A staggering Rs 40 lakh in salaries is paid every month to the 86 staffers of the Uttar Pradesh Raj Bhawan, the Governor's official residence, a response to an RTI query has revealed.

The Delhi University earned over Rs 3 crore in fees paid by students for either revaluation or rechecking their answer-sheets and for providing photocopies of answer-sheets to them between 2015-16 and 2017-18, an RTI has revealed.

In a recent update, it has been learnt that owing to floods in Kerala, the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) has has received a total amount of Rs 1,027.78 crore as of August 31. The details of funding have been updated on a real-time basis.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday said the government has not been involved in diluting or curtailing the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

The Central government has provided categorized security cover to 308 persons, out of which 24 have been provided the highest Z-plus cover, according to the answer to an RTI query.

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and seven states to fill up the vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and the state level bodies in a time-bound manner.

An interesting finding by RTI activist Bhimappa Gadad suggests that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi took 41 trips to over 52 countries in 4 years, a cumulative 165 days. And, all this abroad tours was made at a total expense of Rs 355 crore.

Blame it on bank frauds, 21 national banks have posted a loss of over Rs 25,000 crores in the financial year 2017-18, a Right to Information reply has stated.

Ninety-two per cent of the total number of RTI requests filed with different departments of the Delhi government were filed online after the system was introduced 10 months ago, according to government data.

The expenses at Kejriwal's office in Delhi were revealed by a Haldwani-based activist who had sought a response to an RTI query he had filed in February. Aslo, the RTI stated that total expenses incurred on Kejriwal's journeys since he became the chief minister of Delhi come at Rs 11.99 lakh.