Protocol to protect RTI activists in the works

If a single panchayat-level activist can expose corruption worth Rs 25 lakh, then each needs protection for effective implementation of …

Monsanto conducted trials of GM maize without approval, reveals RTI reply

Biotech regulatory panel overlooked violation

RTI uncovers environment ministry flip-flop on Mulund-Thane SEZ

Officials obliged developer and reclassified coastal land to allow project

Bhopal waste is not safe

Reveals RTI reply

Solar energy is everybody's business

Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it

Confusion over RTI persists

Do PPP ventures come under RTI Act? Planning Commission says not its call

Ready for only tourists

Uttarakhand government has carried out rehabilitation projects only in tourist circles and ignored other areas that were hit by floods last year

Tribals play hardball on land rights

Dissatisfied with RTI answers on traditional land rights, tribals of Thane file appeals

Karnataka bans endosulfan

State appeals to the Centre for a nationwide ban

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Koyna sanctuary plundered

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary is threatened by ceaseless loot of land, with government help

Maharashtra’s largest thermal power plant spewing poison over Chandrapur

Pollution control board does nothing except take bank guarantees from plant management

Victims of vaccination

Vaccine trials in a Madhya Pradesh government hospital are making children sick. Culprit: harmful chemicals in high amounts

Home ministry delayed Plachimada bill

RTI response reveals why bill meant to secure compensation from Coca-Cola has not received president’s assent till now 

The truth about solar mission

For the Government of India the first phase of the national solar mission has been a grand success. It not only managed to attract industry to …

Ten years of RTI: what do we know?

Right To Information cannot be the panacea to our problems if we do not re-evaluate our relationship with the state

Sailesh Nayak Committee report on coastal zone regulations released 18 months after submission

The report recommends several relaxations in a previous notification, aimed at boosting tourism and real estate

From RTI to dam safety, highly contested Bills to be tabled in Parliament’s monsoon session

A slew of crucial Bills are likely to be tabled in the session, which will have only 18 working days

Govt bans plastic, but permits firms to make it, reveals RTI

Firms currently just need an acknowledgement, no approval, to manufacture plastic

Not one dam in Kerala was inspected before monsoon, reveals RTI

The state received 42% above normal rainfall but the Central Water Commission didn’t have any information of the criticality of dams

'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law’

The Centre for Science and Environment filed RTI queries to 28 states to understand how states are circumventing the land acquisition law. The …

No horn or no horned rhinos?

Amicus curiae flags sudden discharge from dams, lack of forecasting for Kerala floods

All 79 Kerala dams were geared up for power generation, irrigation; not controlling flood: report

There's an unhealthy alliance between doctors and pharma firms

The government has shown little interest to penalise pharma companies that offer sops to doctors to push their drugs

Simply put: RTI and government