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- Punjab SIC: Misuse of Official Vehicles by CIC and IC's
- New IC in the CIC
- Phugewadi structures flattened, Sharma admn turns gaze all around
- SEBI not obliged to get facts from exchanges for public
- '150 PMPML buses plying without fitness certificate'
- Transparency mandatory for sanction of plan funds
- Delhi High Court imposes Penalty on PIO and awards costs
- RTI only way to get information in VMC, say councillors
- Flurry of RTI applications in Meghalaya
- Railway Recruitment Board should disclose question papers: CIC
- Cops find a large number of BEST bus drivers breaking traffic rules
- Misuse of RTI Act detected
- Cases pending for more than 10 years cross 1-lakh mark
- CESS told to disclose details
- Buck stops at magistrate's table: HC
- CIC frames new rules for applications from abroad
- Sex appeal
- CIC fined its own CPIO.
- Metro-II raises many questions
- RTI helpline completes 3 years today
- NID director’s appointment: CIC asks institute to plead its case in RTI replies
- Job file can’t be traced: court to RTI applicant
- 'Learn to avail benefits of RTI'
- None of the ACPs have studied law
- Many needy people get succour under RTI Act
- A doomed chapter of legal proceedings?
- Chew on this, RTI brings lost cow home
- HC orders BSE to compensate students
- 400 students' fate hangs in balance
- Wardha agri office pulled up for not providing info under RTI
- Wrong arm of the law
- To sit or not to sit: HC notice out
- VCs do a minister on house revamp
- State guest house defaults on the rise
- Disclose information about RAW's software: CIC to C-DAC
- Nuns' graves make way for hawkers on Hill Road
- Rahul Mangaonkar -- An activist turned journalist
- Determined, they nailed PIO's wrong info report
- Three MC employees fined for denying info under RTI
- Power company demands Rs 1.2K for posting RTI reply!
- Govt makes mockery of pollution control norms
- Delay, cost bane in State
- Video conferencing to help RTI applicants
- CIC directs MHA to withdraw 'invalid' Office Memorandum
- 'Haj House belongs to external affairs'
- Rise in RTI queries on IIM-A
- 80 DHS posts lying vacant
- Two war reports, two rulings: CIC seeks clear declassification policy
- Complaints against corrupt cops fall on deaf ears
- Students dig up hidden truths
- RTI on cops' returns rejected
- RTI website in Gujarati launched by city activist
- Answer sheet cannot be excluded from the purview of RTI
- Govt has little control
- Pak nationals feature in voters' list, banned from voting
- Govt dept fined for ignoring petition under RTI Act
- On election duty, these officials lived life king size
- Shanno's parents file RTI for post-mortem report
- Delhi rule poser under RTI
- Leakage, mismanagement clog Delhi water utility
- Is Immigration Bureau exempted under Sec 24 or not ?
- CIC admonishes FAA of the PMO
- Change Official Secrets Act to suit RTI provisions: CIC
- Sixty RTIs put paid to 'corrupt' builder's plan
- Updates with authors’ names on www.punecorporation.org
- CIC issues show cause notice to Supreme Court officials
- Your MP In The House
- Five patrol boats never put to sea since 1999
- Urban renewal a joke, only 1% housing target reached
- 'Strengthen democracy through RTI Act'
- The Right Act
- CPIO of National Commission of Women says that he is helpless !
- "Competent Authority" (ie the Minister) approves insertion of VIP's pictures in advertisements
- CIC drafts list of dos & don'ts for its members
- Crores spent on conveyance facility for VIPs
- “Leniency in imposing penalties takes sting out of RTI Act”
- Demolished tombs to be restored at Otteri Burial Ground
- Ex-PAU employee struggles to get information under RTI Act
- Transfers
- CIC to review its decision in case of ex-RAW official
- 174 manual scavengers in TN await rehabilitation, says NGO
- IC ANT refers important matters Re Sec 6(3), "public authority", etc to a full bench
- ‘Give power to the people to fight corruption’
- Inspection reports throw light on calibre of Anna University’s affiliated colleges
- Mandi Board brings down illegal structure
- Publish reasons for all decisions that affect the public, rules CIC
- RTI fuels crusade against PDS
- RTI helped them foil builder from stealing their homes
- UPA not disclosing CEC’s recommendations on Chawla: BJP
- Are MPs and MLAs accountable? EC, ministries have no info
- Akademi’s complimentary book distribution draws flak
- GIC hears Samirkhan encounter case
- Slumdweller triumphs over SRA corruption
- Staff deliver power punch to distributor
- Rs 14 lakh gone in a day
- Govt schools sitting on tinderboxes?
- No record mgmt system in city's premier B-school
- Who decides on setting up of Memorials and Cremation of leaders ?
- Performance of Punjab MP’s scrutinised
- Memorandum given to Governor
- CIC directs establishment of RTI Cell in its own offices
- ‘Students can access old question papers of NET’
- Freedom fighter’s son fights for survival
- CIC relief to IGNOU students
- Metro making city barren
- Start industry, green signal can wait
- Want to stall husband’s transfer? CIC says RTI Act helpless
- ‘Police not complying with CIC directive’
- Beat the taxman: Start a party, have a party
- Dam oustees’ funds used to buy vehicles for ministers
- IIM fee hike a sign of financial mismanagement
- All’s not right with this commission, says PIL
- CIC pulls up officials for not giving details to RTI applicant
- RTI applicants urged to have faith in SIC
- BMTC, an indifferent landlord
- Armed with the right to No
- Simple RTI question gets outrageous answers
- One year later, NMMC admits garden is illegal
- RTI Act widely employed in southern districts: Commissioner
- RTI has been used to lessen corruption: CIC
- Golf Club runs up huge water arrears
- Were MPs splurging public money when terror struck Taj?
- Rti query: Pmpml cancels over 12,000 trips a month
- PDKV starves Maharajbagh
- Irrigation dept employee uses RTI to organise its first-ever reunion
- Harassed parents threaten to make school fee hike poll issue
- CIC bars disclosure of inquiry report in harassment case
- 'Ineligible persons getting pension'
- State info chief overruled, appeal rejected
- Two officials fined under RTI
- Rich saffron
- RTI Act: prison officials’ lack of knowledge flayed
- MPs poured money in drains
- Activist demands updated info on state government website
- PM’s travels have cost exchequer Rs 234 crore
- Right to Information: BR Singh likely to be appointed as Chief Information Commissioner
- Use of RTI good but information should be under purview
- RTI applicant is manhandled officer reveals his identity
- Accident or murder?
- AMC wakes up to drainage crisis
- 'Money flowed like water for Belgaum session'
- Govt gives incomplete info on Vikas Yatra sought under RTI
- An NIT whitleblower uses RTI to expose ‘fake bills’
- Jamia asked to provide information to RTI applicant
- Sexual harassment is a human rights violation: CIC
- RTI workers campaign to enlighten villagers
- ‘Tamil Nadu leads in RTI awareness’
- RTI utility kicks in, but KIC not ready
- NBRI demand for ID proof from applicant unjustified
- President, PM's health details denied under RTI
- Credit societies too under RTI purview
- Popular religious channel illegal: I&B ministry
- Power Engineers demand reopening of embezzlement case of one crore in DVC
- Info chief brings more bodies under RTI
- Where does the blood you donate go?
- BJP uses China trip to favour workers
- Haryana govt ‘harasses’ own official, to pay compensation
- RTI info carries police bluff in cheating case
- RTI helpline receives over 3,700 calls in a year
- CIC recommends review of exemption granted to DRDO under RTI
- The RTI battle of the NRIs
- Harrasing offices throught RTI
- Govt probing assets owned by ex-CJI Sabharwal's family
- New order taxes PCA
- Draft for monitoring RTI compliance prepared
- No boss, no work: Employees
- Committee approaches SIC for action against GMADA
- Victim reveals official high-handedness in Chadoora
- Non-compliance of CIC orders will attract Rs 25,000 as fine
- Time we looked at the funds of political parties
- Info panel slaps fine on two tahsildars
- RTI bill passed
- RTI activists irked by cumbersome filing procedure
- State PSU paying Rs 60L to idle drivers
- Nagapattinam Collector sets 30-day deadline
- Info chief invites activists' wrath for going soft on babus
- Status of second appeal and complaints at cic new delhi
- 126 cadavers issued to pvt medical colleges
- PETA takes RTI route to protest against AIIMS
- Activists question move to appoint new info commissioners
- Inquiry against ex-chairman of Baramati civic body ordered
- The politics of violations
- CIC says RTI should be directly applicable to corporate houses
- Addl collector fined for denying info
- Man on a mission to check govt vehicle misuse
- Two govt officials fined under RTI Act
- 2 meals for poor, courtesy RTI
- Time delay should not be applicable: SIC
- Information Commissioners and CIC will not accept RTI awards
- Computerisation will help easy access to info: CIC
- Civil services witness 25% rise in aspirants
- Lessons on RTI for the visually impaired
- MC's jt commissioner tenders apology
- Info on Citizens' Charter sought from HDMC
- Be transparent, NGOs told
- Know it Right How The RTI Act Has Improved The Delivery Of Services
- Ghuman appoints PIO, 23 APIOs
- Central Empowered Committee (CEC) constituted by the Supreme Court is a PA
- HC notices to Centre, Chandigarh on promulgation of RTI rules
- State Information Commission report submitted to Governor
- `3 Cong MPs facing criminal charges'
- SIC: property statements of public servants not privileged documents
- Political parties admit need to strengthen RTI and NREG Acts
- Info commission slaps fine on collector's PA general
- BMC demolishes seven-storey building in Tilak Nagar
- Bihar Election Commission Vs RTI petitioner
- Environmentalists see red over green sops
- Mistakes result of attentiveness says government office
- Anti-corruption crusader rues lack of activism among people
- Probe started on ration lifting
- Meet highlights problems of one-way traffic system
- Greens confused over Byculla zoo plan
- MC's RTI cell fails to satisfy public queries
- Video-conferencing for RTI queries
- Activists demand changes in information, rural job guarantee laws
- RTI activists make 10-pt draft for political parties
- Activists for uniformity in RTI procedures
- Implementation of RTI Act not on right track in Gujarat
- UPSC student gets access to factual sheets
- Info chief for faster RTI implementation
- CHRI's report on compliance of PA's under the RTI Act
- Over 4 lakh applications received under RTI in Maharashtra
- BDO, principal fined for denying info
- Officials continue to disregard RTI Act
- Red tapism strangling RTI
- Stale info on state website
- Good governance is the essence of rti act: Vatsala vatsa
- RTI mantra: When in doubt, confront
- Did PMO ignore late Gandhian's concerns on Nithari?
- Petition
- Edu dept turns deaf ear to BJP leader's queries
- Digitisation of records needed: CIC
- RTI Act guidance clinic launched
- RTI forces removal of encroachments
- INDIA: CIC wants video link in PMO to help RTI applicants
- VCI refuses to disclose report on infrastructure under RTI, calls it ‘confidential’
- 'Information is oxygen of democracy'
- rti applicant victimised by the public authority
- Three high officials fined under the RTI Act
- Voters can monitor politicians through uploaded RTI data
- ‘Finance Ministry gets bulk of RTI queries’
- CBDT has no system to check candidates' affidavits
- Decision on bringing MPs under RTI Act soon
- CIC rules out amendment to RTI Act
- NREGS workers file complaint against Pradhan
- Queries galore on lost hospital land in Darjeeling
- RTI Act fails to revitalise admin
- Civic garbage dumps fanned 2,000 fires in six years
- Death By Spray
- Commission slams govt for backlog in ST vacancies