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

August 01,2004 02:02:16 AM
Eight months after Satyendra Dubey’s murder, the Government comes up with the astounding claim that he did not ask for his identity to ...
Sun, Aug 01, 2004
July 28,2004 02:16:06 AM
Barely five months ago, Congress leaders alleged that the Vajpayee Government made former CBI director P C Sharma a member of the National H...
Wed, Jul 28, 2004
July 26,2004 02:26:58 AM
Much as the judiciary is notoriously slow, nobody has ever dared to ask the judges of superior courts to give an account of the time they ta...
Mon, Jul 26, 2004
July 24,2004 02:38:44 AM
Independence of judiciary is taken to be an essential safeguard anywhere in the world. Or so it would seem till you go to that mysterious la...
Sat, Jul 24, 2004
July 20,2004 01:44:14 AM
With the fortuitous discovery of a bank balance about a year ago, the 5.5 lakh Bhopal gas leak victims are set to receive compensation all o...
Tue, Jul 20, 2004
July 13,2004 03:07:02 AM
The opposition of Left parties in India to the proposed hike on FDI caps is out of step with the policies of the Communist Party of China in...
Tue, Jul 13, 2004
July 13,2004 03:00:14 AM
By passing a Bill to circumvent the Supreme Court’s stinging verdict in the Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal case, the Punjab Assembly today f...
Tue, Jul 13, 2004
July 10,2004 02:12:40 AM
The re-inquiry into the 1984 carnage, which has been dragging on for the last four years, suddenly acquired political signficance as the Jus...
Sat, Jul 10, 2004
June 26,2004 02:22:33 AM
The Army is upset over a Delhi High Court decision which, in effect, entitles almost every soldier or officer to pass off as a disabled pers...
Sat, Jun 26, 2004
June 24,2004 23:16:13 PM
The new chief justice of India, R.C. Lahoti, began his tenure this month on a rather disturbing note. He went out of his way to proclaim tha...
Thu, Jun 24, 2004
June 23,2004 00:00:00 AM
Assuming the role of an appellate authority, the Election Commission today ordered the returning officer of the Rajya Sabha election in Utta...
Wed, Jun 23, 2004
June 20,2004 01:12:30 AM
In the run-up to their unprecedented strike on April 19, judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had exchanged sharp words with their ch...
Sun, Jun 20, 2004
June 16,2004 00:00:00 AM
The controversial New York case in which two former Chief Justices of India took conflicting positions on the capability of Indian courts ha...
Wed, Jun 16, 2004
June 10,2004 00:00:00 AM
While vacating its stay on the Rajya Sabha election to 65 seats, the Supreme Court today rectified one mistake but then committed another. U...
Thu, Jun 10, 2004
June 06,2004 00:00:00 AM
The stay on the June 21 poll to 65 Rajya Sabha seats has precipitated a crisis as the Government and the Election Commission today accused t...
Sun, Jun 06, 2004
June 03,2004 00:00:00 AM
Arguing that it needed investors in the state and therefore a red carpet rather than babudom’s red-tape, the Mulayam Singh Yadav govern...
Thu, Jun 03, 2004
May 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
Congress President Sonia Gandhi may have robbed the BJP-RSS-VHP of the foreign origin issue but her United Progressive Alliance has just han...
Fri, May 28, 2004
May 27,2004 00:00:00 AM
Law Minister H R Bhardwaj today spelt out a series of policy rollbacks the new government proposes to make on issues ranging from judicial a...
Thu, May 27, 2004
May 26,2004 00:00:00 AM
Justice R C Lahoti will take over as Chief Justice of India from Justice S Rajendra Babu on June 2 in the middle of the Supreme Court’s...
Wed, May 26, 2004
May 19,2004 00:00:00 AM
As a five-year-old PIL against Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin sprang to life today with the Delhi High Court advancing its hearing from ...
Wed, May 19, 2004
May 13,2004 00:00:00 AM
If the election throws up a hung Lok Sabha, President Abdul Kalam will have two clear options before him. One is to invite straightaway the ...
Thu, May 13, 2004
May 08,2004 00:00:00 AM
The Supreme Court today rapped the ‘‘modern day Neros’’ of the Gujarat Government all over again for trying to stall the...
Sat, May 08, 2004
May 06,2004 00:00:00 AM
Sitting for the first time as Chief Justice of India, Justice S Rajendra Babu today laid down the A to Z of law—and beyond.Justice Babu...
Thu, May 06, 2004
May 03,2004 00:00:00 AM
While outgoing Chief Justice V N Khare admitted he was exasperated that he had no powers to even seek an explanation from ‘deviant...
Mon, May 03, 2004
April 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
The Supreme Court today empowered the Government to check private schools in Delhi from charging excessive fees. As a corollary, it directed...
Wed, Apr 28, 2004





