In a written reply to an unstarred question on deaths of Indian workers in Gulf countries, minister of state for external affairs Gen VK Si...

The annual convention has been the only formal platform where the government, information commissions and the civil society interacted to d...

Bringing SIT under the RTI Act, Information Commissioner Bimal Julka said every action of the government must be actuated in public interes...

The CIC had advised the cabinet secretariat to put in place a mechanism for monitoring compliance of ministries and departments with their ...

Under the new rules, office bearers of such NGOs will be treated as "public servants" and charged under the anti-corruption law in case of ...

RTI is a popular tool for ordinary citizens, but in the last decade, many RTI users and whistleblowers have faced physical, financial and p...

An annual study reveals 25 of the 29 information commissions, including the Central Information Commission, are headed by retired civil ser...

The department of personnel and training, which looks after the implementation of the RTI and the Lokpal Act, did not reply to the RTI quer...

This order held that applicants need not disclose any personal details while filing RTI queries, other than their post office box numbers.

"Files have been categorized as per the mandate of the manual of office procedure," home minister Rajnath Singh had told the Rajya Sabha.

Some societies, trusts and charitable institutions have been declared as public authority covered under the Right to Information Act by dif...

Political parties in 40 countries are required by law to disclose their source of income, assets and liabilities among other records.

Citizens will be able to file RTI applications online from tomorrow in all central govt ministries and departments in the national capital.

Activists working to promote RTI Act today opposed the government's move to keep political parties out of the ambit of the transparency law.