What is the purpose of this Act? Citizen Empowerment: This Act empowers every citizen to apply for information held by ...

When the Right to Information Act was enacted on October 12, 2005, India took a historic step toward democratic accountability. The law was born from a grassroots movement led by civil society ...

Feeling of being stone-walled at Chief Secy’s office; applications not being transferred to dept concerned If the complaints and allegations from Right To Information (RTI) activists are anything to ...

The right to information (RTI) regime in Bangladesh lost momentum with the departure of all three commissioners of the Information Commission following the mass uprising in July-August 2024. However, ...

Mumbai: The response to a Right to Information (RTI) query showing that the 60-year-old accused was actually in office and not in a three by four feet washroom in his residential quarters has ensured ...

The Enforcement Directorate is exempted from the scope of the Right to Information (RTI) Act but it can be directed to supply information concerning human rights violations, which include allegations ...

The Delhi High Court has asked the Central Government to create a proper system that allows people to receive information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act through modern digital means like ...

The Delhi High Court has held that details of the Special Branch manual, which contains sensitive and confidential information, cannot be brought into public domain under the Right To Information (RTI ...

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court made it clear that the information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) must be supplied to the applicants belonging to the below poverty line (BPL) ...

Those assuming public offices should take an oath of transparency upholding the spirit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act rather than an oath of secrecy, which is the case now, State Information ...