Explainer: What is the Contribution of various Countries to the UN Budget?
The United Nations operations are sustained from the contributions received from member countries. Contributions from member countries are assessed every…
AI-generated audio is falsely shared as a song recorded by PM Modi in honour of Raj Kapoor
The film fraternity celebrated the birth centenary of Indian actor Raj Kapoor in December 2024 (here and here). In this…
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Claiming Medical Expenditure under Sec 80DDB of the IT Act made easy
In continuation of the commitment made during the Budget Speech of 2015-16, the government has…
10 years of RTI – What ails the implementation?
Right to Information has completed 10 years. But what has been the experience of these…
The CIC is admitting less than 10% of the cases it did in January this year. Is there something fishy?
The Central Information Commission is in the news for all the wrong reasons, on the…
Government sets up a Central Victim Compensation Fund, with an initial corpus of Rs 200 crore from the Nirbhaya Fund
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued guidelines for the Central Victim Compensation Fund (CVCF),…
10 years on, only 5 Chief Minister Offices (CMOs) have made proactive disclosures under RTI
The RTI act is now 10 years old. One of the most important provisions of…
Lok Sabha has a new standing committee on Ethics. But does it have enough teeth?
Both the houses of Parliament now have a permanent standing committee on ethics. While their…
