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- Punjab: RTI reveals skewed teacher, students ratio in govt schools
- Gujarat officer challenges order for disclosure of assets
- J&K among the most corrupt states?
- GSIC asks cops to give info they denied earlier
- Manipur: RTI Commissioner penalises Senapati Deputy Commissioner
- MP: Over 300 industries in MP flout pollution control norms
- Karnataka: Use the power of RTI, panchayat members told
- AP: Jannat left alone to hold the fort - AP Information Commission Is Sans Commissioners
- RTI work to get more applicant-friendly
- P Chidambaram, file-clearing champ; Sharad Pawar, slow coach
- TN stationery dept gives vague replies to RTI
- Orissa Government to appoint Ex- chief secretary T K Mishra as Information Commissioner
- Gujarat paanwala googles NREGS, reveals Rs 1-cr scam
- In RTI reply, DoT says unaware of case in SC
- Mumbai: Questions raised over V-C’s research work
- खेलगांव निर्माण परियोजना में कई खामियां :
- Don't know who was our minister when Anderson left: MEA
- Many Delhi school kids drop out for work, marriage
- Info panel issues summons to Games OC, IOA
- Fund’s Bandra bias raises red flag
- Vitthalwadi-NH4 road work goes on without NoC
- Irregularities mark Strawberry Fields school construction
- State Human Rights chief forged mother's details for a bigger flat
- Provide protection to RTI activists, says former CJ
- Filing RTI application can cost you your job
- Maharashtra: Bring co-operative sector under RTI: HC recommends to Centre
- Railways refuse to divulge Mamata's tour expenses
- Punjab: After complaint against power transformer sends him behind bars, he uses RTI to come out
- RTI yet to reach Orissa's tribals, Dalits
- AP: APIC to take serious note of non-compliance of its orders
- Punjab: Ludhiana’s elitist Lakshmi Ladies Club is under RTI Act
- Maharashtra: Display information voluntarily, SCIC tells government bodies
- CIC directs RBI to script a disclosure policy in 3 months on its functioning
- Mr 5% unclean?
- Notice to SGPC for not providing information under RTI Act
- Government proposes amendments in RTI Act
- Karnataka: Now, RTI case info via SMS
- एलआईसी पर सूचना आयोग ने किया जुर्माना
- CIC to enforce disclosures by 330 public authorities
- Karnataka: Bitter half nails him for phoney degree
- Sonia Gandhi's power bill: Rs. 7 lakh for 3 years
- Punjab: 90% shops fail confidence test weights and measures
- RTI activists protest
- सूचना आयोग ने ठोका हर्जाना
- Open Season ?
- Details of Anonymous Callers Should be Disclosed: CIC
- Punjab: Sukhbir takes 294 flights in 19 months, 22 in 1 yr to village
- Petroleum min asks RTI applicant to prove citizenship
- Mumbai: Corporation website will tell you if your favourite restaurant is legal
- Status of Sec 4(1)(b) in AP
- Delhi: Not All BPL Families Getting Ration,CIC Probes Answers
- Bid for CWG was secretive, hasty: RTI query
- Maharashtra: Cops suspect arson in 2009 RTO fire
- TN: RTI cases pile up, state yet to panel vacancies
- Puducherry: Govt college has 74 staff, 100 students
- Activists lament courts going soft on RTI offenders
- UP: SIC summons LU vice-chancellor
- Orissa: Life's a dredge for Olive Ridleys in Gahirmatha
- Tamil Nadu: Cases against police officers out of RTI ambit
- Punjab: Health department pulled up for ignoring RTI queries
- Delhi: Ex-Speaker binged on taxpayers' money
- Maharashtra: More trouble on cards for Chavan
- Maharashtra: Officials of home dept in trouble for delaying info
- Securities scam: No info about our Governer of that time, says RBI
- Delhi CM office not getting report from DC
- Orissa RTI website bags best India eGov Award
- Haryana: Meenaxi Anand Chaudhry appointed Chief Information Commissioner of Haryana
- Punjab: Over 40,000 acres of village land under encroachment
- Maharashtra: Activists join hands to form state Right to Information Council
- Haryana: ‘Judiciary should come out of cocoon of secrecy’
- RTI activist exposes land scam involving IPS officers in Mumbai
- Maharashtra: RTO okays 140 vehicles in a day
- Maharashtra: PCMC did not issue notices against errant builders
- RTI Act needs changes to protect judiciary: Balakrishnan
- Maharashtra: Rs 1.12 lakh for 56,000 pages: charge for info under RTI Act
- Chandigarh: Established shops too losing sweetness: RTI
- Delhi: Stalker cop transferred
- RTI activist blew lid off Colaba scam in 2006
- Maharashtra: After activists, students in Mumbai to file RTI queries to get info from colleges
- Karnataka: Not following RTI Act costs ex-registrar Rs 10k
- Karnataka: Revanna takes RTI help to take on Bopaiah
- Clerk in tehsildar's office faces music
- Karnataka: Who better than Big Brother?
- TN police stonewall RTI queries on IPS officers` assets
- Punjab govt failed to prevent rot of food grains
- Maharashtra: Juhu cops in dock for improper reply to RTI query
- Navy refuses info on phased-out helicopters got from the US
- Q&A: Anugraha Narayan Tiwari, CIC
- Karnataka: Make proper use of RTI, journalists told
- Goa: New RTI forum to offer free help to citizens
- To probe Rs 90 lakh misuse, AMU spends Rs 43 lakh
- RTI reveals cost of rugby venue went up 200%
- Maharashtra: SIC order imposing penalty under RTI stayed
- Kerala: V V Giri may get additional charge of CIC
- SC’s no to info on judges’ medical bills
- CIC mum on status of pending RTI queries
- How many died in CWG projects? Govt doesn't know
- Put pending cases on web site: CIC to Delhi govt vigilance dept
- Decorated RTI activist is a 'demon'?
- UP: Villagers use RTI to take on candidates
- Indian airports are without valid licences: report
- Court cannot frame rules for appointment of CIC chief: HC
- Maharashtra: No info about RTI penalties, says CIC
- Navin Chawla left EC with bargain byes
- Punjab: Principal secy health told to pay Rs 5K compensation
- Karnataka: We've no info of judicial meet, says HC
- NGO ordered to pay Rs.75,000 for transparency law abuse
- Only verbal request for toilet block
- 'RTI has not brought about reduction in corruption'
- Do not research material before giving to citizens: Punjab to PIOs
- Gujarat: 51 mines in 5-km periphery of Barda sanctuary, reveals RTI
- Maharashtra: Information commissioner imposes fine on civic clerk
- Rajiv Gandhi Foundation not covered under RTI: CIC
- IIM-Ahmedabad facing RTI ‘pressure’, both within and outside
- Gujarat: To be or not to be: Harried RTI officers dial helpline
- Amend RTI Act to avoid 'embarrassing' situation: Prez Secy
- Nagpur: CP & Berar School grabs PWD land
- CVC gets cracking on Games swindlers
- Uttarakhand: Like political bosses, bureaucrats too fall for plum posts
- TN info panel set to review wrong order
- Pune: Unfit to ply on our roads
- Chennai: Only 600 public toilets in city
- Delhi-Gurgaon expressway generates revenue
- Flag-bearers of RTI Act
- Citizen crusaders in hall of fame - Jharkhand RTI Forum felicitates 11 for their vigilance
- Punjab info panel reserves details sought under RTI
- Pune: College defying state fee order?
- Delhi: Police blind to tinted glasses on buses
- Punjab: State Information Commission received 16,713 complaints and appeals in five years
- Kerala: Govt. asks departments to integrate right to information with programmes
- IIT-Madras defies CIC order
- Information commissioners want transparent selection process
- IC elections to get transparent
- RTI Activist[information seeker] taken to court
- डेढ़ साल,बीस अर्जियां, फिर भी नहीं मिली सूच
- RTI applicable to Trusts, institutions indirectly funded by govt
- New Maharashtra chief information commissioner finds lacunae in RTI Act
- Goa: Keni for warrants against erring information officers
- RUBBER STAMP? - RTI and EIA collide at NIO
- Maharashtra: RTI reveals rise in meter rigging cases
- The right to know is the right to live: Afroz Alam Sahil
- Andhra Pradesh CIC Condemns Attack on RTI Activists
- 5 yrs on, RTI Act a non-starter in JK
- Using RTI to unlock your money
- J&K: Hopes and Recommendations
- Patent Office resorts to ‘draw of lots’
- Can’t question intention of RTI applicants: Court
- WB: 5 years, 767 cases, Bengal info panel paints a sorry picture
- Maharashtra: Civic school students denied their rights, group finds with 2 yrs of RTI efforts
- Maharasthra: The RTI Act has not done what it should
- Punjab: MC spent 2.7L on cattle fodder in 16 months
- AP: JNTU dodges RTI queries from students
- Security must for RTI activists: CIC
- JK interlocutors:Veteran scribe, researcher, Info Commissioner
- निराधार आरटीआई अर्जियों पर लगे जुर्माना
- आरटीआई ने कामवाली को बनाया करोड़ों की मालè
- सात विभाग ढूंढ़ रहे एक फाइल
- चौबीस वर्ष दो सरकारी नौकरियां एक साथ की
- जुर्माना भर देंगे, लेकिन सुधरेंगे नहीं
- AP: Government bodies duck RTI queries
- Maharashtra: Update Commission website, urge RTI activists
- Karnataka: Soon, law to make public records accessible
- Soon, a helpline in Gujarat to protect RTI applicants
- Maharashtra officers fined Rs 26L for RTI delays
- UP: 5 years of RTI - Still need awareness
- GOACAN to Right To Information Awareness Fortnight from 12th to 25th October
- Delhi: MCD ignoring RTI queries, say activists
- RTI, the common man's tool to get things done
- Karnataka: Videohearing to put RTI cases on fast track
- ‘RTI used as a tool not to give information’
- A good start, but concerns remain
- Bad choice “Centre has been casual in filling a crucial position.”
- ‘Stop using RTI Act for personal problems’
- CIC: Will strive to make RTI more effective, accessible: New CIC
- Maharashtra: PCMC uses RTI to nail octroi evaders
- Kerala: RTI comes of age, but petitions calls for action
- Enforcement Directorate directed to give details of Swiss bank a/c
- Make INA chronicles public: CIC
- ‘Appointments to NCPCR arbitrary’
- Delhi: Frame eligibility of PIOs appearing for AIIMS admission: CIC
- TN: Varsity moved goal post to favour job seeker: RTI
- Delhi: MCD official slapped with maximum penalty by CIC
- CIC asks SBI to furnish investment details of corpus fund
- RTI Activists meet Sushma convey civil society concerns over CIC
- Punjab: Principal Secy’s office gets SIC rap for not giving info on tainted doctors
- Like GCA, GFA had claimed RTI immunity
- Maharashtra: State picks new chief information commissioner
- Calcutta High Court Under Queen of England?
- UP: RTI Forum objects exclusion of Vigilance dpt under RTI Act
- Maharashtra: Activist seeks transparency in Maharahstra RTI chief's selection
- All You Need To Know...
- Share data sermon to govt officers
- Maharashtra: BMC sees a drop in civic complaints
- Sabharwal has legal cover: Govt
- Sebi probing front-running at more mutual funds
- Gujarat: RTI activists seek protection from law
- RTI version 2.0
- J & K: CIC selection: Omar asks PDP chief to reconsider decision
- Karnataka: Koramangala Housing Board Colony wages RTI battle to regain park space
- Delhi civic bodies pay no heed to CIC's CWG directives
- Resul Pookutty to file RTI against multiplexes
- 'Disclose file notes of ex-Maharashtra DGP's extension of service'
- BMC loses Rs1 crore in dog tax
- Delhi-Gurgaon expressway generates revenue
- CVC orders inquiry into DAV College BPEd case
- Maharashtra GAD advised to advertise for SIC candidates, but CM ignored
- Bihar: Know your MLA: Did he serve you?
- Karnataka: RTI route to better roads
- Maharashtra: Govt throws rule book at pesky librarian
- Open to scrutiny
- Should PPPs Be Private?
- AP: Advocate does a Shanti Bhushan, names 8 `corrupt' judges
- Karnataka: Threat call: Dandupalya gang files RTI
- TN: Tamil Nadu whistleblower's death: Court orders re-postpmortem
- Bihar: RTI activist makes political debut
- Kerala: Plea for lucidity in choice of CIC
- बीस हजार दोगे तो मिलेगी सूचना
- Maharashtra: Cops out on a limb in twin township
- Gill was becoming unaccountable while making RTI comment: CIC
- Punjab: Badal's two months medical bills: Rs 85.82L
- Karnataka: Students and teachers in Bangalore get a taste of RTI
- Chandigarh: RTI pleas get police hefty revenue, some headache
- TN: TN to set up panel to inquire into granting of grace marks
- Kerala: Amend Contempt of Court Act, says judge
- Kerala: Palat Mohandas retires as CIC
- Arunachal Pradesh: SIC launches website
- Delhi: People seek details of MPLAD money
- Dead Right
- Bihar: PIO fined under RTI Act
- TN: CMDA in dock for suppressing info
- Punjab: HC notice to Punjab on murder convict DSPs and others continuing in service
- WB: State to go ahead with CIC appointment
- RTI plea exposes 51 mines in 5-km radius of Barda sanctuary
- आरटीआई का सीमित इस्तेमाल कर अधिकतम पारदर्
- Driver’s fight against no-parking zone fine goes on
- HC orders compensation for not providing info under RTI Act
- Order from RTI commissioner's office sparks off debate
- Ayodhya: VHP man seeks details of makeshift temple under RTI
- CIC may go headless from Thursday; no decision on new chief
- I learnt to view govt from outside, as to how those outside see it: Wajahat
- RTI helps family to fight fraud daughter-in-law
- A N Tiwari is the new CIC
- Show letters to CBI on Anderson extradition: CIC to govt
- BCI's response to RTI inquiry over awarding of contract to Rainmaker throws up interesting answers
- आरटीआई बना चुनावी जंग का हथियार
- एडी बेसिक पर 25 हजार का जुर्माना
- Ration cards issued sans proper documents: PCF
- Petition says Reliance is short-changing govt
- Gang attack fails to deter bold RTI activist
- ITDC hotels pay for MPs' overstay