Manoj Mitta is the author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India

September 14, 2003 00:00 IST
A routine business dispute between ICICI Bank and a little-known Japanese company being fought in the New York Supreme Court should hardly r...
Sun, Sep 14, 2003
September 13, 2003 00:00 IST
The highest court of the land today reminded the Narendra Modi Government of its ‘‘Raj Dharma’’—a duty first invoke...
Sat, Sep 13, 2003
September 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his sympathisers will find it hard to dismiss Harish Salve as a ‘‘pseudo-secularist’...
Thu, Sep 11, 2003
September 04, 2003 00:00 IST
Uncle Sam is set to enter the WTO meet at Cancun wearing a halo. In the run-up to the biennial ministerial this month, the US suddenly gave ...
Thu, Sep 04, 2003
September 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The Supreme Court today kept alive the possibility of L K Advani and M M Joshi being discharged in two days by a Rae Bareli court in the Bab...
Tue, Sep 02, 2003
August 29, 2003 00:00 IST
In 72 hours after he takes charge tomorrow as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav will be called upon by the Supreme Court ...
Fri, Aug 29, 2003
August 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Over three years after Union Minister Jaswant Singh escorted him to freedom in exchange for the hijacked airline passengers of IC-814, the S...
Fri, Aug 29, 2003
August 22, 2003 00:00 IST
After a long time, minorities in India have something to cheer about. Whatever their setbacks on other fronts (Gujarat, Ayodhya, cow slaught...
Fri, Aug 22, 2003
August 15, 2003 00:00 IST
In a bid to clear the confusion created by its own judgment, the Supreme Court today ordered that seats in private professional colleges be ...
Fri, Aug 15, 2003
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
While the Best Bakery case has highlighted the need to protect witnesses, the Union Cabinet today cleared a legislative proposal that seeks ...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003
August 09, 2003 00:00 IST
With the Gujarat government having rushed to the High Court yesterday, the Supreme Court today tread cautiously on the NHRC’s special l...
Sat, Aug 09, 2003
August 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Narendra Modi wants to dig out records of how India has dealt with riot and terrorism cases right from Independence. In his open letter to t...
Thu, Aug 07, 2003
August 06, 2003 00:00 IST
The National Human Rights Commission has severely indicted Vadodara sessions judge H U Mahida for what it calls ‘‘miscarriage of j...
Wed, Aug 06, 2003
August 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The Election Commission’s legal counsel, S K Mehndiratta, says that the proposal of synchronising Lok Sabha with Assembly elections ...
Tue, Aug 05, 2003
August 01, 2003 00:00 IST
It's just a coincidence but it could prove to be crucial to the future of the NHRC’s extraordinary petition: a judgment delivered five ...
Fri, Aug 01, 2003
August 01, 2003 00:00 IST
In a severe indictment of the Narendra Modi Government, the National Human Rights Commission today asked the Supreme Court to, in effect, ta...
Fri, Aug 01, 2003
July 31, 2003 00:00 IST
Zaheera Sheikh and her mother Sehrunissa Sheikh will get a second shot at justice. Making what is arguably its most activist move ever, the ...
Thu, Jul 31, 2003
July 30, 2003 00:00 IST
For the first time since the controversy in Parliament over the absence of conspiracy charge in the Ayodhya case, hearings resume against L ...
Wed, Jul 30, 2003
July 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The last time the Supreme Court said something like this, it had to promptly clarify that it was a mere observation, not a direction. Once a...
Thu, Jul 24, 2003
July 24, 2003 00:00 IST
What Law Minister Arun Jaitley dismissively shrugs off on the floor of the House, the Supreme Court hasn’t. Lost in the current Parliam...
Thu, Jul 24, 2003
July 23, 2003 00:00 IST
So far the CBI has remained silent on the Opposition charge that it was misused to let Advani & Co off the ‘‘conspiracy’’...
Wed, Jul 23, 2003
July 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The Opposition is barking up the wrong tree when it accuses the CBI of dropping the conspiracy charge related to the demolition of Babri Mas...
Mon, Jul 21, 2003
July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
What's behind communal massacres like the Best Bakery? H U Mahida, the honourable judge, who acquitted all the 21 accused in the case has an...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003
July 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Nine months after the Supreme Court delivered its ambiguous verdict touching off a raging controversy in admissions to private medical and e...
Fri, Jul 11, 2003
July 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Suspend your disbelief and imagine this scenario rewinding the Best Bakery case. The trial is still on and, despite all the threats she rece...
Thu, Jul 10, 2003

