Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged early this morning, was aware of the date on which he was to be executed and had been made to sign his death warrant before being moved to the Pune jail on November 19. According to off
It is not every day that you get up to genuine breaking news on TV. November 21 was one such day. Kasab executed. Justice done; one 26/11 terror attack file closed. Or so one would have thought. Till “your channel&rdqu
A powerful civil society group has moved the Supreme Court (SC) seeking audit of the accounts of India’s premier internal intelligence agencies: the Intelligence Bureau (IB for internal intelligence), the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW
The UPA-II government took its most decisive decision so far in its over three-year tenure by hanging Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab early November 21 morning, five days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attack on Mumbai. Kasab was ha
That Nitin Gadkari has become a liability for the Bharatiya Janata Party is a fact perhaps even the party president himself would think twice before contesting these days. What is becoming just as embarrassing for the party as allegations of corru
It took just two days for Shaheen Dhadha and her friend Renu to let go of the Civics lessons they learnt for a year or two in school. For them, democracy and free speech could well be just a couple of longwinded words, respectively comprising 11 a
Thirty-nine countries including India voted against a United Nations General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty. It said that every nation had the "sovereign right" to determine its own legal system.&
The arrest of two girls in Mumbai over their post on the social media site Facebook has attracted criticism from all corners. After telecom minister Kapil Sibal, minister of state for communications and information technology Milind Deora has cond
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi seems to have taken his new role as the party’s election coordination committee chief quite seriously. Within days of being appointed in the new post, the Amethi MP is learnt to have sent out a crack t
Today could be the eighteenth day of India’s $12-billion pharma Mahabharata. Or maybe, that isn’t the literal way to describe what could still take a few more weeks of heavy-duty court craft. But we’re certainly in the home stret
A Parliamentary Committee has recommended delinking creation of Lokayuktas from the Lokpal Bill, a provision that was strongly opposed by political parties including those supporting the UPA. The Rajya Sabha Select Committee on the Lokpal
Driving on the streets of Mumbai a day after Balasaheb Thackeray’s mammoth funeral makes you realise how contrasting 24 hours can be to this city. On Sunday, November 18, two million people came out on the streets to bid adieu to the ‘
The alleged coal block allocation scam came under judicial scrutiny on September 14 when the apex court, on a PIL by advocate M L Sharma, had directed the Centre to explain if the guidelines on allotting natural resources to private companies were
As two gentlemen curiously named Cook and Prior thwarted India’s efforts to wrap up the first Test at the earliest, putting up their bat, pad and everything else before their wickets on Sunday, a motley crew of politicians played out a parli
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao on Monday deposed in a Delhi court as a prosecution witness in the 2G case, saying he had questioned in 2007 the spectrum fee of around Rs 1600 crore for pan India licence. Subbarao, who was
Speaking on the occasion of national press day on November 16, prime minister Manmohan Singh said censorship was no answer to irresponsible journalism and favoured self-regulation by the media. “It is true that sometimes irresponsible journa
Outlining the importance of legal aid as a tool of empowerment, minister of law and justice Ashwani Kumar has said the government is keen on improving access to justice for marginalised communities. “Injustice caused through disability of
Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British, Ashis Nandy wrote long ago. On the lazy, balmy pre-winter weekend morning of November 17, as England batsmen meander from nowhere to deeper into nowhere in the first session
The Election Commission has asked the Returning Officer of Amethi Lok Sabha constituency to probe allegations by Subramanian Swamy that Rahul Gandhi gave "wrong information" regarding his assets while filing nomination papers in the 2009
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said public health system in the country had "collapsed", noting that even poorer countries like Bangladesh and Kenya have superior health indicators. In a candid assessmen
