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Cabinet to revoke decision to dilute RTI Act
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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The Sword of Damocles hanging over the Right To Information Act may end on Thursday with the Union Cabinet likely to consider a proposal on Thursday to revoke the 2006 Cabinet decision to dilute the transparency law. The Cabinet has decided to amend
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Depts get DoPT memo after slow RTI response
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Delayed response from several ministries on a study on RTI applications received by them has prompted the Department of Personnel and Training to send a reminder to all departments concerned to send details of their nodal officers for the purpose.
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RTI doesn't trample upon privacy: expert panel
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Government officials riding high on hopes that privacy concerns could blunt the right to information are in for disappointment. An expert panel set up to build a framework for a privacy regulation in India has brushed aside suggestions that the
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Ex GCA president Narvekar expelled as member for 6 years
Uni :: Russia | 7 months ago
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A resolution to this effect was passed in a special general body meeting held at GCA's office, comprising 96 members, in which 93 voted in favour of Narvekar's expulsion and three against it. Speaking to mediapersons after the meeting, GCA president
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CBI conducts searches in connection with RTI activist murder case
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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The CBI teams began their search operations last evening and which continued till today morning, said a CBI official. "We have conducted searches at ten locations in Pune and a place at Barshi in order to verify certain inputs which we have received
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'Denied' information, Jammu lad files 'blood written' RTI
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Denied' information, Jammu lad files 'blood written' RTI Jammu, Oct 24 (UNI) A Jammu-based boy has filed an application written with blood under Right To Information Act with the State Information Commission seeking information in a death case of a
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Shehla Masood's father demands security cover for himself
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Bhopal police is assessing the threat perception to Sultan Masood, father and chief prosecution witness in the slain RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, who has demanded a security cover. "We have asked the concerned police station (Koh-e-Fiza)
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RTI Act : Seven years of empowerment
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Navinchandra Dedhia filed with guarded optimism in April this year a right to information (RTI) application seeking the status of the registration papers he was yet to receive for a property he bought in 1988. In 1997, we showed the department of
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Activists slam PM for his remarks on curbing RTI
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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Led by Aruna Roy, who is a member in the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), a group of prominent Right to Information (RTI) activists on Saturday slammed prime minister Manmohan Singh for his comments on curbing the
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RTI can?t prevail over right to privacy, says PM
Rti :: Serbia | 7 months ago
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RTI cant prevail over right to privacy, says PM '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday cautioned against the frivolous and vexatious use of the RTI Act, saying that the citizens right to know
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