Simply Put: Share the information

Simply put: RTI and government

No horn or no horned rhinos?

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

Only 2 passengers aboard Odisha’s new Balangir-Bichhupali train: RTI

Balangir-Bichhupali track is part of Khurda-Balangir line and was inaugurated in January 2019

Right to Information: Ask no questions

The amendment to the RTI Act will hit grassroots activism

Kerala takes RTI a step forward

Log on to wiki site from December

Postings under RTI Act ad-hoc

Personnel department has not framed appointment rules

Seek truth at own peril

RTI applicants in Bihar land in jail

Policing the police

A constable who gets corrupt officials behind bars  

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (September 16-20)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week&…

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

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

Cloud over CIC post

Transparent selection demanded for information commissioners

RTI amendment: Usurping powers from Legislature and States

The National Democratic Alliance government's move is an assault on the independence of information commissioners, writes former …

RTI in reverse gear

Bureaucrats want right to reject right to information applications

Not enough information

Awareness, implementation RTIs weak points, say audits

State information commissions inactive during COVID-19: Survey

A telephone survey, conducted by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, found that this was in contrast to the Central Information Commission

RTI amendment: Centre has no authority to make law on states

The amendment to the RTI Act does not deserve the assent of the President, writes former Central Information Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu in …

'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 …

Strengthen the right

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

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

RTI detained

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

Not a dead society yet