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- RTI Point of View: Karnataka: USE RTI TO FIGHT CHEATING: DC
- RTI Happenings: Jharkhand: JPSC deaf to low-vision aspirant plea
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Information commissioner decides just 3 of 1,849 appeals & 485 complaints
- RTI Point of View: Maharashtra: All co-op Societies now under RTI Act
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Unaware of facts, FAA orders PIO to furnish information again!
- RTI Improvement: Maharashtra: Move over RTI, BMC to digitise over 80 crore documents
- RTI Activism: Tamilnadu: How safe are women in Madurai?
- RTI Happenings: TCS refuses to share in public, Master Service Agreement with MEA for its passport venture; says it will consult its legal cell
- RTI Happenings: Up: आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता का चौथे दिन भी नहीं लगा
- RTI Happenings: JNU pays cost of teachers' case
- RTI Happenings: In NDMC run schools Urdu & Punjabi languages suffer from Govt apathy
- RTI Happenings: J&K: RTI activists, civil society hail SIC order on ASCOMS
- RTI Happenings: Kochi Corporation ‘permitted’ coastal zone violations by realtors
- RTI Happenings: Indore farmers allege forgery in housing scheme in Palakhedi village
- RTI Happenings: UP: For Rs 300, LU will provide students a copy of checked answer sheet
- RTI Activism: सरकार को नहीं पता पीडि़ता कैसे पहुंची सिंè
- RTI Activism: Not even one in 10 cops in Maharashtra is a woman
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra SIC issues show-cause notice to PIO of home ministry
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Appellant allowed to inspect records and take photocopies of selected records
- RTI Activism: RTI reply exposes Uttarakhand CM's false poll promises, indicates record low performance in the state
- RTI Happenings: Up: सूचना मांगी तो अफसरों को आया पसीना
- RTI Happenings: Indian Army refuses to give info about Kargil war victims
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Forest dept has no clue on green loss for Metro phase-3
- RTI Happenings: अन्क्लेम्ड: इस 25 अरब में कहीं आपका पैसा तो नह
- RTI Activism: Haryana: मंजूरी मिली नहीं,कर दिया शिलान्यास
- RTI Happenings: दिल्ली सरकार ने आठ दिनों में कराया 8 लाख का न&
- RTI Activism: उत्तर प्रदेश में यूनानी दवाओं से इस साल मह
- RTI Point of View: From transparency to accountability
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Drought is money-minting excuse: Opposition
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: Malleswaram market project mired in controversy
- RTI Happenings: Short of officers, UPSIC battles soaring pendency
- RTI Activism: RTI nails Uttarakhand chief minister's 'false promises'
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Delhi govt places DP Bill online after complaint is filed to the CIC
- RTI Happenings: Maharastra: Report reveals Jaitapur fault line
- RTI Happenings: Goa: NCP flays govt handling of Lokayukta appointment
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: It is a flee market
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: मार्केट कमेटी का कमाल, बिना पोस्ट से किया
- RTI Activism: Haryana: चार साल से यूनिवर्सिटी में 'अयोग्य' कर रहा
- RTI Happenings: Mp: व्यक्तिगत जानकारी भी आरटीआई के दायरे में.
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Parent uses RTI to expose cheating in scholarship exam
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: How MCD officers kept pushing papers for three years
- RTI Activism: UP: For Rs 8.49 crore doles, U.P. spent Rs 12.5 crore on functions
- RTI Happenings: About 13,000 signed online petition for Dr V Kurien's Bharat Ratna, PMO says received just 23!
- RTI Happenings: Chandigarh: RTI uncovers Admn’s duplicity
- RTI Happenings: TN: No pollution control board clearance to operate mobile incinerator
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Over 90 % mid day meal samples fail quality test
- RTI Activism: J-K Cong MP’s trust set to lose ‘excess’ land
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Govt can only deal with Malhotra-led IOA: RTI reply
- RTI Court Decision: Upload names of waiting job-seekers, Maharashtra State Public Commission (MPSC) told
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: In a first, babu puts out assets info at workplace
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Classified data on water resources to be made public
- RTI Happenings: हिन्दी हमारी राष्ट्रभाषा नहीं
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: Meet India’s new-age radicals
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: ‘Over 175 students not fit for B.Arch exams’
- RTI Point of View: Misuse of RTI act can be checked: J&K CIC
- RTI Happenings: Jharkhand: Information logjam in state, RTI in peril
- RTI Court Decision: Kerala: AG’s advice comes under RTI, says State Information Commission
- RTI Court Decision: Maharashtra : 'Give info on store selling abortion kit'
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: 2 MIDC officials use fake certificates for promotion
- RTI Court Decision: HP: SIC for punitive action for RTI misuse by officials
- RTI Activism: UP: Akhilesh govt spent four times on ads than Maya, reveals RTI
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Empowering people through RTI Act
- RTI Activism: How Orissa budgets for 'duty-less' officers
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra : HC junks plea against chief SIC Gaikwad
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra : Women's loos: BMC takes loose steps
- RTI Effect: Hp: सरकारी भूमि में बांस काटने पर जुर्माना
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: आईटी एक्ट की सिफारिश, लगाया आरटीआई एक्ट
- RTI Activism: UIDAI mum on Aadhaar cards for Prime Minister, Sonia
- RTI Happenings: Goa: '13 comunidade members stuck in same posts for 12 years'
- RTI Improvement: New Delhi: Financial details of government bodies to be uploaded on web
- RTI Activism: Uttarakhand: Forest dept denies having Govt order to form anti-poaching cell
- RTI Activism: RTI reveals: Full AIBE 4 results still not out; BCI allows re-checking papers for Rs 100
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Victory for RTI activist as court updates website
- RTI Activism: Information Society
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: MC building branch gets new excuse to evade queries
- RTI Happenings: Anti-poaching cell only on paper in Uttarakhand
- RTI Activism: Kerala: Railways to be blamed for Sabari Project delay, reveals RTI
- RTI Happenings: RTI activist attacked in west Delhi
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Probe against irrigation officer; trouble for Ajit Pawar
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: HC seeks details on graft cases awaiting sanction
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Metro project may miss sixth deadline
- RTI Happenings: Bombay High Court disposes Sebi plea against CIC
- RTI Activism: Rape, murder convicts wallow in comfort in Haryana jails
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: Kapurthala police indulging in illegal use of red beacon
- RTI Happenings: Hp: बीमे के नाम पर पत्रकारों को थमा डाला लॉलीप
- RTI Court Decision: Punjab: आरटीआई ने पर्यावरण मंत्रालय को पहुंचाया
- RTI Happenings: HC stay on Maha Charity Com's public trusts order to continue
- RTI Activism: No more unauthorized occupation of type-VIII govt bungalows in New Delhi?
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Apathetic Railways leaves erring shipping company off the hook
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: MEA declines to share info on Warren Anderson's extradition
- RTI Court Decision: Private varsities covered under RTI Act, rules HC
- RTI Happenings: Swanky affair
- RTI Fine: Maharashtra: Information officer fined
- RTI Happenings: Goa: Forum seeks judicial inquiry into disruption of meeting
- RTI Happenings: J&K: Valid RTI Plea rejected on flimsy Ground
- RTI Happenings: Uttarakhand: RTI creates trouble for Sports Department
- RTI Fine: Odisha:Rs 25,000 penalty on teacher for RTI lapse
- RTI Happenings: TN: 80% dalit women face violence in inter-caste marriage
- RTI Improvement: Odisha: RTI cells must run 24x7 in educational units
- RTI Activism: तीन विभागों के आदेश को दिखाया ठेंगा
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: 10 years on, SCLR still awaits railway nod for completion
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: Graft probe panel drains BDA coffers by a crore
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: CIC faces criticism for poor data keeping
- RTI Activism: AP: Probe sought into CoP expenses
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: RTI replies on encroachment lead to PIL against Ganesh Naik, kin
- RTI Improvement: New Delhi: RTI to go online this month, govt to launch epostal orders
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: RTI query reveals rise in rape cases in rural areas
- RTI Happenings: UP: Tihar stonewalls Guru RTI, cites 'sovereignty concerns'
- RTI Point of View: Odisha: ‘Citizens must be informed for robust democracy’
- RTI Happenings: J&k: Govt amends rti rules
- RTI Happenings: J&K: SIC declares ASCOMS Public Authority
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: Zonal commissioner gets show-cause notice for providing no info under RTI
- RTI Activism: पुलिस ने जलाए घपले के रिकार्ड
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: IISc’s Bombay Property Board was pulled up for delaying tactics
- RTI Happenings: Delayed CIC decision on IFFCO results in large-scale misappropriation of assets
- RTI Activism: Poaching tigers by electrocution rising trend in MP
- RTI Happenings: Chhattisgarh: Jostling for justice
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: RTI activist blames BMC for slow work
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: शिविर में दी आरटीआई की जानकारी
- RTI Happenings: उत्तर प्रदेश: आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता बीडीसी गि
- RTI Happenings: Budget 2013: Over Rs 200 crore for training of bureaucrats
- RTI Activism: Kerala short of 65 IAS officers
- RTI Activism: J&K: Activists demand adequate staff for SIC
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: जेल में बंद कैदी को बाहर वाले से खतरा
- RTI Happenings: झारखंड: आरटीआई से अवगत हुई समूह की महिलाएं
- RTI Activism: Timely Army deployment could have checked Assam violence, reveals RTI query
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: 7/11 suspect’s RTI query reveals police probe against former Gujarat ATS chief
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Businessmen held on RTI activist’s complaint
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: No info, that's cops' reply to 13 Right to Information (RTI) queries on CCTVs
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: PCMC fails to recover Rs 7.25cr rent
- RTI Point of View: Odisha: Effective use of RTI can root out graft: HC judge
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Use Speed Post instead of UPC for sending RTI replies
- RTI Happenings: Pushed for info, UPSC, SEBI prefer to go to court
- RTI Activism: Punjab: Amritsar MC flouts govt order banning use of inter-locking tiles
- RTI Happenings: AP: Information Commission’s notice to DEO
- RTI Happenings: Odisha: Loss of crores to state exchequer as industries misuse irrigation water
- RTI Happenings: Over 8000 eunuchs received Aadhaar numbers in 2012
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Legislations or rules cannot go beyond exemptions provided in Section 8 and 9 of the RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: बिना रजिस्*ट्रेशन के हल्*द्वानी से अखबार न
- RTI Happenings: Official issues circular, then denies info to RTI query
- RTI Activism: Haryana: सुशील, गगन हमारे नहीं, लेकिन दिए हैं करोड़&
- RTI Court Decision: New Delhi: 'CVC monitoring system of tainted govt employees inadequate'
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Miffed RTI activists to stage dharna
- RTI Happenings: आरटीआइ से सूचना मांगने वाला भी उपभोक्ता
- RTI Happenings: आरटीआइ डालने पर घर के बाहर फेंकी दो ट्राली
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan: सूचना नहीं देगा सीईटीपी?
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Few toilets for women at city railway stations
- RTI Activism: ‘Don’t need NCR board nod for master plan’
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: ‘Scribes use RTI less’
- RTI Happenings: Goa: RTI queries swarm SGPDA
- RTI Happenings: Goa: RTI activist demands CBI probe into excise scam
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: HC notice to minister in assets case
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: वीडियो कांफ्रेंसिंग की 'बुकिंग' ही भ
- RTI Happenings: CAG: Railways not submitting cost benefit analysis for trains
- RTI Activism: How the Nitish Kumar govt’s advertising budget sky-rocketed
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Plagiarism is one of the worst forms of corruption
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan:आरटीआई में सूचना देने से कतराने लगे अफसर
- RTI Happenings: 44 bureaucrats took premature retirement in past six years
- RTI Activism: Filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala, lawyer Majeed Memon, builders Abhinandan Lodha in top defaulters list: RTI
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: PIOs played game of passing the paper without providing information
- RTI Happenings: J&K:RTI activist demands probe against SIC’s officer
- RTI Activism: maharashtra: 18 Ministers yet to declare assets despite CM’s order
- RTI Fine: Karnataka: Tahsildar fined for delay in RTI reply
- RTI Happenings: Officials find fire system inadequate in Sarabha Nagar
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: JJ dean took US trip without official nod
- RTI Happenings: AP: RTI training for government employees
- RTI Happenings: Mercy petitions: Rashtrapati Bhavan rejects information under RTI
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: MCD was clueless about banquet halls operating in the capital
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Rs 3 crore of charity money spent on MIDC land
- RTI Happenings: AP: Home Ministry cold to RTI query on T-meet
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Appeal reached First Appellate Authority (FAA) in 34 days, CIC apologised to FAA
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: SRK charms BMC officials, escapes inspection
- RTI Court Decision: CIC to CBDT: Disclose number of chargesheets quashed by CAT
- RTI Happenings: UP: Absence of legal officer haunts Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission
- RTI Activism: UP: No shortage of policemen in securing VIPs
- RTI Happenings: RTI reveals: 1.3m advocates; 1 in 300 Delhi-ites a lawyer; Maharashtra lawyers ‘richest’; Jharkand, Assam, J&K fastest
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: City anchor: Trend spotted: Using RTI to further business interests
- RTI Happenings: Postal department should introduce RTI stamps or coupons, says activist
- RTI Happenings: मानचित्र के विपरीत खड़ा होटल
- RTI Happenings: Central info panel mum on fines on own officials
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: How blame game within the Delhi govt kept authorised colony without water
- RTI Happenings: LTTE campaign delayed Rajiv Gandhi's killers’ hanging, source says
- RTI Activism: HP: Phone Tapped names and number will be revealed-Lawan Thakur
- RTI Happenings: AP: RTI activists cautioned against move to weaken Act
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Case Against Municipal Official for Threatening RTI Activist
- RTI Happenings: Fire safety not MC concern; None of the municipal offices have obtained fire safety certificates
- RTI Happenings: Notices to 42 shops for lacking fire safety
- RTI Activism: RTI activist reveals Madhya Pradesh forest dept negligence
- RTI Happenings: AP: Clear pending RTI applications, officials told
- RTI Activism: 168 Mumbai policemen committed suicide in 10 yrs: RTI report
- RTI Happenings: DNA Special: Pollution goes off the rails at stations
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: ‘How long will govt shield Ashoka?’
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra : Ex-top cop to move HC over losses in earlier Bharat bandh
- RTI Happenings: TN: UGC cell ignores complaints on ragging, registers just 1%
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: Most major state, Centre buildings have no fire safety certificate: RTI
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Ministers’ power bills ‘shocking’
- RTI Activism: Bihar: Tutorials stumble on criteria course
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra :For Maha guardians, the more the merrier
- RTI Happenings: TNHB to use school plots for commercial purposes
- RTI Happenings: Manipur: Fight-corruption calls mark anniversary event
- RTI Happenings: Lucknow tops in crime against children
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: आरटीआई को कमज़ोर करने की साज़िश
- RTI Happenings: RTI ‘ineffective’ in Bihar: Press Council report
- RTI Happenings: फर्जी डिग्री मामले में फंसे मोहाली के एसपì
- RTI Happenings: RTI a 'tool' to settle personal scores
- RTI Happenings: Bhadaur House violations escape civic body’s eye
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: आयोग को ही समन का अधिकार
- RTI Happenings: IIT whistleblower questions inquiry fee
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: RTI activists raise slogans in Assembly, five detained after scuffle with marshals
- RTI Point of View: AP: Official's co-operation essential to implement RTI: Commissioner
- RTI Happenings: AP: Legislature secretariat in a tizzy over RTI plea
- RTI Court Decision: Manipur: HC directs payment of compensation to RTI activist
- RTI Activism: Gujarat: RTI reveals financial irregularity at South Gujarat University
- RTI Innovation: Unlimted possibilities of RTI Act.
- RTI Court Decision: Punjab: HC initiates contempt proceedings against Jalandhar DC
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: BJP govt splurged Rs 60crore on air travel
- RTI Happenings: J&K: Irrigation division takes RTI Activists on Inspection of Ranbir Canal
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: RTI activist applies for revolver licence
- RTI Court Decision: New Delhi: Act against illegal construction within three months, HC tells civic bodies
- RTI Activism: New Delhi:Lokayukta issues show cause notice to Sheila Dikshit
- RTI Happenings: Appointment of Information Commissioners Challenged Before the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka.
- RTI Improvement: Punjab sets up panels to shield whistleblowers
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: When government school teachers from Delhi were denied experience certificates
- RTI Court Decision: Maharashtra : Students to get more info about their colleges soon
- RTI Activism: NHRC notice to Delhi on starvation deaths
- RTI Activism: Rajasthan: 'Luxury apartment at Statue Circle in violation of rules'
- RTI Happenings: Chandigarh: Info panel summons PIO of director local bodies
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Information provided by individuals in fulfilment of statutory requirements not exempted under Section 8 (1)(j)
- RTI Activism: West Bengal witnesses 100 violent political clashes every month: RTI
- RTI Improvement: AP: RTI chief seeks prompt action
- RTI Improvement: Inform RTI applicants about additional fees: DoPT tells departments
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Mumbai University spent Rs 4 lakh on external lawyers to defend its vice-chancellor
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: Citizen files 65 appeals for illegal construction in Delhi’s Shahadara area
- RTI Activism: Bihar: आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता चलाएंगे जनआंदोलन
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: South corp goes soft over DDCA’s property tax issue
- RTI Happenings: Surge in cases of fake drugs; whistleblower plan draws a blank
- RTI Activism: West Bengal banned two books on sex education way back in 1950s: RTI expose
- RTI Happenings: Chandigarh: CITCO fails to follow info commission orders
- RTI Point of View: Kerala: Indifferent attitude by officers criticised
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: BMC refuses safai karamchari study leave
- RTI Effect: Plea to use unclaimed insurance money: HC seeks govt's reply
- RTI Happenings: RTI activist complains to state human rights panel on fire safety
- RTI Happenings: Tragedy waiting to happen in Sarabha Nagar market
- RTI Activism: AP: RTI activists’ woes heard
- RTI Activism: Censor board denied clearance to 256 films in 10 years
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: अब पुलिस बनी आरटीआई की हमसफर
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: MG varsity in two minds over RTI
- RTI Happenings: मंत्रालय नहीं जानता देश में कितने गैस कनेè
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: 8,200 children died in 5 yrs at Safdarjung
- RTI Happenings: J&K: KU decides to accept RTI applications