Mangaluru:  Congress MLA U T Khader alleged that BJP would have spent more than one thousand crore rupees for purchasing rebel MLAs. Speaking to press persons here on Wednesday July 24, Khader said that the BJP exploited difference of opinions among the coalition leaders to their advantage and offered offered huge money to the rebel […]

Udupi: K.M. Chandre Gowda, State Information Commissioner, said on Wednesday that officers should give information sought by applicants under the Right to Information Act, 2005, within a limited time frame. He was chairing a meeting on cases in which information was sought by applicants under the Right to Information Act. A training programme for officers […]

Puttur: In an incident reported on Friday, some miscreants barged into the Grama Panchayat office at Badagannur and vandalized the office; they also verbally abused the PDO and other staff. The reason was the failure to provide information under the RTI Act. Sharada, PDO of the Grama Panchayat filed a complaint in this regard at […]

Mangalore : The Aam Aadmi Party workers staged a protest in front of DC office on August 10, Saturday  opposing amendment to RTI Act to enable  to keep political parties out of the purview of the RTI Act.The agitators demanded that all political parties should be brought under the Act. Robert Rosario, District Convenor,  said […]

Gulbarga: The Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 under RTI Act-2005 on Manoj Jain, IAS, Chief Executive Officer of Raichur zilla panchayat, for not providing information sought by former minister S K Kanta under the RTI Act when he was Commissioner of Gulbarga Maha Nagara Palike. The Commission has given Jain […]

Udupi: Rahul Gandhi on a tour on Karnataka, this week, from Hubli to Bijapur to Udupi expressed a desire to have those not associated with politics so far to be members of his party in the youth wing. That rules out ABVP and other group (Morcha) members from coming into Sonia Congress. Rahul is touring […]