-The Economic Times The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know if the Centre and the CBI were on the same page on the prosecution of the 2G scam accused, given law minister Salman Khurshid's reported statement that investor sentiment would be hurt if courts ordered the arrests of business persons. A bench of Justices GS Singhvi and HL Dattu said the statement implied that the SC wanted to keep businessmen in...
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Mining Bill needs refining by Jaideep Mishra
A new draft Bill holds much promise to augment the development delivery mechanism. It is the new mining Bill, 2011, which has specific provisions for earmarking funds for development purposes in the mineral-rich districts that happen to be the regions with high poverty ratios. Revamped mining legislation can boost transparency in the vexed sector that seems much prone to illegality, corruption and extensive fraud. Further, a well-crafted mining law can actually...
More »India not on global hunger map, thanks to lack of updated data by Gargi Parsai
Lags behind Bangladesh and Pakistan in assessment and updating data While the Centre is projecting a concern for the poor and the hungry through its proposed national Food Security Bill, it has not even updated data on under-nutrition and hunger in the last six years. This has prevented international bodies such as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from assessing the improvement, or lack of it, in India in terms of...
More »Bechimari mourns jute martyrs by Dipankar Roy
The pile of jute sticks arranged cone-like and glistening in the sun stood tall over the congregation as they offered prayers at the janaja of Syed Ali. It was around noon, the time Ali died yesterday, felled by a police bullet in the head. He and other jute cultivators had gathered at the Bechimari weekly market like they did every Monday with their produce of jute fibre; fibre that is meticulously shorn...
More »SC criticises Khurshid's businessmen remark
-IANS The Supreme Court Wednesday took a serious view of union law minister Salman Khurshid's statement that keeping businessmen in jail was affecting the investment climate of the country. The apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice HL Gattu said that the minister's statement gave an impression as if "we are interested in keeping businessmen behind bars". "This is disturbing for us, if it (statement) is true," Justice Gattu said. The court's...
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