Expanded as Right To Information Act, RTI means that any Indian citizen can request any information (which is supposed to be public knowledge) from the offices and departments of the state or ...
Public interest should be the yardstick when balancing citizens' right to information concerning governance and state need to ...
The law itself is likely to stand, but experts expect a surge in requests, longer delays, and more court dates.
The Supreme Court was told that the state information commissions in Jharkhand, Tripura and Telangana did not have a single ...
A Division Bench of Justices M.S. Sonak and Jitendra Jain held that marks obtained by candidates in public recruitment ...
Communications minister Simon Kofe said the framework will allow citizens to better question the government and journalists to hold leaders to account.
How the right to information law is changing India ... even when they had the required marks. Without this information, "the RTI Act would not keep a check on corruption and [this would] reduce ...
He and his mother, Laura, had travelled from Indianapolis for the White House event. The new Right to Try act allows patients with life-threatening diseases to bypass the FDA's application process ...
This eventually became a nationwide campaign. India then passed the Right to Information Act in 2005, allowing citizens to ...