NEW DELHI, (IANS) – As the RTI Act completes 17 years of giving common people the right to know about the acts of omission and commission by government officials, it is facing a plethora of ...

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Gandhi is particularly concerned about Section 38(2), which gives the DPDP Act overriding power over other laws, including the RTI Act. With penalties as high as Rs 250 crore, he believes public ...

The recent amendment to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, marks a pivotal retreat from the transparency regime that India ...

This is exactly what Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act does by setting up a ‘public interest test’ for all information. Anything that requires transparency in public interest thus cannot be kept private.

The recent enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, and its subsequent ripple effect on the landmark Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, have brought this delicate ...

The Act itself is an outcome of K.S. Puttaswamy (2017), a judgment that upheld the right of privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act ...

Legislators of Congress, CPM, RJD, DMK, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Samajwadi Party say the repeal of Section 44(3) of DPDP Act would not hurt privacy and would rather safeguard RTI Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi ...

“We, the undersigned Members of Parliament, hereby urge you to repeal Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, which amends the Right to Information (RTI ...

“We request the ministry to remove Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act,” said Gogoi. This section goes against Section 8(1) (j) of the RTI Act, he added. Along ...

Amendments introduced through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act fundamentally weaken the RTI framework and fail to protect the right to privacy. NEW DELHI: Civil society groups and ...

An attorney representing a migrant sent to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act says her client was deported due to a soccer logo tattoo, according to court declarations submitted Wednesday night.