New Delhi: The Gujarat Police Crime Branch on Tuesday gave a clean chit to BJP MP Dinu Solanki in connection with the RTI activist Amit Jethva murder case. The crime branch submitted its final report on Tuesday giving a clean chit to Solanki. Amit's father, Bhikha, had filed a petition in the High Court, seeking probe by the CBI or any other independent agency, in October 2010. In the petition...
05:34 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Advocating a strong investigative agency under purview of the proposed Lokpal, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today said corruption in India was not "accidental or opportunistic but systematic and planned". "Corruption is not accidental or opportunistic but systematic and planned in India. There is need for a system change approach in order to end corruption," she said in Bhubaneshwar. Citing instances of the CBI being misused due to lack...
10:05 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai's municipal schools are in a dismal state. An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers, and rampant mismanagement, which are just some of the problems plaguing the system. The elections to control the country's richest civic corporation Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC), are just a month away, but questions raised about municipal education in Mumbai have thrown up disturbing answers. The BMC's own...
08:50 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed all proceedings arising out of a notice by the Goa information commissioner asking the governor's office to furnish all the reports it had sent to the President during the political turmoil in the state in 2007. The apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Justice TS Thakur and Justice Dipak Misra issued notice to the petitioners before the information commission saying that...
04:53 AM, Dec 09, 2011
On Board PM's Special Aircraft: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday denied suggestions that he had pitched for dilution of Right to Information Act. He maintained that he had never said that there should be any dilution of the Act. "There are certain ways in which things can be done. All I said is that we should reflect how to achieve in totality the purposes for which RTI was set...
11:42 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has lauded the Right To Information Act calling it crucial in exposing authorities and their work which otherwise remain hidden from the public while clarifying that the Government is against any dilution in the Act. "RTI is now more extensively and more effectively used to bring into public face, many areas of work of public authority which would otherwise remain hidden from public domain," Prime...
10:54 AM, Oct 14, 2011
CIC says all information sought by an RTI activist, who has been murdered, to be placed in the public domain. ...
10:10 PM, Oct 08, 2011
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
Kutch: Gujarat Right To Information (RTI) activist Jabbardan Gadhvi had sought information on alleged irregularities in cattle grazing in the Rapar taluka of Kutch district. Earlier this week, the 45-year-old RTI activist set himself ablaze in the compound of the Mamlatdar's office after having received constant threats from the Mamlatdar, Talati and the PSI of Rapar. Gadhvi's family, still in shock, wonders why no body stepped in to stop Gadhvi....
07:02 AM, Feb 26, 2011
Fatehabad: A village Sarpanch in Fatehabad in Haryana allegedly crushed a woman to death by mowing her down with his vehicle. He did this because her father-in-law had dared to file a Right to Information application exposing a pension fraud. The victim, Sonu, died and her father-in-law who tried to save her was critically injured. This was not the first time the Sarpanch had allegedly attacked them. Locals say that...
12:37 PM, Feb 13, 2011
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05:44 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: Ram Vilas, 32, a small-time shopkeeper in a village in Bihar, now knows the power of the Right To Information (RTI) Act after he used it successfully to get the provident fund money of his ailing retired father, an ex-civic employee. A school drop out, Ram Vilas sought help from one of his former classmates, who is working in a bank, to get an RTI application filed. The...
05:40 PM, Oct 11, 2010
New Delhi: Expressing dissatisfaction over the performance of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Monday said scams "can be halted in mid-stride" if prompt attention is drawn to them "when they are being planned and executed". "Post-mortems are good but they can be conducted only when a patient is dead. Scandals and scams are known even when they are being planned and...
05:32 PM, Sep 13, 2010
Maharashtra: Ramdas Ghadegavkar, a Right to Information (RTI) activist from Nanded was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Ghadegavkar was also a Shiv Sena leader and the head of the district Milk Sellers Association. The Shiv Sena leader had exposed the thriving sand mafia in the region through the RTI act and had lodged a complaint reporting the same. His complaint had also led the district administration to initiate action concerning...
12:59 PM, Aug 29, 2010
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