The department of personnel and training (DoPT), which has information on the selection of the Lokpal committee, has recently denied information on frivolous grounds to an RTI applicant. The CIC did not question, but upheld the move.

Arnab Goswami’s case seems to have been an exceptional one where the SC felt it needed to intervene. It felt no such compunction in the case of Varavara Rao and countless others.

With vacancies piling up in information commissions across the country, the government does not seem to take the transparency law seriously.

Details on this fund and on the decision-making process behind the lockdown, which the PMO has decided not to disclose, should have been made public without waiting for RTI requests.

All other public servants are held to a higher standard of transparency – including by the Supreme Court itself.

New rules recently notified giving the Centre power over Central and State information commissioners are intended to ensure RTI appeals go the government's way.

The RTI Convention begs the question: who will save the RTI?

When there is no constituent assembly of J&K, and no legislative assembly, whom did the president consult before changing Article 370?

The amendment assumes that RTI is not a constitutional right.

Offering a bribe to a public servant is a crime. Why, then, is it not being probed?

The draft Bill gives more power and impunity to forest officers.

A central information commissioner has the power to direct the chief election commissioner to disclose records.

By constituting a special bench that included himself, the CJI breached two basic principles central to the doctrine of natural justice: “no man shall be a judge of his own case” and “hear the other side”.

The Congress party has proclaimed its commitment. Now it is up to the BJP: Will it assure independence to the CIC and strengthen the RTI?

Narasimha Rao’s decision to not exploit the issue of nuclear tests for political gains is a testament to his credentials as a statesman.

The RBI must take the Supreme Court's warning from last week seriously and bring down the iron walls of its RTI wing so as to not perpetuate India’s financial regime of secrecy.

The government is focusing on whether or not documents released in the media are 'secret', without going into their veracity.

After two years of stubborn refusal to part with any details regarding the minutes of its board meeting on demonetisation, the RBI has demonstrated its sheer disdain for the RTI Act.

The situation throughout the country is alarming when it comes to right to information and transparency in governance.

Orders passed by the CIC enforcing the citizen’s right to information now routinely end up in court with government bodies making the commission and its commissioners individual respondents.