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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of |
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Issue No: 128 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 17-10-2016 |
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Ireland Judges criticial of plan to alter eligibility for expenses Irish Times Documents released by the
department, under the Freedom of Information Acts, show judges
strongly opposed a plan last year to only permit an ... India CIC flays I-T 'informer' for using RTI to earn money Business Standard The Central Information
Commission (CIC) has admonished a Right to Information (RTI)
applicant who was allegedly se India Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis declares Nagpur first digital district of India The Indian Express The state has added 169 new
online services under the Right to Information Act, taking the total
number of services to 369. Through Aaple Sarkar ... Pakistan Right to Information Commission gets new head PESHAWAR: The Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa government has appointed Azmat Hanif Orkazai as the Chief
Information Commissioner (CIC) to the Khyber ... Sri Lanka * President appoints Right to Information Commission Colombo Page Sept 30, Colombo: President Maithripala Sirisena today
appointed the Right to Information (RTI) Commission of Sri
Lanka upon the recommendation ... UK BBC bosses spend thousands on taxis on top of £1million company car perks The Sun But a Freedom of
Information request reveals the 216 staff are
also allowed to claim expenses for a string of extra motoring costs. Last
year they blew ... UK 'Britain's secret scandal': CHILDREN of alcoholics at RISK due to budget cuts The All Party Parliamentary
Group on Children of Alcoholics released the data, gathered through Freedom
of Information requests, as part of its ... UK Police and civilian staff with mental ill health take almost 200000 sick days Daily Mail The figures, released by
Police Scotland to the Liberal Democrats under Freedom of Information
laws, show police officers struggling with mental ill ... Pakistan Ministry makes mockery of RTI law The News International When Zahid Abdullah of the
Coalition of Right to Information moved the FO against the Law
Ministry for denying the information about the funds spent ... India Assets of officials' spouse cannot be disclosed under RTI: CIC The Indian Express Demanding asset details of
spouse and dependents of government officials under the Right to
Information Act is “unreasonable and illegal”, the ... India CIC rejects RTI appeal of Income Tax 'informer' regarding assets of 100 IT officers Moneylife Rakesh Kumar Gupta, who
claimed to be an informer to the Income Tax department (I-T Dept), filed an
application under the Right to Information (RTI) ... India 1.75 crore RTI applications filed since 2005: Study Economic Times The first decadal study
conducted after Right to Information (RTI) Act implemented in October
2005 has revealed that over 1.75 crore applications have ... Sri Lanka Government called on to fully constitute RTI commission Colombo Gazette RTI The Right to
Information Commission arguably the most important component in the
framework set up by the RTI Act is yet to be fully constituted ... Sri Lanka * Sri Lankan government to set up a special office to implement RTI Act Colombo Page Oct 06, Colombo: The
government is to establish a special office to disseminate information on the
Right to Information Act (RTIA) in Battaramulla, ... Pakistan Orange Line Metro: Will the Supreme Court save Lahore's heritage? They filed Right to
Information requests and petitions. One of the primary issues brought to
court was the legitimacy of the No Objection Certificates ... India RTI info hints at scam in mobile tower installation Chandigarh Tribune ... fee
charges from PIO, Municipal Council, Khanna, under the Right to Information
Act (RTI), indicates a high-level mobile tower scam in the city. Australia Need to know? Powerhouse Museum accused of thwarting transparency laws as Labor seeks ... The Sydney Morning Herald The Powerhouse Museum has
been accused of trying to circumvent freedom of information
laws by charging exorbitant fees. Labor's Arts spokesman ... India Right to information: What 11 years of the RTI Act of 2005 have done for India Firstpost It was on this day 11 years
back that one of the most important laws in India fully came into force. The Right
to Information Act, 2005 has helped ... India Prime Minister is always on duty, PMO replies to RTI query Chandigarh Tribune The Prime Minister can be
said to be on duty all the time,” the Right to Information (RTI)
response from the France France covers source code with freedom of information laws Inquirer ZUT E-LAWS! The French
government has added source code to the list of things covered under freedom
of Canada Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information laws are dangerously toothless The Coast Halifax Changes need to be made to
Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information Act. That's the call being made
by critics after premier Stephen McNeil's admission ... Ghana re determined to pass RTI Bill into law – Bagbin GhanaWeb Majority Leader, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has
assured that the Legislature is more determined to pass the Right To
Information (RTI) Bill ... India BSc student goes Right To Information way to get answer sheet copies Times of India NAGPUR: Fearing that his
application would go unheeded like that of many other students, Bachelor of
Science (BSc) student Harshal
Mehta of VMV ... India Unclog the RTI process by making basic information public Hindustan Times The first decadal study
conducted after the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed that
over 1.75 crore India Exclusive: India bad loans mountain grows, risks delaying bank clean-up Reuters The latest data obtained by
Reuters through a right-to-information request showed stressed loans
rose to 9.22 trillion rupees ($138.5 billion) as at ... India Vexed by 'frivolous' RTI pleas, PMO issues advisory The Hindu Annoyed with the non-stop
flow of applications under the Right to Information Act (RTI), most of
them flippant, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has ... India Now SIC will also be defunct ? Daily Excelsior It is more than 7 years now
we have Jammu& Kashmir Right to Information Act (J&K RTI Act
2009) in place in our state. It was on March 20th 2009 ... India From Kejriwal's 'Social Behaviour' To Modi's Suits. What India Wants To Know Through RTIs ScoopWhoop According to a recent
report, an approximate 4800 Right to Information applications are
filed in India everyday. This act, which was passed
by ... UK Dozens of servicemen booted out for being too fat to fight - including 28st man The Sun Our findings – admitted by
The MoD after a Freedom of Information
request – also show that hundreds of military personnel are classified as
obese ... UK Hundreds of Met Police officers left injured in defensive training in just 12 months The severity of the injuries
were not disclosed in the Freedom of Information request revealed,
although bosses at the Met said the 15 most serious ... Pakistan Right to information: Of all rest houses in Punjab, not one for CM The Express Tribune The stopovers include
facilities of restaurants, kitchens, barbeque areas as well as parking spots.
Some of these resorts have party halls, play area for ... India HC dismisses plea to record court proceedings, again The Hindu The petition said since Right
To Information has been recognised as an
integral part of the right to life, India How Gujarat govt refused to make public inquiry commission report on corruption Times of India (blog) No doubt, I thought, things
would have become easier for those who took the Right to `Information
(RTI) route. But I rarely used it. However, my recent ... Bangladesh "Right to know", not "need to know" The Daily Star The overwhelming majority of
Right to Information (RTI) laws around the world were enacted in the
last quarter of a century, following the end of the ... India Modi Government Spent Over Rs. 36 Crore On Publicity To Mark 2 Years NDTV This information was
revealed in response to an Right to Information
(RTI) query by IANS. The amount for the six-hour event in Delhi was spent
on ... India Pay Rs 20000 for soft copy: MMRDA The Asian Age This was revealed in a reply
to a Right To Information query filed by The Asian Age. However, RTI
activists have slammed the MMRDA and said that a ... Mexico The country with the world's best transparency law has a terrible record on transparency Quartz Censored or not, the Memory
and Truth project exposes the limits of Mexico's freedom-of-information
apparatus. Originally, the archive was supposed ... Pakistan Sindh's proposed Right to Information: A law in the right direction The Express Tribune Soon after the elections,
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Punjab led the way by passing internationally
acclaimed Right to Information (RTI) laws and ... India ormer CIC Shailesh Gandhi authors e-book on RTI Business Standard Former Central Information
Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has authored an e-book
in order to lend a better interpretation of the Right To Information ... India RTI for blackmail: HC chides 2 lawyers Times of India MADURAI: The Madurai bench
of the Madras high court has chided two advocates for misusing the Right
to Information (RTI) Act to blackmail people ... |
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