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India-EU summit plans 'strict' road map for free trade pact by Amiti Sen

The India-EU summit scheduled in New Delhi next week will lay down a 'strict' road-map for conclusion of the ambitious bilateral free trade pact and also strengthen cooperation in security. Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday on the progress made in the FTA negotiations and the areas that still need to be sorted out.  "The PM was briefed on the status of the India-EU...

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Censoring the Internet: The New Intermediary Guidelines by Rishab Bailey

The government’s recent actions in notifying the Intermediary Guidelines for the internet with minimal public debate have resulted in the creation of a legal system that raises as many problems as it solves. The regulations as presently notified are arguably unconstitutional, arbitrary and vague and could pose a serious problem to the business of various intermediaries in the country (not to mention hampering internet penetration in the country) and also...

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EVMs not tamper-proof, but no paper trail: Delhi HC

-PTI   The Delhi high court on Tuesday said that electronic voting machines (EVMs), that have come to be the backbone of elections in India, are not "tamper-proof". The court, however, refused to direct the EC to incorporate a paper trail to record votes cast through EVMs. Giving its ruling on a petition, the HC bench comprising Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said it was not impossible to tamper...

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Gianni Tognoni, secretary general of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal interviewed by Jyotika Sood

In June 1979, an innovation in the field of law and politics came about in the form of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal. The idea behind it is identifying and publicising cases of violations of fundamental rights. For the first time a session of the tribunal was held in India in November 2011. In an interview to Jyotika Sood, the secretary general of the tribunal, Gianni Tognoni, tells how it works What is...

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Climate change: India a constructive force in Durban by Connie Hedegaard

The Durban conference in December 2011 marked a breakthrough in international efforts to combat climate change. The EU and India played a key role in final negotiations that unlocked the pact on the last morning of the conference. Together, we found the compromise that provided the basis to launch negotiations on a new global legal framework for climate action that the world so badly needs.  It is no secret that the...

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