-Livemint.com The Supreme Court is delivering more judgements, especially on appeals, even as it continues to be plagued by a massive backlog of cases, shows data New Delhi: These are busy times for the Supreme Court. From Aadhaar to Ayodhya, the apex court is poised to deliver verdicts that could change the Indian society. However, beyond the headline cases, the court is also hearing several other, more mundane cases. This is part...
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Judiciary has become another institution where Muslims are more and more under-represented -Christophe Jaffrelot & Gilles Verniers
-The Indian Express Judiciary has become another institution where Muslims are more and more under-represented While the percentage of Muslims in prison has never been higher — 21 per cent — the proportion of Muslims convicted — 15.8 per cent — is closer to their share of the population (14.2 per cent in the 2011 Census). This indicates that many Muslims arrested by the police and charged end up being acquitted, usually...
More »Collusion between Sterlite and Tamil Nadu government? -Saurav Datta
-National Herald The police acted in gross violation of the law, killing 13 people; the Judiciary failed the people and the media spread canards The targeted shooting of peaceful demonstrators in Thoothukudi (also known as Tuticorin), which resulted in the Tamil Nadu Police killing 13 people in cold blood, and injuring scores of others, and the subsequent brutal crackdown on civilians, points to a sinister collusion between the owners of Sterlite...
More »The government must establish a department of public health soon -Sujatha Rao
-Hindustan Times It will give the failing discipline the priority, energy and momentum it requires To eliminate tuberculosis by 2025, a decision to integrate the two vertically implemented programmes — tuberculosis with HIV/AIDS — was taken in March, and an expert committee was constituted to provide the operational strategies for it. The argument for this integration is unquestionable. When HIV/AIDS claimed 30 million lives in the 1990s, it was declared a global...
More »The missing 4,007,707 -Sanjib Baruah
-The Indian Express Can a democracy permit so many to be in a state of liminal legality? NRC poses a political and moral question The possibility — whether immediate or somewhat remote — that at the end of the process as many as 4 million people may lose their legal status as citizens should not be a cause of celebration in a democracy. Nor should it generate a mad rush among...
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