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• Activists in Bihar protest dilution of RTI

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 147
  PATNA — Hundreds of Right to Information (RTI) activists staged a day-long sit-in here Monday to protest the amendments made in the RTI Act by the Bihar government. Rupesh, convenor of the Right to Information campaign, said the Bihar government should roll back the amendments. They also sought that the government ...
  11 hours ago

• RTI activists protest Bihar amendments

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Patna, Dec 7 (IANS) Hundreds of Right to Information (RTI) activists staged a day-long sit-in here Monday to protest the amendments made in the RTI law by the Bihar government.Rupesh, convenor of the Right to Information campaign, said the Bihar government should roll back the amendments. They also sought that the ...
  16 hours ago

• RTI has been strengthened by judiciary: Habibullah (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) A day after the Supreme Court suspended a Central Information Commission order asking for information on the appointment of judges, outgoing Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah Saturday shied away from entering into a confrontation on the issue - and praised the judiciary for ...
  2 days ago

• Death Toll Climbing in Russian Nightclub Fire

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 445
  AN EXPLOSIVELY-MOVING FIRE IN A PERM, RUSSIA, NIGHTCLUB has killed at least 109 party goers and approx. 90 - 130 more are in hospi[...]
  2 days ago

• Judiciary has strengthened RTI: Habibullah

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Outgoing Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah Saturday said that the judiciary had helped to strengthen the functioning of the Right To Information (RTI) Act.“The judiciary has strengthened the functioning of the RTI Act,” Habibullah said at a media interaction at the Indian ...
  2 days ago

• Apex court shelves CIC order on judicial appointment

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday suspended a Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order that asked the apex court’s registry to make public various documents on recent appointment of its three judges, superseding other senior chief justices of various high courts.A bench of B. Sudershan Reddy and ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Ek Cup Chya’, a film on Right To Information Act

  
  The Punekar — Authority: 151
  Sakaal Times : Ek Cup Chya’ (A Cup of Tea), a critically-acclaimed Marathi movie based on a commoner’s fight against the indifferent bureaucracy with the help of Right To Information (RTI) Act, will be premièred in the city on Thursday. The nearly two-hour long film, which is produced by city-based ...
  4 days ago

• Centre sanctions 116 posts for CIC

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 3 (ANI): The Union Government informed the parliament on Thursday that it has sanctioned 116 posts for the Central Information Commission. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Prithviraj Singh Chavan, said the CIC has constituted a ...
  4 days ago

• Pleasantly surprised at the way people using RTI: Ansari

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari Tuesday inaugurated the first national Right to Information (RTI) awards here and said that he was pleasantly surprised at the manner in which citizens across the country have taken the RTI route to secure justice.“I confess, I am pleasantly surprised at the ...
  6 days ago

• Report Looks at How Some States Use Response to Intervention

  
  On Special Education — Authority: 120
  A recent report on the use of Response to Intervention in the nine Northeast and Island Region states showed that seven jurisdictions used or promoted RTI as an approach to supporting struggling students in general education or for determining eligibility for special education at the local level. The November report, ...
  6 days ago

• + Web Sites for RTI (Response to Intervention) Resources

  
  Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources — Authority: 121
  other topics: click a “category” or use search box From an article in Perspectives, the IDA quarterly, here are helpful Websites that have reviewed and sythesized information about evidence-based programs for RTI: The Center on Instruction – http://www.centeroninstruction.org/ The Florida Center for ...
  1 week ago

• Nine DU college principals fined for flouting RTI

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Principals of nine Delhi University (DU) colleges have been fined Rs.5,000 each for not complying with the Right To Information (RTI) Act rule of placing information about their college in the public domain.The Central Information Commission (CIC) acted against the principals for not following ...
  1 week ago

• Blackmail with RTI

  
  :::..S U P A R I . O R G..::: — Authority: 125
  A restaurateur receives a call. ”You are running restaurant in a building in violation of the sanctioned building plan. I will not make it an issue if you pay me…,” says a Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) health official on the other end.The restaurateur ignores the call. Two days later, the officer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sonia Gandhi assures support to wives of Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 23(ANI): The wives of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack martyrs, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar, called on Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday.The meeting came just three days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror in Mumbai, where 10 heavily armed gunmen went on a rampage and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Widows of 26/11 martyrs meet Sonia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): The wives of 26/11 martyrs, Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar, called on Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi here on Monday.The meeting came just three days before the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks during which Karkare and Salaskar died while fighting terrorists near Cama ...
  2 weeks ago

• CBI denies information on Quattrocchi sought under RTI

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been investigating the Bofors gun payoff scandal, has refused to reveal any information sought under the Right to Information (RTI) about Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, stating that it “would impede the process of apprehension ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bihar activists to file lawsuit against changes in RTI act

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Patna, Nov 21 (IANS) Right to Information (RTI) activists in Bihar have decided to challenge in court the changes made to it by the state government.After opposition parties slammed the move to charge more for RTI applications, the activists have decided to challenge the government’s decision in the Patna High ...
  2 weeks ago

• AN AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPORT OF PCRF OF PCRF ON RTI

  
  :::..S U P A R I . O R G..::: — Authority: 125
  AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPORT OF PCRF (AUTHORS OF RTI AWARDS) FLAWED LOGIC AND SPECIOUS CONCLUSIONS             Lately, the Media was flooded with stories about the functioning of Information Commissioners all over the country based upon analysis done by a group going by the name and style “Public Cause ...
  2 weeks ago

• Manmohan Singh, Advani to choose new information chief Friday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani and Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily are expected to meet Friday evening to finalise who India’s new chief information commissioner will be.Present information commissioner M.M. Ansari and Right to Information (RTI) activist ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bihar govt amends RTI rules, activists annoyed

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 147
  PATNA — Opposition parties and activists have slammed restrictions imposed on the Right to Information (RTI) Act by the Bihar government, saying the move is aimed at shielding corruption. The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Congress and Left parties are up in arms against the ...
  2 weeks ago

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