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- Right to Be Forgotten: erase old court cases from Google after Delhi HC's 2026 ruling - what the Laksh Vir Singh Yadav judgment (2026:DHC:4891) means, the three remedies (de-indexing, delinking, masking), who is eligible vs barred, and how to apply.
- Gold Rate Today in India: 24K, 22K, 18K Price and Buyer Checklist — SEO-focused gold price guide with current-rate snapshot, city buying checklist, jewellery bill calculation, hallmark checks and a light RTI route for complaint records.
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- Monday Morning RTI Checklist: Fix Pending Government Work This Week — Monday action plan for pending passport, pension, ration card, FIR, PMAY, electricity, scholarship, mutation and public-service files.
- PMAY status stuck or subsidy delayed? Use RTI after this checklist — high-interest PMAY 2026 guide covering stuck beneficiary status, missing names, delayed instalments, subsidy confusion, grievance steps and record-based RTI drafting.
- BCCI outside RTI: CIC decision in Geeta Rani case explained — legal analysis of CIC/MOYAS/A/2018/123236 after the Madras High Court remand, including Section 2(h), government control, substantial financing, tax concessions and practical RTI routes.
First Appeal vs Second Appeal — strategy guide for 2026
The RTI Act's two-stage escalation has shifted in importance. With CIC backlogs at 24-30 months, First Appeal (FAA) has become the real action layer. Here is the strategic playbook.
DPDP Act vs RTI Conflicts: The 2026 Legal Landscape
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Did you know? On 14 November 2025, a single notification rewired the Right to Information Act's most-invoked exemption. The proviso that said “information that cannot be denied to Parliament cannot be denied to a citizen” was removed. Five months on, the practical effect is measurable.
Digital vs Physical RTI — How Channel Choice Decides Your Outcome
If you file your Right to Information application at rtionline.gov.in, you are ~14 percentage points more likely to receive a reply within 30 days than a citizen who files the same question by registered post — and ~32 points more likely than one who files it on a state portal. This long-form analysis of ~22.4 lakh Central-government RTIs filed in FY 2023-24 (DoPT Annual Report + rtionline.gov.in weekly disclosures + field audits by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Satark Nagrik Sangathan) answers a question the policy literature has long sidestepped with anecdote: does the channel actually change the outcome? Short answer — yes, substantially, and asymmetrically across classes of information, states, and exemption clauses cited. Long answer follows, with every chart machine-readable and every number sourced.
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Reviewed on: 23 April 2026. Maintained by the RTI Wiki editorial team. Data compiled from: DoPT RTI Annual Report 2022-23 (latest published), Central Information Commission (CIC) Annual Report 2023-24, rtionline.gov.in weekly application disclosures (DoPT Form C), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Tilting the Balance of Power (2024 update), Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) People's Monitoring of the RTI Regime (2023-24).
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