-The Hindu Governance performance ranked over a decade Regional disparity has been growing over the years, shows a new study which evaluates the governance performance of 19 major States. The research, conducted by Sudipto Mundle, Samik Chaudhury and Satadru Sikdar, was published in The Economic and Political Weekly earlier this month. Five of the six best-performing States in 2001 — Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab — continue to be the...
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Sikkim the best place to work for women, Delhi at bottom of list: Report
-PTI Washington: Tiny northeastern state of Sikkim has the best working conditions for women, while national capital Delhi fared the lowest, according to a report. The report released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a top American think-tank, and Nathan Associates, gave Sikkim the highest possible 40 points while Delhi received just 8.5. The states were ranked according to four primary factors -- legal restrictions on women’s working hours in...
More »Here are the 43 sex determination keywords blocked by Supreme Court on search engines -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court shot down an argument on Monday by the counsel for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft that they would block other keywords only after such information is brought to their notice. Thanks to a Supreme Court order on Monday, you will get a blank page if you punch in 43 keywords that give out information on sex determination online on search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Search engines...
More »A blow for the right to knowledge -Lawrence Liang
-The Hindu The Delhi High Court has restored to copyright jurisprudence a clear mandate for the future — one which recognises that the end goal of technology is the improvement of our lives In its much awaited judgment in the Delhi University photocopying case (The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford v. Rameshwari Photocopy Services), the Delhi High Court has dismissed the copyright infringement petition initiated in August 2012...
More »Singur Case and the Idea of Justice -V Krishna Ananth
-Economic and Political Weekly While the recent Supreme Court judgment in the Singur land acquisition case has provided relief to the people who lost their lands to Tata Motors Limited, the ruling looked at procedural lapses in the land acquisition law rather than question the concept of "public purpose" that is being distorted to include private interests. Please click here to read more. ...
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