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RTI invoked to solve mystery of ‘missing’ village Updated: Updated: TNIC directs State government to digitise all revenue records since 1864 Share Article TNIC directs State government to digitise all revenue records since 1864 In a significant order, the Tamil Nadu Information Commission (TNIC) has directed the State authorities to computerise all revenue records since 1864 and make them accessible to the public in digital format through e-Seva centres. The judgment stems from a petition filed by N.P. Venkateswarlu, of Raichur in Karnataka, who alleged that a property owned by his gra...

By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week, in my article about the book ‘The Colonial Landmarks of Mysuru’  by Gauri Satya, my historian friend, I had made a reference to a most imposing but almost unknown monument built by Dewan Poornaiah to honour his patron Josiah Webbe of the Madras Council, at the spot very close to Srirangapatna, where a mutiny by British soldiers was crushed by the forces loyal to the Crown.  There is another very intriguing structure that once stood in Srirangapatna that astounded all those who were lucky enough to lay their eyes or set their feet on it but which ha...