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RBI duty-bound to disclose names of wilful defaulters: CIC Acharyulu
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 5 (ANI): Central Information Commissioner (CIC) M Sridhar Acharyulu on Monday asserted that the Supreme Court has already rejected the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) objections against releasing the names of wilful defaulters, due to which the RBI is duty-bound to reply
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CIC's RTI plea can't be implemented: BCCI's CoA chief
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 3 (ANI): The Central Information Commission's plea to bring the Board of Control for Cricket in India under the ambit of the Right to Information Act cannot be implemented, BCCI Committee of Administrators (CoA) Chief Vinod Rai said on Wednesday.
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Put remission rules for convicts in public domain: CIC to MHA
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 18 (ANI): Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to provide all orders relating to granting or denying remission to various life convicts to AG Perarivalan, convict in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case saying he has the right
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RTI query helps sacked teacher get back job
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): A query sought under the Right To Information (RTI) Act has helped a sacked teacher of a Delhi school return to her job.
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Goa governor does not come under RTI: Raj Bhavan
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 11 (ANI): The Goa Raj Bhavan on Wednesday informed the Goa State Information Commission (GSIC) that the Goa Governor does not come under the purview of the Right to Information Act as the Governor is not a "Public Authority".
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Political parties not covered under RTI, says EC
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Taking a stand contradictory to Chief Information Commissioner's one, the Election Commission (EC) has said political parties are out of the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
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Cambridge Analytica: UK watchdog orders data firm to hand over data
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Cheshire [United Kingdom] (ANI): A UK data privacy watchdog group, Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reportedly ordered Cambridge Analytica to return all of the personal data it collected from an American professor amidst the Facebook privacy scandal.
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Centre issues notice to Cambridge Analytica
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 24 (ANI): The Centre has issued a notice to the scandal-hit analytical firm Cambridge Analytica, asking them to reply to six questions by March 31.
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Empowered citizen strongest pillar of democracy: PM Modi
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi[India] March 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said an empowered citizen is the strongest pillar of the democracy and pointed out five pillars of modern information-'Ask, Listen, Interact, Act and Inform'.
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PM to inaugurate new CIC premises
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 5 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Central Information Commission (CIC) building in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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Officially, martyr is termed as 'battle casualty': VK Singh on terminology
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Union minister and former Chief of the Army Staff V.K. Singh on Saturday clarified on the controversy over words 'shaheed' or 'martyr' for policemen/soldiers killed in action and said all were martyrs but in the official parlance, it was termed as 'batt
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CHRI asks NHRC to monitor ongoing police investigation in Pune activist mu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 11 (ANI): Condemning the murder of an RTI activist from Pune, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has demanded the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to monitor the ongoing police investigation and also asked the Maharashtra's State Information C
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