-The Times of India HYDERABAD: In a move that may provide relief to thousands of undertrials in state jails, the State Information Commission is planning to direct the government to make public the list of those who are languishing in prisons without trial for a long time, officials said. "We will order the prisons department to immediately make the information on undertrials public under the Right to Information act," saidJannat Hussain, chief...
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The RTI activists' fights -Barkha Mathur
-The Times of India NAGPUR: After voting rights if there has been any other weapon which has empowered an Indian citizen it is the Right to Information (RTI). RTI is used to seek information about matters which affect the aamadami. How much of information is being handed out is still a contentious issue, but the act has definitely created a battalion of social activists. An RTI activist is not exactly the harried...
More »Rajiv assassin’s RTI query: Why my plea was rejected? -Arun Janardhanan
-The Times of India CHENNAI: One of the three convicts on death row for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, AG Perarivalan, will on Monday be on a videoconference with Central Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra on a complaint against Rashtrapati Bhavan and the ministry of home affairs on a petition seeking to know why his mercy plea was rejected in August 2011. A notification on the videoconference was fixed three days ago...
More »PMO refues to give information related to Robert Vadra land deal case -Ashish Tripathi
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has denied to provide information on Robert Vadra writ petition filed in the Allahabad high court. The public information officer (PIO) of the PMO denied providing notesheet of the case-related file to the petitioner and social activist Nutan Thakur saying that the matter was sub-judice. To this Thakur, wrote to the first appellate authority (FAO) saying that the RTI Act nowhere prohibits...
More »Indian security forces killing Indians: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India Reflecting the grievances of people in Jammu and Kashmir and north-eastern states, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said prolonged deployment of armed forces in disturbed areas was bound to result in extra-judicial killings. Dealing with the issues raised by public interest litigations alleging 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur in the last three decades, a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana P Desai said, "Manipur's woes must...
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