-The Hindu A concern about the Food Security Bill is that legal entitlement has been weakened to mean a passive right to receive whatever the state gives The hallmark of the National Food Security Bill 2011 is that if implemented it will translate into India's first ever right to food legislation, guaranteeing food as a justiciable, legal entitlement to its people. However, in its current form, the Bill fails to evolve a...
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India ranked 38th in Index of Democracy; US 21st
-IANS India also gets high scores for electoral process and pluralism (9.58) and Civil Liberties (9.41) Washington: Even as it acknowledges India as the world's most populous democracy, the Economist magazine's Index of Democracy 2012 ranks India 38th among 165 nations with an overall score of 7.52. India also gets high scores for electoral process and pluralism (9.58) and Civil Liberties (9.41). The top three positions go to Norway (9.93) Sweden (9.73) and...
More »Succumbing to the bogey of fear -Anup Surendranath
-The Hindu In the Bhullar case, the Supreme Court has created a category of ‘terrorists' among those sentenced to death without providing a constitutional basis for it Writing on extra-judicial killings in the Economic and Political Weekly in March 1996, K.G. Kannabiran narrated a very interesting anecdote from his experience on the Civil Rights Committee appointed by Jayaprakash Narayan to investigate fake encounters orchestrated during the Emergency against naxalites. While interacting with...
More »Aadhaar putting India’s poorest on the map-Clive Crook
-Bloomberg In all likelihood, Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar will lead the world. Exactly where it will lead, we'll find out People who grew up in Britain in the 1960s will remember a television programme that built a cult following: The Prisoner. It was about an oddly luxurious detention camp-a kind of Guantanamo Bay by Four Seasons, spa services and brainwashing included. Even if you wanted to, trying to escape was pointless. A...
More »Court asks cops to produce 'missing' tribals
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: The joint operations taken up by the greyhounds wing of AP, CRPF andChhattisgharh police in the border areas took a curious turn on Tuesday with the AP high courtordering the police to produce five tribals before it in the wake of substantive allegations that they had picked up during combing operations last month and continue to be under police custody. The bench comprising Justice KC...
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