Scientists Successfully Teach Crow To File RTI; Government Panics

Researchers at TIFR Mumbai announced the successful completion of a two-year experiment in which a common house crow, named Kali, was trained to file Right to Information requests with government departments via a custom beak-operated interface. In its first week of independent operation, Kali filed 17 RTIs across five ministries, all correctly formatted, timestamped, and within the mandated 30-day follow-up window. Requests included: details on road repair budgets for three Mumbai wards, minutes from a 2021 smart city committee meeting, and a curiously specific query about the disposal of unused stationery from a government office in Santacruz. The Ministry of Information has reportedly convened an emergency committee to determine whether a crow has locus standi under the RTI Act 2005.