An NLU Delhi student has objected to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) committee’s recent notice stating that all records of the CLAT 2013 will be destroyed by 30 November 2013.

NLSIU Bangalore has admitted that its teachers did not hold any formal discussions about a faculty member’s allegations that the law school’s students cheated in examinations. The reply was to one of several queries in the first appeal to alumnus Prashant Reddy’s Right to Information (RTI) request ....

The Supreme Court today admitted that it made a mistake of law in September 2012 when it had directed that only sitting or retired High Court Chief Justices or an apex court judge could head the central and State information commissions, and recalled its 13 September 2012 judgment to that effect, re...

NLSIU Bangalore has ignored appeals filed by its alumnus Prashant Reddy over the law school’s perfunctory right to information (RTI) replies to his queries. In three RTIs filed in June Reddy had asked for details of the law school’s exam re-evaluation system, reasons for the dismissal of former facu...

File RTI online : Gov launches online portal for filing Right to Information (RTI) requests with 82 ministries at www.rtionline.gov.in [ Firstpost ] Delhi gang-rape closings : The closing arguments in the so-called Delhi gang-rape trial will be heard today. WSJ summarises case so far. Wikileaker sen...

NLSIU Bangalore side-stepped Right to Information (RTI) requests on grades, cheating & faculty.

The DoJ project to computerise 14,249 courts is 85 per cent complete, according to an RTI response.

Justice for Jessica: The Delhi HC has dismissed perjury charges against 17 of the 19 hostile witnesses in the Jessica Lal murder case . The court has ordered suo moto prosecution against Bollywood actor Shayan Munshi and ballistic expert PS Manocha under Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure...

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed its September 2012 order that made it compulsory to appoint retired judges to central and state information commissions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005.

ILI governatored: Delhi HC’s justice Gita Mittal, senior advocate Rakesh Munjal, CNLU Patna vice chancellor Prof Lakshmikanth and others elected to ILI governing council [ ILI ] Right to AG info: RTI Activist SC Aggarwal appeals in Delhi HC against CIC decision holding attorney general’s office not ...

National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) 2012-13 budget: Rs 6 crore.

Right to Information (RTI) requests can now be submitted online to the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT), after the National Informatics Centre built web portal rtionline.gov.in to submit RTI Act 2005 queries. Facilities of the portal, currently in its first phase, include first appeals als...

In 2011 there were 1.3 million lawyers in India, revealed a right to information (RTI) response by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to Delhi-based advocate Kush Kalra, with an average annual growth rate between 2007 and 2011 of around 4 per cent.

The attorney general of India (AG) is not bound to answer Right to Information (RTI) queries, according to the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) latest order. A full bench of the CIC comprising of chief information commissioner Satyanand Mishra, and information commissioners ML Sharma and Annpu...

There is a need to look into anti-dumping duty being conducive or non-conducive to competition, said Ajay Kumar Chauhan, the director general (DG) of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Citing the ongoing investigation by the office of the director general against the man-made fibre manufactu...

Legally India has today filed right to information (RTI) requests with India’s seven oldest national law schools, seeking full financial accounts, council meeting minutes and other information.

Nalsar Hyderabad vice chancellor Veer Singh has been accused of “favouritism, abuse of authority, gross academic indiscipline and financial irregularities”, by Supreme Court and High Court judges in a report unearthed by state auditors, a copy of which Legally India has unsuccessfully tried to obtain for more than two weeks.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled that the government’s internal legal opinions should be made public under Right to Information (RTI) requests, which could result in Swan Telecom facing investigation by the ministry of corporate affairs in the 2G spectrum scandal, reported Mint today.

As the government has constituted a new taskforce to enforce implementation of access to the Right to Information, research by Infocracy India suggests that most law schools are not complying with the law.

Infocracy India, an initiative to increase RTI activism amongst Indian law students, is launching a project to make RTI drafting an obligatory part of the Class 10 school syllabus and to investigate whether minimum wage is paid to campus labourers.