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Articles 8821 through 8920 of 12677:
- Pil On Quota For Dalit Christians (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed October 25 for hearing a PIL seeking Scheduled Caste status for Dalit Christians even as the Centre said a commission has been set up in this regard.
- Apex Court Notice To Centre, States On Tamperproof Number Plates (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices on a PIL seeking implementation of the 2001 High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) scheme making it mandatory for all vehicles to have tamperproof non-removable number plates.
- Land Locked (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2005)
The Bombay High Court ruling on the quantum of land available to textile mills in Mumbai for commercial development is a clear victory for environmental action groups that had spearheaded the legal challenge.
- Intellectuals Raise Voice For Pollution Free Deepavali (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Form a group in each area and burst crackers together in open fields, instead of disturbing peace in residential areas.
- The Post-Modern Woman (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 18, 2005)
Louise Story wrote a front-page story in New York Times of September 20. She began with Cynthia Liu, a bright female student of Yale who expects to do law and then stay at home and become a mom.
- Blair-Rice Talks Focus On Iran (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 18, 2005)
"Military action over the nuclear dossier is inconceivable,'' Mr. Straw said
- Government To Consider Quota For Muslims In Jobs, Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
It is awaiting Supreme Court verdict on implementation of 69 per cent reservation
- Contemporary Islamic Law (Hindu, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, Oct 18, 2005)
Fyzee's contribution by way of consolidation and restatement of the law through cases is a major step forward in an otherwise dicey situation of orthodoxy, prejudice, inequality and fear
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- Bihar: Who Is The Culprit? (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Oct 17, 2005)
President Kalam could have avoided the current embarrassment by looking back at precedents
- People’S Welfare (Statesman, AK BASU, Oct 17, 2005)
The Right of Citizens to Information has come into operation. Withholding information from natives suited the rulers of India before 1947.
- Quake-Proof Construction (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2005)
The damage reportedly caused to a number of buildings as a result of the powerful earthquake that also shook Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar besides causing extensive damage in the Frontier and Azad Kashmir should serve as a wake-up call for the civic. . .
- Just Impatient (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 17, 2005)
Can a jurisprudence of exasperation sustain the court’s authority?
- Maintaining Judicial Decorum (Tribune, Rajinder Sachar, Oct 17, 2005)
Embarrassment abounding (though I would have said disgrace abounding, as would many in the legal profession) is the reaction to the spectacle of two former Chief Justices of India being virtually bundled out of the BCCI’s AGM.
- Murder In Patiala (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 17, 2005)
The murder of an Additional District and Sessions Judge at Patiala on Thursday night has come as a rude reminder to the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab.
- Armed Forces Tribunal (Tribune, Lt Col (retd) G.S. Bedi, Oct 17, 2005)
The news of Cabinet approval for an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) should have come as a whiff of fresh air for the armed forces.
- India Gives Equal Rights To Minorities (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental.
- Proposal For A 'Police Mission' (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental. For as long as one can remember it has been a plural society.
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- An Effective Legal Remedy To Check Domestic Violence (Tribune, Mandeep Tiwana, Oct 16, 2005)
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Bill, passed by Parliament recently, represents a watershed for women’s rights.
- No One Listening But Advani Keeps Demanding Pm Manmohan Singh's Resignation – When Will The Joke End And Bjp Take On Real Work? (India Daily, Preetam Sohani, Oct 16, 2005)
While terrorists are planning to use Google’s satallite mapping service to pin point and take out strategic Hindu targets in India,
- The Bihar Verdict (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 16, 2005)
The Supreme Court gives its verdict on Bihar and it is a stinging reverse for the UPA.
- Opening A Pandora’S Box Of Legal Repercussions (Deccan Herald, PRAMILA NESARGI, Oct 16, 2005)
The Delhi High Court in its recent judgment went on to hold that marriage with a 15-year-old is valid raising a pandora’s box of legal repercussions. This article proposes to examine the legal implications of such a marriage under the Indian law.
- Bar Condemns Attack On Detainees (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 16, 2005)
The Jammu Kashmir High Court Bar Association has strongly condemned manhandling of detainees in centraljail by the jail authorities and guards last week.
- The Year Of The Novel (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 15, 2005)
Two thousand and five deserves to be flagged as an exceptional year for British and Commonwealth fiction (with one literary critic characterising it as "the richest year since the launch of the Man Booker Prize in 1969").
- There's A New Ghost In The Guest House (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 15, 2005)
The consciousness of being deemed dead is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality, rues Herman Melville. "One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
- 2-Phase Zp, Tp Polls On Dec 19 And 23 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
With the code of conduct coming into force, the Cabinet revamp and appointments to Boards and Corporations will now have to wait till January.
- What Is Writ In Tax Matters? (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Oct 15, 2005)
The basic principle of law is that a writ will not ordinarily be issued by the court where an order, not patently erroneous, is made by an authority within his jurisdiction. But where the defect of jurisdiction is apparent, or there is an abuse of power,
- An Encroachment Into Space And Time (Business Line, S. Sridharan, Oct 15, 2005)
S. Sridharan on how the new noise on advertising service may traverse the legislation
- A Bug In Software Service (Business Line, Joseph Prabakar, Oct 15, 2005)
Joseph Prabakar discusses a recent CBEC Circular on taxability of software maintenance
- Illegality Or Irregularity? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 15, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a decision of the Allahabad High Court about an irregularity in contractual
- Tales Of Horror From The Belly Of The Beast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
Anti-Veerappan operations were not merely of bravery of uniformed personnel and the exploits of the bandit. The seamier side was laid bare by poor villagers.
- Minister In The Dock (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 14, 2005)
When in trouble, they’re all the same
Reacting to the Supreme Court’s verdict on the dissolution of the Bihar assembly, Prakash Karat feels this is the time for a review of the Governor’s discretionary powers.
- Mishandling The North-East (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Oct 14, 2005)
MOST of our policy-makers have little sense of history and even less of geography. Otherwise, the North-East of the country would not languish in a state of neglect.
- Nda Meets Kalam To Oust Governor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
BJP president L K Advani and his party’s allies met President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday to demand that Governor Buta Singh of Bihar be removed..
- Animal Sacrifice At Its Peak In Orissa (Deccan Herald, S T BEURIA, Oct 14, 2005)
Thousands of innocent animals have been brutally killed in the name of sacrifice during the Dussehra festival in Orissa despite protests from animal protection groups and animal rights activists.
- Nda Meets Kalam Over Bihar, Seeks Pm's Resignation (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "misleading" the nation over the Bihar Assembly dissolution, the NDA today urged President A P J Abdul Kalam to advise him to resign and to recall Governor Buta Singh.
- The Dynasty Forever? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 14, 2005)
To suggest that the young MP was speaking off the record and therefore one should not take seriously all that he said is little short of fatuous. Since he was speaking off the record, all the greater reason to believe he spoke his mind . . .
- Fallout Of Plame Affair (Hindu, Sidney Blumenthal, Oct 14, 2005)
Coverage of the Plame affair has been tainted by the press's cosy duet with the White House.
- `Advise' Manmohan To Quit, Nda Urges Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Bihar Assembly dissolution a "fraud" on the Constitution
The dissolution even before the Assembly was constituted was a "classic example" of the "worst-ever misuse" of Article 356: Advani
Blames the Prime Minister for "misleading" the President
- How To Shuffle (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
It would be naive to expect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to drop his tainted ministers in the course of the impending Cabinet reshuffle, more so since the UPA government appears to have decided to brazen it out in the Bihar dissolution case despite the
- Sc Reverses Hc Order On Power Dispute (Business Standard, M J Antony, Oct 13, 2005)
The Supreme Court last week set aside the judgment of the Allahabad High Court, which had held that the UP State Electricity Board and the co-operative units buying power from it were public sector undertakings and therefore they should settle . . .
- Fringe Benefit Tax Is Here To Stay, And For Long (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
There can be no doubt that fringe benefit tax ( FBT) is here to stay, and for a long time. Circular No 8/2005 put to rest any lingering doubts industry may have had about second thoughts on this levy.
- Waiting For A Messiah. Will He Come! - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 13, 2005)
They need us, our help, our support and everything that we can offer, Tanvir Sadiq narrates his emotional encounter with lepers
- Laws And Their Extra-Territorial Applicability (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Are foreign companies beyond the fringe benefit tax regime, asks Jayesh Kariya
- Independent Directors And Vicarious Liability (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 13, 2005)
Independent directors are invited to sit on the board purely for their special skills and expertise in particular fields and they represent the conscience of the investing public.
- Only One Choice (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 13, 2005)
Buta has lost moral right to stay
- Legislative Heroics Not Above Rule Of Law (Business Standard, Somasekhar Sundaresan, Oct 13, 2005)
In a recent decision, the Bombay High Court has struck down as unconstitutional the Maharashtra Protection of Interests of Depositors Act (MPIDA), passed by the Maharashtra legislature, on the commendation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take . . .
- Volunteers Coordinate (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
As they say every cloud has a silver lining the massive earthquake that struck Kashmir last week has bound the people in strong bonds of love and fellow feeling.
- Existential Crisis Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Pakistan’s accentuated existential crisis has made historians to write new books for school students, distorting the basic facts that the Islamic Republic was ever a part of India.
- Booker Prize: A Wrong Choice In A List Of Delights (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
The Man Booker judges have made possibly the worst, certainly the most perverse, and perhaps the most indefensible choice in the 36-year history of the contest.
- Storm Over The Man Booker Prize (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 13, 2005)
The history of the Booker Prize is full of bad choices.
- Jharkhand: Tightening Grip (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN the second week of September, the Arjun Munda-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Jharkhand launched a special security initiative called Operation Black Thunder (OBT) to counter the naxalite activities in the State.
- Red-Faced Leaders In New Delhi (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Oct 12, 2005)
The Congress high command has to decide how much longer it can tolerate Laloo who treats Bihar as his fiefdom
- Bjp Into The Political Twilight? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 12, 2005)
IF proof were at all needed that the Bharatiya Janata Party can no longer summon up a half-way cogent response to major events of the day, then recent developments provide it in ample measure.
- Bihar On The Edge (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, Oct 12, 2005)
BIHAR has been a byword for political uncertainty. Even as the State began preparations for its four-phase Assembly elections
- Anti-Majoritarian, Pro-Globalisation (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN 2001, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, an activist and academic, published in Manushi, a periodical from New Delhi, two articles, one dealing with the working conditions of rickshaw-pullers in the capital and the other about street vendors whom she had made a fi
- The Temblor's Footprint (Indian Express, Arun Bapat, Oct 12, 2005)
Every natural calamity has some new lesson to teach us. The last two - the tsunami of December 26, 2004, and the heavy flooding of Mumbai on 26th July this year brought their own insights.
- Why Osama Roams Free: South Asia Could Soon Face Its Biggest Ever Crisis (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Oct 12, 2005)
The Supreme Court judgment on the Bihar Assembly dissolution compels far-reaching systemic changes.
- Of Turncoats And Caste Breakdowns (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Oct 11, 2005)
Defectors with a record of winning are seen as a prize catch by political parties in Bihar because of the votes they bring with them
- Understanding The Emerging Media Ecology (Hindu, Sashi Kumar, Oct 11, 2005)
With both technology and the advertiser sorting the vast amorphous viewership into tiered and profiled purchasing power segments, a fragmentation takes place that may actually work against dumbing down.
- Deja Vu (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 11, 2005)
A leopard might change its spots, but not the Congress party. Ever since it has come back to power at the head of the United Progressive Alliance, the government in its single-minded pursuit of handing over power to the Congress or its allies, has committ
- India's Water Economy — World Bank Prescription Does Not Hold Water (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Oct 11, 2005)
Even while conceding that the World Bank's report is correct in stating that investments in large water infrastructure in India reflect a Build-Neglect-Rebuild philosophy, it may be prudent to bear in mind that the document has been prepared by an entity
- Can Constitutionality Of Fbt Be Challenged? (Hindu, S. Rajaratnam , Oct 10, 2005)
Legislations passed by Parliament cannot be lightly impugned as violating the Constitution because there is a presumption in favour of constitutional validity.
- An Opportunity Not To Be Missed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 10, 2005)
The Centre's readiness to meet a set of representatives named by the United Liberation front of Asom to facilitate a peace process is a positive development for Assam.
- Willing To Strike But Afraid To Wound (Hindu, N. Ravi, Oct 10, 2005)
The Bihar decision represents a real time monitoring of executive actions by the Supreme Court and has put the Government on notice that the Court will ever be on the alert against any abuse of power.
- Reluctant Voters, Fragmented Votes (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Oct 10, 2005)
Do the results of the Assembly elections held in February hold pointers to how Bihar will vote this time?
- Heads I Win (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 10, 2005)
Kanti Biswas is clearly on the lookout for soft targets. Having failed to clear the mess of his own creation in the backyard of the school education department, he now makes an unabashed attempt to tighten the screws on Anglo-Indian schools.
- Caught In The Crossfire (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 10, 2005)
LATE last month George Bush’s popularity ratings were starting to rise slightly after being blown badly off course by Hurricane Katrina.
- An Improvement On The Past (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 10, 2005)
IN most civilized countries, the issuance of a passport to a citizen is regarded as a fundamental right.
- Forgotten Victims-I By Sankar Sen (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 10, 2005)
In our criminal justice system based upon Anglo-Saxon adversarial pattern, victims of crime are very often forgotten and neglected. During the last 100 years,
- Off-Key At Chandigarh (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 10, 2005)
There was an air of the surreal, in retrospect, about the two-day assembly in the City Beautiful.
- Hasba Bill Again (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 10, 2005)
THE NWFP Government has decided to table an amended version of the Hasba Bill and get it passed by the Provincial Assembly during its next session. Briefing newsmen on the deliberations of the Provincial Cabinet on Saturday, NWFP Information Minister Asif
- Governors As Lynch-Pins (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 10, 2005)
The Supreme Court judgment in Rameshwar Prasad vs Union of India, declaring the dissolution of the Bihar assembly to be unconstitutional, is a landmark.
- Deja Vu (Business Standard, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 10, 2005)
A leopard might change its spots, but not the Congress party. Ever since it has come back to power at the head of the United Progressive Alliance
- In-House Review (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 10, 2005)
The Chandigarh conclave of 15 Congress Chief Ministers was meant to be a detailed stock-taking exercise.
- A Look At The Roc And Its Role (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 10, 2005)
The Registrar of Companies (RoC) plays a pivotal role in facilitating and promoting business culture.
- Karishma, Tamanna, Madhu... (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Oct 09, 2005)
For a stretch of nearly four consecutive days last week, if an overseas traveller happened to be on a brief visit to India and switched on the television to update himself about what was going on in this country,
- Making The Rti Act Effective (Tribune, Mandakini Devasher, Oct 09, 2005)
October 12 will be celebrated as Dusshera, the festival symbolising the triumph of good over evil.
- Doomed Democracy (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Oct 09, 2005)
The real purpose of Laisenia Qarase’s visit is to soothe India’s ruffled feelings about the patently anti-Indian administration he has been running for the last five years
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