6 months after filing RTI with PHED, Pankaj Arora finds himself buried under 37,443 pages. Yet, he said, he didn’t get information he sought. ‘They’re hiding multi-crore scam in tenders, recruitments’.
People’s RTI Museum, to be set up by Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan will engage citizens via workshops & courses, while serving as archive of docs, materials related to RTI movement.
Gujarat HC has overturned trial court order of life term to BJP leader & 6 others for murder of Amit Jethwa in 2010. It said there was no credible evidence connecting them to murder.
Sri Lanka Guardian says it is imperative Indian PM refrains from 'manipulative politicking' in matters that may have big repercussions on India’s ties with its neighbours.
While PM claims island was ‘callously given away’, in 2015, MEA's RTI reply says case ‘of acquiring or ceding' the island does not arise. ThePrint explains Katchatheevu situation.
The 2 rights are viewed as 2 sides of the same coin. However, debate continues ever since 2017 SC judgment declared Right to Privacy, including informational privacy, to be a fundamental right.
While hearing 2008 PIL, SC said reportage implicating a person being probed could impinge on their ‘personal dignity’. At the same time, media & consumers have a right to know, it said.
Delhi HC Monday upheld CIC order to provide information to Tibetan national, says provision in RTI Act that mentions only citizens isn't an 'absolute bar'.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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