-The Times of India MUMBAI: Cancer caused almost 70% of the 3,887 health-related deaths in the atomic energy hubs across the country over the last 20 years, an RTI reply has revealed. In all, 2,600 succumbed to cancer in 19 centres between 1995 and 2014. The query to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), which, like the others, is under the Department of Atomic Energy, had another shocking revelation: 255 employees took...
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BJP reverses stand on bringing parties under RTI -Anuja and Liz Mathew
-Live Mint BJP says bringing parties under RTI Act would hamper smooth functioning of parties, information could be misused by opponents New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Thursday said bringing political parties under the Right to Information (RTI) Act would hamper the smooth functioning of parties and the information could be misused by opponents, in a departure from BJP's earlier stance. The ruling party's U-turn,...
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-The Indian Express Kumbhar said Jadhav disposes of 10-15 cases per day while Kuvlekar disposed of 25-30 cases a day. Pune: The RTI movement in Pune has been dealt a blow by the inability of the Pune division of the State Information Commission (SIC) to clear pending cases. By the end of May, there were 7,045 second appeals to be disposed of by the Pune bench of the Commission that covers Pune,...
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-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The chief information commissioner (CIC) D Rajagopalan has asked the Gujarat high court to furnish information under the Right to Information Act pertaining to its system for monitoring the lower judiciary. The commission ordered so after the HC had refused to part with the information on the grounds that it wasn't bound to reveal these details under the information laws. The applicant, Kalpeshkumar Gupta, filed a query under...
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-Outlook The UPA-II government spent nearly Rs 187 crore to publicise schemes under the 'Bharat Nirman' programme in the election year 2013-14. According to an RTI response by the Directorate of Advertising & Visual Publicity, the Manmohan Singh-led government spent Rs 186.98 crore in the election year 2013-14. Giving details of Bharat Nirman campaign of UPA-2, DAVP said in 2013-14, the election year, Rs 186.98 crore were spent whereas in 2012-13, the figure...
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