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Exposing corruption, making the powerful accountable to the public, helping journalists bring truth to light – the Right To Information has not only been a boon for transparency but has also played a significant role in strengthening the country's democracy.

The United States would drastically reduce its diplomatic footprint in Africa and scrap State Department offices dealing with climate change, democracy and human rights, according to a draft White House order.

From trade wars to constitutional crisis, Trump gains more corrupt power as critics remain distracted

He claims frontman made band “miserable” every day

Allison Riggs won in November – but a court ruling has put ballots in North Carolina under threat. The stakes are high

The birth of Indian democracy is the stuff of legend. It was a moment of such staggering idealism and exuberance, a leap of faith so audacious, that the famous jurist and scholar Kenneth Wheare termed it “the biggest liberal experiment in democratic government” that the world had seen.

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

A history scholar convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents by ingratiating himself as a sympathizer has been spared prison time by a U.S. judge

We all have heard this oft-repeated phrase: “India is the biggest democracy in the world.” But scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find it resembles less a republic and more a fiefdom – run by a handful of upper-caste, upper-class Indians who, although numerically a minority, continue to dominate nearly…