The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) fall under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and have to provide information to an applicant.
Dismissing the appeals of the Games Organising Committee and the IOA against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order [...]
The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) fall under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and have to provide information to an applicant.
Dismissing the appeals of the Games Organising Committee and the IOA against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) A Delhi based advocate Tuesday filed an application under the Right to Information Act (RTI) with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking copy of the ‘entire file of the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case’.
Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore was sentenced by a CBI court Dec 21 to six months [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23(ANI): The wives of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack martyrs, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar, called on Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday.
The meeting came just three days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror in Mumbai, where 10 heavily armed gunmen went on a [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): The wives of 26/11 martyrs, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar, called on Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday.
The meeting came just three days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks during which Karkare and Salaskar [...]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been investigating the Bofors gun payoff scandal, has refused to reveal any information sought under the Right to Information (RTI) about Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, stating that it ‘would impede the process of apprehension and prosecution of the accused’.
The information was sought [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) A cloth trader’s Right to Information (RTI) application started a nationwide debate on the declaration of assets by judges while a professor forced the Indian Institutes of Technology to disclose the details of their selection procedure. The two are among 19 finalists shortlisted for RTI Awards in the citizens category.
The [...]
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has come to the rescue of a man who was slapped with bills amounting to over Rs.200,000 by BSES after he said he detected irregularities in the working of the power utility through an RTI application. The court has suspended payment of the bills.
Purshottam Kalra, who [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) While the nation is celebrating four years of Right to Information (RTI) Act, officials of Noida authority seem to be working to stop the information flow to people, an activist alleged Monday.
‘Under the RTI Act, a first appeal has to be heard by the appellate authority within 30 days. This [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep. 9 (ANI): Accusing the Kerala Government of giving cabinet decision documents on a corruption case to CPI-M’s tainted leader Pinarayi Vijyan, the Congress-led Opposition staged a walk out of the Kerala Assembly on Wednesday.
Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, however, denied the charges, saying that the documents were given [...]
