-The Economic Times The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed the summons issued by a lower court against Yahoo India, due to 'lack of credible evidence' against it. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is set aside," Justice Suresh Cait said. He allowed the plea of Yahoo India that the lower court wrongly issued the process against it, without attributing any specific role to it. Yahoo India's acquittal comes just a day...
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Aruna Roy, Indian social activist interviewed by Kanak Mani Dixit
Kanak Dixit: We have with us Aruna Roy, from Devdungri village in Rajasthan, who has, among other things, been able to take the Right to Information (RTI) from janasunuwais, or public hearings at the village level, all the way to national legislation that encompasses all of India. It is a movement that is truly global in scale. Aruna, a question that has been troubling me quite a bit in the context...
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The Supreme Court today described the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s supporters at Ramlila Maidan last summer as a glaring example of the “trust deficit” between the government and the people, and blamed both the police and the Baba for neglecting the common man caught in the brick-batting between them. The people who were “rudely” woken up at the maidan became the “ultimate sufferers” of the showdown in the dark between...
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