-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court appointed panel on road safety headed by its retired judge KS Radhakrishnan has recommended ban on sale of alcohol on state and national highways to curb cases of road accidents in which nearly 1.5 lakh die every year in the country. Pointing out a slew of deficiencies on the part of state governments in enforcing motor vehicles rule, the committee has directed the...
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A hasty, half-baked report on environment -Ramaswamy R Iyer
-The Hindu The report of the High-Level Committee for reviewing environmental laws has a misplaced focus on speedy project clearances and wrongly attributes their delays to environmental laws The report of the High-Level Committee (HLC) on a review of environmental laws may no longer be in the news, but its potential for impacting environmental governance in the country has not diminished. That potential will become real soon enough. A note of caution...
More »ADR study shows no MLA with serious criminal cases in Delhi elected
-DNA New Delhi: An analysis of the elected candidates in the recently held Delhi polls has shown that a number of MLAs with criminal cases has gone down from previous elections, with only 24 (34%) contenders declaring the same. A breakdown of the numbers, in a study conducted by the Delhi Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has shown that this number has reduced marginally, with 25 out of...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today pulled up the government for engaging in endless litigation over land acquisitions, denying due compensation to farmers. "You have enacted the new land acquisition law for payment of compensation to farmers, but you don't pay the farmers for years. You (the defence ministry) spend Rs 100 crore for the Republic Day parade but when it comes to payment of compensation to the poor farmers,...
More »These rancid rankings -Shamnad Basheer
-The Indian Express "If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one." So said Fritz Machlup, a wise American economist several decades ago. His words remain as true now as they were then. For, the patent system is one of the most faulty legal regimes that one could possibly have conceived. It purports...
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