Government should set up authority to 'compel' ministries to put info on websites: Wajahat habibullahHailing the Right to Information Act (RTI) as a "great success story", Habibullah added that there were still challenges in the implementat...
CIC loses files related to first Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah's resignationIn an RTI response, CIC said the lost files related to Habibullah's resignation are not readily traceable, raising questions about its reco...
Muzaffarnagar riots: Minorities Commission chief Wajahat Habibullah flays UP govt's inactionThe NCM had indicted UP govt's handling of the situation in October. When the NCM team visited relief camps at the time, most people didn't...
Death penalty uncivilised, says Wajahat Habibullah, Chairperson, National Commission for MinoritiesReferring to the SC verdict upholding the capital punishment to Afzal Guru, Habibullah asserted that the death penalty had "no place in mod...
Implement anti-riot law to help Muzaffarnagar victims: Wajahat HabibullahNational Commission for Minorities chairman Wajahat Habibullah recommended speedy rehabilitation of the riot-affected people.
Muzaffarnagar riots: Minority panel submits report to CentreThe National Commission for Minorities has submitted its report into the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar to the Union government.
Curb net to control Muzaffarnagar riots, says Wajahat HabibullahWajahat Habibullah said curbs on internet were needed during riots as inflammatory material were used to cause a flare-up in the city.
Wajahat Habibullah hopes to meet Narendra Modi to discuss riot victims' issuesNational Commission for Minorities Chairperson Wajahat Habibullah hopes to discuss with Narendra Modi rehabilitation of 2002 riot victims.
Oil-for-food scam: PMO admits to having special envoy Virendra Dayal's reports on Volcker probeThe PMO's change in stand came five years after it had claimed before the then Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah that it di...
Malegaon case: Putting innocents in jail 'dangerous', says Wajahat Habibullah"This should not have happened as this can be dangerous. Also that this is an indicator that actual terrorists are still out," Habibullah s...
- Poonch residents ask for Centre's help for peace along LOC
Chairman of the National Commission on Minorities, Wajahat Habibullah, has said that the people of the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir...
Wajahahat Habibullah questions V K Singh on rape charges against armyHabibullah said that things have changed during the last two decades and army had tried to reach out to people of J&K but there exists a ba...
- Tarun Gogoi sticks to 'low literacy, high population' remark
Gogoi triggered a controversy when he told a news channel recently that low literacy levels among Muslims contributed to their growing popu...
- Benefits of welfare plan fail to reach Minorities: Study
The commission found that several states are not implementing a scholarship scheme meant for minorities under the prime minister's 15-point...
- Habibullah for giving SC status to Muslim and Christian dalits
Wajahat Habibullah has made a strong plea for granting Scheduled Caste status to Muslim and Christian Dalits to get them reservation benefi...
- Exempting CBI from RTI could be 'counter-productive': Former CIC
First CIC Wajahat Habibullah has written to Manmohan Singh opposing exemption of CBI from the ambit of the RTI Act saying it could be "coun...
- Stock Exchanges must be answerable under RTI Act: Habibullah
Stock Exchanges must be answerable and accountable under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibul...