Delivering the Setalvad Memorial Lecture, on April 16, Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia cautioned the judiciary against exceeding their judicial functions. His remarks are particularly relevant to the increasing tendency of judges of superior courts to issue directions to government, to correct and monitor government’s functions, and to even make policy decisions which are in the domain of government — as if there was no separation of functions between...
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Court orders survey of sex workers for rehabilitation
-The Hindu The Supreme Court has ordered a proper survey of sex workers — initially in metropolises of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai — for their rehabilitation. In February, a Bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra directed the Centre and all States to prepare a rehabilitation scheme and sought their response. At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, the Bench was informed that the Centre and certain States were...
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In a season when every self-styled warrior against corruption is trying to look for a new weapon to fight it, my guest today is Satyananda Mishra, Chief Information Commissioner—someone who has in his control the strongest of those weapons, the RTI. Actually when it all began, nobody thought it would be so effective. In a period of five-and-a-half years, it has touched the hearts and minds of people. The number of...
More »Indian media in a challenging environment by M Hamid Ansari
The Indian media have grown rapidly in scale, reach, influence, and revenues. But all stakeholders must realise that the ethical underpinning of professional journalism in the country has weakened and that the corrosion of public life in our country has impacted journalism. So what needs to be done? We have been witness in recent years to rapid, and unprecedented, changes in our society, economy, and polity. These have also transformed the...
More »NHRC favours social audit of govt''s flagship schemes
-PTI Critical over the leakage of funds meant for the rural poor, the National Human Rights Commission has suggested that the government should conduct a social audit of flagship programmes like MGNREGA and ICDS to have an assessment on what is the impact on ground. A top NHRC official said the government''s various studies and reports had shown that there was no match between the programmes and performance as the authorities...
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