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A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in the field of |
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Right
to Information from Around the World |
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Issue No: 141 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 17-05-2017 |
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Bangladesh Journalists face restrictive access to government
buildings Dhaka
Tribune "Every citizen has a right to information from the Authority and the Authority
shall on demand from a citizen be bound to provide information," the Right ... Bangladesh Complaints at info commission on the rise Dhaka
Tribune Ever since the Right to Information (RTI) Act was enacted, the
Information Commission has been seeing a significant rise of complaints by
those who ... Pakistan Zardari wants draft RTI law presented
in parliament The Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday urged the government to
bring the draft Right to Information [RTI] law - agreed upon by all ... Pakistan PHC makes judges' salaries
public The News International The applicant, Zahid Abdullah, a
resident of Islamabad, filed an RTI request under the provision of KP Right to Information Act 2013 for making the ... Pakistan Call for effective implementation of right to information law The News International Veteran journalist and human rights
activist Zubeida Mustafa said the Right to Information Act serves as a means of check and
balance to keep the ... India Filing an FIR is no answer for a missing file; PIO should
reconstruct the file, rules CIC Moneylife Neither lodging a first information
report (FIR) with the police nor denying information to a citizen under Right to Information Act (RTI) under the pretext ... India Word power: An RTI query to BBMP hits the language
barrier Bangalore
Mirror Of all the excuses available to not
provide information against an RTI (Right to Information) query, a public information officer
at the Bruhat Bengaluru ... Bangladesh The Daily Star There is a new breed of fans in South
Asia: fans of the Right to Information (RTI) laws in our region. These are passionate, almost
fanatical, RTI ... Pakistan Marriyum Aurangzeb presents 'Right to Information Bill, 2017' before
Senate ARY NEWS ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for
Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday laid before India How RTI changed the face of Investigative Journalism in
India forever The
Siasat Daily Shyamlal Yadav not only masters to use the Indian Right to Information law as powerful tool for his
journalistic work, even more importantly, in his role ... Pakistan PTI seeks information about corruption allegations on Fawad Hassan Pakistan Today Therefore, she said that right to information law demands that the "unedited"
version of this report must be made public. Andleeb requested that she ... India Central Government Owes Rs 451.75 Crore to Air India For VVIP Flights Outlook India ... vice president and the prime minister, as well as special
missions, according to the latest data provided
under the Right To Information Act. India RTI rejection rate in most public sector banks increased
in 2015-16 Hindustan Times An analysis by a Delhi-based advocacy
group of over 80,000 applications filed under the Right To Information Act with 24 major public
sector ... Sri Lanka ETCA will destroy Sri Lanka's IT sector- Lasantha Wickramasinghe Lankaweb ... measures to legalize its lack of transparency
by excluding the Right to Know about international trade agreements by its Right to Information
Bill. USA Number of FOIA Requests Reaches
Record High Secrecy News (blog) Federal government agencies received
more Freedom of Information Act requests last year than ever
before, the Justice Department reported last ... Pakistan IHC seeks details of civil servants working in IFIs The Nation He adopted that this is his right to
know under the Right to Information Law. The petitioner who is Pakistani and Belgium
national stated that on ... Pakistan PTI seeks info on 'misuse of PM Office by Maryam Nawaz' The Nation ... is addressed to the principal secretary of the Prime
Minister's Secretariat seeking information under the Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002. Scotland The Scottish Sun But when Police Scotland were asked to
reveal the detailed terms of the order under Freedom of Information rules, they
refused and declined to ... USA GOP Chairman Tells Agencies What to Release in FOIA
Requests New York Times "All such documents and
communications constitute congressional records not 'agency records' for
purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, and ... |
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