AG office beyond RTI Act: CIC

Thursday 13 December '12

Office of the Attorney General of India is not a public authority under RTI Act and, therefore, is not obliged to answer queries under the transparency law, the Central Information Commission has said

RTI shows long delays, rising costs in irrigation projects

Wednesday 12 December '12

While the charges against then NCP minister Ajit Pawar may have forced the Maharashtra government to release a white paper on its delayed irrigation projects

Panel doubts police claim regarding arrest of 2 youths

Tuesday 4 December '12

Rejecting the police theory of circumstances leading to the arrest of two youths believed to be involved in serial bomb blasts across Uttar Pradesh courts in 2007, one member of the R D Nimesh Inquiry...

UP court blasts: Panel rejects police version of youths'' arrest

Tuesday 4 December '12

The Indian Express is in possession of the 237-page report, dated August 31, in which the Commission has recommended the government to "identify and act against officials who perpetrated this unlawful...

IRS official accuses senior IAS officer of harassment

Sunday 25 November '12

Woman officer complains to Cab Secy; DoPT looking into it

Info block at competitive exams

Tuesday 20 November '12

Which authorities post answers online, which upload only questions, which do neither

V K Singh skips meet organised by RSS think tank

Sunday 11 November '12

Former Army chief Gen V K Singh stayed away from a function organised by an RSS-backed think tank in Delhi Saturday.

Don''t include us under RTI Act, say parties

Friday 2 November '12

The Congress, however, has not made its views known as it skipped the hearing before the full bench on Thursday.

10% reserved staff positions in Central government lying vacant

Monday 29 October '12

Even as quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for promotions in government jobs was debated in the last session of Parliament

Focus on Class XII in JEE may have missed point: IIT entrants already school toppers

Thursday 18 October '12

The idea behind the new pattern of JEE for admission to most engineeering institutes was giving weightage to the Class XII board results

Class XII marks in JEE: well-meaning idea may change nothing

Wednesday 17 October '12

The idea behind the new pattern of JEE for admission was giving weightage to the Class XII board results.

RTI Act should not be diluted: Meira

Sunday 14 October '12

She said the RTI Act has revolutionised the concept of accountability by allowing the common man to question the functioning of the government in the true essence of democracy.

RTI can''t prevail over right to privacy, says PM

Saturday 13 October '12

CIC Meet: Cautions against 'vexatious'' use, 'blanket extension'' to PPP projects

RTI can''t prevail over right to privacy, says PM

Friday 12 October '12

CIC MEET: Cautions against 'vexatious'' use, 'blanket extension'' to PPP projects

The rules and the reasons for travelling abroad

Wednesday 10 October '12

The procedures public servants and public representatives need to follow in making a foreign trip, and some incentives to travel.

Only 22% forest officers post returns online

Wednesday 3 October '12

Two years after the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directed that immovable property returns of officers belonging

The states'' communal violence bill

Wednesday 3 October '12

What Centre has paid victims in various states

18 mn houses needed, 11 mn lie empty

Thursday 27 September '12

Many houses have no one to live in them and yet a most people remain without a proper abode.

13 anti-narcotics body officials booked for graft in 10 yrs, two convicted

Monday 24 September '12

At least 13 officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) have been booked in the past 10 years in different cases of corruption but only two of them have been convicted

Transparency interrupted

Saturday 22 September '12

There is just one SIC in both Tripura and Manipur while Goa has neither an SIC nor an SCIC.

2 years after SC move, no Bench to decide RTI queries

Monday 17 September '12

Almost two years ago, the Supreme Court had decided in three cases pertaining to the Right to Information Act that these would be heard by a Constitution Bench

Engineers and doctors still rule civil services exam

Monday 17 September '12

When the UPSC replaced the Civil Services Prelims Examination with the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) from 2011, the stated objective was to provide a level playing field with all candidates now ...

Order triggers panic, CIC calls emergency meeting

Friday 14 September '12

Panic-stricken chief information commissioners of many states also called CIC Satyananda Mishra seeking his advice.

Can''t stop retd bureaucrats from contesting elections, says MHA

Tuesday 11 September '12

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said that amending service rules to stop or delay bureaucrats from contesting elections is neither "feasible" nor "appropriate"

6 more IAS officers 'missing'', Govt seeks details from states

Monday 10 September '12

In addition to the list of IAS officers who are on unauthorised leave, there are at least 6 others who went abroad and did not return to their cadre.