right to information act

New Delhi, April 8 The Central Information Commission (CIC) has expressed concern that "some public authorities continue to deny information without adequate reasons," and asserted that merely citing exemption clauses in the RTI Act is insufficient.The CIC emphasized that exemptions should not...

New Delhi, April 7 The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has said that it has complied with the CIC order, which had directed it to provide reasons for denying information to an RTI application seeking to know whether some vendors who had applied for cluster tenders had...

New Delhi, April 6 The Central Information Commission has imposed a total penalty of ₹20,000 on two MCD officials, citing "malicious" conduct and a "misleading and incorrect" RTI reply in a case where information was provided for a completely different property, linked to alleged unauthorized...

New Delhi, April 5 The Central Information Commission has criticized the IRCTC, the catering arm of the Indian Railways, for denying information in response to an RTI request seeking to determine if companies bidding on railway tenders had disclosed their alleged links to the Rail Neer 'scam'...

New Delhi, April 3 A Kashmiri family's wait of more than three decades for ex-gratia relief for their property destroyed in a "militancy-related incident" on the night of December 7-8, 1992, has reached the Central Information Commission, with the second generation now seeking answers on the...

New Delhi, April 1 What is your "deep-rooted agenda," an angry Supreme Court asked a petitioner on Wednesday while dismissing his plea related to the preliminary investigation report on the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad last June.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya...

New Delhi, March 30 – The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, on Monday emphasized the importance of providing accurate information to census enumerators, stating that individual data will remain confidential and cannot be used as evidence or to obtain...

New Delhi, March 27 The Delhi government has raised concerns about "persistent and systematic violations" of the Right to Information Act, 2005, by its departments, and has directed each office to ensure compliance with the transparency norms mandated under the law, officials said.A letter...

New Delhi, March 27 The Central Information Commission has criticized the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for its "unethical practices" and "avoiding" approach in handling Right to Information (RTI) applications, highlighting a broader pattern in cases involving information related to contracts...

Guwahati, March 27 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Assam government and various state agencies over alleged illegal groundwater drilling in parts of Guwahati.The NGT's Eastern Zone Bench admitted an application, filed by Milan Kanti Das and others, which highlighted...

Ranchi, March 23 The Jharkhand government informed the High Court on Monday that a decision will be taken soon regarding the appointment of the Lokayukta and the chief election commissioner in the state.Attorney General Rajiv Ranjan told a division bench of Chief Justice MS Sonak and Justice...

New Delhi, March 23 The Central Information Commission has allowed a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University to inspect the university's promotion records after he moved the commission alleging "bias in promotions" and claiming that "ineligible candidates are getting promoted due to undue...

New Delhi, March 23 The rejection rate of Right to Information (RTI) applications has come down to 3.26 per cent in 2024-25 from 7.21 per cent in 2013-14, the Centre has said.Data on RTI applications received, replied to, and rejected, along with the reasons for rejection, for public...

New Delhi, March 19 The Central Information Commission (CIC) has raised concerns about delays in updating Aadhaar details and has asked the Unique Identification Authority of India to establish timelines and strengthen its grievance redressal system.The observations were made while disposing...

Shimla, March 17 In a scathing attack on the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government, Leader of the Opposition in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, Jai Ram Thakur, said on Tuesday that the administration and law enforcement agencies in the state have been operating on an ad hoc basis, while those close...

Shimla, March 13 BJP leader Randhir Sharma criticised the state government's decision to exclude the State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, calling it unconstitutional and authoritarian.The BJP's state media in-charge stated that a...

New Delhi, March 12 A report by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) on alleged Bangladeshi infiltration and its impact on Adivasis in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand has not been shared under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, as comments from the Registrar General of...

Nainital, March 11 The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday declared a provision in the state public service commission's recruitment examination unconstitutional, which did not allow candidates to verify their answer sheets before the final results of all stages of the test were announced.A...

Prayagraj, March 10 The Allahabad High Court has ruled that information about marks in public examinations is not confidential and does not require the consent of a third party whose marks are sought by the RTI applicant under the Right to Information Act, 2005.While partly allowing a writ...

Since May 2016, more than one lakh mature, full-grown trees have been felled across Assam for various public and private projects, according to official records.The Assam government stated that these trees were felled out of "dire necessity" to develop the projects, and that more than 3.5...