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- 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
- RTI Activism: जाली वोट कासवाल, पांच माह में नहीं मिला जवा
- RTI Happenings: यूपी में क्यों लगा था पांच किताबों पर प्रत
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Exemption under Section 8(1)(e) cannot apply to information held by a client
- RTI Activism: MP: Disposal of Union Carbide waste released toxic chemicals: NGOs
- RTI Happenings: Odisha: Ex-MLAs not paying rent for overstay in government-allotted quarters
- RTI Happenings: City anchor: Social media tunes in to RTI song for villagers
- RTI Happenings: काश! मेरठ पुलिस भी होती गाजियाबाद जितनी ते
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: 'Illegal drug trials' on kids: Notice sent to Health Ministry
- RTI Court Decision: maharashtra: Universe to pay Rs1 lakh for delaying info
- RTI Improvement: DoPT puts up IC selection files online
- RTI Happenings: Recover tour costs of friends and relatives from Pratibha Patil, demands activist
- RTI Court Decision: RTI Judgement Series: CVC does not follow its own guidelines
- RTI Activism: Punjab: No shop at Sarabha Nagar market has fire safety NOC: RTI reply
- RTI Happenings: EC in a fix as RTI files to go online
- RTI Happenings: UP: RTI activist ‘exposing’ corruption in educational system shot dead
- RTI Fine: Punjab: Univ fined under RTI act
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: One year on, Centre’s letter yet to reach Health dept
- RTI Happenings: Chandigarh: Inspector's appt at CPIO invites ration card holders ire
- RTI Court Decision: Maharashtra: Information chief rejects RTI plea on govt staffers' job details
- RTI Happenings: File an RTI application if you do not get your passport in time
- RTI Happenings: MP Varsity Spent Over Rs 1 Cr on an Event, Reveals RTI
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: एक्सईएन को नहीं मालूम क्या है आरटीआई?
- RTI Activism: AP: ‘Praja Vedika’ opposes amendments to RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: UP: Birth data since 1987 'missing' from Lucknow Municipal Corporation
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Tribal RTI activist suggests online system to cut red-tapism
- RTI Happenings: Few takers among women for RTI
- RTI Happenings: PPCB’S ‘callousness’ in checking industrial pollution stands exposed
- RTI Happenings: Over 100 industrial units functioned without PPCB consent: RTI reply
- RTI Happenings: Police suspend tow-away drive
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: A citizen has right to use most convenient and efficacious means available to access information
- RTI Improvement: Budget: BMC launches project transparency
- RTI Happenings: AP: Righting RTI set-up need of the hour
- Queensland (Australia): New disclosure log requirements under amendments to the RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: आरटीआई लाइब्रेरी बनाने के आदेश पर अमल नहीæ
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: BMC admits to illegal activity in building, but doesn't act
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Public interest supersedes individual’s interest
- RTI Fine: Up: अभियंता को 250 रुपए का दंड
- RTI Happenings: Up: सूचना आयोग ने दी आइजी को जुर्माने की चेता&#
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan: फर्जी जाति प्रमाण-पत्रों से आइएएस बन गए त
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: Six months on, state information commission’s website waiting update
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Six months after son went missing, RTI activist awaits justice
- RTI Happenings: Central Information Commission blames government for Right to Information workload
- RTI Point of View: Governance structure in poor condition: Fmr CIC
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: Mockery of RTI Act by civic body
- RTI Happenings: Odisha: Woman deprived of information by RTI
- RTI Happenings: maharashtra: Just 10% files ready after Mantralaya fire
- RTI Happenings: Chhattisgarh: जवाब नहीं, जुर्माना मंजूर
- RTI Happenings: Gujarat: 1L vacant properties in Vadodara: RTI
- RTI Happenings: RTI reply on foreign nationals reveals lack of uniformity in police deptt
- RTI Court Decision: CIC surprised over appointment of schizophrenic CPIO in SSC
- RTI Happenings: अगले महीने तैयार हो जाएगा डेटा बेस
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Focus on right to information
- RTI Point of View: RTI: Challenges so far and the changes needed
- RTI Court Decision: Karnataka: State info body rejects Sharma’s RTI plea
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: College Principal fined for not complying CIC orders
- RTI Happenings: Govt funds to NGOs squandered
- RTI Happenings: पंजाब: 7 सालों में 27 हजार अपीलों पर फैसला,12 करो
- RTI Point of View: maharashtra: UID no. may stop misuse of RTI Act: Chief secretary
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: When PIO sends complaint to the body against which allegations were made
- RTI Fine: Odisha: Puri cop fined thrice for not supplying info under RTI
- RTI Improvement: Haryana: RTI hearings via video conferencing from next week
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Information Commission may become homeless
- RTI Fine: Uttrakhand: खंड शिक्षा अधिकारी पर 10 हजार का जुर्माना
- RTI Point of View: Information that cannot be denied to Parliament cannot be denied to you and me… but does it happen?
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Finance Ministry unwilling to appoint exclusive RTI officer
- RTI Happenings: जम्मू-कश्मीर में नहीं चलता भारत का सूचना अ
- RTI Fine: Maharashtra: Civic engineer fined Rs 25k fine for denying information under RTI
- RTI Happenings: WB: RTI pleas rejected, food dept probe report not yet ready
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: RTI Act scuttled? '6000 RTI appeals' pending in Konkan division
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Maharashtra's funerals data lost in blaze: RTI
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: FDO's appointment in PU comes under HC scanner
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Do clerks have more power than a municipal commissioner?
- RTI Happenings: सूचना न देने पर प्रमुख सचिव समेत सात अफसर त
- RTI Happenings: MC not acting against latecomers
- RTI Activism: Karnataka: RTI reveals lapses in appointment of asst profs
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: 17 ex-corporators hang on to laptops, activist cries foul
- RTI Point of View: RTI is a tool, not a weapon: Abdul Hafiz Gandhi
- RTI Fine: Uttarakhand: अधिशासी अभियंता पर 25 हजार का जुर्माना
- RTI Happenings: Delhi: Empowering youth
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: UoP panel recommends change in final scores of 28 students
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: NIT regularized Fariyas plots without valid sale deeds
- RTI Activism: Haryana: Huda fails to give info on mobile toilet project
- RTI Effect: Haryana: Civic body names officer for hearing grievances at last
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Defining “substantial funding” for a public authority
- RTI Happenings: NAC Member Aruna urges Sonia to act on Section 4 of RTI implementation
- RTI Happenings: सरकार-सूचना आयोग में रार बढ़ी
- RTI Effect: Karnataka; Case filed against Siddaiah in Lokayukta court
- RTI Happenings: AP: Penalties imposed on 100 PIOs for not providing in
- RTI Happenings: साहिब बदल गए, बोर्ड नहीं बदला
- RTI Activism: J&K: RTI exposes Rs 50 lakh scam
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: 8 years after deal, 7 firms yet to produce power
- SC's NLU-preference in judicial clerks challenged; Delhi HC heeds
- RTI Happenings: CIC blames Data Entry Operators for poor web site upkeep
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Display full info about students from EWS on website
- RTI Happenings: 29000 crores budget for education (bogus students scam investigation by maharshtra government)
- RTI Happenings: NAC members tried to save Kasab .
- RTI Happenings: For Centre, RSS not a cultural group
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Eleven pubs for every 1 sq km from Bandra to Santacruz
- RTI Happenings: Goa: Goa Olympic Association to fund anti-RTI Act campaign
- RTI Happenings: Hp: आरटीआई में अधिक वसूली पर अधिकारी को जुर्म&
- RTI Happenings: तेल कंपनियों ने विज्ञापन पर खर्च किए 1142 करोड
- RTI Court Decision: No public access to 2G documents till JPC completes probe: CIC
- RTI Activism: RTI activists demand info on Kasab death
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: No desks in schools for half of kids
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: NIT bends Gunthewari law to sanction flat schemes on regularized plots
- RTI Point of View: Informed citizens necessary for effective democracy: Shailesh Gandhi
- RTI Effect: Indore: 456 civil services aspirants to get another shot at exam
- RTI Happenings: ‘Advani vetoed former DGP’s name as central info commissioner’
- RTI Happenings: UP lodges max consumer plaints in the country
- RTI Happenings: NHRC, Tripura govt lock horns
- RTI Court Decision: Power of RTI: CIC directs SEBI to disclose all information related to PMS
- RTI Happenings: EC wants 'None of the Above' button on EVMs
- RTI Activism: HP: Specialists’ postings at govt hospitals irrational: RTI activist
- RTI Happenings: Meghalaya: RTI findings reveal misappropriation of public funds
- RTI Point of View: AP: RTI complaints to be received online
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: Sai Prasad Group's activities under multi-agency probe MCA, Sebi, RBI and EOW probing violations firm says it has replied to notices
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: It’s not a walk in the garden, I need police protection: Activist
- RTI Court Decision: Gujarat: Info panel raps state power utility, threatens penalty
- RTI Happenings: Punjab: साहब कैसे दें जवाब, एक आदमी के बीस सवाल
- RTI Activism: J&K: PWD working without set norms; reveals RTI
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: RTI second appeals redirected to lower rung
- RTI Happenings: जारी है झारखंड सूचना एवं जनसंपर्क विभाग मí
- RTI Happenings: Delhi Sikhs seek commitment from parties for implementation of RTI Act in Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Committee
- RTI Happenings: ‘Fill up posts of ten information commissioners’
- RTI Court Decision: Kerala: Government told to pay RTI expenses of schools
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Pharma MNCs use RTI law to protect market for patented drugs & delay entry of generics
- RTI Activism: Chandigarh: Appointments of advisers, OSDs challenged in HC
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: RTI plea on CIC's powers on contempt of orders
- RTI Activism: Delhi: 1993 rape file still missing: RTI reply
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Annual confidential reports of all IAS officers gutted in Mantralaya fire
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: When the Western Ghats ecology status report was made public
- RTI Happenings: MC penalised Rs 3,000 for providing incomplete info
- RTI Happenings: Cvo visits city following complaint by rti activists
- RTI Happenings: Verma summoned to explain failure in replying to RTI plea
- RTI Happenings: MC loses crores in house tax, courtesy official apathy
- RTI Court Decision: Maharashtra:
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Absentee Mumbai doc in dock for clearing certificates
- RTI Happenings: Dimple files RTI to call Anita’s ‘bluff’
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: All Cabinet Notes regarding tabling of bills must be displayed
- RTI Happenings: Manipur: RTI applicants threatened by an alleged KYKL cadre
- RTI Activism: AP: SIC’s half-baked responses anger RTI activists
- RTI Court Decision: SC raps K’taka information commissioner
- RTI Happenings: Kerala: Minister unaware of issue, promises action
- RTI Activism: Mumbai sees 183 rape cases a year
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Allottee wins fight with DDA
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: MMRDA’s white paper only lip service: Activist
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan: 'Issues related to common people have fallen wayside'
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: Govt holds back info sought under RTI
- RTI Point of View: AP: RTI to empower youth
- RTI Activism: Punjab: MC never assessed property tax in its vicinity: RTI
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Only MNS filing tax returns: RTI
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Public interest in disclosure outweighs the harm to protect interest
- RTI Happenings: आर टी आई से लड़ रहे जंग
- RTI Happenings: एथलीटों को ‘अपनों’ ने छला
- RTI Point of View: RTI workshop: Use specific orders of the CIC to file an effective RTI application, says Shailesh Gandhi
- RTI Court Decision: Haryana: Huda gets notice for shoddy response to RTI
- RTI Activism: Hundreds of crores lost to phony NGOs
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Depts fail to take responsibility of implementing guidelines for quarries
- RTI Point of View: Goa: 'RTI is a good tool to improve govt functioning'
- RTI Point of View: AP: Heroism is like an addiction says RTI activist Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: 21% female police posts empty: RTI
- RTI Happenings: violation of building bylaws; Damocles’ sword over owners of SCOs in Feroze Gandhi Market
- RTI Happenings: Revenue asst, clerk suspended; Failed to provide information under the RTI Act
- RTI Activism: Haryana: Civic body not using funds granted: RTI
- RTI Activism: Can't disclose info on Kasab: govt to activist
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: Kotla hosts matches sans safety nod: RTI
- RTI Activism: Gujarat: I&B dept tops list of ad spendings
- RTI Activism: Odisha: RTI activist’s car, 2 bikes set afire
- RTI Activism: Haryana: To fix overflow, Huda to conduct inspection in master sewer
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: State hospitals do not have data on blood disorder patients
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Only 40 hotels in city have MPCB clearance
- RTI Improvement: Maharashtra: In a month, state info chief's office may go paperless
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: RTI activists stage protest
- RTI Happenings: rti act; Trust penalised for delay
- RTI Happenings: contempt of court plea; HC puts civic body on notice
- RTI Happenings: AP: Illegal sale of dead bodies rampant at city hospitals
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: Attacks on RTI activists in India raise questions over safety measures
- RTI Happenings: Jharkhand: छह सौ फीसदी मुनाफे पर बिक रही दवाएं
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan: Lokayukta staff getting salary without work
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: In past 10 yrs, no MLA or MP took ST bus: RTI
- RTI Court Decision: Maharashtra: Accused denied information on how cops test for RDX
- RTI Court Decision: Jharkhand: सूचना पदाधिकारी नियुक्ति के संबंध में न
- RTI Happenings: The Verdictum: Justice Swatanter Kumar
- RTI Happenings: MPSC recruited men in women's quota, PIL alleges
- RTI Happenings: Goa: RTI appeals pile as information panel in Goa remains headless
- RTI Happenings: Jharkhand: ‘Commoners stopped at signals, squares for VIP security reasons’ .
- RTI Activism: RTI activist seeks why Gandhi on currency notes
- RTI Activism: Punjab: Contempt of court petition filed against MC Commissioner
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Activists discuss effectiveness of RTI and challenges citizens face
- RTI Happenings: TN: HC misplaced RTI application: Lawyer
- RTI Happenings: PMO declines info on Shunglu’s recommendation on CAG, CVC
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in RTI Judgement Series: Pension Trust funded, controlled by government is a Public Authority
- RTI Happenings: WB: Panel scrutiny on Presidency hiring
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: ‘Why have locus standi for info?’
- RTI Happenings: हिमाचल प्रदेश: आरटीआई एक्टिविस्टों को कां
- RTI Happenings: J&K: RTI activist moves SHRC against CIC
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Notice to Mazgaon school for ‘illegal’ hiring of principal
- RTI Court Decision: Moneylife.in: RTI Judgement Series: Section 11 does not give a third party an unrestrained veto to refuse disclosing information
- RTI Happenings: AP: Only 136 disabled enrolled under GCPS in last 7 years
- RTI Happenings: Haryana: No case against khaps in Haryana: Cops
- RTI Happenings: Goa: Government draws flak for promising to increase dole next year
- RTI Happenings: J&K: Tale of four commissions
- RTI Happenings: Indian firms find Chinese cos are no honey bunnies
- RTI Activism: New Delhi: No record of Sheila Dikshit meetings: Delhi CM secretariat
- RTI Happenings: Pratibha Patil ran a bill of Rs 18 cr on her last trip
- RTI Happenings: Over 11,000 RTI pleas pile up with headless Madhya Pradesh info panel
- RTI Happenings: AP: TTD says it is not bound by RTI Act
- RTI Happenings: What was once a river...
- RTI Happenings: J&K:DEPO Rajouri not responding to RTI
- RTI Happenings: In Goa, it's better to be a migrant and live at Moti Dongor
- RTI Happenings: AP: Mobile pollution testing centres charging extra
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Lokayukta filed 2 reports in 1.6k plaints in 6 years
- RTI Improvement: Jharkhand takes giant leap with CCTNS
- RTI Happenings: CIC fails to present details on compliance of its orders
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: RTI activist attacked, his office ransacked
- RTI Happenings: Maharashtra: Applications invited for RTI award
- RTI Happenings: Hameed’s official home houses anti-Gujarat NGO
- RTI Court Decision: RTI - CIC -Judgment
- RTI Happenings: Rajasthan: No new rail project for state in 2013-14 budget
- RTI Happenings: Up: Exclusive: मि*लि*ए अनोखे डीएम-कमि*श्*नर से, लाखों की दव
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: Notice to state on vacancies in consumer forum
- RTI Happenings: बिहार: Rti : मांगो सूचना, जाओ जेल
- RTI Activism: MP: RTI activists protest against defunct SIC
- RTI Activism: Maharashtra: Check corruption instead of increasing fares, demands RTI activist
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Remove it or face action: ASI issues showcause notice to Subramanian Swamy for illegal floor at house
- RTI Happenings: Delhi: Flouting rules, 125 autos registered on a single address
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: No plan to amend RTI Act: Narayanasamy
- RTI Happenings: RTI ACT; Info panel slaps Rs 2,500 fine on LIT
- RTI Happenings: सजा की दवा से जुर्म जिंदा
- AP Govt passed new amendment for deciding appeals in Information Commission (regarding appearance of PIO, FAA)
- RTI Happenings: Karnataka: No breakthrough in RTI activist missing case
- RTI Point of View: Are you rightly informed?
- RTI Effect: Kerala: Vigilance court admits petition against Shashi Tharoor
- RTI Effect: Congress, BJP in the dock over donation norms violations
- RTI Activism: Gujarat: NGOs flay govt over disaster management
- RTI Happenings: New Delhi: Civic body looks other way as Kotla flouts safety rules
- RTI Happenings: CBI gets notice for delaying RTI reply
- RTI Happenings: Defaulters owe over R300 crore to MC
- RTI Happenings: MC ‘ not providing’ detail on maps
- RTI Point of View: RTI officials must be open on giving info
- RTI Happenings: Moves on to silence pesky RTI
- RTI Activism: Punjab: Mahavira college yet to get land registered
- RTI Activism: Punjab: Defaulters owe over Rs. 300 crore to cash strapped MC