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- RTI Happenings: Centre seeks states' report card on implementation of RTI
- RTI Activism: Kerala: 533 cops have criminal cases against them
- RTI Happenings: Planning Commission renovates 2 toilets at Rs. 35 Lakh
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Few takers for info chief’s post in Pune
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: HC asks govt to file affidavit on ADGP's report
- RTI Happenings: Haryana forest official's case: Minister didn't help whistleblower
- RTI Point of View: State tends to side with vested interest: Ramesh
- RTI Happenings: Delhi: No record of CWG-related correspondences in CM's office?
- RTI Happenings: सीएमओ नहीं देते सूचना
- RTI Activism: Heritage building in Fort repaired or illegally rebuilt?
- RTI Activism: Cops duck RTI query on time limit for cases
- RTI Happenings: Information hidden despite rulings
- RTI Activism: Last stand at Sion Koliwada — where the spectre of demolition looms
- RTI Happenings: Explanation on RTI Act issue sought from HC official
- RTI Happenings: Haryana: HUDA spends 1 lakh a day on sanitation: How clean is your street?
- RTI Activism: Over 5,000 children died at Safdarjung hospital in 3 years
- RTI Happenings: Mumbai Trans Harbour Link needs Green Tribunal signal
- RTI Court Decision: 'Exhaust appeal remedy before approaching Goa state information commission'
- RTI Activism: Kalyani University responds to RTI after 5 years
- RTI Court Decision: KSEB pulled up for RTI reply delay
- RTI Improvement: Now, Central Railway has e-RTI
- RTI Happenings: Want information under RTI Act? First prove you are an Indian citizen!
- RTI Happenings: New commission mooted to regulate health sector
- RTI Happenings: CIC appointments arbitrary, politically influenced: Gandhi
- RTI Court Decision: CIC pulls up Home Dept for laxity on RTI
- RTI Happenings: Dixit praises Railways for disclosures on websites
- RTI Happenings: AP: Cash seizures during polls a farce?
- RTI Happenings: TN: Ex-civic chief refuses to come clean
- RTI Happenings: No right to information at NIT
- RTI Point of View: Delhi: When a magistrate almost took RTI route to get answers
- RTI Activism: Agitation losses in crores for Indian Railways
- RTI Happenings: Haryana chalks policy to protect whistleblowers/RTI activists
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: MSRDC ‘doubtful’ of recovering Rs6.1 pending dues - reveals RTI
- RTI Innovation: Maharashtra: Octroi chief uses RTI to up revenue
- RTI Point of View: Keep SGPC out of the ambit of RTI Act :Makkar
- RTI Happenings: CM’s heli-hopping bill: Rs 9 cr
- RTI Activism: Jal Board shies away from RTI
- RTI Happenings: PIO in hot water for denying receipt of RTI application
- RTI Happenings: DDA ordered to pay Rs.3,000 damages to RTI applicant
- RTI Happenings: Madhya Pradesh tops list of states in country under forest cover
- RTI Activism: Is the Yamuna beyond help?
- RTI Court Decision: HC stays CIC order to make public Prez donations
- RTI Activism: In NHPC projects, no vacancy at top for JK residents
- RTI Happenings: Students in RU can now check their answer-book
- RTI Happenings: Intense lobbying for Bangalore University Syndicate seats
- RTI Activism: Youth use RTI on tobacco control and other development schemes
- RTI Happenings: Right To Nuclear Information or A Practical Joke?
- RTI Activism: This RTI activist adds colours, logos to his applications
- RTI Court Decision: SGPC trust running medical college is public authority: SIC
- RTI Happenings: Nagpur Municipal Corporation violated norms to spend Rs 50L public money
- RTI Court Decision: Delhi HC stays CIC order against its own officer
- RTI Activism: Is the Supreme Court avoiding a RTI query on Abhishek Singhvi CD row?
- RTI Happenings: AP: Awareness meeting on RTI
- RTI Point of View: Reluctance to release info through RTI in criminal cases
- RTI Happenings: SC to consider extent of CIC mandate
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: 284 out of 340 requests for gun licence shot down in 2011
- RTI Happenings: Long wait for accident victims at AIIMS: RTI reply
- RTI Happenings: TN: 'Corruption is a menace eating up society'
- RTI Happenings: UP: 'I was forced to leave my hometown'
- RTI Happenings: Two Haryana ministers fail to submit assets details
- RTI Happenings: Panel: Odisha must come clean on corrupt babus
- RTI Happenings: Activists demand intelligence, para-military forces answer RTIs
- RTI Happenings: Govt to challenge CIC order on PJ Thomas' empanelment
- RTI Activism: Buddhist sites in North victims of State apathy, alleges NGO
- RTI Happenings: RTI forces RML hospital to adopt radiation safety measures
- RTI Improvement: Centre to ensure proactive disclosure under RTI
- RTI Point of View: ‘Noting on DoB illegitimately given by MoD’
- RTI Happenings: Despite 20 nominations, Anna Hazare still not good enough for Bharat Ratna, reveals RTI
- RTI Point of View: Odisha: ‘Maintain transparency in dissemination of information'
- RTI Happenings: Govt plans to use technology to limit info given under RTI
- RTI Court Decision: Students not entitled to know marks, says HC (in CBSE exams)
- RTI Point of View: ‘Government, judiciary threat to RTI Act’
- RTI Happenings: कुमारस्वामी पर नहीं हुई कार्रवाई
- RTI Happenings: SALE OF PROPERTY; GLADA fails to recover Rs 36 cr
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Ajit Pawar's sister-in-law accused of forging collector's signature for land grab
- RTI Happenings: How much ministers splurged on petrol
- RTI Fine: SIC imposes fine on Dhilwan BDPO for denial of information
- RTI Happenings: Allotment of petrol pump site; Improvement trust suffers loss of Rs 43 lakh
- RTI Happenings: No place for netas in govt’s attendance register
- RTI Happenings: Online HSC results on May 24
- RTI Happenings: E-ticket cancellations fetch railways Rs 750 crore
- RTI Happenings: Sand mafia assaults RTI activist in Dharwad
- RTI Point of View: Goa: Activist slams screening panel on RTI official
- RTI Happenings: RTI reveals Rs23 crore spent by Navy on Presidential Fleet Review 2011
- RTI Activism: Aakash Tablet RTI: Rs 47.72 Cr For 100,000 Tabs, Cost $49.98 Each; No Tender Docs With Ministry
- RTI Activism: 10-year-old from Lucknow stumps with another RTI
- RTI Happenings: RTI activist unearths huge tax evasion at bus stations
- RTI Happenings: Applicants wait in despair to get information under RTI
- RTI Point of View: It will take 30 years to dispose RTI cases in AP...
- RTI Happenings: RTI reveals list of power bill defaulters in AP
- RTI Happenings: CIC penalises its own official
- RTI Point of View: Hindustantimes Editorials: Sending out wrong signals
- RTI Activism: CBI rejects RTI activist’s plea
- RTI Happenings: Top nuclear scientist snubs PM's seat offer in Rajya Sabha
- RTI Happenings: RTI activists stage peaceful dharna
- RTI Happenings: NGOS, RTI activists call for Ludhiana MC poll boycott
- RTI Activism: Every 6th working day, a new GoM, Pranab heads almost half
- RTI Happenings: RTI applicant appointed Info Officer
- RTI Happenings: Voluntary disclosure under RTI Act non-starter
- RTI Happenings: Fund misuse in Agri dept
- RTI Happenings: राष्ट्रपति ने सेवानिवृत्त ब्रिगेडियर के
- RTI Happenings: ..लेकिन इस घोटाले को तो भूल गई पुलिस
- RTI Activism: I will fight for my husband's honour: Vinita Kamte
- RTI Happenings: Par panel slams DoPT for non-utilisation of funds
- RTI Activism: Caste cloud over law panel chief
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Taxi driver beaten up for exposing corruption
- RTI Happenings: The austerity of the affluent
- RTI Point of View: Goa: RTI misused for blackmailing: Parrikar
- RTI Happenings: Govt woke up only after officer’s death
- RTI Activism: Samson wanted to quit in February, reveals letter
- RTI Point of View: Awareness deficit limits RTI success
- RTI Fine: RTI applicant to get Rs 5,000 compensation for false information
- RTI Happenings: LIT draws flak for unadjusted advances of Rs 69 cr
- RTI Court Decision: TN: Co-ops are public authority: HC
- RTI Improvement: Now, information under RTI in vernacular languages
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Explain Rs 2.67 crore loss, government tells Gujarat University vice chancellor
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: MP asked Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to stop hawker eviction drive in Andheri: Right to Information
- RTI Happenings: Inquiry marked against APIO
- RTI Point of View: Banning IPL not the solution, says Ajay Maken
- RTI Happenings: Top executives of PSU banks are outside service rules
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Slum rehabilitation buildings near Air Force station raise doubts over clearance
- RTI Happenings: हारा तो आरटीआइ को
- RTI Activism: Goa CM’s swearing-in cost Rs 11 lakh: RTI
- RTI Activism: DNA investigation: A committee of vested interests
- RTI Activism: Withdraw subsidy, bring transparency in Haj process: RTI activist Attar Azimi
- RTI Happenings: Tiff between encounter cops in jail
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Of 63 institutes in Pune and Haveli, only 31 stuck to rules
- RTI Happenings: Humourless babus play cyber cop
- RTI Activism: Tainted cops untouched
- RTI Happenings: 30 voters almost miss date with panchayat poll
- RTI Happenings: Himachal spent Rs.2.36 crore on security for IPL matches
- RTI Point of View: RTI: Should an application deal with only one subject?
- RTI Happenings: ISRO fields RTI queries on Antrix-Devas deal
- RTI Happenings: Record Right to Information rejections this year
- RTI Happenings: LEASE PROPERTY; Audit slams LIT for poor recovery
- RTI Happenings: RTI activists join hands against MC Commissioner
- RTI Activism: CLAT Booze Bills: NUJS defies providing information under RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: Over 3.74 lakh RTI applications filed during 2011-12: Govt
- Help PIO's to form PIO's forum
- RTI Happenings: No agency owns Wadad-Paloti Road
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat refuses to give info on SIT expenses
- RTI Happenings: Gross violation at Gymkhana club: Right to Information
- RTI Activism: Babus do not heed to Information Act
- RTI Happenings: Allahabad HC rules on RTI challenged in SC
- RTI Happenings: RTI: For some, YSR is still CM!
- RTI Court Decision: CIC directive to PMO on Haj delegation
- RTI Happenings: J&K: Waqf Board making arbitrary appointments
- RTI Happenings: Odisha: Fishery officer steals Rs 18 Lakh by forgery
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Powerful Maha netas save power & water, Chavan leads from the front
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: ‘Drivers forced to work overtime’
- RTI Happenings: Chattisgarh: RTI's unusual fans
- RTI Point of View: Goa: ‘Citizens, PIOs must fight together for good governance'
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Wary Ahmedabad citizens use RTIs to ascertain legality of homes
- RTI Court Decision: Rajasthan: HC seeks response of Raj Govt on non-appointment of SICs
- RTI Improvement: Central Govt. to set up RTI Call Centre and Portal
- RTI Improvement: Gujarat: Difficulties in getting information discussed at RTI workshop
- RTI Happenings: DoPT ignores SC order to clear officers’ prosecution
- RTI Happenings: RTI reveals anomalies in UP Power Corporation Limited's civil wing
- RTI Happenings: LIT gives long rope to debtors, attracts audit objection
- RTI Happenings: CIC says Vohra report annexures be made public
- RTI Happenings: FM Examining CBDT Committee Report on Black Money
- RTI Point of View: Will violence defeat RTI Act in Karnataka?
- RTI Happenings: AP: Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority leases out same land 11 times
- RTI Happenings: Uttarakhand Info Commissioner Anil Sharma gets written threat
- RTI Happenings: Nagpur Municipal Corporation gives no information on RTI to its own official
- RTI Happenings: Right to Information activist gets threat calls
- RTI Happenings: Applicability of RTI Act to Cooperative Societies in Karnataka
- RTI Activism: IAS officers took away govt properties with them after retirement
- RTI Point of View: RTI an effective tool to combat corruption, says CIC Satyanand Mishra
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat government has paid Rs 27 lakh legal fees to Nanavati’s son
- RTI Happenings: CBI starts enquiry into 'gift scam' at MEA
- RTI Activism: RTI activist shot in Bihar
- RTI Happenings: Did New India Assurance overcharge lakhs of mediclaim policyholders? - I
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Incomplete projects rose steeply during DF rule
- RTI Improvement: Bihar: Now, top officials comply with information panel's orders
- RTI Happenings: Manipur: Five women join Manipur Police with fake papers
- RTI Happenings: Protect RTI activists
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Did Narendra Modi govt pay for SIT chief Raghavan's foreign trip?
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: State to decide on ACB cases today
- RTI Improvement: Berhampur to launch e-district project
- RTI Happenings: दिल्ली में चार बंगलों पर काबिज मायावती
- RTI Activism: Over three lakh consumers owe Maharashtra electricity distribution body Rs 65 crore
- RTI Point of View: RTI must be used to ensure govt accountability: Habibullah
- RTI Activism: State-wide campaign in Gujarat for filing RTI for answer sheets in order to curb student suicides
- RTI Happenings: 805 Mumbai train commuters dead in 3 months
- RTI Happenings: Mayawati spent Rs 86 crore of public money on her bungalow
- RTI Happenings: MPHC to hear PIL against constitutionality of RTI provisions on May 11
- RTI Happenings: Now, DMCH under info panel scrutiny
- RTI Happenings: State varsities fail to comply with RTI
- RTI Happenings: Aadhaar authority gives false RTI info
- RTI Happenings: 29 army personnel court martialed since 2001 in Valley
- RTI Activism: Two RTIs show R 1 lakh difference for the same query
- RTI Happenings: RTI activist dies mysteriously, family says he was murdered
- RTI Happenings: Assam: NHPC flouted rules in Subansiri project: RTI activist
- RTI Happenings: Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike works in non-existent sub-division
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: Shahbad CMC official in hot water
- RTI Activism: NPS Koramangala hasn’t paid up the lease amount
- RTI Happenings: एमडीए ने नहीं दिया ब्याज का हिसाब
- RTI Happenings: Doctors cling to prized UT posting
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: The man, the babus fear and respect
- RTI Happenings: After CMCH, more hospitals may come under RTI
- RTI Happenings: LIC colonies; Recovery of water, sewerage user arrear charges poor
- RTI Happenings: Haryana: Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon ignored residents' will to relocate vends: RTI replies
- RTI Happenings: Indians have no right to info in J&K
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Woman wins compensation for closed bank account
- RTI Happenings: UP: State yet to lift Centre's allocated grain, finds Right to Information
- RTI Happenings: Plan panel suggests bringing NGOs under RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: 'Display noise levels of crackers on govt website'
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: 9% rise in bikers speaking on cellphones
- RTI Happenings: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development slaps 'manpower' fee
- RTI Happenings: Lok Sabha TV gets a loose cannon
- RTI Activism: In LIT colonies, outstanding bill reaches Rs 1.38 cr
- RTI Court Decision: Passport info should be disclosed under RTI: CIC
- RTI Point of View: TN: Is going legal the only way?
- RTI Happenings: AP: Treasure hunt at Vidyaranya in limbo
- RTI Happenings: RTI activists’ group condemns ‘attack’ on colleague
- RTI Happenings: Women journos number just 2.7% at district level, says survey
- RTI Happenings: CMCH public authority, rules information panel
- RTI Point of View: The law made toothless
- RTI Happenings: Fears of a Rs 200 crore seed scam in UP
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Of 250, only 19 Hill Road hawkers are legal
- RTI Activism: Sachin blocks RTI on Bandra bungalow
- RTI Happenings: Punjab SIC to get two more members
- RTI Happenings: Haryana: HSSC Chairman’s appointment mired in controversy
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka to add RTI under Citizen Charter
- RTI Activism: Gujarat: RTI activist alleges attack in Jamnagar village
- RTI Happenings: Election Commission’s one seat for one candidate plan hits government wall
- RTI Happenings: कामर्शियल सिलेंडर पर बिदका भारत पेट्रोलि
- RTI Happenings: Transfer triggers tension on university campus
- RTI Happenings: Swamy's letter considered by Kalam for Govt formation in 2004
- RTI Happenings: TN: GH told to answer RTI query clearly
- RTI Happenings: ‘RTI applications at BSNL often frivolous’
- RTI Court Decision: Gujarat: Is Lok Adalat allowed under RTI? High court asks information panel
- RTI Activism: Claim your space to walk
- RTI Activism: Appointment of Speaker's wife questioned
- RTI Happenings: AIIMS ducks RTI queries, time and again
- RTI Happenings: Design change soon for currency notes of high denomination
- RTI Happenings: ‘AIIMS director travels 6,500 km per month’
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram emerges as AIDS capital
- RTI Happenings: TN: Participation in anti-corruption movement not a violation of service rules, RTI reveals
- RTI Happenings: Cigarette warning goes up in smoke, RTI reveals
- RTI Happenings: आयोग को नहीं मालूम कहां खर्च होंगे 39 करोड़
- RTI Happenings: President Pratibha Patil took up to 11 relatives on 18 foreign trips in a year
- RTI Fine: 459 Public Information Officers in Maharashtra penalised Rs45 lakh in 2011
- RTI Happenings: LIT in trouble over building material
- RTI Happenings: IITs to make JEE answer papers public
- RTI Happenings: 'No plans to evaluate RTI Act: Govt
- RTI Activism: Haryana: 50-yr-old cop harassed for fighting corruption
- RTI Happenings: AP: NTR fish market yet to start operations
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: State's power stations burning high ash content coal