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  SC spent Rs 37 lakh on offshore travels of CJI Thakur and family in last three years: RTI

  India | June 17, 2016 12:17 IST

  As per information received in the form of an RTI response filed by advocate Gaurav Agrawal, the Supreme Court Registry has revealed some interesting information about the nations visited by some of its topmost jurists along with their kin

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  CIC reserves order on AAP being public authority to come under RTI act

  India | June 01, 2016 22:55 IST

  New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has reserved its order on declaring Aam Admi Party and its legislative party as a public authority bringing it under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.

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  Top Mumbai Metro officers get paid more than their boss: RTI

  India | May 30, 2016 21:49 IST

  Mumbai: Half a dozen senior officers of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL), who are on deputation, are drawing higher salaries than the company’s Managing Director, according to an RTI query. MMRCL, a 50:50 joint

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  AAP government spent Rs 15 crore in three months for ads in print media: RTI reply

  India | May 15, 2016 23:31 IST

  Delhi's AAP government spent nearly Rs 15 crore on advertisments in the print media during the 91-day period till May 11, according to an RTI reply.

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  CIC issues fresh notice to Sonia Gandhi in RTI matter

  India | May 08, 2016 16:01 IST

  The Central Information Commission has issued a fresh notice to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to explain her case before its Full Bench on allegations of not responding to queries in a RTI application

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  EPFO has four times more members than govt claimed: RTI info

  May 06, 2016 18:13 IST

  Bhopal: The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has 15.84 crore members and not 3.7 crore as claimed by the government last March in connection with their proposal to tax PF withdrawals, an RTI applicant has

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  Number of RTI applications decline during 2014-15: Govt

  India | May 05, 2016 14:50 IST

  New Delhi: The number of RTI applications has come down to around 7.55 lakh in 2014-15 from over 8.34 lakh a year before as departments and ministries are putting more information in public domain on

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  ‘Any chaiwaala, paanwaala can raise questions today’: Praful Patel on ‘misuse’ of RTI

  Politics | April 29, 2016 15:09 IST

  The Right To information Act, passed by the erstwhile UPA government is clearly not the lawmakers’ favourite. It has exposed lies, falsified tall claims and is today the most lethal tool in the hands of a common man.

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  Maharashtra has no consolidated record of remission to convicts: RTI

  India | April 10, 2016 20:48 IST

  Mumbai: Maharashtra government has no record at state-level of convicts who have been granted remission on account of good behaviour, an RTI query has revealed. Additional Director General (Prisons) Bhushankumar Upadhyay said there are a

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  AYUSH Ministry doesn’t recruit Muslims, reveals RTI; Minister denies

  Politics | March 12, 2016 14:38 IST

  New Delhi: An RTI reply has revealed that the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) Ministry does not recruit Muslims as a policy. A report in the Milli Gazette, a fortnightly newspaper

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  PM Modi's wife Jashodaben files RTI, seeks marriage-related documents from his passport

  Politics | February 11, 2016 8:50 IST

  Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben has filed an RTI application with Regional Passport Office (RPO) seeking details about the marriage- related documents Modi had submitted to get his passport when he was Chief

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  15 bizarre RTI queries on PM Modi and their interesting replies

  Politics | February 04, 2016 15:29 IST

  New Delhi: Ever since Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister of India, the PMO has recorded a sharp rise in number of RTI pleas querying about the BJP strongman.From his kitchen to smartphone

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  'Make in India' logo is not made in India: RTI

  India | January 15, 2016 14:56 IST

  New Delhi: What goes against the very spirit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious ‘Make in India' campaign , the logo of the much touted initiative was designed by a foreign firm's India arm, an

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  An illiterate auto driver gets 39kg documents in reply of RTI query

  India | January 14, 2016 19:10 IST

  New Delhi: An auto rickshaw driver in Jaipur got the 39kg weighing documents in reply to an RTI query he filed some 20 years ago. He did so for getting information on the 1.5 bigahs of

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  No clear info with RBI on Re 1's different title: RTI reply

  January 12, 2016 22:16 IST

  Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) does not have a clear guideline regarding the printing of different titles on the currency note of Re 1 and that of other denominations, reply to an RTI

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  Government unlikely to suggest bringing judges appointment under RTI

  India | January 11, 2016 18:05 IST

  New Delhi: The government is unlikely to suggest bringing under the ambit of RTI the process of appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and the high courts amid feeling that it would not be

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  NGT spent Rs 33,000 to deny information under RTI: CIC

  India | January 11, 2016 16:56 IST

  New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal apparently paid over Rs 33,000 as litigation fee to contest its demand of Rs 40 for the disclosure of information, despite instructions from a senior official within the organisation,

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  PM Modi personally manages his social media accounts, reveals RTI

  Politics | December 24, 2015 19:10 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's love for the social media is no hidden secret. However, the regular posts and comments that we see on his personal accounts across social media platforms often left

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  Scam-tainted Vyapam spent over Rs 60 lakh on lawyers in 2013-15

  India | November 23, 2015 16:39 IST

  New Delhi: From the time the Vyapam scam came to light in 2013 and the investigations began, the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, (or Vyapam as it is popularly known) has so far spent Rs.60

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  Bank Fraud: 100% increase in last 1 year

  November 19, 2015 16:35 IST

  Bangalore: In May 2015, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) set up a Central Fraud Registry to check growing bank fraud. After this, the Prime Minister's Office called a meeting to review the fraud-detection system,