RTI

The Prime Minister’s Office should not have deliberately ignored the will that the Parliament had expressed in the RTI Act, and the spirit of the Rules and Office Memoranda (OM) issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in responding to RTI requests.

After hearing all submissions in the matter, the Court has directed both the CIC and SIC authorities to take a call on whether COVID-19 related RTI queries can be taken up on a daily basis and communicate their decision to the petitioner.

The Court dismissed all applications by the banks for the recall of a December 16, 2015 Judgement of the court in which the Supreme Court had decided that RBI has to act with transparency.

Over the last five years, there has been a systemic slowdown in the submission of CAG reports. Critics wonder if the government’s fiscal strength and management is being assessed at all or not.

The Supreme Court has stayed the contempt proceedings which was sought to be initiated against Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari by the Uttarakhand High Court which had issued a notice on the same.

New Delhi (ILNS): An RTI application has been filed by Saket Gokhale, an RTI activist, seeking information about the backlog of interim bail applications before the Supreme Court and enquired about the average time it takes for the listing of the interim bail applications.

In a major breach of privacy, personal data of 4,000 Right to Information (RTI) applicants have been uploaded on the website of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Bombay High Court today instructed the Secretary of the ministry to conduct an inquiry into this data leak.

The ministry statement said: “The names of all those associated with the development of the App and management of the App ecosystem at various stages was shared when the code was released in Open/Public Domain and the same was shared widely in media also.”

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued a show cause notice to four Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs) for prima facie obstruction of information and providing an evasive reply on an RTI seeking information on the creation of the Aarogya Setu App.

Former AIADMK leader Sasikala Natarajan has written a letter to the Parappana Agrahara Prison Chief Superintendent in Bengaluru, requesting him not to entertain any application of any third party under the Right to Information (RTI) Act