India’s next Census will run in two stages with digital data collection, separate timelines across states, and detailed demographic surveys, including caste enumeration in the second phase.
The Orissa High Court has reprimanded the State Information Commission for quashing a Right to Information (RTI) appeal, describing the decision as a result of "non-application of mind."
The Odisha State Information Commission (SIC) has debarred an RTI applicant from filing new queries for one year, citing that the “applications filed by him in the past were repetitive in nature and burdensome, placing unnecessary stress on public resources.”
The Orissa High Court issued notice to Odisha Information Commission seeking reply on the allegation of arbitrary dismissal of a complaint case.
P A Mohamed Riyas said the state government had no knowledge of her alleged involvement in espionage for Pakistan.
The Parliament of India, in 2005, enacted what would become one of the strongest Right to Information (RTI) laws in the world. 15 June 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the passage of the RTI Act, which fully came into force on 12 October 2005.
Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav, on Sunday, alleged that the government has failed to meet the water demand as a result of which the city is in the grip of scarcity while a lot of treated sewage water is going waste due to lack of storage facility.
In a fresh attack on the AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal over the Sheesh Mahal row, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Saturday citing an RTI said that on an average, Rs 3.69 crore was spent on maintenance of 6 Flag Staff Road bungalow from 2015 to 2022.
The Gorkha Youth Activist Network (GYAN), a group actively researching land rights for tea garden workers in the Darjeeling hills, today released a crucial Right to Information (RTI) response that clarifies long-standing confusion over land allotment policies in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) region.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of weakening the Right to Information (RTI) Act by bringing the data protection law.
