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
E-mail verification via OTP for all RTI requests starting Jun 16: GovtTo bolster citizen privacy and data security, the Centre will introduce email verification via OTP for all RTI applications starting June 1...
02 Jun, 2025, 03.43 PM 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
Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry, DOPT, PMO report sharp dip in RTI backlog: CHRIThe report from Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) accessed by PTI shows that among other government departments, the Department o...
10 Apr, 2023, 04.58 PM IST
Over 26,500 appeals, complaints pending with CIC: CentreAll the states had been requested to explore the feasibility of implementing online RTI, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Sin...
21 Jul, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
All FIRs in-line with January 3 incidents, do no deviate from facts: JNU"As per the complaint filed by administration on January 3, 2020 about the incident in Centre for Information System (CIS) Data Centre, JNU...
22 Jan, 2020, 04.11 PM IST
Highest RTI applications filed 2017-18, lowest rejected since 2005: Central Information Commission dataThe public authorities used exemptions provided under section 8, section 9, section 11 and section 24 of the RTI Act to reject plea for inf...
03 Jan, 2019, 07.59 PM IST
PMO received over 12,500 RTI applications in 2016-17, highest since 2012There has also been an increase in number of appeals filed by citizens, aggrieved over initial response to their applications from the Prim...
29 Aug, 2018, 01.56 PM IST
9.8 lakh RTIs filed last year, but 40 per cent of them junkedFour out of every 10 RTI pleas were rejected on mysterious grounds, according to the central information commission's annual report made pu...
18 Mar, 2017, 12.05 PM IST
1.75 crore RTI applications filed since 2005: StudyThe state information commissions, the final appellate authorities in the states for RTI Act, also have been playing truant with their resp...
06 Oct, 2016, 01.12 AM IST
Applicants are unable to pay the RTI fee of Rs 10 online as the payment gateway is non-functionalThe website, rtionline.gov.in, has been showing an alert message to applicants that the security certificate has expired.
27 Aug, 2016, 06.26 AM IST
CIC to upload RTI filing data on website for more transparencyCIC, the final appellate authority for Right to information (RTI) Act, has finally moved to bring in more transparency in its working.
13 Nov, 2015, 04.37 AM IST
Maharashtra most unsafe for RTI activists; 10 killed in 10 yearsData compiled by the Comonwealth Human Rights Initiative shows that 60 RTI activists were attacked, harassed or killed in the state, the hi...
06 Sep, 2015, 09.22 AM IST
Maharashtra SIC won only one out of 84 cases challenging its orderOut of the 84 cases, 3 cases were filed in the SC while 81 cases were filed in the HC of Bombay and its different benches as well.
13 Jul, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
Elections 2014: EC has no data on status of poll code violation cases of last three Lok Sabha pollsThe official said there is no standard policy or the mention of any provisions of law enforced that enables the body to take specific actio...
15 May, 2014, 03.32 PM IST
Transparency watchdog faces criticism for poor data keepingCIC receives flak from the govt for apparently publishing wrong data on RTI appeals and complaints which were to be used in Parliament ques...
03 Mar, 2013, 03.26 PM IST
- Activists to launch 'save RTI' campaign
Not happy with the working of various information commissions in the country three years after the implementation of the Right To Informati...
30 Jul, 2008, 06.49 PM IST