The Lokpal Bill is in danger of skidding off the rails. As it is introduced in Parliament, eminent activist Aruna Roy tells Shoma Chaudhury why we should not rush into it. THE LOKPAL BILL is now being debated in Parliament, almost 40 years after the idea was first mooted. Unfortunately, parented on one side by decades of wilful government inertia and, on the other, by the panicked hustle of ‘Team...
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Samacheer Kalvi: students taken for a ride, says counsel by J Venkatesan
In scrapping the Uniform System of School Education (USSE) soon after coming to power, lakhs of students have been taken for a ride by the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu on flimsy grounds, argued senior counsel M.N. Krishnamani in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Making his submissions before a three-judge Bench comprising Justice J.M. Panchal, Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan, the senior counsel said the Cabinet decision on May...
More »Shocking! Rs 12,228 cr lost in illegal ore exports by Vicky Nanjappa
Vicky Nanjappa goes through Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde's explosive report on illegal mining in the state and reveals damning figures of corruption. A jaw-dropping Rs 12,228 crore worth of iron ore was illegally exported in a a span of four years (2006-2010), says Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santhosh Hegde in his report released a couple of days back which led to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's exit. According to the report, which...
More »Noida land takeover: Court notice to UP on plea for CBI probe
-The Indian Express The Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, UP government, Greater Noida and Noida authorities and the Yamuna Expressway Development Industrial Authority (YEIDA) on a petition demanding a CBI probe into land acquisitions in Noida and Greater Noida from 2005 to 2010. Asking them to file counter-affidavits in two weeks, the court said it would examine the maintainability of the petition on the next date...
More »‘Republic of Bellary’ set to lose its independence by Samar Halarnkar
For five years, they controlled the administration in impoverished Bellary, even flattened state boundary markers to excavate iron ore—while insisting they had no mining interests in Karnataka. Now, the reign of the rulers of the “Republic of Bellary”—as the unofficial influence of two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers and a milk federation chief, collectively called the Reddy brothers—appears to be at an end. As the Supreme Court on Friday banned all mining...
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