-The Hindu Asks Centre to clarify steps taken to sanction funds The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday directed the Centre to explain by March 9 the steps it had taken with respect to a plea made by the State government last month to sanction Rs. 39,565 crore from National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to provide relief to farmers since all the 32 districts in the State had been declared drought-affected. Justices...

-The Hindu Disappointed by the government’s track record in implementing anti-corruption measures, a group of eminent citizens has decided to take the initiative of setting up a forum to hear complaints of corruption or malfeasance from whistleblowers. Called the Citizens Whistleblowers Forum (CWF), it would “act as a unique, credible platform to provide much-needed confidence to whistleblowers” to expose, without fear, “cases of corruption or wilful misuse of powers”, said a statement...

-The Pioneer Centre must come up with a national policy The Supreme Court’s intervention for the lack of a national policy to help calamity-hit farmers is welcome. Regardless of what we have at the moment for them, the country's bread-earners must be offered all possible support to strengthen the economy. While taking up a number of Public Interest litigations, the apex court found that the Government had no policy to tackle the...

-PTI NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday favoured a comprehensive national policy to protect farmers, many of whom have committed suicide due to rising debt and crop failures caused by natural calamities, terming it a "sensitive" matter of Public Interest and human rights. "It is a sensitive matter of larger Public Interest and human rights which covers the entire country," a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice N V...

-The Hindu The Supreme Court’s verdict that ordinances are subject to judicial review, and do not automatically create enduring effects, places a timely check on a power rampantly abused by governments On January 2, in one of many judgments delivered on its first working day of the year, the Supreme Court, in Krishna Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar, made a series of pronouncements with potentially huge implications for the future of...