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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of |
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Right
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Issue No: 143 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 20-06-2017 |
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India Info panel upholds right to inspect court registers The Hindu The petitioner was asked to submit an
application under the Right to Information Act to the Registrar-General of the
Madras High Court and obtain ... Canada No hiding abortion numbers: Ontario ruling forces gov't
to allow access to statistics Lifesite The January 2012 law brought in by
then-Premier Dalton McGuinty amended Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) to ... UK Terrorist 'fighting deportation after 9-year prison
sentence given € 250000 in legal aid' According to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Daily Mail,
the criminal has so far won more than € 210,000 in legal aid for his
defence ... Pakistan People need to know if their rights and liberties are at
risk, says SHC The News International The Sindh High Court (SHC) has
observed that the right to information and the right to freedom of speech are guaranteed under
the constitution and ... India Maharashtra has no information on CM's attendance in
office: RTI Times of India MUMBAI: How many days was chief
minister Devendra Fadnavis in office? No one knows. A Right to Information (RTI) query
filed by Jeetendra ... India Why RTI Act not implemented by BCCI? CIC asks PMO The Tribune The Central Information Commission
(CIC) has asked the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Law Ministry to explain
why the Right to Information law ... UK Inside Housing: trade magazine that warned of high-rise
fire risks The Guardian In 2015 it used a freedom of information request to reveal that just 18
council-owned tower blocks out of 2,925 had sprinklers
fitted. After a fire in ... USA CNN files lawsuit seeking Comey's Trump memos CNN
International That constitutes a violation of the
federal Freedom of Information Act, the lawsuit alleges. CNN asked
the court to require the agency release the ... India RTI activist Nikhil Dey sentenced to 4 months in jail in
20-year-old case Sify News The case refers to a row in May 1998,
when Dey, a Right To Information activist, had gone to a village near
Jaipur to investigate reports of corruption in ... Canada Canada: Snitches Don't Get Stitches: IPC Upholds Municipal Decision To Withhold Complainant ... Mondaq News Alerts (registration) The requestor submitted a request to
City of Toronto under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for
records generated ... Bangladesh Learning from the US's experience The Daily Star ... between the socio-economic and
political conditions of Bangladesh and the US and the extent of their Right to Information
(RTI) experiences. USA Think FOIA Is a Paper Tiger? The New York Times Gives It
Some Bite New York Times Time has not been kind to the Freedom of Information Act. It was enacted more than 50
years ago to give citizens the right to obtain documents from ... Bangladesh BREAKING THE CULTURE OF 'SECRECY': Judiciary stands for right to information The Daily Star As the Court also opined, a negative
opinion of the political parties in providing information would undoubtedly
violate citizen's right to information ... India (Village and Block): A Comparative study of Bihar and
Rajasthan Central Information Commission I was interested in exploring whether
the right to information has made Blocks and Villages more
transparent and accountable institutions at the ... Ireland Tusla 'worst offender' for refusing Freedom of Information requests Irish Independent "The real sense we have is this
is a resource issue; I mention Tusla particularly, because they outsourced [Freedom of Information work] to the HSE ... India Frontline Comparison of RTI data show that the
Narendra Modi government has not been as good for right to information as its predecessor, the
Manmohan ... UK Thousands of children's operations
cancelled each year, NHS figures show The Guardian The real number of cancellations is
likely to be much higher as the figures obtained by Labour under freedom of information laws cover barely half of ... India Modi Urged to Ensure Speedy Appointment of Central
Information Commissioners The
Wire With many posts vacant for months,
case pendency is on the rise. The National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information has urged the prime ... India No Information For RTI Query On Taj Mahal, Archaeological
Survey Officials To Lose Salary | Agra ... NYOOOZ ... the records were not provided to a
Right To Information or RTI applicant.In response to a separate RTI response, the Archaeological
Survey of India ... |
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