In a meeting of the Central Information Commission held on 27 March, the information commissioners opposed the govt's proposal and saw it as an attack on their independence.
Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Not many Indians hear the “ eloquence of silence “ from this most august body, for several weeks tantamount to almost a neutral, caretaker government for the country. It is inconceivable for a judgment of a High Court or the Supreme Court to consist of the body of the majority view, keeping hidden from public view the fact that a minority has reached a different finding and the grounds on which it has chosen to do so. But for a leak or an intrepid journalist – certainly not an ace team that defines the new gold standard of the profession – the public would be unaware that one of the three distinguished ECs has, for good and cogent reasons, dissented from the majority. When or how it will happen is difficult to judge, but the ECI must recover its earlier elan and virtue.
Not many Indians hear the “ eloquence of silence “ from this most august body, for several weeks tantamount to almost a neutral, caretaker government for the country. It is inconceivable for a judgment of a High Court or the Supreme Court to consist of the body of the majority view, keeping hidden from public view the fact that a minority has reached a different finding and the grounds on which it has chosen to do so. But for a leak or an intrepid journalist – certainly not an ace team that defines the new gold standard of the profession – the public would be unaware that one of the three distinguished ECs has, for good and cogent reasons, dissented from the majority. When or how it will happen is difficult to judge, but the ECI must recover its earlier elan and virtue.