What is the purpose of this Act? Citizen Empowerment: This Act empowers every citizen to apply for information held by government officials. The main objective of this Act is to empower the citizens ...

Dharwad: Expressing serious concern over the mounting backlog of Right to Information (RTI) applications in Karnataka, the Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) has sharply criticised govt officials ...

The DPDP Act amends Section 8 1(j) of the RTI Act, removing the core safeguards that governed transparency and disclosure.

The issue concerns delayed response to an RTI application beyond the prescribed period. It was held that authorities must ...

MediaNama files RTI to check if MeitY consulted stakeholders before adding the three-hour takedown rule in IT Amendment Rules ...

The rejection rate of Right to Information (RTI) applications has come down to 3.26 per cent in 2024-25 from 7.21 per cent in 2013-14, the Centre has said. The data on RTI applications received, ...

The appellate authority held that RTI applications cannot seek interpretations or clarifications on legal issues like ...

Often people hesitate in getting involved with anything even remotely involving government officials or offices these days. They know that the path will be blocked by corrupt police officers, delayed ...

The absence of Bangladesh's three information commissioners—vacancies that, almost a year and a half on—have left the Right to Information (RTI) regime severely debilitated, with replacements still ...