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Topic: RTI

Modi govt’s top law officer tried to influence inquiry against police officers reveals RTI

ASG Satya Pal Jain wrote a letter to the Chandigarh administration asking them to go soft on the officers who were looking into a property dispute case.

Uttarakhand teacher seeking transfer suspended, CM’s wife not transferred for last 22 years

Suspended principal cries foul as RTI plea says CM’s wife Sunita Rawat, also a teacher, is posted in Dehradun since 1996.

In SC next week: How RTI is being ‘stifled’ due to lack of information commissioners

Plea says Centre & states are yet to fill vacancies of information commissioners even as 23,500 appeals remain pending in just the CIC.

Arvind Kejriwal will go down in history as only CM who went against his own officers

Kejriwal’s dharna politics is taking a toll on Delhi citizens who believed in his promises and voted overwhelmingly for his party.

Law Ministry upholds EC concerns on electoral bonds, says they ‘appear genuine’

RTI shows EC didn’t follow up on letter after raising concerns; parties don’t have to reveal names of electoral bond contributors.

Can’t use RTI to know the reason you were rejected, UP Police tells constable aspirants

Over 15 lakh candidates had applied for the 28,915 vacancies announced by the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board in 2015.

Maharashtra Mantralaya makeover: A project that just doesn’t end

Six years after a portion of the Mantralaya was gutted in a blaze, the makeover remains, at best, a job half done, show documents obtained by ThePrint.

The controversial past of the man behind the Cobrapost expose

Pushp Sharma has been arrested twice in two separate cases, including for 'fabricating' a ministry's RTI reply. Sharma has claimed that both were false cases. 

In a first, cash-rich Indian cricket board furnishes its tax details under RTI Act

Move seen as a major step towards transparency given BCCI, for a long time, has been resisting attempts to bring itself under RTI.

Information commission directs Air India to furnish bills of PM Modi’s foreign visits

The CIC rejected Air India’s submission that the details were exempt from RTI because of ‘commercial confidence and fiduciary relationship with the client’.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.