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Prabir Purkayastha
Texas Grid Failure: Electricity Obeys Laws of Physics, not the Market
05 Mar 2021
‘The Indian political establishment – both the UPA and the BJP-NDA – have been following the Enron school of energy economics of breaking up the integrated grid. The power market, created entirely by…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
India Falls from ‘Free’ to ‘Partly Free’ in Freedom in the World 2021 Report
04 Mar 2021
‘The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its state-level allies continued to crack down on critics during the year, and their response to COVID-19 included a ham-fisted lockdown that…
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: Over Dozen Youth, Students Injured During Protest Demanding Jobs
01 Mar 2021
The protesting youth wanted the 19 lakh permanent jobs as promised by the NDA during the campaign for Bihar assembly polls last year.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: After Killing of Indigo Airline Official, Nitish’s Ally BJP Demands Encounter Policy for Criminals
13 Jan 2021
Rising crimes in Bihar has led to BJP leaders favouring encounters of criminals similar to the ones taking place in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
Sruti M.D.
Will the ‘Two Leaves’ be Frozen? Race for Election Symbols Ahead of Tamil Nadu Polls
07 Jan 2021
The scenario of smaller allies wanting to contest under their own symbols has come to pass within the Democratic Progressive Alliance as well.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Nitish Kumar to Be the Next CM of Bihar Again
15 Nov 2020
The NDA has elected a BJP MLA Tarkishor Prasad as the leader of BJP legislature party in Bihar.
Shailesh Gandhi
Supreme Court Ruling Comes in Handy to Constrict the Fundamental Right to Information
04 Nov 2020
An apex court judgement is being taken as a precedent to deny information conveniently categorised as personal.
PTI
Rallies in Darjeeling For and Against Bimal Gurung's Return to Hills
26 Oct 2020
Detractors of the former GJM chief, who has been demanding a separate Gorkhaland, fear ‘return of violence’. He recently quit the NDA and joined hands with TMC.
Newsclick Report
RTI after 15 Years: No Head in 31% Information Commissions, Over 2 Lakh Matters Pending
12 Oct 2020
A large backlog of appeals and complaints has led to undue delays in disposal of cases, which has “rendered the law ineffective.”
Shailesh Gandhi
We Must Fight for Right To Information
12 Oct 2020
The RTI movement which had begun in Devdungri village in Rajasthan with Aruna Roy in the early 1990s, saw its dream being translated into one of the best transparency laws in the world.