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RTI reveals shocking details of Indian Prisoners languishing in Pakistan’s jails and also the worrisome phenomenon of soldiers who go missing on both sides of the border

Image courtesy: https://www.deccanherald.com/ May 26, 2023 By: Venkatesh Nayak According to recent media reports, prison authorities in Pakistan released and sent back 198 jailed fishermen who are Indian nationals as a “goodwill gesture” earlier this month. While their families might be celebrating the reunion with their loved ones, the families of another

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RTI reveals: GoI's directions to block Twitter URLs and other social and digital media content soared in 2022
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RTI reveals: GoI’s directions to block Twitter URLs and other social and digital media content soared in 2022

Readers may remember from earlier this week, a detailed write-up about the refusal of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoI&B) to publicly disclose orders to block content on social and digital media platforms under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (2021 Rules) notified under the Information

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RTIs to GoI rose by 6.55% during the 2nd year of the pandemic, but how reliable is the data published in the CIC’s 2021-22 Annual Report
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RTIs to GoI rose by 6.55% during the 2nd year of the pandemic, but how reliable is the data published in the CIC’s 2021-22 Annual Report

Parliament’s Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice (the Standing Committee), recently pulled up the Central Information Commission (CIC) for relying on contractual staff for doing its mandated work while sanctioned posts of full time employees continued to remain vacant. In its 126th Report on the Demand for Grants made by the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public

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RTIs to GoI rose by 6.55% during the 2nd year of the pandemic, but how reliable is the data published in the CIC’s 2021-22 Annual Report
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CIC’s latest Annual Report: Rising number of first appeals indicates dissatisfaction with GoI’s RTI replies is highest ever

Two weeks ago, the first set of our findings from a preliminary analysis of the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) 2021-22 Annual Report (AR) was circulated. Readers will recall, the AR contains a wealth of data regarding the use and the implementation of The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) during the second year of the COVID-19

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RTI Exposes Rise in Indian Prisoners in Pakistan Jails, Soldiers Missing Along Border Raise Concerns

According to recent media reports, prison authorities in Pakistan released and sent back 198 jailed fishermen who are Indian nationals as a “goodwill gesture” earlier this month. While their families might be celebrating the reunion with their loved ones, the families of another 454 fishermen who are also Indian nationals

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