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12:15 AM | November 03,2009
RTI petitions fail due to a combination of bureaucratic stonewalling (firewalling is a better description) and “sympathy” of information commissioners towards officialdom
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PTI 09:53 PM | November 02,2009
The SC judges made their assets public two months after the Delhi high court held that the office of the CJI falls under the RTI Act and disclosure of assets of the apex court judges to him could be made public
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Ruhi Tewari and Liz Mathew 12:42 AM | October 22,2009
The study, based on orders passed in 51,128 cases by information commissioners and benches during 2008, shows that at a national level, orders have been passed in favour of disclosure in 70% of the cases
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12:33 AM | October 22,2009
The statistics associated with India’s own sunshine movement are heartening: almost one in four RTI applications met with complete success
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12:20 AM | October 13,2009
Perhaps it is too much and too early for a single law to change the culture of obstruction and secrecy in the government. Maybe RTI needs more time to deliver
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Amit Anand and Sanjeev Kumar / PTI 01:03 AM | September 03,2009
CJI K.G. Balakrishnan has consistently held that his office did not come within the ambit of the RTI Act
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10:15 PM | August 04,2009
The government’s legislation to have judges declare assets, but not to the public, is only making the judiciary vulnerable to public perception of corruption and political interference
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PTI 12:14 AM | July 09,2009
The government has received representations expressing doubts about the proposed amendments
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Madhurima Nandy, Poornima Mohandas and Pavitra Jayaraman 12:14 AM | June 13,2009
The nominees for this year’s award include a village revenue officer, a forest officer and a homoeopathic doctor
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Padmaparna Ghosh and Rahul Chandran 02:28 AM | April 29,2009
Almost half of the water pumped from collection points in other states is not put to use
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PTI 10:24 PM | March 17,2009
Refusal rate to divulge information was high in the finance ministry, since most applicants sought information on income tax and bank details of another person
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10:06 PM | February 01,2009
Sales of motorcycles and scooters rose to 93,729 units in January from 93,385 a year earlier
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Malathi Nayak 09:45 PM | December 28,2008
The litigation seeks directions to the Centre to divulge the policy it adopted in the appointments
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PTI 12:03 PM | November 27,2008
The English version defines public authority as any authority or body or institution governed by the Central and state governments, whereas Hindi version considers it as the one controlled or financed by Centre only
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Khushboo Narayan 11:53 PM | April 23,2008
The Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity released only two TV ads and a radio spot on RTI in 2007
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