Cockroach Janta Party surpasses BJP on Instagram, has over 10 million followers: Who is CJP's founder Abhijeet Dipke and how is he linked to Arvind Kejriwal's AAP?A satire website, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), has rapidly gained over 10 million Instagram followers, surpassing India's ruling BJP. Found...
21 May, 2026, 09.19 AM IST
UPSC optional marks row: RTI applicant, DoPT both warn of coaching institutes' misuse before CICA dispute over UPSC Mains marks disclosure has reached the Central Information Commission. An RTI applicant and the Department of Personnel...
19 May, 2026, 07.56 PM IST
SC likely to hear petitions challenging sections of India’s first privacy law this monthThe petitioners are the Reporters' Collective, the Editors Guild of India, the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, Mazdoor...
13 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Pilots warn delay in rest rules is putting flight safety at riskPilots' body ALPA has alerted the DGCA about risks from delayed flight duty rules. They warn that ongoing relaxations for airlines weaken s...
01 May, 2026, 10.08 AM IST
India denies RTI on Russia oil import data, cites strategic and commercial confidentialityInformation on Russian oil imports to India is being withheld. The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell cited commercial and confidential r...
26 Apr, 2026, 04.06 PM IST
Census 2027 to be India's first digital enumeration exerciseIndia is gearing up for Census 2027, the nation's 16th census. This massive undertaking will be the world's largest, featuring digital inte...
25 Apr, 2026, 12.45 PM IST
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on PIL challenging provisions of digital personal data protection lawThe Supreme Court has asked the Centre to respond to a petition. The petition challenges parts of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act,...
13 Apr, 2026, 01.15 PM IST
Privacy Act may be sent to AG for judging RTI impactAt a meeting chaired by minister for electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday, the stalled Act, which bestows individuals with greate...
02 Jul, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
Repeal Sec 44 (3) of Data Act as it destroys RTI Act: Jairam Ramesh's Letter to I&B Min Ashwini VaishnawJairam Ramesh, a Congress MP, urged IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to repeal Section 44 (3) of the Data Protection Act, 2023. He argued that ...
24 Mar, 2025, 12.50 AM IST
Over 4,000 children under five died at Delhi's Chacha Nehru Hospital since 2019: RTI dataMore than 4,000 children under the age of five have died at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in Delhi from 2019 to mid-2023, primarily due to ...
28 Aug, 2024, 06.53 PM IST
RTI: It's time citizens demand accountability and the government delivers itAs India completed 16 years of the RTI Act this month, the law continues to grapple with basic issues.
17 Oct, 2021, 11.05 PM IST
Government pays ₹1,364 crore to over 20 lakh undeserving beneficiaries under PM-KISAN, reveals RTI data10 Jan, 2021, 02.49 PM IST
NPAs of BoB, Indian Bank surge multi-fold in 6 years: RTI dataThe NPA of Bank of Baroda (BoB) rose from Rs 11,876 crore at March-end 2014 to Rs 73,140 crore at December-end 2019, the RTI reply showed. ...
03 May, 2020, 01.12 PM IST
Modi government rejected 8.4% applications in 2014-15: Central Information CommissionA comparison reveals that the rate of rejection was higher than this only in 2005-06 — the first year of implementation of RTI Act — when i...
18 Mar, 2016, 08.08 AM IST
RAW, IB did not report RTI queries, finds CICAbout 11 or 44% of the 25 security agencies including Intelligence Bureau, RAW , National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Aviation Res...
07 Apr, 2015, 11.21 AM IST
Decline in RTI applications received by PSU banks: StudyThe findings suggest that despite the reduction in the number of requests, most of the banks are rejecting more and more RTI applications t...
12 Oct, 2014, 02.12 PM IST
Whistleblower complaints on rise this year: RTI dataSpate of complaints to CVC reflects rising corruption in government offices as whistleblowers count shots up in current year.
11 Aug, 2014, 11.44 AM IST