As the Right To Information Act completes 18 years of its enactment, the focus once again shifts to questions of efficacy, transparency and governmental control. FORMER CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER YASHVARDHAN KUMAR SINHA, who demitted office this month, spoke to RAJSHRI RAI, editor-in-chief, APN channel, on a wide range of issues during the interaction at the India Legal Research Foundation symposium
The proposed amendment in the Bill can deny the right to access public information if the government thinks that it impinges on the private realm of a person and is not of larger public interest.
New Delhi (ILNS): There was some level of good news for Future Retail in its complicated deal involving Reliance Retail on the one hand and Amazon on the other. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) today approved its sale to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail.
New Delhi (ILNS): Husbands will no longer be able to keep their incomes a secret from their wives. If she so desires, the wife can file an RTI application and all the sources of income of her husband will be before her.
Three central organisations, responsible for the app, have little knowledge about its creation and were issued show cause notices by the CIC, leading to privacy concerns of some 16.23 crore people who downloaded it.