-The Economic Times "Sedition" is a legal construct from less enlightened times, when the sovereign power claimed a divine sanction and subjects were expected to live in awe and fear. So what is republican India doing, in its seventh decade, in bringing a charge of sedition against a self-publishing cartoonist with a propensity for scatology and lurid imagery? A convulsive attack of folly that the agencies of the Indian state have...

-PTI KUDANKULAM: In a volte-face, anti-nuclear movement leader SP Udayakumar on Wednesday decided not to surrender, a day after he made a dramatic appearance and announced he would turn up before police. Amid continuing protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Udayakumar's change of plans was announced by anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, who has extended his support for the anti-nuclear stir. Udayakumar, convener of Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy, had on Tuesday said...

-The Hindu Kudankulam and the surrounding areas remained tense on an incident-free Tuesday, after Monday’s violent happenings. Villages in a radius of 25 km, including Anjugramam, Chettikulam, Sree Renganarayanapuram, Levenchipuram, Viswanathapuram, Kudankulam and Idinthakarai, wore a deserted look after the suspension of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus services. People confined themselves to their homes as the tense situation continued to prevail in and around Kudankulam. According to official sources, the TNSTC...

-The Indian Express The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to cartoonist Aseem Trivedi (25), charged with sedition and sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, and ordered his release from the Arthur Road jail here on a personal bond of Rs 5,000. The direction came after a PIL filed by city-based lawyer Sanskar Marathe on Tuesday urged the court...

-The Hindu Home Ministry wants the Chief Ministers to head the mechanism Concerned at Maoists augmenting their strike capabilities and getting more organised, the Centre wants the Chief Ministers of the worst naxal-affected States of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa to head their unified commands to deal with the threat more effectively. “In the past two years, these unified commands have been virtually lying defunct. They were supposed to meet once every month, but...