Pune | Previous Congress-led UPA regime killed the maximum number of terrorists in 10 years compared with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government which succeeded in arresting border terrorism, as per latest data revealed through RTI, here on Tuesday. The details on the terrorist incident in the country from 2004-2022 – sought by Pune-based businessman Prafful […]
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Centre splurged Rs 713.20Cr on ads in 2019-2020: RTI
Mumbai: The government of India spent a total of Rs713.20 crore on advertisements, with maximum share to the electronic media, during the financial year 2019-2020, a RTI reply to a Mumbai activist revealed here on Saturday. “This comes to roughly Rs 1.95 crore per day that was spent only for advertisements in the last fiscal which […]
SC: Vested interests behind RTI leading to blackmail
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said “fear” and “abuse of RTI Act” by vested interests was leading to blackmail and extortion. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant also asked the Centre to fill all vacancies in the information commission within three months, and also […]
AAP govt spent 4 times more than Congress on ads: RTI
New Delhi: Delhi‘s ruling Aam Aadmi Party has spent about Rs 78 crore annually on advertisements in the first four years of its tenure, while the previous Sheila Dikshit government in its third term had spent about Rs 19 crore annually on advertisements, according to information sought through the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The […]
Supreme Court says office of Chief Justice of India comes under RTI
New Delhi: The office of Chief Justice comes under the Right to Information Act, said the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Sanjeev Khanna and Deepak Gupta pronounced that the Chief Justice Office is as a public authority under RTI, and upheld the Delhi High Court verdict of 2010. The apex court has […]
Goa spent Rs 3.26 cr on day-long GST Council meet: RTI
Panaji: The Goa government coughed up Rs 3.26 crore for hosting a day-long meeting of the 37th Goods and Services Tax Council chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and held last month in a star resort, RTI data showed. Information obtained through the Right to Information Act by city lawyer Aires Rodrigues from the Commissioner […]
SC seeks Centre, states’ views on PIL for online RTI portal
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre and state governments to furnish their response, within two weeks, on a PIL demanding web portal for online submission of RTI applications. Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, on behalf of the petitioner Pravasi Legal Cell, told a bench headed by Justice N.V. Ramana that only 10 […]
Govt spending more on ads in Hindi newspapers: RTI
New Delhi: In a clear message to make deeper inroads into the Hindi heartland, the Narendra Modi government has spent over Rs 890 crore in advertising in Hindi newspapers compared to the over Rs 719 crore in the English newspapers in the last five years, an RTI filed by IANS has revealed. At a time when […]
Government diluting RTI to help corrupt steal: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Two days after the Rajya Sabha passed a bill to amend the Right to Information Act, outgoing Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the BJP-led NDA government, saying it was diluting the Act to help the corrupt steal. “Government is diluting RTI in order to help the corrupt steal […]
Congress to oppose Bill on RTI, asks BJP allies to follow
New Delhi: The Congress will oppose the Bill to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the Rajya Sabha and urged BJP allies Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Shiv Sena to oppose it too. Senior Congress leader P.L. Punia told IANS on Wednesday: “We will not allow the RTI Amendment Act to pass in the […]