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"Intellectual property of the bank": SBI once again refuses to disclose SOPs on sale, redemption of electoral bondsIn response to a Right to Information Act appeal, State Bank of India (SBI) has again refused to disclose the standard operating procedures...
Supreme Court asks Centre, states to take steps to fill vacancies in CIC, SICs"The Right to Information Act of 2005 will become a dead letter," the CJI said after taking note of the submission that SICs in states like...
Kanjhawala hit-and-drag case: Delhi court grants bail to Ashutosh Bhardwaj"He is admitted to bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs 50,000...," the judge said on Tuesday. The judge orally observed that Bhardwaj's role...
Kanjhawala case: Court adjourns hearing on accused Ashustosh Bhardwaj's bail pleaBhardwaj's advocate had moved the plea on Monday, saying the offences were bailable in nature and the accused had cooperated with police af...
Only final decisions, not discussions, of Collegium need to be made public: SCThe Supreme Court on Friday held that only final decisions of its Collegium are required to be made public and not its discussions, dismiss...
Collegium a multi-member body whose tentative decision cannot be brought in public domain: Supreme CourtThe top court passed the verdict on a petition by RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj against a Delhi High Court order dismissing her plea seeking...
SC asks Centre, states to file compliance report on its 2019 verdict to fill vacancies at CIC, SICsA bench headed by Justice S Abdul Nazeer said that the Centre and states will have to give within four weeks the details of the vacancies a...
Justice Lokur, Prashant Bhushan speak out against arrest of students, activistsBhushan also sought a review of the order challenging his conviction. Bhushan had in two of his tweets been sharply critical of the Supreme...
Supreme Court issues notice on unorganised labour paymentsSolicitor general Tushar Mehta opposed the plea filed by activists Harsh Mander and Anjali Bhardwaj, saying that such “PIL shops” must be c...
- CIC refuses to release transparency audit of central ministries
Anjali Bhardwaj of National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) had filed an RTI application earlier this month, seeking a c...
Activists seek SC mediation amid soaring vacancies at info panelsRTI activists Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri and Lokesh Batra have approached Supreme Court seeking judicial intervention to straighten out ...
Govt quietly kills timeline for replies to public queriesThe manual, which earlier set out a timeline for communication between the govt and the public, has, in its latest edition, gone silent on ...
Citing incomplete paperwork, CIC returns over half the casesRTI activists have cried foul accusing the Commission of returning the appeals to keep pendency figures, which had touched an all-time high...
At 7 commissioners, CIC to hit lowest strength in 3 yearsAs information commissioner Manjula Prasher retires on Monday, the commission will be down to its lowest strength in three years.
Government refuses info on deliberations of panel on data protectionThe denial of information is in violation of the RTI Act as there is no legal provision to deny information merely because it is not in the...
RTI may now face privacy hurdleWhether a person's right to information can overrule the right to privacy is a question that has been at the heart of the RTI Act 2005.
Government refuses to divulge CIC's appointment detailsCall it ironical or plain bureaucratic secrecy, the government does not want to share the details of appointment of new Chief Information C...
PMO blocks access to information on ministers’ assetsNCPRI member Anjali Bhardwaj said, "We are convinced that the PM does not want to be transparent and give people information."
Probe information, not the informer, say activistsIn Ranjit Sinha row, SC order to reveal identity of whistleblower who disclosed CBI chief visitors' logbook to Prashant Bhushan has outrage...
Protests for quick passage of Whistleblowers protection bill; protesters meet Rahul Gandhi, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar PrasadScores of activists and kin of those who failed to receive protection after exposing corruption today demanded early passage of the whistle...