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

September 27,2002 00:00:00 AM
Though the Centre and the BJP have come out in the Supreme Court in support of the Election Commission’s view that the Constitution wil...
Fri, Sep 27, 2002
September 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
Try Nawaz Sharif and Pervez Musharraf as war criminals. How could Pak troops send so many innocent youths from PoK to be killed as mercanari...
Sun, Sep 22, 2002
September 20,2002 00:00:00 AM
The proceedings of the Gujarat reference today sprang surprises as the BJP did not toe the Centre’s new line on the extent to which an ...
Fri, Sep 20, 2002
September 19,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Election Commission threw a spanner in the works by pleading that the Supreme Court should return the Gujarat reference unanswered. It s...
Thu, Sep 19, 2002
September 17,2002 00:00:00 AM
The day it claimed credit for the ‘‘smooth conduct’’ of polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre revived its battle with t...
Tue, Sep 17, 2002
September 16,2002 00:00:00 AM
For all the threats from militants and the anti-poll propaganda by Pakistan and Hurriyat, the number of candidates contesting in the Kashmir...
Mon, Sep 16, 2002
September 15,2002 00:00:00 AM
For perhaps the first time in the higher judiciary, a sitting Chief Justice of a High Court has, in writing, expressed helplessness over the...
Sun, Sep 15, 2002
September 13,2002 00:00:00 AM
Taking note of the Government’s ‘‘reservations,’’ the Supreme Court collegium has withdrawn its proposal to elevate...
Fri, Sep 13, 2002
September 07,2002 00:00:00 AM
Law Minister Jana Krishnamurthi today announced that the Government proposes to introduce the National Judicial Commission Bill in the winte...
Sat, Sep 07, 2002
August 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
Giving an activist interpretation to the model code of conduct, the Election Commission today took action against a minister of Uttar Prades...
Fri, Aug 30, 2002
August 27,2002 00:00:00 AM
With barely two months left for his retirement as Supreme Court Chief Justice and the Government making it clear that it wants a reply soone...
Tue, Aug 27, 2002
August 23,2002 00:00:00 AM
Jammu and Kashmir becomes the first state where candidates will have to file not one but two separate affidavits on their criminal anteceden...
Fri, Aug 23, 2002
August 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
The venerable spokesman of the RSS, M.G. Vaidya, who figured prominently in the petrol pump scam, deserves the prize for the most imaginativ...
Thu, Aug 22, 2002
August 21,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Centre’s wish for early elections in Gujarat is possible if the Supreme Court rules on its reference in its favour and does this in...
Wed, Aug 21, 2002
August 20,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Government claims that it’s not contesting the Election Commission’s authority to delay polls in Gujarat. And that it’s t...
Tue, Aug 20, 2002
August 08,2002 00:00:00 AM
Seldom has the credibility of the judiciary taken as much beating as it did in the last one week or so. The petrol pump scam has put in the ...
Thu, Aug 08, 2002
August 07,2002 00:00:00 AM
Three former Chief Justices of India have expressed outrage wondering how retired judges could accept Petroleum Minister Ram Naik’s off...
Wed, Aug 07, 2002
August 06,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Government’s decision today to cancel all allotments made since January 2000 is no doubt an unprecedented sweeping order but expert...
Tue, Aug 06, 2002
August 04,2002 00:00:00 AM
So the Chikna who is said to have threatened Karisma Kapoor was, after all, not Hrithik Roshan. But that can hardly detract from the main re...
Sun, Aug 04, 2002
August 03,2002 00:00:00 AM
If a date of birth has to be given to the petrol pump scam, it would be October 9, 2000. This is when Petroleum Minister Ram Naik set guidel...
Sat, Aug 03, 2002
July 25,2002 00:00:00 AM
It's the case for which the Army has remained in deployment on the Indo-Pak border for the past seven months. The December 13 incident is al...
Thu, Jul 25, 2002
July 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
Attorney General Soli Sorbajee has admitted that the Government did sound him out on a possible position as Governor. ‘‘It was not...
Wed, Jul 24, 2002
July 20,2002 00:00:00 AM
In its headlong rush for early polls, many BJP leaders argued today that as per Article 174(1) of the Constitution, ‘‘six months s...
Sat, Jul 20, 2002
July 15,2002 00:00:00 AM
Beginning with the PM, they all assured Parliament that POTA would never be misused. This week they didn’t know where to hide as Jayala...
Mon, Jul 15, 2002
July 13,2002 00:00:00 AM
Attacking political parties, the Election Commission has now taken the moral high ground saying that candidates have to disclose all their a...
Sat, Jul 13, 2002

