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Name CIC in 2 months, says Bombay HC

The petitioner also sought that appropriate infrastructure to the judicial officers should be provided and strength of...

22 Oct 2017 6:18 AM IST

Online filing of income tax returns has also gone up. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

State receives 92,369 plaints on grievance portal

According to a query based on the Right to Information Act, Out of 92,369 complaints, 9 per cent are pending.

18 Nov 2017 2:38 AM IST

According to statistics post conducting health camps, almost every second child in BMC schools suffers from some problem or the other.

No class 8 in BMC schools forces over 1 lakh students to drop out

RTI queries reveal that as many as 1,017 schools of the total 1,195 schools do not have class 8 facility.

5 April 2018 6:05 PM IST

Upholding a 2010 Delhi high court verdict, the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, cautioned that RTI cannot be used as a tool of surveillance and held that judicial independence and right to privacy have to be kept in mind while dealing with transparency. (Representational Image)

Primacy of RTI upheld

The law can only lay down the broad principle that transparency be seen as a desirable quality in the running of the...

15 Nov 2019 5:21 AM IST

Upholding a 2010 Delhi high court verdict, the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, cautioned that RTI cannot be used as a tool of surveillance and held that judicial independence and right to privacy have to be kept in mind while dealing with transparency. (Representational Image)

Supreme Court: CJI office a public authority, falls under RTI

Transparency and openness in judicial appointments juxtaposed with confidentiality of deliberations remain one of the...

14 Nov 2019 2:37 AM IST

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi present the 31st Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration to Chandi Prasad Bhatt in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Sonia Gandhi slams govt for 'diluting' RTI

The event was also attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

1 Nov 2019 12:40 AM IST

Upholding a 2010 Delhi high court verdict, the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, cautioned that RTI cannot be used as a tool of surveillance and held that judicial independence and right to privacy have to be kept in mind while dealing with transparency. (Representational Image)

Supreme Court favours guidelines to check misuse of RTI

CJI Bobde wondered as to who are these people claiming to be RTI activists is it a profession, he asked.

17 Dec 2019 7:25 AM IST

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday directed all payment system operators in India to store data within the country.

RBI must comply with RTI

The court is not the only authority annoyed with the intransigence of the central bank from parting with information on...

28 April 2019 2:43 AM IST

The revivalist RSS has backed the clergy although the Supreme Court has permitted all women to enter the shrine as equal citizens. (Representational image)

SC tells RBI to give RTI info or face contempt charges

Former governor didn't share inspection reports, citing rules.

27 April 2019 1:17 AM IST

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SC reserves verdict over info on collegium under RTI Act

A-G said for the purpose of the elevation of a judge, that the whole of it relates to a class of information which is...

5 April 2019 1:16 AM IST

The original RTI Act was passed in 2005 and gave every citizen of the country right to demand information from the public authorities regarding their organisation, functions, and financial information, among others. (Photo: File)

Breach of trust?

#RashtrapatiSaveRTI has hundreds of netizens making their opposing stance known against the controversial RTI amendment...

30 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

The aim of the Act was to enforce transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. In this respect it was a pivotal reform measure, a powerful blow in favour of the ordinary citizen.

Amendment may impair the right to information

There is no doubt that the law has transformed the landscape of information flow from the government to citizens.

28 July 2019 6:56 AM IST