-The Times of India The conspiracy of favouring candidates in the JBT exam by former chief minister Om PrakashChautala had begun in 1999 and he had even transferred two officers who did not comply with the directions given by chief minister's office. In its order, the court said Chautala was the "main conspirator" who was aware of every development in the scam. The court on Wednesday noted that Chautala could not carry out...
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Caugh red-handed? -Sunayana Singh
-NewsLaundry.com Come election time, “paid news” is one of the most oft-heard phrases. News items on politicians can’t be explained away so easily anymore. Responding to reports of paid news during the Himachal Pradesh elections, the Press Council of India (PCI) for the first time set up a four-member Election Coverage Monitoring (ECM) Committee to look into incidents of paid news in the run-up to the Gujarat elections last December. Here’s the gist...
More »Practice of paid news found in Gujarat polls: Katju
-Jagran Post Jabalpur (MP): Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Friday released a report on Gujarat polls which claimed that the malpractice of paid news was noticed on a large-scale in the recently held elections. Releasing the report before the media here, Katju said that the team has found large-scale practice of paid news, both in print and electronic media, in the recent Gujarat Assembly elections. The...
More »Six years after Sachar report, Muslim lot no better -Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu Difficulty in implementing schemes, owing to conceptual confusion at multiple levels: Khurshid External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday attributed the difficulty in administering and implementing welfare programmes for Muslims to conceptual confusion evident at multiple levels — from courts through policymakers and social scientists and experts. Mr. Khurshid, who previously held charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, said a Supreme Court interim stay had facilitated the implementation of four...
More »Needed, urgent electoral reforms -Navin Chawla
-The Hindu When a political party puts up candidates with criminal charges, it results in the alienation of large sections of people from the political class and politics itself When the Election Commission of India turned 60 on January 25, 2010, The Hindu opened its lead editorial of January 29 with the words, “After overseeing 15 General Elections to the Lok Sabha, the ECI, in its diamond jubilee year, can with justifiable...
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