In the last Parliamentary session, the Lok Sabha passed an amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. the amending Bill is due to be presented in the Rajya Sabha in this session. One of the...
There is an interesting article in The Hindu by the CPI National Secretary, and MP, D.Raja (A design to block opportunities)revealing not just how hastily the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes...
So, here’s the breakdown. In 2007, the Supreme Court disposed of 61,845 matters. 5,054 of these were regular hearing matters. Out of these the Supreme Court released 1,488 written decisions...
1. Outcome of the Saudi rehab program for jihadists: A previous post regarding this can be accessed here. Now the Saudi government has announced that eleven former enrollees in this program have...
We have discussed the problem of unenforced legislations (i.e. Acts duly passed by Parliament but not brought into force by government) previously on this blog. The recently passed amendments to the...
The last surviving member of our Constituent Assembly, Ranbir Singh Hooda, died on February 1. I’m unclear whether Hooda made any significant contributions to the Constituent Assembly’s...
Does section 295A of the Indian Penal Code prohibit us from criticising religion? In an outrageous act, police arrested the editor and publisher of The Statesman for re-publishing an article by...
The appeal filed by the Supreme Court against the of the decision of the Central Information Commission in the judges’ assets declaration case has been discussed on this blog here and here. In...
Today’s Hindu carries the CEC’s response to the Hindu’s coverage of the controversy over his recommendation to remove EC, Navin Chawla, and the Hindu’s editor-in-chief N...
For those interested, the Dept. of Sociology, University of Mumbai, is organizing the 8th Professor A. R. Desai Memorial Lecture to be held on February 20, 2009 at 3.00 p.m. at the Pherozeshah Mehta...
This Saturday I attended the first ever Lok Adalat focusing on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). It was held in Latehar, Jharkhand. The day began with thousands of poor people from...
1. V.R.Krishna Iyer on the case for a council to choose Judges 2.A.G.Noorani’s review of David Pannick’s book, I Have To Move My Car: Tales of Unpersuasive Advocates and Injudicious...
As India’s vigilante police threaten to punish public display of affection (PDA)in Karnataka and elsewhere by seeking to impose their own versions of Indian culture, it is perhaps time to...