क्या छत्तीसगढ़ में विधि व्यवस्था और सांविधानिक संरचना टूट चुकी है। भले ही सूबे की सरकार इससे इनकार करे मगर देश के कुछ सबसे ज्यादा प्रतिष्ठित नागरिक संगठन कम से कम ऐसा ही मानते हैं। कई नागरिक संगठनों ने सरकारी अधिकारियों, अदालत और यहां तक की प्रधानमंत्री को भी ऑपरेशन ग्रीनहंट के तहत हो रही उस पुलिसिया ज्यादती के बारे में लिखा है जिसे सूबे की पुलिस और अर्द्धसैनिक बल...

It is presumed that the industrial development in Bihar is hampered by lack of investments. Is it because of 'unproductive' government policies or an unpredictable law and order situation? And how to increase the flow of investment in the state? In order to find out answers to all such questions and debate these issues, Business Standard Hindi recently organised a roundtable in Patna. The seminar was attended by various small...

If your child can go from a ‘near zero’ learning ability to getting 95 per cent in mathematics and from a state of malnutrition to WHO-approved standards of health, chances are that you will not find the Naxal ideology all that attractive. I was in the Naxal heartland of Bastar to review the learning skills of children in 300 schools who were being educated by the Naandi Foundation when news...

Much like the tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas five years ago, the closing weeks of 2009 saw an ill wind sweeping across many of our democratic institutions, highlighting that beneath the veneer of the nation’s aspirations towards great power status was a crumbling institutional core. To look at the fourth estate first. The preface to the Press Council of India’s “Norms of Journalistic Conduct” has a section that...

Notwithstanding controversies, it passed several important judgments The year 2009 was eventful and memorable for the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan. The Court faced several controversies, the notable being the collegium’s decision to elevate Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran as one of its judges. This controversy was preceded by a clean chit to Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Nirmal Yadav in the Rs....