Newsletter 133

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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of

Right to Information

from

Around the World

Issue No: 133

E - Alert

Issue Date: 03-01-2017

 

 

Australia

Minister Kate Jones 'misled house' over audit

The Australian

In response, Ms Jones said departmental audit reports were released to the ABC �under the Right to Information legislation�. The Australian ...

 

Indonesia

Indonesia's forestry ministry takes Greenpeace to court over freedom of information request

Mongabay.com

In October, Indonesia's freedom of information commission ruled in favor of a case brought by Greenpeace, asking the forestry ministry to publish a ...

 

Pakistan

State Life directed to provide info under Freedom of Information Ordinance

The News International

The agency is, therefore, required to provide the requested information to the complainant under the provision of Freedom of Information Ordinance, ...

 

UK

Careless House of Lords' peers and staff lose over �10000 of taxpayer-bought iPads, laptops and ...

The Sun

The figures were revealed to The Sun after we ued the Freedom of Information Act to ask what items had been reported stolen or lost using the ...

 

India

Here's How Much It Costs The RBI To Print New 500 And 2000 Rupee Notes

NDTV

BRBNMPL, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India or RBI, said in its reply to an Right to Information (RTI) query that it charges the ...

 

Canada

A Canadian Province Is Refusing to Release Pipeline Safety Reports

Motherboard

�Upon conclusion of the investigation, freedom of information requests for information involved in the investigation will be considered according to the ...

 

Canada

Ontario environment ministry deliberately falsified dates on FOI requests

Toronto Star

... staff at the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change altered dates on freedom of information requests to improve their compliance statistics.

 

Pakistan

Defence ministry refuses to share info under RTI law

The News International

In this connection, it is informed that the information asked by him cannot be provided under Section-8 of the Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002, ...

 

UK

British embassy questioned whether Malaysian PM cleared of corruption

The Guardian

The British cable was released under a freedom of information request made by the Guardian but was heavily redacted to include mostly factual ...

 

Pakistan

Question mark over KP govt's multi-billion rupee ad contract

DAWN.com

Dawn, it may be mentioned, filed two requests with the department of information, government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, under the Right to Information ...

 

India

Row in Uttarakhand over break for namaz

The Hindu

Also, in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed in 2010, a copy of which is with The Hindu, the Central government stated that the ...

 

India

Activist approaches rights body with toothache

Times of India

Surat: A right to information (RTI) activist suffering from toothache was compelled to approach the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission (GSHRC) ...

 

UK

The Ministry of Defence lost 759 laptops in 18 months - and they're not alone

Mirror.co.uk

Maurice Frankel, director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, said: "They are stretching credibility to well beyond its snapping point with some ...

 

Pakistan

KP Assembly spent over Rs5.3m on entertainment last fiscal

The News International

The information, received in response to a request under the Section 7 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act 2013, shows that over the ...

 

Pakistan

PTI quizzes Punjab about 1000-plus POs on the loose

The Express Tribune

Abbas has sought information on the POs under the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act 2013. The report, jointly compiled by the ...

 

Pakistan

No right to know

The News International

While the Right to Information passed in 2014 by the Senate Standing Committee on Information had been applauded by international and local ...

 

UK

Councils have handed out �12million to fix cars damaged by potholes since 2012 and pay ...

The Sun

The massive payouts were revealed by hundreds of Freedom of Information requests to individual councils since 2012. Critics demanded more be ...

 

Pakistan

Right to know faces another blow in 2016

The News International

ISLAMABAD: Another year passes without witnessing the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) legislation. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ...

 

India

Man uses RTI to prove his wife is employed

Times of India

He has urged to provide him the information he has sought under the Right to Information (RTI). The information, he said, if given, would be of extreme ...

 

Pakistan

RDA directed to provide details about Metro Bus Project

The News International

The Transparency and Right to Information Act 2013 says "The public information officer is to respond to the request within 14 working days, and if the ...

 

India

Indore: Man thrashed for seeking info on monks with beacon, hooter mounted vehicles

Hindustan Times

On December 8, he had filed a Right To Information (RTI) query seeking information on how many monks belonging to different faiths, were allotted ...

 

India

Official caught paying bribe to RTI activist | Bengaluru NYOOOZ

NYOOOZ

Summary: On Friday, a government official was caught paying a bribe to an Right to Information (RTI) activist to not dig into a particular case.

 

India

In a first, PIO directed to reply to RTI on information commissioner

Times of India

... judicial officer and FAA, the order directed the quasi-judicial institution's PIO T Thilaka to provide information to city-based Right To Information (RTI) ...

 

India

RTI activist murder: 'Case remains unsolved despite arrest of two former cops'

The Indian Express

Based on the documents obtained under Right to Information (RTI) Act, activist Satish Shetty had filed a complaint of cheating and forgery against IRB ...

 

Pakistan

Cataloguing development in KP: CM's aide unveils six-month performance report\

The Express Tribune

Similarly, the Right to Information has received 8,092 complaints out of which the government has taken action on 5,279 applications while 594 are ...

 

Pakistan

Public participation in budget making urged

The News International

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on the right to information have said public participation in budget making process and transparency in the ...

 

UK

Serious mistakes in NHS patient care are on the rise, figures reveal

The Guardian

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the number of surgical incidents more than doubled between 2013-14 and 2015-16.

 

India

India's transparency regime? 1.88 lakh cases pending before 16 state information commissions, no ...

COUNTERVIEW

A fresh study on the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2006, has said that the collective backlog in the disposal of appeals and ...

 

 

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