-The Times of India The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought replies from the Centre, Bharti Walmart Private Limited and Bharti Retail Limited on a plea for a probe against the firms for allegedly carrying out retail trading in multi-brand sector in violation of India's FDI policy. A bench of acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Anil Kumar issued notices to the Centre and the firms on a PIL filed by...
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Ward boys turn surgeons in Uttar Pradesh hospital, spark outrage
-The Hindustan Times The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday backed the Bulandshahr district hospital staff a day after two ward boys were shown on TV giving injections and stitches to patients. Ayub and Shiva were caught on camera tending to the injured in the presence of senior doctors, triggering an outrage. A probe was ordered. On Tuesday, additional director (health) Vinod Kumar almost gave a clean chit to chief medical superintendent Dr...
More »Row over ‘leaders’ in Nagri-Suman K Shrivastava & Raj Kumar
-The Telegraph Ranchi, July 6: Nagri villagers leading a violent agitation against proposed campuses of three national institutes of learning do not want political leaders to hijack their movement to get back the 218 acres acquired by the government in the ’50s. “Leaders like Dayamami Barla, Bandhu Tirkey, Stan Swami etc have misled us by saying they would find a legal and political solution to the problem. But the result is that...
More »Take these men off death row-Prabha Sridevan
-The Hindu With a dark and chilling feeling we recently read about the wrong Carlos who was executed in the United States for a crime he did not commit. An extraordinary investigation by a Columbia law professor and his team led to the revelation that due to a series of mistakes from investigation to trial, Texas executed Carlos De Luna for a crime committed by Carlos Hernandez. But it came too...
More »Bathani Tola and the Cartoon Controversy by Anand Teltumbde
Why has there been such a silence from dalit leaders over the Bathani Tola judgment acquitting all those accused of killing 21 dalits? At the same time, what explains their loud protests over the Ambedkar cartoons in the textbooks? Has the elevation of Ambedkar as an icon relegated the dalit leadership to a politics of empty symbolism? Is the issue of a lack of accountability in the judicial system towards...
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