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The Leaflet 13 April 2023
While the Supreme Court, on the facts of the case, did not entertain the petition by the ED, it disapproved the reasoning offered by the high court that non-supply of the information or documents was a human rights violation as in the absence of the same, the information seeker would not be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2023
By 2031, there will be 2.4mn (million) senior citizens living independently in Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR). According to a research report, these seniors believe they need to be prepared financially, physically and emotionally to take care of themselves.   In the report,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 April 2023
The Bombay High Court (HC), while hearing a case of non-repair and non-filling of potholes on roads, asked BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to respond to the suggestion of requiring public liability insurance (PLI) during the next hearing on 8 June 2023.    In an order on...

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which is the first public authority in India to initiate the ‘open day’ every Monday since 2009 for citizens to freely access information by inspecting files under Section 4 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, is hurdled due to a lack of knowledge or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 April 2023
Nearly 6%, or more than 60mn (million) dead people, still hold their Aadhaar numbers since there is no provision to delete or deactivate these numbers, the Union government told the Lok Sabha. However, these numbers are just estimates since no mechanism is available with the Unique...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 April 2023
While various entities conduct surveillance, it is unchecked surveillance by the state that is the most significant cause for concern, and nearly two out of three respondents believe that political parties surveil citizens for electoral gains, shows a survey report.   To understand...

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Undoubtedly, the voluminous pending second appeals or complaints are major hurdles to the quick dissemination of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A small percentage of the piling of pendency is also because of a series of RTI applications filed by the same applicant,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 March 2023
The Union government on Tuesday extended the deadline for linking a permanent account number (PAN) with an Aadhaar number to 30 June 2023.    In a release, the ministry of finance says, "To provide some more time to the taxpayers, the date for linking PAN and Aadhaar has been extended...

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US prosecutors have arrested Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind the crash of two digital currencies (TerraUSD and Luna) that lost over $40 billion last year, and charged him with fraud.   Kwon, the wanted co-founder of Terraform Labs behind a multibillion-dollar crash of...

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Thanks to the inordinate pendency of second appeals and complaints of right to information (RTI) applicants, which are not heard by information commissioners for over one or even two years after filing them, the trend of applicants remaining absent on the day of the hearing is becoming...

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Troubled banking giant Credit Suisse says it will borrow up to US$54bn (billion) from the Swiss central bank to shore up its finances.   The lender said it was taking decisive action to strengthen its liquidity as it looked to become a simpler bank, the BBC reported.   Shares...

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Strongly opposing the proposal of the government to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP Bill), a group of RTI activists, along with some political leaders and people, have made a firm resolution to oppose any regressive amendments...

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The Delhi High Court has held that both Indian citizens and non-citizens have access to the Right to Information (RTI), and to restrict that to non-citizens would be against both the RTI Act and the Indian Constitution.   AS Rawat, a public information officer (PIO) employed by the...

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The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has ordered the US-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) to halt the operations of its Germany branch.   SVB, previously the 16th largest bank in the US that had been operational for 40 years, collapsed last week.   The...

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Despite the fact that Right to Information (RTI) applicant Dharmpal was a regular visitor to the Punjab National Bank's (PNB’s) Haridwar branch, he was not given full information regarding his father’s bank account details and fixed deposits, which he had asked for under RTI, after his...

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Andy Kroll  and   Andrea Bernstein (ProPublica)  and   Nick Surgey (Documented) 10 March 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.   Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion...

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MD Tasnimul Hassan  and   Prachi Tripathi (The Leaflet) 08 March 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, the world is back to travelling, and there has been a surge in air travel across the world. Recently, several Indian airports witnessed massive overcrowding, which compelled the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA) to explore options to mitigate the...

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Early this week, right to information (RTI) applicant Ajay Marathe was denied information by the central information commission (CIC) that he had requested from the national commission of women (NCW) in the Ketaki Chitale case of Maharashtra, wherein a Facebook post mocking Nationalist...

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Christopher Wray, Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has said that the Covid-19 pandemic "most likely" originated from a "Chinese government-controlled lab" in Wuhan city.   In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Wray said: "The FBI has for quite some time...

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Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (The Leaflet) 01 March 2023
A disinformation contractor of Israeli origin is known to have meddled in elections across more than 30 countries, including India, through sophisticated technology that creates thousands of fake social media profiles using bots.  —-   Earlier this month, an international...

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