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A new report says that two state information panels remain defunct and that the number of pending cases have gone up by 59,000 in the past year.

On October 3, when Ramesh Balia and his son Narendra were returning home after visiting Dayapar village around 6:30 pm, Navalsinh Jadeja's SUV rammed them from behind and ran them over.

The Court held that the relationship between the AG and the State being a fiduciary one, such communications enjoy the exemption under Section 8(1)(e) of the RTI Act.

RTI activist exposes likely fraud, seeks EC probe

Unlike most other countries in the region, the 2016 Right to Information (RTI) Act of Sri Lanka attracted different strata of society, including its vigilant civil society organisations, from the very beginning.

The petitioner sought details of a Collegium meeting on December 12, 2018 in which then CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan Lokur were to decide on the alleviation of two HC chief justices to the SC.

Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to have adopted an RTI law. However, it soon became evident that the Pakistan government’s motivation in this regard was influenced more by donor pressure than serving public interest.

Noting that the one-page response, filed by the fund itself and not the Union government, was not adequate, the bench directed the Union government to file an affidavit in the case within four weeks.

Hyderabad: With an eye on the upcoming state Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana unit is exploring all avenues to target the ruling TRS government. The Telangana BJP has decided to use the Right to Information (RTI) mechanism to expose the alleged failed promises of the KCR government.

The division bench called attention to the object of the RTI Act that disclosure was the norm and withholding of information was the exception.