While the fast-track court to deal with the gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old paramedic at Saket would start proceedings today, the Saket district bar council has made it clear that not one of the 2,500 or so advocates registered with the cou
BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party government over law and order in Uttar Pradesh, saying it would not be wrong to term the prevailing situation as "anarchic". "The past ten mon
The revised anti-rape law, which is expected to be stringent and facilitate speedier justice, is unlikely to be named after the Delhi gang-rape victim as suggested by some quarters. The new law will be framed after Justice Verma Committee,
In a move that may provide relief to debt-stressed states like Bihar, the government on Wednesday said the time has come to revisit the criteria for according special category status to states. "...existing criteria (for according spe
My mother called up me the other day in Singapore to tell me that the doctors at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi had to remove the intestines of the girl who must remain unnamed I was aware of the Delhi rape case. I was following the publ
Being a journalist is not easy. Getting the opinion of those in power is tricky. One has to wait for days, weeks or months for an appointment. You will get an audience soon if they happen to be free which makes me wonder if they all are working so
Water has brought Padu Mallik home. Padu saw very little of his village, Shrambhukia, for over a decade till last year. When he first left home in search of work, he was barely out of his teens. Today, the rakish, thirty-something from Kandhamal,
A day after Union Minister Shashi Tharoor favoured naming the revised anti-rape law after Delhi gang-rape victim, her family members on Wednesday said they have no objection to it and the move would be an honour to the girl. The family mem
In a setback to the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the appointment of Justice (retd) R A Mehta as state Lokayukta by Governor Kamla Beniwal, saying it was done in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court.
History bears out the fact that the Indian elite has internalised low cunning and secrecy as its essential characteristics for the statecraft. It would be pertinent here to jog the memories of those who fell victim to structural amnesia and forgot
Editor’s Note: This was written exactly a year and a day ago – a year Manmohan Singh, incidentally the prime minister of India, mostly kept to himself. On the eve of his much-discussed press conference scheduled for January 3, we revisit the piec
In an alarming report, the NGO Greenpeace has revealed that conditions are expected to become much worse for the water-starved Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, with over 55,000 MW coal-based power plants being proposed in the belt as of 2010.
Finance minister P Chidambaram has scoffed DMk president M Karunanidhi`s suggestion that he (Chidambaram) could be a prime ministerial candidate. "I know my limitation and I stay within my limitation. That`s my serious answer and on a
Close on the heels of the Congress proposing chemical castration for rapists, main opposition BJP has also suggested maximum punishment to the accused in rape cases — either death penalty or chemical castration. “There should b
For a country whose history textbooks generate so much controversy (either allegedly too Leftish, a.k.a. the CBSE books, or purportedly too Rightish Hindu revivalist in BJP-ruled states), we learn little from history. Forget the textbooks;
“Those responsible, whether baalik or nabaalik (adult or minor), must not be let off.” The bereaved father`s burst of anguish draws murmurs of assent from a group gathered in the tiny courtyard of his two-room house in southwes
With the Karnataka Assembly elections due in May, power struggle has renewed in opposition Congress, with Lingayat leaders demanding the state unit president’s post for one of its leaders. Admitting that he is a contender for the po
Exactly two weeks since she was raped, mauled, violently attacked by six men and then thrown off a chartered bus in south Delhi late December 16 evening, the 23-year-old bravehart was cremated at a private ceremony early Sunday morning. Th
Yes, we all have to something to say. She fought the good fight and died. In some ways, however gross that sounds, she has been relieved of pain. It also brings the death penalty on the table for the creeps who did this unspeakable
Riding a thumping third victory in the recently held Gujarat elections, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi visited the national capital to a rousing welcome on December 27. Skillfully using the platform of the National Development Council (NDC)
