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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- Saarc Nations For Evolving Treaty On Mutual Legal Aid (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 26, 2007)
Acknowledging that terrorism remains a serious threat to sustainable peace and development of South Asia, Saarc countries underlined the need to give an added push to evolving a treaty on mutual legal assistance with the home or interior ministers. . .
- Deranged System (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2007)
THE Supreme Court’s directive on the immediate release of all mentally ill undertrials languishing for years in various mental asylums is most welcome.
- Harvest Of Hatred (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2007)
ALTHOUGH the Coimbatore serial blasts case of 1998 involved major offences, including criminal conspiracy, multiple murders and use of deadly explosives, the Special Court avoided pronouncing any capital punishment on Wednesday and Thursday.
- If Vips Are In Danger, Let Them Stay At Home: Court (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Delhi high court, observing that heavily-guarded politicians were in no way a "national asset", said on Thursday that if these people were in so much danger that they could not move around in public places without being accompanied by . . . .
- Sharif Can’T Contest Poll, Says Aziz (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said there is no bar on any politician to engage in political activities or contest election except exiled premier Nawaz Sharif.
- The Debate Hasn’T Ended (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 26, 2007)
The Lok Sabha was adjourned in the last week of August following raucous acrimony over the issue of parliamentary prerogative to decide the rights and wrongs of a foreign treaty signed by the government. The debate is currently in a limbo.
- Just Cause (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2007)
It is ironic that the proper functioning of the judiciary should make news. But given the delays, backlog and the innumerable distractions that come in the way of the delivery of justice in India, the event of the judiciary arriving at . . . .
- Sc: Register All Marriages (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Supreme Court today gave states and Union Territories three months to make registration of marriage compulsory for all religions.
- Outcome Of Talks With Left Unclear: Pranab (Hindustan Times, Amit Baruah, Oct 26, 2007)
Yes to making efforts, no to predicting outcomes. That was External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's repeated response to questions from the Hindustan Times whether the civil nuclear deal with the United States could be salvaged in the face. . .
- Sc: Register All Marriages (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Supreme Court today gave three months’ final deadline to the states and Union Territories to frame laws to make the registration of marriages compulsory, as a majority of them have failed to comply with its earlier order of February 2006. . .
- Kashmir Integral To The India Story (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2007)
Today the relationship between India and the state of Jammu and Kashmir completes sixty years. It was on this day, October 26, 1947, that the ruler of the state, Maharaja Hari Singh, signed the Instrument of Accession with the government of . . . .
- End The Uncertainty (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 26, 2007)
The flurry of activity in Karnataka with a section of the Janata Dal(Secular) legislators led by former Deputy Chief Minister M.P. Prakash seeking to support a Congress-led government in the State is clearly an act of desperation to avoid the . . . .
- Indexing Inhumanity, Indian Style (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 26, 2007)
It took minutes for the top guns to swing into action when the Sensex fell by several hundred points. But no Minister came forward to calm the nation when India hit the 94th rank in the Global Hunger Index.
- Court Stays Operation Of Stone Crushing Unit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Madras High Court has stayed stone crushing activities at Poonthandalam-Pazhandandalam village, and deputed an advocate-commissioner to inspect the region.
- 'Make Law To Log All Marriages In 90 Days' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Thursday set a fresh three-month deadline for states and union territories to frame necessary rules to make registration of marriage compulsory, irrespective of religion, after most of them failed to adhere to an earlier order.
- Register Marriages In All Religions: Sc (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Oct 26, 2007)
It is now official. Marriages under all religions will be registered.
- Not Harsh Enough (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 26, 2007)
The punishment meted out to Al-Umma's founder SA Basha and 30 of his cohorts for planning and carrying out the deadly bombings at Coimbatore on February 14, 1998, does not compensate for the loss of 58 lives and the injuries inflicted on 250 others.
- Politicians No National Asset: Hc (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Observing they were not a "national asset", the Delhi High Court on Friday took the politicians head on over having their security guards on tow when they step out and wryly told them to remain in the confines of their homes and offices if they feel threa
- Sebi Guidelines And Mr Ambani (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is or ought to be concerned with leveling the playing field for all categories of investors.
- Words Are Cheap In Buddha’S Bengal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The very chief minister who promised Rizwanur Rehman’s bereaved mother justice has yet to serve justice to the kin of seven civilians killed and six others who were critically injured in police firing that a judicial inquiry . . . . .
- Poetic Justice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2007)
THE life imprisonment awarded by a Dehradun special court to Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh Minister Amarmani Tripathi, his wife Madhumani and two others for having murdered poetess Madhumita Shukla is the least punishment they could. . .
- Semantic Quibbling (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A month after South Bengal virtually revolted against the engineered shortage of supplies in rationing outlets, the Politburo's statement is a masterpiece of obfuscation. In trying to come to the aid of a beleaguered government . . . . .
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 25, 2007)
A month after South Bengal virtually revolted against the engineered shortage of supplies in rationing outlets, the Politburo's statement is a masterpiece of obfuscation.
- Pak Sends 4,000 Troops To Nwfp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Pakistan government has deployed 4,000 troops in the Swat valley of NWFP province to counter the activities of a pro-Taliban cleric whose men have challenged the writ of the local administration.
- Need For Choices In Fata (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
GEARING up for the next general elections, political activists in Fata demanded on Tuesday that the Political Parties’ Act (PPA) of 1962 be extended to the tribal areas.
- Food Inflation On The Rise (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Oct 25, 2007)
THE holy month of Ramazan was conspicuous for accelerating the rate of inflation, particularly food inflation in the country. In fact, the inflation rate was the highest in this month during the last five years.
- Oaths During Army Rules Constitutional, Observes Sc (Daily Times, Irfan Ghauri, Oct 25, 2007)
A Supreme Court judge said on Wednesday that Pakistan had been governed under the 1973 Constitution even during the military regimes of General Ziaul Haq and General Pervez Musharraf, and the oaths taken during these periods were constitutional.
- Relief For Salman In Poaching Case (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Honouring the Rajasthan High Court's August 31 order, Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Wednesday appeared before the registry of the court in connection with the chinkara poaching case.
- Sc Declines Swamy’S Plea On Sethu Panel (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear the plea of Janta Party President Subramaniam Swamy seeking reconstitution of the ‘Committee of Eminent Persons’ constituted by the Centre to review the Sethusamudram Project.
- For Clean Politics? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
SO much positive has happened in Pakistan since July. Let us note it to make us happy:
- Ltte Can Now Contest Elections (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
In a major initiative to bring the rebels into the mainstream, the Sri Lankan parliament has passed a legislation to enable parties like Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Karuna faction opposed to the Tamil Tigers to register . . . .
- Cbi To Challenge Accomplice's Acquittal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
CBI will challenge the acquittal of Prakash Chandra Pandey alias Pappu — one of the six accused in the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla — and will adhere to its stand of seeking death penalty for the four, including Samajwadi Party MLA Amarmani Tripathi
- Verdict Likely On Dera Chief's Bail Plea Today (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The CBI court here is expected to give its order on the bail plea of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief charged with murder and rape on Thursday.
- Coimbatore Blasts: Basha, 30 Others Get Lifer (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Nine years after deadly attacks aimed at assassinating BJP leader L K Advani left 58 people dead, a special court on Wednesday marched off 31 people, including terror mastermind S A Basha and his son Siddique Ali of the Al Umma group, to serve . . . .
- Throw Them Out (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A lower court has once again jumped the gun. On Tuesday, a first class judicial magistrate in Bhopal issued a non-bailable warrant against actor Aamir Khan for failing to appear before the court in a case of 'disrespect' to the flag.
- What Next For Benazir Bhutto? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The PPP leader’s return to Pakistan heralds the return of democratic politics but sharpens political polarisation.
- Poetess' Murder: Lifer For Ex-Minister (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Four years after poetess Madhumita Shukla was murdered, a special court on Wednesday sentenced to life former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi, his wife Madhumani, cousin Rohit Chaturvedi besides contract killer Santosh Rai in the high-profile case.
- Kovai Blasts: Basha Gets Lifer (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
All the key accused’ in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts case were awarded life sentence by the Special Court for Bomb Blasts cases here on Wednesday.
- 31 Jailed, Including Chief Of Al-Umma (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Oct 25, 2007)
Thirty-one persons, including leaders of the banned Muslim extremist body Al-Umma, were sentenced to life today by the special court here for being the main conspirators in the serial bomb blasts that rocked this city nine years ago.
- Life Term For Amarmani, Wife In Madhumita Murder Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A special court here on Wednesday sentenced the former Uttar Pradesh Minister and now MLA, Amarmani Tripathi, and his wife Madhumani to life imprisonment in the Madhumita Shukla murder case.
- Sc Orders Release Of Mentally Challenged Undertrials (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Taking note of a large number of mentally retarded undertrials languishing in jails or referred to mental asylums across the country, the Supreme Court today ordered the closure of cases against all those who had remained in judicial custody . . . . .
- 10 Delhi Cops Get Life Term (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Announcing its verdict in the 10-year-old Connaught Place shooting case, a court here on Wednesday awarded life sentences to suspended assistant commissioner of police S.S. Rathi and nine other policemen, convicted for killing two innocent businessmen.
- ‘Musharraf Should Accept Sc Verdict’ (Tribune, Afzal Khan, Oct 25, 2007)
Expressing serious concern over statements by senior government officials, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged President Gen. Musharraf to make an unambiguous declaration that he would accept the Supreme Court verdict on petitions . . .
- Day Of Life Terms (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi was today jailed for life for killing a young poet who was carrying his unborn child and had refused to abort it despite repeated threats.
- Ltte Can Contest Elections Under New Legislation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
In a major initiative to bring the rebels into the mainstream, the Sri Lankan Parliament has passed legislation to enable parties like the LTTE and the Karuna faction opposed to the Tamil Tigers to register themselves and contest elections in the country.
- Ltte Can Contest Elections Under New Legislation (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
In a major initiative to bring the rebels into the mainstream, the Sri Lankan Parliament has passed a legislation to enable parties like Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Karuna faction opposed to the Tamil Tigers to register . . . .
- Incentives Won't Do (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
The Supreme Court's latest observations on the Union Government's schemes to provide maternity benefits to below poverty line mothers are sound common sense.
- 9-11 Not That Terrible, Says Nobel Laureate (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Doris Lessing, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has risked incurring the wrath of Americans by accusing them of overreacting to the 11 September attacks on the Twin Towers, which she said were really “not that terrible”.
- Sanjay Dutt Returns To Prison (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed for buying weapons from bombers who attacked Mumbai in 1993, has returned to an Indian prison.
- Policing Issues (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Oct 25, 2007)
The need to protect law-abiding people, especially senior citizens, women and children, from street bullies is as important as the fight against terrorism.
- Indian Politician, Wife Get Life For Murder (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A former Indian official and his wife were sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the 2003 murder of the man’s pregnant mistress, a prosecutor said.
- J-Day: Life Term For Sixty (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
In a day that proved justice delayed is not always justice denied, various courts on Wednesday sentenced to life 60 convicts including a former minister, a senior cop, a lawyer, a group of terrorists and rioters in four high-profile criminal cases . . .
- Contrasting Tales Of Resurgence (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 25, 2007)
Even if things fall apart on the Indo-US nuclear deal and elections are held early, the polls will be a proper democratic exercise, unlike in Pakistan, where a free and fair election and democracy are still a mirage.
- More Intriguing Than Interesting (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
WHEN a delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement arrived at Bilawal House earlier this week to condole with the provincial leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party over the tragic incidents of Oct 18, it was a major step forward on the rather . . . .
- Slowdown In Cv Sales An Issue (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The 16% drop in the second-quarter profit of the commercial vehicles major Ashok Leyland is hardly surprising considering the sluggish industry-wide sales growth.
- Life Term 1: Al-Umma Chief, 30 Others For Coimbatore Blasts (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, Oct 25, 2007)
Refraining from awarding any capital punishment in the sensitive Coimbatore bomb blasts case, a Special Court on Wednesday sentenced 31 activists of the outlawed Al-Umma, an Islamic extremist group, including its founder SA Basha and his close . . . .
- City With A Future (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
IN his “edict”, Le Corbusier summed up his own estimation of what he had accomplished with Chandigarh by saying that it was planned to “human scale”. The city’s architect had attempted to put its residents in touch with nature, while allowing for . . . .
- Cong Leader, 14 More For Post-Babri Riots (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
All the 15 accused of the post-Babri Masjid demolition riots of 1992 were awarded life imprisonment by ADJ (VI) SM Haseeb amid stiff protest by the lawyers here on Wednesday.
- Sarabhai's Vision (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Governments lay down policies, but their implementation depends a lot on the personality and outlook of officials who, in turn, influence policymaking.
- Hindus Sentenced Over India Riots (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A court in India has sentenced 15 Hindus to life imprisonment for murder and other crimes during riots following the destruction of a mosque in 1992.
- A Fair Investigation? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
AS the debris and smoke of the bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto settled, one thing was clear: the battle with militancy in Pakistan has been raised to a new level.
- Life Sentences For Delhi Police (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Ten policemen in the Indian capital, Delhi, have been given life prison sentences for the murder of two businessmen 10 years ago.
- Plea Seeking Cbi Probe Into Sri Lankan’S Death Dismissed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the recent death of a Sri Lankan fishermen union leader.
- Congress To Come Out With Booklet (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The AICC Publicity Committee headed by General Secretary Digvijay Singh gave finishing touches to the booklet at an hour-long meeting at the party headquarters.
- Ppp-Musharraf Talks Put On Hold (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 24, 2007)
Talks between the Pakistan People’s Party and President Pervez Musharraf on formation of a caretaker government to hold general elections are reported to have been put on hold until the Supreme Court gives its verdict on the presidential election.
- Benazir Bhutto To Avoid Mass Rallies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning in Pakistini cities in the next couple of days, avoiding mass rallies.
- Don’T Violate National Population Policy: Sc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The Supreme Court today took serious objection to the Centre making changes in its policy on maternity allowance to expecting mothers in BPL families by removing the condition that it will be available only up to the birth of two children.
- Sonia’S Kow-Tow (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Oct 24, 2007)
That Congress president Sonia Gandhi is heading to China later this week is good news.
- Beyond Quotas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 24, 2007)
The Tamil Nadu government is casting its net wider to get in as many people as possible under the quota umbrella.
- Cbi Has Not Come Clean On Yakub’S Arrest, Says Kode (Indian Express, Menaka Rao, Oct 24, 2007)
Punching holes in the CBI’s claim that Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon was arrested from a Delhi railway station on August 5, 1994, Special TADA judge P D Kode in his judgment says that the investigating agency has “not come clean before . . . .
- Q&a: 'Cabinet Secretariat Has To Act As A Facilitator' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 24, 2007)
In a first of its kind in federal governance, Union cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekhar travelled with 18 officials — most of them secretary-level officers in Union ministries — to Ranchi for a day in September, checked into Raj Bhavan and . . . .
- Sc Refuses To Issue Notice To Virbhadra (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Oct 24, 2007)
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh may have complaints against the Election Commission’s decision advancing the polls in the state, but it proved to be a blessing in disguise for him today, as the Supreme Court declined to issue notice . . .
- Threat To Bhutto: Qaeda Woman Will Strike (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Oct 24, 2007)
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has received an assassination threat from a follower of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
- Sc Questions Legal Basis Of Musharraf Undertaking (Tribune, Afzal Khan, Oct 24, 2007)
Judges on the 11-member Supreme Court Bench hearing petitions on the eligibility of President General Musharraf today sought answer to the question regarding the legal basis of the undertaking given by him that he would quit army post after being . . . .
- Isro Land Deal Invalid: Kerala Govt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The Kerala government today termed as invalid the controversial land deal between businessman Mr Savy Mano Mathew and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
- Disturbing Statements (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Oct 24, 2007)
This is about two statements that India heard on the same day. They must have disturbed many Indians who value the country’s democracy, despite its various flaws.
- The Yasukuni 'Hero' (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Oct 24, 2007)
In a Japan of resurgent nationalism, Radha Binod Pal’s dissenting judgment in the Tokyo war trials wins easy admirers.
- Award For University Hall (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Oct 24, 2007)
“SUPERB interdisciplinary technical achievement … elegant renewal of one of the city’s finest Victorian buildings.”
- The Right Track (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 24, 2007)
Expenditure on the rail freight corridor, especially with Japanese co-operation, would be well worth it as the project would bolster economic growth.
- The Tasks Ahead (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Oct 24, 2007)
THE tumultuous welcome accorded to Benazir Bhutto on her arrival in Karachi was negated by the horrific bomb blasts clearly aimed at the container vehicle in which she and the party leadership were travelling.
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