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Issue No: 110 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 30-10-2015 |
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Editorial: Greetings from the Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, (CPDI). PMLN seems disinterested in transparency and right to information both at federal and at provincial levels. At the provincial level, PMLN Punjab government kept on dragging its feet on the issue of releasing funds for Punjab Information Commission. These days, it is not providing staff to Punjab Information Commission and neither it is approving service rules so that the commission could hire staff on its own. The delaying tactics being employed by PMLN will give credence to what is already believed by many that the party was never interested in enacting the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act 2013 in the first place and that it was forced to follow suit of PTI when it enacted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act 2013. This assertion gets strengthened by its track record on right to information legislation at the federal level also. How can the party justify delay in presenting in the parliament right to information bill approved by the Senate Committee on Information and Broadcasting as long as on July 15, 2014? Clearly, PMLN will have to walk the talk and soon and take concrete steps if it wants to convince those keeping track of right to information legislation in the country that the party is serious about good governance. Happy reading, CPDI Â Â Â Â Cyprus Ministry
defends planned freedom of information law Cyprus Mail Cyprus aspires to have among
the best possible freedom of information (FOI) legislation in the EU,
Justice Minister of Nicolaou has said, and place ... USA NYPD
won't disclose what it does with its secret military-grade X-ray vans Boing Boing The department denied a Freedom
of Information Law request by an investigative journalist at ProPublica
asking for records revealing the vans' public ... India 2
registrar's fined Rs 2 lakh each for delayed RTI responses Times of India A statement issued by office of
the state information commission said the fine has been imposed on the
registrars for violating the Right To Information ... Canada Liberals
and NDP Pledge Access to Information Reform Canada News Wire It is encouraging that the right
to information has become an issue in the campaign and that Liberal and
NDP parties have pledged to take action to ... India SIC's
annual report refuses to give suggestions The Indian Express For the first time since the
passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the annual report
prepared by the State Information Commission (SIC) has ... India Man
seeks RTI to prove he married once and not twice Times of India ... Commission (UPSIC) is
witnessing a curious trend of family members seeking information about each
other using Right to Information (RTI). Most of ..The USA CIA
pressed to disclose secret drone docs The Hill The ACLU filed an original Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) request in January of 2010, and then sued three
months later when the government did ... Australia Turnbull
given ok to use Slack, Wickr iT News He denied it could
negatively affect freedom of information requests. Turnbull has
previously spoken of his fondness for messaging app Wickr USA The
10 Oldest Women in the Illinois Department of Corrections System Huffington Post In 2014, there were more
than 7,500 inmates over the age of 50, according to the Illinois Department
of Corrections' annual report. Both in Illinois India A
weapon for justice & equality Chandigarh
Tribune SOME
English words, or rather abbreviations, have set up home in rural India. They
have done more. They propel life there. The most India The After
cutting, civic agencies wash their hands of roads Times of India HUBBALLI: Finally, the
reason behind bad roads is out. A Right To Information (RTI) query on
this brought to light the fact that no authority cares to India Visa
And Tax Travails Of Foreign Artists In India Mondaq News To get this clarified, we
filed a Right to Information application with the Ministry of Home
Affairs regarding the conundrum faced by foreign nationals ... UK Parents
fined £3m a year for term-time family holidays Over the past year, across
98 councils who responded to the Freedom of Information Act,
86,010 fines were issued in 2014/15 for pupil absence UK NHS
spending millions on larger equipment for obese patients The Guardian The data, obtained by Sky News
through freedom of information requests, reveal UK wine
collection 'was drunk at Tony Abbott's farewell party' Daily Mail The government officials'
explanation did not satisfy Labor Senator Penny Wong who requested the
receipts with a Freedom of Information request ... India RTI
activist to be rewarded for exposing toll overcharge Times of India Mumbai: In a first-of-its-kind
case since the enactment of the landmark Right to Information
Act more than a decade ago, a state-run enterprise Germany German
Bundestag goes to court to keep lobbyists secret Deutsche Welle After an unsuccessful freedom
of information act request, Parliament Watch filed a lawsuit at a Berlin
court, which ruled in its favor in June this year. UK How
Cherie Blair's law firm lobbied Britain on behalf of the Maldives' government However documents obtained
under the Freedom of Information Act show how Mrs Blair's firm, Omnia
Strategy, had already held three meetings with ... India FSL
'finds' 4 corporators' names in Thane builder' suicide note Times of India It is learnt that the builder
had declared that he was tired and frustrated by their harassment and
extortion and misuse of the Right to Information (RTI) ... India Meet
77-year-old V Santhanam, he fights against corruption and helps the needy Times of India Two murderous attempts on his
life and threats have not stopped 77-year-old social activist V Santhanam
from fighting against corruption and pushing Canada BC
government gets an F in freedom of information audit An organization representing
Canada's newspapers says the B.C. government is failing to respond to Freedom
of Information Act requests in a timely ... UK Freedom
of Information: The stories you would never have read without the Act that is
now under ... Birmingham Mail Just three out of a million
reasons why the Freedom of Information Act must not be watered down. A
consultation has been launched into the Act, ... Australia Immigration
Department bears brunt of flood of freedom of information requests The Canberra Times The federal bureaucracy and
ministers' offices have been bombarded with 35,550 freedom of information
requests in the past year and one agency, ... India Info
panel turning down more RTI requests now The Hindu The Central Information
Commission has admitted fewer and fewer cases every month this year, under
the Right to Information Act, data show, and ... India PMO
directs CPIO to furnish Vyapam information, documents sought under RTI Zee News Bhopal: After
"initially" denying information related to Vyapam scam under Right
to Information (RTI) Act, the Prime Minister's Office has now
directed ... India Banning
publication of CMs and governors picture in government ad is wrong, Centre
tells SC Times of India "The judgement fails to
appreciate that government advertisements fulfill the public right to
information about matters of public interest, of public ... India 10
ways in which RTI has changed the functioning of govt, officials The Indian Express The Right to Information
Act was implemented on October 12, 2005. Over the last decade, it has
transformed the functioning of the government ... USA Senators,
Let Us Read Your Letters New York Times That's because the Freedom
of Information Act does not apply to the legislative branch. When
Congress enacted the F.O.I.A. in 1966, it was after the ... Australia Dick
defends staffer's $160000 Health appointment offered without resume Brisbane Times The Opposition came armed to question time with right-to-information
documents which they said showed Robert Hoge, a former staffer for
Bligh ... India RTI:
After 4-yr struggle, girl to get dad's pay slip Times of India ... in 2011 when she sought the
salary slip of her father, Mukesh Agarwal, who works in revenue department at
Gwalior, under Right to Information Act. India RTI
empowers the citizen, but threats can make Act opaque Hindustan Times After a decade of the
implementation of the national Right To Information (RTI) Act, it is
necessary to reflect on some of its key achievements and the ... India Dance
troupe returns Rs 8L to CM's relief fund Times of India A query filed under the Right
to Information (RTI) Act by activist Anil Galgali found that Rs 8 lakh
was transferred from the fund to Sachivalaya ... UK UK
police warn more than 1900 people of death threats in four years – The Guardian Police have warned nearly 2,000 people their lives were
under threat in the last four years, according to figures. There have been at
least 1,948 "threat ... |
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