Two events that coincided with the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder, with significant bearing on the crime, have been lost sight of in the trial of the case. Just when news of the murder of the teenager flashed on news channels that heady May day in 2
By 8 am Lakma Ram Koli is up and ready to begin with his campaigning. With only five days left before campaigning comes to a close on Friday, the Congress’s nominee from Reodar still has a lot of ground to cover. “On a daily ba
There was still an hour to go but they simply couldn’t wait. Decked up, dishevelled, bleary-eyed, anxious and bored- all kinds of them had queued up outside the government-run primary school waiting to get inside. The necessary arrangements
The National Lok Adalat held across the country on 23rd November 2013 has settled approximately 36 lakh cases. In Maharashtra, a total of 4, 07,670 cases have been successfully disposed off. While bulk of cases successfully dis
She was just 15 years old when she got engaged to a man living in Delhi. And when she turned 18, she remembers travelling hundreds of kilometres, to cast her first vote, for Delhi municipal corporation election, 41 years back. She l
That Tarun Tejpal is trending on Twitter is an understatement. The last time I remember being glued to the TV like this, for what seems like minute-by-minute updates on a twisty-turny case, is when my city was terrorised five years ago. What reali
The new draft placed by the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) in the public domain defines “paid news” and creates a press registrar-general (and an appellate commissariat) who can cancel a publication’s hitherto une
Following the unfortunate gangrape incident of December 16, the whole country was in one voice that crime against women should be tackled with strictness and laws against such crimes should be made more stringent and enforced with fear or favour.
The Gujarat Snoopgate can play out three ways. In two variations Amit Shah may be guilty. In the third version chief minister Narendra Modi himself may be the culprit. Amit Shah was either acting, at the behest of Modi, to help the
The Odisha finance minister Prasanna Acharya, who is literally number two in the Naveen Patnaik led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) cabinet, is now in a middle of a controversy for allegedly threatening voters to ‘stop funding’ t
At least seven persons died in cyclone-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh minutes before Cyclone Helen hit the coast today. The storm, intensifying into a severe cyclone from a deep-depression over Bay of Bengal hit Machilipatnam in Krishna distr
With crime against women rising sharply in Mumbai, police investigation must be separated from regular law and order duties and policymakers need to seriously rethink policing in the city, says a white paper on the state of policing and law and or
Godrej has completed and handed over the first production order of 40 sets of BrahMos missile air –frame assemblies to BAPL (Brahmos Aerospace Pvt ltd) Brahmos missile is a supersonic cruise missile with a flight range o
The campaigning, for assembly elections on December 4, finally began on Wednesday with the road-show of Aam Admi Party`s (AAP) chief ministerial candidate Arvind Kejriwal, in West Delhi`s Rajouri Garden constituency. The road-
At “over 85 years”, the oldest resident of Kelabadi, Puna Bai, does not remember her exact age. A Halba tribal, she does not also remember the year she moved into Kelabadi. But what she distinctly remembers is that her eldest
Dear All, It is a sad day when our organs threaten to bring down the organisations we erect. That sad day has visited upon Dhamaka. I am devastated. I can’t bear to see the painstaking work of more than a decade come unstuck over one
If Mohinder Amarnath, a brilliantly plucky cricketer and a crashing bore as a commentator, was a political pundit, he would surely have said ‘politics is a funny game’ every half an hour in the run-up to the elections. Just up the fun
Finally, after days of lull in the Reodar constituency, the campaigning for assembly elections on December 1 began on Tuesday with the rally of BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Vasundhara Raje Scindia in the Abu Road town. Addressin
Jamna, 34, has been living with her husband and their two sons in a jhuggi in Raghubir Nagar for 17 years. To earn a living, Jamna and her husband go door to door in various residential colonies of west Delhi, offering steel utensils in exchange o
Under provisions of Sec 22(A) (B) of Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 Mumbai District Suburban Legal Services Authority (MDLSA) has announced establishment of Permanent lok adalat for Mumbai. The lok adalat will settle pending and pre-litigati
