New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand out a compensation of Rs 3,000 to an RTI applicant for providing "misleading information" which caused her mental and physical harassment. Laxmi Aggarwal had filed a right to information (RTI) application with the DDA on March 11, 2011, inquiring the time of de-sealing and demolition of an unauthorised construction on the fifth floor of a...
03:48 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing the proposed move to exempt nuclear regulatory bodies from the ambit of the Right To Information Act. In his letter to the PM, Gandhi opposed the proposals in the Nuclear Safety Regulation Act (NSRA) relating to introduction of new exemption clause in the RTI Act which will prohibit disclosure of nuclear energy and radiation issues...
08:40 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the President's Secretariat to disclose details of correspondence among various ministries and the Delhi Police related to black money. The order came following an appeal by an RTI applicant who had sought to know the action taken on the letters written by him to Finance and External Affairs ministries among other public authorities in connection with the illegal wealth stashed abroad. During...
03:45 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a move to protect the Right to Information (RTI) activists in the country, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has adopted a new resolution. According to the resolution, if an RTI activist is murdered or assaulted the information that he was seeking will automatically need to be put up on the website of the government department concerned. The principal behind this is that the RTI activist is assaulted...
09:33 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has suggested that it is for the President of India to take a call on placing her and her family's property details in public domain. Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi underlined the fact that he had no powers under the RTI act to pass any direction in this regard. "The Commission cannot pass any direction in this regard, as it does not come within...
05:14 PM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission on Monday directed the CBI to make public information related to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia in the ongoing spectrum allocation scam investigations, overruling the agency's argument that the disclosure would affect probe. The case relates to a Lucknow-based RTI applicant Tanya Thakur who had sought to know from the CBI whether Niira Radia has been made an accused in the telecom spectrum scam or...
08:54 PM, May 23, 2011
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07:36 PM, Jul 06, 2010
Dr SD Bharati is hopeful of getting what he wants from Jaipur's MNIT. ...
07:43 PM, Mar 22, 2010
Panel wanted explanation on how 3 top judges were appointed. ...
11:57 AM, Dec 04, 2009
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders have roped in sports psychologist Rudi Webster, who managed the West Indies side led by Clive Lloyd in the 1970s, as its mental skills coach. The Grenada-based Webster has done pioneering work in the mental component of performance and the mental conditioning of athletes, according to a KKR statement. Webster has also worked with the national cricket teams of Sri Lanka and India. Commenting on Webster's...
10:15 PM, Apr 30, 2008
New Delhi: The favourites' tag will be the albatross around India's neck when Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team mates begin their quest for World Cup glory. A billion dreams will rest on their shoulders as they seek to become the second Indian team, after the 1983 'Kapil's Devils', to win the top prize in one-day cricket. With arguably the best coach around in South African Gary Kirsten, led by...
07:24 PM, Dec 11, 2007
London: England batsman Kevin Pietersen has blasted the Cricket World Cup schedule, saying that the six-week fixture is too long and playing matches with six-day intervals is "ridiculous". "It's far too long. How can the England team play once and then in six days' time play again, and then in six days' time play again?" Pietersen asked. "It's ridiculous but there's nothing we can do about the schedules," he added....
09:59 PM, Dec 05, 2007
Central Information Commission has asked ONGC to make the deals public. ...
06:08 PM, Sep 15, 2007
Central Information Commission has brought the stock exchanges under the purview of Right to Information Act. ...
09:41 PM, Jun 10, 2007
Can the powerful Act could be used by corporate groups to meet their own ends? Will it become a new weapon in corporate warfare? ...
01:24 AM, May 22, 2007
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