CIC asks expenditure details of Vajpayee's treatment

A Full Bench of the Commission comprising Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra, Information Commissioner ML Sharma and Annapurna Dixit held six parties—Congress, BJP, CPI-M, CPI, NCP and BSP—to whom RTI queries were directed, fulfill ...

Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra said more than 60 years after the country's independence, time has come when all concerned must decide what information relating to pre-independence period should be made available to public.

SCOPE, the apex body of public sector enterprises (PSEs), organised an interactive session with Satyananda Mishra, Chief Information Commissioner on smooth implementation of RTI Act in central PSEs. CS Verma, Chairman, SCOPE and SAIL and

similar instructions were given by Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra to the Central Vigilance Commission to make public action taken on the complaint given by Arora. In the latest order to Cabinet Secretariat, Mishra has pulled up Civil ...

In an interesting disclosure, the Centre told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it has not framed any rules about the exact method to be followed for selection and appointment of information commissioners. It was further revealed that the ...

NEW DELHI, India The government has spent over Rs. 642 crore (about $115 million) on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's air travel abroad over the past nine years. This information was revealed by the Prime Minister's Office in response to a query ...

The meetings between , and , are not secret, said the . The order was issued while considering an appeal against the Prime Minister's Office's recent decision to not to provide information on Singh's meetings with leaders of industry and farmers? ...

When it comes to adhering to rules, the government department often becomes a stickler, throwing norms of pragmatism to the winds. In the latest such instance, the Home Ministry has demanded Rs 2 from an RTI applicant as photocopying charges in order to ...

Dismissing the CIC order on bringing parties under the RTI Act, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari has said an amendment to the Income Tax Act would work better towards bringing transparency. Congress has already rejected the CIC ...