By Mayank Aggarwal ----
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Wajahat Habibullah, who resigned last year to head the Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission (JKSIC), says he will continue in his present post and has met Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to convey the decision.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Central Information Commission (CIC) has advised people to exercise "some restraint in the number of queries" filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act while criticising an applicant for lacking a "sense of responsibility"....
By Mayank Aggarwal----
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Delhi government has come under heavy fire from the Central Information Commission (CIC) for failing to appoint teachers in its schools for hearing-impaired children for 10 long years.
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By Nabeel A. Khan----
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A group of Right to Information (RTI) activists has served a legal notice on the Prime Minister\'s Office (PMO) over Wajahat Habibullah continuing as chief information commissioner (CIC) three months after he reportedly resigned.
The notice has also been sent to the department of personnel and training (DoPT). ...
Pune, Jan 13 (IANS) Leading Right to Information (RTI) activist Satish Shetty - who exposed many land scams in Maharashtra - was killed by unidentified men while on a morning walk at Talegaon on the outskirts of this city Wednesday....
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Delhi High Court in a far-reaching ruling Tuesday held that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) law, and held that judicial independence is not a judge's privilege but a responsibility cast upon him. ...
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not make a direct comment on the Delhi High Court judgment Tuesday on the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) coming within the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, but said there should be transparency in "different pillars of democracy".
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New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday upheld its single bench order that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes within the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and details of judges assets should be revealed under that....
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court has held that an illegal or irregular act of the government extending certain benefits to one person cannot become a precedent entitling someone else to claim similar benefits....
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) is expected to be announced this week and will be from within the Central Information Commission, said highly placed sources....
Ranchi, Dec 19 (IANS) A court here Saturday permitted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda who is allegedly involved in a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam.
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By Nabeel A. Khan---
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Two weeks after they served a legal notice on the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the union government for "not being transparent" in the selection of information commissioners, RTI activists say they are yet to receive a reply.
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New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) Enacting one law after the other will not eradicate bonded labour if there is no political will for it, National Human Rights Commission member Justice B.C. Patel said....
Patna, Dec 3 (IANS) A Bihar government official has reportedly demanded Rs.137,000 from a lawyer for providing information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act....
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Coming to the aid of a girl student whose application for the Prime Minister's Merit Scholarship Scheme was rejected, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the government to be a little flexible about the rules....
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari Tuesday inaugurated the first national Right to Information (RTI) awards here and said that he was pleasantly surprised at the manner in which citizens across the country have taken the RTI route to secure justice....
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday termed as "unreliable" a key witness of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, who had testified against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, while clarifying its stand and giving a clean chit to the former central minister....
Bhubaneswar, Nov 30 (IANS) A fast track court in Orissa Monday convicted a person to five years in prison in a Kandhamal riot case....
New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The central government Monday told the Supreme Court that babies born to surrogate Indian mothers but alien biological fathers are not entitled to Indian passports which can only be issued to citizens of the country....
Mumbai, Nov 30 (IANS) S.G. Abbas Kazmi, the lawyer for 24/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was Monday sacked by the special court for "non-coooperation" and replaced by his assistant....
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