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Articles 2221 through 2320 of 4481:
- Hc Notices On Cash-For-Query (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Delhi High Court asks Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, EC and Centre to reply
In a move which could trigger a stand-off between Parliament and the judiciary, the Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats, . . .
- Amar Singh Moves Sc In Phone Tapping Case (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Blaming Congress President Sonia Gandhi directly for the alleged tapping of the telephones of Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by the latter for a judicial probe . . .
- Cut Red Tape (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 10, 2006)
Not very long ago a fairly well-known industrialist family of a western state after setting up a unit at the outskirts of this city ran into bureaucratic hurdles. It discovered that the official commitments made to it were not being honoured.
- Bjp Demands Inquiry In Phone Tapping (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Controversy over the issue of phone-tapping of senior Opposition leaders gathered momentum today with the BJP alleging that the telephone of Leader of the Opposition L K Advani was being bugged
- Segregation! That's What Upa's Minorityism Means (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 10, 2006)
Not just the Union Cabinet but the United Progressive Alliance leadership must reject the proposal of the ministry of social justice and empowerment to allocate plan funds in proportion to religious community population.
- Amar Singh Moves Sc; Advani, Mamata Join Tap Dance (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
It would appear that every politician is on tap. While Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh took his phone-tapping allegations to Supreme Court on Monday, seeking a judicial probe, Leader of Opposition L K Advani and Trinamul Congress chief . . .
- Plot To Kill Me, Alleges Mulayam Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
"Congress party and a leading industrialist are involved, will give details at appropriate time"
- Court Takes Moolah-Am Count (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The Supreme Court today asked Uttar Pardesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to respond to charges that he and his family owned unaccounted assets worth crores.
- Up Keeps ‘Tapping’ Lines Crackling (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Soon, you will need a logbook as thick as the once-indispensable telephone directories to keep track of the tapping controversy.
- Accused Tells Tape Tale (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Anurag Singh, one of the accused in the Amar Singh phone-tapping case, has told police that Bhupendra, the first to be arrested, asked him to sell the CD containing recorded conversations of the Samajwadi Party leader to his political rivals.
- Hc Notice To Houses On Mps’ Expulsion (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
A day after Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee stated that he was against the interference of courts in Parliament’s decision of expelling 11 MPs for their “involvement” in the “cash for query” scam, the Delhi High Court today issued notices . . .
- India’S Political Freedom In Question – Bjp Finds Foul In Phone Tapping Of Leaders –politicians Look For Supreme Court’S Help (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Jan 10, 2006)
India may be silently experienced loss of political freedom while preaching the same to Nepal and other countries.
- Amar Singh Moves Apex Court (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The SP leader also cited the 1996 judgment of the Supreme Court which said an order on the telephone-tapping in terms of the provision of the Act cannot be issued except by the Union home secretary and home secretaries of the state government.
- Amar Singh Apologises To Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Samajwadi Party general secretary and spokesman Amar Singh on Monday offered an apology to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his remarks that some people in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) were also involved in the phone tapping case.
- `Courts Have No Power To Intervene' (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Jan 10, 2006)
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday said the decision to expel 11 Members of Parliament following the "cash-for-query" scandal was "beyond the pale of judicial scrutiny."
- Hc Notice To Rs, Ls, Ec And Centre On Expulsion Of Mps (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
In a move which could trigger a stand-off between Parliament and the judiciary, the Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats, Election Commission and the Centre on petitions by eight of the 11 expelled MPs . . .
- Probe 54-Year Incarceration In Hospital, Court Tells Assam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Bench orders compensation to 77-year-old man who was freed in July last
Machal Lalung was arrested when he was 23
Case never came up for trial
- Amar Singh Takes The Phone Tapping Issue To Sc (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Carrying forward his charge on the telephone tapping issue, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh today knocked at the doors of Supreme Court seeking a judicial probe into the whole incident.
He filed an application before the Registry for a direction . . .
- Amar Singh Moves Supreme Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Honest probe possible only in judicial inquiry into phone tapping
Governments should adhere to court guidelines Congress among respondents
- When Power Subverts The Law (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 10, 2006)
Two seminal books question the possibility of international criminal justice in a unipolar world
- Phone Tapping: Amar Singh Knocks On Sc Doors (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a judicial probe into the telephone tapping issue.
- The Alito Hearings (Washington Times, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jan 09, 2006)
As Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito appears this morning for day one of his Senate confirmation hearings..
- Upa Plan For Minorities May Fragment Society, Warns Bjp; Not On, Agrees Left (Hindu, Varghese K George, Jan 09, 2006)
The UPA government’s controversial move to reserve a ‘‘certain percentage’’ of all development funds for minorities has been criticised by the BJP and the Left too has expressed concern.
- Woman Leader Of Nepal Maoists Held In India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
An executive member of the women's wing of Nepal Communist Patry (Maoist) who was arrested from a tea estate in Darjeeling.
- Speaker Rules Out Court Jurisdiction (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee is clear that the courts have no jurisdiction on expulsion of MPs from Parliament and will not respond to any judicial notices in the matter.
- Shotgun Weeding (The Week, R. Prasannan, Jan 08, 2006)
Television stings have caused a stir; the big battles will follow
- Grab The Judge (The Week, Tapash Ganguly, Jan 08, 2006)
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh are trying to take over the judicial system
- Judicial Activism In America (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jan 08, 2006)
It is a well-established function of judges to say what the law is, or what it means. Many of them will follow precedents and give due attention to the original lawmaker’s intent in performing this function.
- Democracy On A Sticky Wicket? (Deccan Herald, P V Subraya, Jan 08, 2006)
The views aired in the book by persons connected with the judiciary have been debated many times before
- "Execute Warrant Against Mamata'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Takes umbrage at official's report expressing inability to execute warrant
- Anjali's Court Martial (Hindu, U.C. Jha, Jan 08, 2006)
The Indian military justice system in its current form is an anachronis
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Iisc. Attack: `All Links Will Be Unearthed' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Bangalore is safe : Ajai Kumar Singh
Commissioner of Police Ajai Kumar Singh on Friday said that the city police would unearth all links in the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) here.
- Tax On Parallel Education That Failed The Test Of Article 14 (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2006)
The decision of the Kerala High Court in the Malappuram District Parallel College Association case may not have many parallels. Because the verdict, delivered on August 31, 2005, by Justice C. N. Ramachandran Nair, quashed service tax levy . . .
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 07, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- Query On Inquiry (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 07, 2006)
Some years ago Justice R.S. Sarkaria was approached for his reaction to the delay in the implementation of his voluminous report on the Centre-State relations.
- No Quota For Amu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 07, 2006)
Thursday’s Allahabad High Court ruling upholding the judgement of its earlier single-Judge order which had termed the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University and 50 per cent reservation to Muslims in the institution as “unconstitutional” is a setback
- Jobs And Sops (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
Basu becomes source of embarrassment
How Jyoti Basu could use a rally organised by the coordination committee of state government employees to announce a “cabinet decision’’ to recruit 40,000 people in various departments of the government and . . .
- Amu Not A Minority Institution: Hc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Upholds striking down of 50 pc quota
The Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court today upheld with some modifications its last year’s single-judge Bench judgment terming as ‘unconstitutional the granting of minority status to the . . .
- Chandigarh Needs Bulldozer Too (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Jan 06, 2006)
Even as politicians cry hoarse over the demolition of illegal structures in New Delhi, the Punjab government has recently and quietly condoned irregular constructions in the periphery of Chandigarh.
- Phone Tapping: Amar Singh To Move Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Alleging that a doctored version of a taped conversation, involving him, was in circulation, Mr Singh said he would take action, including raising privilege issue, if anyone used it against him.
- President Moots E-Judiciary System For Courts In Country (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Entire judicial process must be done electronically, says Kalam
- Representing The People (Tribune, P.P. Rao, Jan 05, 2006)
The quality of democracy gets reflected in the character and calibre of the elected representatives of the people. Parliament has recently expelled 11 of its members belonging to different political parties for accepting bribes in the cash-for-query scam.
- The Aged And The Younger Generation (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Jan 05, 2006)
It’s our turn to help elders who watched us take the first steps
There is no doubt about this — India is graying. While growing population and limited resources are a matter of global concern, there is yet another problem emerging out of it.
- Bangladesh Releases Meghalaya Forest Officials (Indian Express, TILAK RAI, Jan 05, 2006)
After a month in captivity in Sylhet jail, three Meghalaya forest officials were released by Bangladesh Rifles last evening and were handed over to the Border Security Force at the Dawki outpost.
- Expelled Mps Go To Court (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
In a move that could trigger a confrontation between Parliament and judiciary, two of the 11 ousted MPs caught taking bribes on camera in a sting operation have filed a writ petition in Delhi High Court challenging their expulsion.
- The Rule Of Lawlessness (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 04, 2006)
Politicians who have several illegal activities have been opposing the Delhi demolitions
- Out Of Gear (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 04, 2006)
A report in this newspaper that the concerned authorities in the State forgot about the start of the "Traffic Awareness Week" gives an interesting insight. Whatever their explanations it is clear that they have been caught napping.
- Varsity Plans Ph.D. Programme For Practising Lawyers, Serving Judges (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Jan 03, 2006)
Chief Justice open to the idea; keen on forging the varsity-judicial academy link
- Cbi Told To File Progress Report In Monica Bedi Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Special Court extends judicial remand only till January 12
- Nepal Says Farewell To Peace (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jan 03, 2006)
After an uneasy four-month truce, Nepal's Maoist guerrillas Monday ended their unilateral ceasefire and declared a fresh war against King Gyanendra and the Royal Nepalese Army.
- Afghanistan Aims To Cut Opium Fields In 2006 (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Deputy interior minister claims Taliban is encouraging farmers to grow poppy
- On The Eventful Year That Was (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 02, 2006)
The year just gone by has been one of tremendous promise but also of problems. While the economy is booming, with the soaring Sensex and a strong financial scene, the shortages have not disappeared, except for forex.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 02, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- Law And Justice (Hindu, P.D. Dinakaran, Jan 02, 2006)
The force of a law, a judicial decision, or administrative act depends on the extent of its justice. And justice means nothing other than conformity with the law of nature.
- Tackling Corruption (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Jan 02, 2006)
State funding of elections will not make politicians straight so long as policemen and law officers are crooked.
- Year Of Inflexion (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jan 02, 2006)
Manmohan Singh has a feel for history. In his maiden speech as finance minister, he talked about India as an idea whose time had arrived. Now in the prime ministerial hot-seat, the time has arrived to propel this idea forward with greater impetus and ...
- Terror Of 'War Against Terror' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 01, 2006)
Is there room within this rapid "securitisation" of life for individual freedoms and civic concerns to assert themselves?
- Judicial Activism & Restraint (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Ever since assumption of the office of Pakistan’s Chief Justice, Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has displayed an element of judicial activism through suo motu notice of various crimes and violation of country’s laws. Cases of new Murree city, . . .
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 01, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- Human Rights And Their Protection (Daily Excelsior, Tahir Khurshid Raina, Jan 01, 2006)
Quoting ''Hamlet'' the celebrated literary creation of Shakespeare, the man has been beautifully described as :
- Work Awaits The New Tribunal (Business Line, S. Murugappan, Dec 31, 2005)
S. Murugappan on the likely implications of the National Tax Tribunal Bill, 2005
- The Corrupt Politics Of Slums (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan , Dec 31, 2005)
If one wants to know how deeply is India poisoned at heart and contaminated at soul, one should study the phenomenon of slums, induced squatting and illegal constructions in its cities. In essence, the cities are the spiritual workshops of the nation . .
- Minority Rights And Responsibilities (Hindu, Iqbal A. Ansari, Dec 31, 2005)
Muslims are not enjoying any `privilege' denied to others. However, the concerns raised in Parliament, during the debate on the Constitution (104th) Amendment Bill, on the reservation issue need to be addressed. One way could be to conduct a . . .
- The Ordinance Factory (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 31, 2005)
Grab something. Then make law to legitimise the grab. It used to happen in the Emergency.
- This Happens Only In India (Daily Excelsior, Lt Col (Retd) Mukund Singh Jamwal, Dec 30, 2005)
Welcome to India, that is Bharat, the land of eternal contradictions. Blessed are the souls of this country who have the good fortune of living with contradictions from morn till eve with a majority of them even making a virtue out of this.
- Unearth The Truth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2005)
Justice should be done to the dead found in the mass grave in Lunavada village.
- Dhanasekaran Detained Under Goondas Act (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillor K. Dhanasekaran, who was arrested on December 20 in connection with the M.G.R. Nagar stampede, has been detained under the Goondas Act.
- Improving Access To Justice (Dawn, Naeem Sadiq, Dec 29, 2005)
Our obsession with beggary has taught us the skills needed to put forward compelling reasons, dressed in nebulous grammar, in order to procure a few hundred million dollars from international institutions.
- Executive Negligence: Consequences And Covers (Business Line, P. Umesh, Dec 28, 2005)
Corporate governance is the hot-topic these days, thanks to growing stakeholder pressure, rising regulatory scrutiny and supervision, increasing customer awareness and mounting judicial activism on the role of directors and officers of an enterprise . . .
- On With Demolitions (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 28, 2005)
That’s the only language lawbreakers understand
As if the blatant construction of unauthorised buildings in Delhi by the thousands was not bad enough, the lawbreakers are now ganging up to browbeat the administration to stop the court-ordered demolition
- System Failure (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 28, 2005)
Train journeys in India can be nightmarish for a variety of reasons. But what some security personnel did on board a train in Assam was simply horrific.
- Air Force Fires Prickly Anjali (Daily Excelsior, Air Commodore (Retd.) Upendra Bajpai, Dec 28, 2005)
For the first time in the history of Indian Air Force Flying Officer Anjali Gupta (a female) has faced a court martial proceeding, and been cashiered from service.
- Freedom Of The Press (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Dec 27, 2005)
Traces the struggle of the press right from the colonial era to the present and also explores the scope and nature of press freedom
- History In The Making (Hindu, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 27, 2005)
A titan of the world of journalism and an indomitable fighter of worthwhile causes
- Parliamentary Death Penalty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2005)
It’s not a good parliamentary procedure to expel tainted MPs bypassing the privileges committee
- So That Crime Doesn’T Pay (Indian Express, Sudhir Vohra, Dec 27, 2005)
Last week’s activity with regard to the actions of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, on enforcing municipal laws in the city as directed by the court, has thrown up an interesting sequence of reactions by the Delhi’s legislature and government.
- Assaults Won’T Work (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 27, 2005)
We now need a master plan to end the builder-mafia’s reign for all time
- Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2005)
It was a year that saw politics overshadow public good, say Asha Krishnaswamy and Vijesh Kamath as they sift through the archives. Politicians spewed venom and a former prime minister wrote letters even as the common man was left to deal with an . . .
- Needed, A Fair Deal For Patent Seekers (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Dec 27, 2005)
To Handle the situation arising out of a possible outbreak of Bird Flu, a number of pharmaceutical companies are gearing up to produce Oseltamivir, the drug that can effectively tackle this menace. They will have to meet two important regulatory . . .
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