Sending a clear message that the 2G spectrum allocation of 2008 is a scam and not the result of a government policy decision, the Supreme Court today quashed the grant of 122 UAS licences and allocation of spectrum to 12 private companies. Even as the trial in the 2G case progresses in a Patiala House trial court in Delhi, a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly held...

The shortage in the number of applicants for seats reserved for less privileged children in private Schools appears to be an advantage for the institutions to prevent the proper implementation of the Right to Education Act in the city. The RTE Act makes it mandatory for all private Schools to reserve 25 per cent of the seats at the entry class level for underprivileged children and teach them free of cost....

-The Indian Express   For once, Mamata does the right thing — by laying down work rules for her employees Mamata Banerjee’s politics, in a word, could be called “populist”, in the absence of a well-formulated and well-enunciated agenda. In her last years in opposition, and now as chief minister of West Bengal, Banerjee has steadily positioned herself as “more left than the Left”. The Luddite politics of Singur, her stint as the...

-The Times of India   Admissions of the disadvantaged or BPL (Below Poverty Line) category children under Right to Education (RTE) Act at various Schools across the city was not without debate and dissatisfaction on Tuesday. At two of the Schools, the education department authorities had to intervene for smooth implementation of the draw of lots of the applicants for kindergarten and class one. At St. Xavier's Senior Secondary Co-ed School, BHEL, parents raised...

In a decision that may prompt private Schools in Delhi to rejig the entire list for nursery admissions, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday modified and laid down new distance criteria for admission of toddlers under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw set the priority criteria for children applying under the 25 per cent EWS quota...