Manoj Mitta is the author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India

July 13, 2005 02:38 IST
By striking down an Assam-specific law that has been in force for over 20 years, the Supreme Court today put a question mark over lakhs of M...
Wed, Jul 13, 2005
July 07, 2005 02:13 IST
When the Allahabad High Court today ruled against L K Advani, one point it made was that the magistrate, while discharging the BJP president...
Thu, Jul 07, 2005
July 07, 2005 00:00 IST
The success of the Central paramilitary forces in repelling a terrorist attack in Ayodhya in 2005 exposes the “security lapse” eng...
Thu, Jul 07, 2005
July 03, 2005 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised a very valid concern when he said that changes in cyber law were needed to ensure that India’s bra...
Sun, Jul 03, 2005
June 18, 2005 02:14 IST
Judges of the highest court of the land are going back to the ‘classroom’.All the Supreme Court judges, led by Chief Justice of In...
Sat, Jun 18, 2005
June 16, 2005 02:15 IST
The 100-odd last-minute amendments that were made to the Right to Information Bill have landed the Centre and states in a fix.Once the Bill ...
Thu, Jun 16, 2005
June 10, 2005 01:46 IST
When Murli Manohar Joshi says that the BJP should not ‘‘dilute its core ideology’’ while writing a resolution asking L K...
Fri, Jun 10, 2005
June 03, 2005 02:53 IST
When Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss announced a ban on showing smoking in movies and television, he exceeded his legal powers under th...
Fri, Jun 03, 2005
June 02, 2005 00:00 IST
If India and Pakistan are now talking in terms of a peace process that will make their borders irrelevant, they have a worthwhile model of r...
Thu, Jun 02, 2005
May 30, 2005 01:47 IST
Thanks to the sudden dissolution of the Bihar Assembly, the Election Commission (EC) is facing an unprecedented dilemma, given its prerogati...
Mon, May 30, 2005
May 24, 2005 01:42 IST
Much as it smacks of a finality, the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly can actually be reversed. The Supreme Court is empowered to revive th...
Tue, May 24, 2005
May 22, 2005 02:18 IST
The Supreme Court collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India R C Lahoti, is divided over the appointment of a Chief Justice for the Andhra ...
Sun, May 22, 2005
May 20, 2005 01:23 IST
Sports Minister Sunil Dutt is shooting over his NDA predecessor Uma Bharati’s shoulders in a desperate bid to justify the Government...
Fri, May 20, 2005
May 14, 2005 02:15 IST
If Finance Minister P Chidambaram today announced a probe into the Centaur sale saying its ‘‘nature and scope’’ would co...
Sat, May 14, 2005
May 12, 2005 02:15 IST
The biggest difference between the the Right to Information Bill passed today by the Lok Sabha from the one that was introduced five months ...
Thu, May 12, 2005
May 12, 2005 00:00 IST
The Supreme Court has already laid down that when it comes to sanctioning the prosecution of a public servant, a governor is not obliged to ...
Thu, May 12, 2005
May 11, 2005 02:14 IST
While his gambit of attacking the EC is threatening to backfire, Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav today earned a reprieve in the Supreme ...
Wed, May 11, 2005
May 07, 2005 02:20 IST
Rather than setting up a special bench as was ‘‘requested’’ by the Supreme Court to hear Laloo Prasad Yadav’s petit...
Sat, May 07, 2005
May 02, 2005 00:46 IST
For all its stout defence in Parliament, the Centre is hard-pressed to make at least two major moves against Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Y...
Mon, May 02, 2005
April 30, 2005 03:02 IST
President A P J Abdul Kalam and Chief Justice of India R C Lahoti today took conflicting positions on whether judges were over-worked.While ...
Sat, Apr 30, 2005
April 26, 2005 02:55 IST
The NDA has revived its ‘‘tainted ministers’’ campaign but going by precedent, Union Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav...
Tue, Apr 26, 2005
April 25, 2005 02:30 IST
The Bill drafted by the Home Ministry to suppress communal violence is radically different from the promise made in the Common Minimum Progr...
Mon, Apr 25, 2005
January 24, 2005 01:27 IST
The Southern Command has recommended to the Army Headquarters to order a court of inquiry on a complaint against the Judge Advocate General ...
Mon, Jan 24, 2005
January 05, 2005 01:23 IST
President A P J Abdul Kalam has returned the Supreme Court collegium’s proposal to transfer out the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Har...
Wed, Jan 05, 2005
December 30, 2004 01:29 IST
As the New Year dawns, a serious but somewhat misleading exercise will get underway.First, the government will open a ‘‘mail box&#...
Thu, Dec 30, 2004


