-The Times of India   The Aruna Roy-founded Rozgar Evum Suchna Ka Adhikar Abhiyan has decided to oppose any amendment to the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The Abhiyan, in an internal meeting, has decided to hold demonstrations and meetings to spread the word and halt any move to this effect. Recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed views that the RTI Act was adversely affecting deliberations in the government and deterring honest...

The year 2010 endured 950 natural disasters, 90 percent of which were weather-related and cost the global community well over 130 billion dollars. From wildfires in Brazil to record rainfall in the United States to the severe drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, it has become clear to many that quick and radical decisions need to be made about the world's future.  One of the biggest advocates of this position...

AS THE UPA government struggled to hide its embarrassment over the finance ministry note on the 2G spectrum allocation, the RTI Act — through which the note was made public — has become the whipping boy. Senior Cabinet members such as Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily and Law Minister Salman Khurshid have hit out at the ‘misuse’ of the transparency law. Moily called for a national debate as he claimed RTI...

-PTI   Information given to income tax authorities by assessees does not come under any fiduciary relationship and cannot be denied to an RTI applicant on this ground, the Central Information Commission has ruled. Hearing the plea of Rakesh Kumar Gupta, who sought information on estimated tax evasion figures, the panel rejected the income tax department’s argument about such a relationship. Information commissioner Annapurna Dixit said the fiduciary relation exists when there is scope...

-The Economic Times   Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Monday unveiled a revised National Sports Development Bill that retains the contentious provisions on age limits and tenures of heads of sports bodies, but introduces an exclusion clause to protect certain information while bringing sports federations within the ambit of Right to Information Act.  "We strongly feel the functioning of the sports federations should be transparent. If they oppose it then there is something...