Inquiry reports on 13 communal riots since 1961 'not available', CIC asks MHA for statusThe CIC directed Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba to depute a senior official to find out the status of the 13 reports, which are not available o...
No corruption complaint against RSTV under Hamid Ansari, reveals RTIRegarding the allegations that RSTV had spent rupees 1700 crores, the RTI reply showed that its actual expenditure since inception till Mar...
Share finding of court martial on ‘encounters’ within 15 days: Information Commission to ArmyThe pro-disclosure order comes almost two years after RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak sought copies of court of inquiry and court martial proc...
Sexual harassment case info must be furnished to victim within 48 hrs: CICThe RTI Act mandates a public authority to furnish information sought by applicants within 48 hours, and not 30 days, if the matter pertain...
Email id for black money info receives over 38,000 mailsOf these mails, 6,050 or about 16 per cent were forwarded to the respective Director Generals Of Income Tax (Investigation) for further inq...
Report on Rohith Vemula's death tabled in Parliament, is now public document: HRDThe ministry was responding to reports that it had rejected an RTI appeal for making public the commission's report on the death of Vemula.
CIC directs Indian Navy to disclose details of death at Hyderabad Air Show in 2010The plane was a part of Indian Navy's Sagar Pawan Aerobatic team participating in the Indian Aviation 2010 air show, which was organised in...
Inquiry report into purchases 'personal information': Bal BhavanBal Bhavan responded by saying that the information is exempted from disclosure as cited section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act and added it was a ...
Indian plane crashes have claimed 2500 lives since 1960, RTI revealsSome of the major crashes that are in the list include the "Emperor Ashoka" in 1978, which claimed 213 lives of passengers and crews.
Central Information Commission issues show-cause notices to Sonia Gandhi, Amit ShahThe Commission had issued notices on February 7 and March 25 to these political parties seeking their detailed comments on the complaint by...
Probe misuse of government machinery to malign Gadkari: BJPThe BJP leader added that the clarification by the I-T department also proves that no inquiry was conducted against Gadkari in the past.
No inquiry pending against Nitin Gadkari: IT departmentThe activist had filed an application under the RTI Act, 2005, seeking details of the Income Tax cases pending, if any, against Gadkari.
Shahid Balwa meets Home Minister Sushilkumar ShindeShahid Balwa, the promoter of DB Royalty, said he met Shinde in connection with an RTI application pending before the Home Ministry for lon...
Goa overrules vigilance department demand for exemption from RTIA document sourced under RTI revealed that the vigilance dept had moved a note earlier this month to the state govt seeking to exempt itsel...
- Disclose inquiry reports related to Rajiv Gandhi's killing: CIC
Allowing a plea of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Perarivalan, the CIC has directed the Home Ministry to provide him reports by Justice...
- As forest minister, Jairam wasn’t anti-industry
In hindsight, former Union forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh was not that bad for the industry.
- Legislature should insulate RTI from being misused
The legislature should take steps to insulate the Right to Information Act from being misused by people facing inquiries and investigations...