Here are some links to the profiles of the new Union Law Minister, M.Veerappa Moily. *His profile as carried in the Administrative Reforms Commmission’s site. *This profile appeared in...
Recent events of violence in Punjab after the assasination of a Sikh guru in Vienna fall squarely within the type of cases that the Supreme Court intended to cover while delivering its judgment in In...
That was the subject of the workshop held by the Foundation for Media Professionals today in New Delhi for the sake of visiting journalists from Thailand. I was part of the panel which addressed...
This editorial in the Telegraph laments the fact that the formation of the council of ministers took twelve days: This inordinate delay in forming a team that is supposed to present to the nation an...
Arun has in an earlier post already drawn attention to certain views about what Verdict 2009 means. I found two comments which are very interesting. The first is by Ashis Nandy in the latest Tehelka...
The CBI is about to begin arguments before the Allahabad High Court in the Taj Heritage Corridor case. The agency has to justify its decision not to prosecute Chief Minister Mayawati. It appears to...
As some of you may be aware, a generous bequest by US billionaire Vinod Gupta helped kickstart the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property law (RGSOIPL), India’s first specialised law...
The campaign for securing Binayak Sen’s freedom has organised the live coverage of Supreme Court’s hearing on his bail plea today through this link..
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) recently came out with a report on the ‘Impact of Reservation Policy in Higher Education in India’. Amidst the din of the general election and the war in...
I was disappointed to hear that Mr. Bharadwaj will be sworn in again as a Minister. Hopefully he will not be given the Law Ministry. One of the UPA’s government major failures in the last term...