Union minister of state for home Nityanand Rai told Rajya Sabha that so far this year, registrations of 1,808 NGOs under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act were cancelled.
Institutions like schools, colleges and hospitals which receive aid from the govt directly or indirectly in the form of land at discounted rates will also come under the RTI Act.
Ex-SC judge Jasti Chelameswar, chief guest at the release of the study by Common Cause & CSDS, also alluded to political pressure on the justice system.
The exemption is a one-time measure and available only to those associations whose certificates have been cancelled because of non-filing of annual returns.
According to the study, which sought to analyse the perception of police along state and community lines, the rich and well-to-do were twice as likely as the poor to have sought police help or contacted them.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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