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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of |
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Right
to Information from Around the World |
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Issue No: 133 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 03-01-2017 |
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Australia Minister Kate Jones 'misled house' over audit The Australian In response, Ms Jones said
departmental audit reports were released to the ABC �under the Right to
Information legislation�. The Australian ... Indonesia Indonesia's forestry ministry takes Greenpeace to court over freedom of information request In October, Indonesia's freedom
of information commission ruled in favor of a case brought by Greenpeace,
asking the forestry ministry to publish a ... Pakistan State Life directed to provide info under Freedom of Information Ordinance The News International The agency is, therefore,
required to provide the requested information to the complainant under the
provision of Freedom of Information Ordinance, ... UK The Sun The figures were revealed to
The Sun after we ued the Freedom of Information Act to ask what items
had been reported stolen or lost using the ... India Here's How Much It Costs The RBI To Print New 500 And 2000 Rupee Notes NDTV BRBNMPL, a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India or RBI, said in its reply to an Right
to Information (RTI) query that it charges the ... Canada A Canadian Province Is Refusing to Release Pipeline Safety Reports Motherboard �Upon conclusion of the
investigation, freedom of information requests for information
involved in the investigation will be considered according to the ... Canada Ontario environment ministry deliberately falsified dates on FOI requests Toronto Star ... staff at the Ministry of
the Environment and Climate Change altered dates on freedom of information
requests to improve their compliance statistics. Pakistan Defence ministry refuses to share info under RTI law The News International In this connection, it is
informed that the information asked by him cannot be provided under Section-8
of the Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002, ... UK British embassy questioned whether Malaysian PM cleared of corruption The Guardian The British cable was
released under a freedom of information request made by the Guardian
but was heavily redacted to include mostly factual ... Pakistan Question mark over KP govt's multi-billion rupee ad contract Dawn, it may be mentioned,
filed two requests with the department of information, government of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, under the Right to Information ... India Row in Uttarakhand over break for namaz The Hindu Also, in response to a Right
to Information (RTI) application filed in 2010, a copy of which is with
The Hindu, the Central government stated that the ... India Activist approaches rights body with toothache Times of India Surat: A right to
information (RTI) activist suffering from toothache was compelled to
approach the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission (GSHRC) ... UK The Ministry of Defence lost 759 laptops in 18 months - and they're not alone Maurice Frankel, director of
the Campaign for Freedom of Information, said: "They are
stretching credibility to well beyond its snapping point with some ... Pakistan KP Assembly spent over Rs5.3m on entertainment last fiscal The News International The information, received in
response to a request under the Section 7 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right
to Information Act 2013, shows that over the ... Pakistan PTI quizzes Punjab about 1000-plus POs on the loose The Express Tribune Abbas has sought information
on the POs under the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act
2013. The report, jointly compiled by the ... Pakistan The News International While the Right to
Information passed in 2014 by the Senate Standing Committee on
Information had been applauded by international and local ... UK Councils have handed out �12million to fix cars damaged by potholes since 2012 and pay ... The Sun The massive payouts were
revealed by hundreds of Freedom of Information requests to individual
councils since 2012. Critics demanded more be ... Pakistan Right to know faces another blow in 2016 The News International ISLAMABAD: Another year
passes without witnessing the passage of the Right to Information
(RTI) legislation. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ... India Man uses RTI to prove his wife is employed Times of India He has urged to provide him
the information he has sought under the Right to Information
(RTI). The information, he said, if given, would be of extreme ... Pakistan RDA directed to provide details about Metro Bus Project The News International The Transparency and Right
to Information Act 2013 says "The public information officer is to
respond to the request within 14 working days, and if the ... India Indore: Man thrashed for seeking info on monks with beacon, hooter mounted vehicles Hindustan Times On December 8, he had filed
a Right To Information (RTI) query seeking information on how many
monks belonging to different faiths, were allotted ... India Official caught paying bribe to RTI activist | Bengaluru NYOOOZ NYOOOZ Summary: On Friday, a
government official was caught paying a bribe to an Right to
Information (RTI) activist to not dig into a particular case. India In a first, PIO directed to reply to RTI on information commissioner Times of India ... judicial officer and
FAA, the order directed the quasi-judicial institution's PIO T Thilaka to
provide information to city-based Right To Information (RTI) ... India RTI activist murder: 'Case remains unsolved despite arrest of two former cops' The Indian Express Based on the documents
obtained under Right to Information (RTI) Act, activist Satish Shetty
had filed a complaint of cheating and forgery against IRB ... Pakistan Cataloguing development in KP: CM's aide unveils six-month performance report\ The Express Tribune Similarly, the Right to
Information has received 8,092 complaints out of which the government has
taken action on 5,279 applications while 594 are ... Pakistan Public participation in budget making urged The News International PESHAWAR: Speakers at a
seminar on the right to information have said public participation in
budget making process and transparency in the ... UK Serious mistakes in NHS patient care are on the rise, figures reveal The Guardian Figures obtained under the Freedom
of Information Act show that the number of surgical incidents more than
doubled between 2013-14 and 2015-16. India India's transparency regime? 1.88 lakh cases pending before 16 state information commissions, no ... COUNTERVIEW A fresh study on the
implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2006, has said
that the collective backlog in the disposal of appeals and ... |
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