patrons

Train No. 16585 Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru-Murdeshwar Express switches towards the single-line track towards Mangaluru Central Railway Station from the Mangaluru Junction-Shoranur double line at Jeppu Kudpady in Mangaluru on December 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY Notwithstanding demands from railway patrons, including the Pashchima Karavali Railway Abhivriddhi Samithi to double the … Read more

Hema panel report: RTI reveals provisions to prohibit illegal, offending acts on women in Malayalam cinema

Hema panel report: RTI reveals provisions to prohibit illegal, offending acts on women in Malayalam cinema

The Hema Commission report to address issues of sexual harassment and gender inequality in the Malayalam film industry has recommended key provisions to prohibit illegal and offending acts against women in the sector. The provisions to be included in the proposed Kerala Cine Employers and Employees (Regulation) Act 2020 have emerged from the Right to … Read more

Morning Digest | With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover; Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash: Russian agencies, and more

Morning Digest | With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover; Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash: Russian agencies, and more

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner. | Photo Credit: Reuters With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, successfully landing on the surface of moon on Wednesday, the focus has now moved to the rover in its belly, Pragyan. Years of … Read more

65 cases of communal violence in WB between January 2021-June 2022, reveals RTI query

65 cases of communal violence in WB between January 2021-June 2022, reveals RTI query

Recently, violence had erupted in parts of West Bengal over Ram Navami Processions. Several vehicles were torched in Howrah district. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI At least 65 cases were registered over communal violence in various parts of West Bengal in just 18 months between January 2021 and June 2022. While 30 cases were registered … Read more

Sebi moves court over RTI order to disclose information on NSE

Sebi moves court over RTI order to disclose information on NSE

New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India has now moved the Bombay High Court challenging an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) asking the capital market regulator to provide information on the National Stock Exchange sought by an individual. At the crux of the issue is a Right to Information (RTI) application … Read more

Aarogya Setu’s data sharing protocol discontinued, but privacy activists still raise concerns over security – ET HealthWorld

Aarogya Setu’s data sharing protocol discontinued, but privacy activists still raise concerns over security – ET HealthWorld

The Union government has discontinued Aarogya Setu’s data access and sharing protocol, as it seeks to convert the contact tracing app into a ‘national health app’. Privacy activists, however, have raised concerns over the security of the personal data which has been collected since April 2020, even as new users download the app every day. … Read more

Proposed e-commerce policy to be robust, balanced, says Piyush Goyal

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Union minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday assured that every stakeholder’s interest will be taken into consideration while framing the e-commerce policy which would be robust and in the interest of every Indian. Goyal, who heads commerce and industry as well as consumer affairs ministries, also said that he welcomes all the feedback on the draft … Read more

Over 3.86 crore people didn’t get 2nd dose of Covid vaccines within stipulated time: Government

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Over 3.86 crore people did not get their second dose of anti-Covid vaccines — Covishield and Covaxin — within the stipulated period of time, the government has said in response to an RTI query. According to information on the CoWIN portal, as of Thursday afternoon 44,22,85,854 people have received their first dose, while 12,59,07,443 have … Read more

View: Congress must aspire to be like Apple, and not BlackBerry

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For a father, buying a gift for a daughter who has just entered her teens is a dicey proposition. Balancing the conflicting roles of a protective dad versus the uber cool one is like skating on thin ice. The BlackBerry mobile phone sorted out that predicament for me. While the USP of the gadget was … Read more

Thousands of certified Covid deaths missing from Kerala’s official count

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(This story originally appeared in on Jul 09, 2021) As of June 30, 2021, Kerala‘s official Covid toll put out by the state health department has failed to include over 6,000 Covid-19 deaths that have been duly certified by doctors on the ground, pointing to a disturbing discrepancy between registered Covid deaths and declared Covid … Read more