-The Times of India The government has admitted in response to an rti that it has destroyed the files of nine of the 22 secretaries/principal secretaries to the Prime Minister. This was disclosed in response to an innocuous query regarding the pay given to the secretary or principal secretary to the premier. In its reply, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said that it did not have information on nine officials, including H...

-Outlook A Delhi-based rti activist today threatened to initiate legal proceedings against Arvind Kejriwal and his associates alleging that one of the NGOs run by them collected funds but did not account them, a charge denied by India Against Corruption. Pranav Arora alleged that Kejriwal was associated with the NGO Kabir, run by India Against Corruption leader Manish Sisodia, and it had got funds from Ford Foundation which they did not show...

-The Times of India Gujarat, which faced one of the worst anti-Muslim riots in the country barely 10 years ago, has emerged as the state with the largest number of Muslim cops posted in police stations, beating states with a higher proportion of the community in their population. The data, shared by the home ministry in response to an rti query filed by TOI, shows that 10.6% of Gujarat's cops posted in...

-The Hindustan Times Bhopal: The state assembly secretariat has framed new rules for implementation of Right to Information Act in the secretariat, replacing controversial rules that it framed in 2010. The new rules were notified on November 8 just at the time when a deadline of six weeks given by Supreme Court to file a reply to a petition challenging the 2010 rules was about to elapse. It might be mentioned that the...

-The Hindustan Times A right to information (rti) activists has filed a police complaint against the wife of revenue minister Raman Bhalla, alleging that she has threatened him against pursuing the case of multi-crore land transfer to hoteliers in Gulmarg. rti activist SK Bhalla has been fighting the case of alleged illegal transfer of land earmarked for the development of tourist infrastructure under the masterplan of Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) by...