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...
cbi
central information commission
cic
cluster tenders
government procurement
indian railway catering and tourism corporation
information exemptions
irctc
public authority
right to information act
rtirti appeals
transparency
vendor applications
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...
anti-corruption
bjp
governance
himachal pradesh
india
law
political transparency
randhir sharma
right to information act
rti
state government
vigilance bureau
New Delhi, February 26 As many as 1,566 parks across the national capital received financial assistance of Rs 10.22 crore from the Delhi Parks and Gardens Society (DPGS) until January 20 during the fiscal year 2025-26, according to an RTI reply.In response to the Right to Information (RTI)...
delhi
delhi parks and gardens society
financial assistance
fiscal year 2025-26
government funding
india
new delhi
park development
parks
parks and gardens
parks maintenance
parks management
rs 10.22 crore
rti
urban green spaces
New Delhi, February 22 – Accusing the Union government of weakening the transparency law, Abhishek Singhvi, Chairman of the AICC’s Law, Human Rights, and RTI Department, proposed a national conclave on the Right to Information (RTI) law, among other steps, to revitalize the existing legal...
aicc
civil society
data protection
india
information disclosure
legal advocacy
legal department
legal fellows programme
national conclave
new delhi
rapid response force
right to information act
rti
transparency
New Delhi, February 22 The Congress announced new initiatives on Sunday, including setting up rapid legal response teams at the state and district levels, and raising its voice to reclaim the original RTI Act, as part of efforts to encourage the involvement of young people with the party...
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constitutional dialogue
district legal support
governance
indian politics
information transparency
law fellowship
legal aid
national conclave
podcast series
political activism
right to information act
rti
social media
young lawyers
New Delhi, February 18 The Congress claimed on Wednesday that the Union Ministry of Culture funded an event last December where allegedly hate speech was directed against the Muslim community, and demanded that a law be enacted to curb hate speech.There was no immediate reaction from the...
bharat mandapam
bjp leaders
congress
conversion attempts
event funding
hate speech
india
muslim community
new delhi
political activism
preventive legislation
rti
sanatan rashtra shankhnad mahotsava
sanatan sanstha
union ministry of culture
New Delhi, February 16 The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre in response to a petition challenging the constitutional validity of several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.The petition, filed by The Reporters' Collective and renowned...
constitutional validity
data privacy
data protection
digital personal data protection act
dpdp act
india
legal challenge
new delhi
nitin sethi
petitioner
right to information act
rti
supreme court
the reporters' collective
vrinda grover