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Priority, not officers decide appointments for Chandigarh Administrator’s Janta Darbar: RTI
November 08, 2025 12:04 am
The RTI had also sought details of minutes of all such public grievance meetings held so far under the present administrator along with a list of persons who were the attendees
20 years of RTI: Once a revolutionary mechanism of accountability, now a cautionary tale
October 13, 2025 4:19 pm
Unravelling of the RTI is not an isolated event. Parallels can be drawn with the decay of other institutions due to executive overreach. What remains is not governance through institutions, but governance through control -- an inefficient system where loyalty replaces legality, fear stands in for accountability
How a demand by rural labourers in Rajasthan led to landmark RTI Act: Back where it all started, a movement is remembered
October 13, 2025 7:28 am
The RTI Mela was held in Beawar to mark 20 years of the RTI Act. Leaders of the movement for the transparency law, which started in Rajasthan, gathered for the event, remembering the past and cautioning about the future.
Knowledge Nugget | Right to Information Act (RTI): What you must-know for UPSC Exam
August 26, 2025 12:49 pm
Recently, Delhi High Court on PM Modi degree row held that information pertaining to an individual’s educational qualifications — including degrees and marks — falls within the ambit of “personal information” under provisions of the RTI Act. What is the RTI Act? What are the public authorities exempt under it? Here's all you need to know.
Gadchiroli hosts RTI hearings for the first time since 2005 under outreach initiative
August 01, 2025 8:54 pm
Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner Rahul Pande announced that all pending RTI appeal cases in Gadchiroli district up to 2023 have been completely resolved, achieving the goal of ‘zero pendency’ for that period.
Share RTI info upto five pages for free, allow applicants to take photo: Gujarat govt to authorities
June 05, 2025 12:58 am
Gujarat State Information Commission, whose recommendations were accepted by the state government, has called the instructions 'revolutionary'
Knowledge Nugget: Why is Right To Information Act important for UPSC?
April 13, 2025 8:36 pm
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw dismissed concerns that certain provisions of the DPDP Act would render the RTI Act toothless. In light of this, learn about the RTI Act and go 'Beyond the Nugget' to know about the Right to Privacy.
RTI Act amendment: Amid Opposition fire, Vaishnaw says won’t affect disclosure obligated by laws
April 10, 2025 9:37 pm
Recalling that the Supreme Court in the Puttaswamy judgment had held privacy to be an integral part of Right to Life, Vaishnaw underlined that protection of personal information was important.
Delhi University to HC on Modi’s degree: Interest to public not same as public interest
February 12, 2025 5:18 am
The court kept the matter for further consideration on February 19
In 2015, an RTI activist was jailed for refusing to stand. A decade-long legal fight just won him an acquittal
October 18, 2024 2:22 pm
It was in 2012 that Siva Elango filed an RTI seeking details of then Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa’s ad spending. What came next was a case like no other
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