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Pune-based Sumita Kale, an economist and alumna of Cambridge University and Sushma Date, a paediatrician by profession, who are intensely pursuing a campaign to save the Vetal Tekdi hill—the largest green lung of Pune—tweeted as follows -    DP Alignment is being changed, Expert...

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Filing right to information (RTI) applications for various kinds of information on closed circuit TV (CCTV) camera installations in public places is not uncommon—and information commissioners giving different orders, is also not uncommon. In an order on Thursday, chief information...

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Mohammed Afzal 18 May 2023
Recently, in a general body meeting between Maharashtra chief minister (CM) Eknath Shinde, BrihanMumbai Municipal Corp (BMC), civic officials and elected representatives, a new policy for the management of open spaces was discussed and the same is scheduled to be finalised by the end of this...

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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of US-based blood-testing company Theranos who was found guilty of defrauding investors, must report to prison by May 30, a court has ruled.   Judge Edward Davila ordered Holmes to turn herself in to the Bureau of Prisons by May 30 to start serving her...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 May 2023
Calling the proliferation of fake Aadhaar cards and false Jan Dhan bank accounts a serious threat, EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India, has urged the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) to conduct a special audit of these fund transfers under the Centrally-sponsored...

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Akshay Naik 15 May 2023
Concerned citizens and activists from Mumbai have written to chief minister (CM) Eknath Shinde, opposing a proposed draft of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) new policy on open spaces; they have urged the CM not to hand over civic plots to private parties.    Recently,...

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Ever since the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) created Aadhaar as a unique biometric identity for residents of India, it has dismissed all doubts and queries by being in permanent 'denial mode'. Moneylife has been reporting, analysing and highlighting issues with Aadhaar...

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At the outset, Deepak Bache-Patil was not into any activism. As a youngster, he was an avid trekker, trudging along historic forts and nature trails of the Sahyadri mountains and water bodies. However, on one such trail along the Pawna dam near the industrial belt of Pimpri-Chinchwad, he...

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Mauritius Financial Services Minister Mahen Kumar Seeruttun has told the countrys Parliament that the allegations of the presence of shell companies in Mauritius are false and baseless.   The Mauritius minister gave this reply in response to a question about Hindenburg Research's...

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Google will give around $100 million to The New York Times over three years as part of a broad deal to use its content on some of its platforms, the media reported.   According to the Wall Street Journal, the Alphabet company will use the NYT content on Google News Showcase and some...

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The Delhi High Court has said that under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is an exempted organisation, but if an RTI applicant seeks human rights or corruption-based information, it is liable to be disclosed.   The case pertains to an RTI...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 May 2023
Highlighting widespread public concerns about the linking of Aadhaar with the electoral rolls, because of reports of the proliferation of fake Aadhaar in several states, EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India, reiterated that the election commission of India (ECI) should...

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The informer, who claims to have provided vital clues of huge tax evasion to the principal director of income tax (investigation), Kolkata, on the basis of which the central bureau of investigation (CBI) and enforcement directorate (ED) were able to arrest Enamul Haque, known to be the...

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Ken Ward Jr (Mountain State Spotlight)  and   Alex Mierjeski (ProPublica) 28 April 2023
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Mountain State Spotlight.   Whenever a hard rain fell on Harlan County, Kentucky, the mud, rocks and debris from the Foresters No. 25 mine pounded down the hillside into the community of Wallins...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 April 2023
Until a few years ago, online scamsters had to hire 'experts' to make fake identity cards for a fee. But making a bogus Aadhaar or PAN card is just a mouse click away. Any person with some basic knowledge of the dark web can easily prepare a fake identity card for anybody using some websites...

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Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli, Priyana Chopra Jonas are some of the popular names among the more than 400K (thousand) users who on Friday lost their Twitter Blue ticks, even as chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk removed all legacy verified...

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Chaos prevailed on Twitter on Friday when Elon Musk finally removed all legacy verified accounts with Blue check marks but allowed some celebrities to retain it.   In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status.   As more than 4...

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Generally, it is an accepted fact that the pendency of second appeals and complaints in central and state information commissions is often over a year or two.   However, it was not so in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The J&K state Right to Information (RTI) Act (now it is a Union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2023
Technology experts say emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing use of deep fakes will make dangerous scams even more terrifying. It has already happened in Arizona, where a kidnapper cloned a girl's voice and tried to demand a ransom from her mother. That too when the girl was...

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Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (The Leaflet) 14 April 2023
A stand-up comedian has challenged the new amendment, which directs social media intermediaries to essentially censor or otherwise modify their content at the direction of the government, before the Bombay High Court on the ground that it would defeat the purpose of political satire if it...

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