The state Cabinet on Tuesday okayed a proposal to increase the amount of diet allowance to every indoor patient of every category of government hospitals from Rs 25 per patient to Rs 50 per patient. A proposal to set up separate State Scheduled...

Eighty per cent of the rural population and 55 per cent of the urban populationin India are not aware of the Right to Information, or RTI, Act. Half of the public information officers are not trained in implementing the act. Only one in four persons...

Prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist Shekhar Singh is among the persons being considered for the post of chief information commissioner (CIC), government sources said here. “Shekhar Singh is one of the prominent RTI activists and his name is...

Citizens in Pimpri-Chinchwad can now access online the decisions taken by the standing commitee and the general body (GB) of the municipal corporation. The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's (PCMC) facility will allow the public to easily access...

With the government's tacit acceptance of the fact that amendments to Right to Information Act (RTI) were on the agenda, activists are planning to step up protests and garner support from political parties. On Saturday, DoPT secretary Shantanu Consul...