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

April 28, 2004 00:00 IST
The Supreme Court today empowered the Government to check private schools in Delhi from charging excessive fees. As a corollary, it directed...
Wed, Apr 28, 2004
April 27, 2004 00:00 IST
On the Supreme Court’s prodding, the Government has formally empowered the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to act on the complaints ...
Tue, Apr 27, 2004
April 26, 2004 00:00 IST
In an extraordinary intervention, President A P J Abdul Kalam has written an anguished letter to Chief Justice of India V N Khare over the s...
Mon, Apr 26, 2004
April 22, 2004 00:00 IST
In an attempt to delay the retrial of the Best Bakery case in Maharashtra, the Gujarat Government has twisted facts to claim before the Supr...
Thu, Apr 22, 2004
April 21, 2004 00:00 IST
The 25 judges came back to work today citing ‘‘changed circumstances’’ but they may have a lot of explaining to do. Just...
Wed, Apr 21, 2004
April 19, 2004 00:00 IST
• It is absolutely false to suggest that (we) are financed by (a Catholic seminary). We have never accepted any financial assistance fr...
Mon, Apr 19, 2004
April 17, 2004 00:00 IST
What was fast degenerating into an ugly spat between individuals in the HRD Ministry and the IIM fraternity was today nudged back to a dialo...
Sat, Apr 17, 2004
April 16, 2004 00:00 IST
Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t need much to slam the Congress. But this time, the party cannot blame him.In fact, Modi has...
Fri, Apr 16, 2004
April 15, 2004 00:00 IST
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is set to join its Ahmedabad counterpart in filing an affidavit before the Supreme Court decl...
Thu, Apr 15, 2004
April 15, 2004 00:00 IST
There has been a significant reduction of communal and caste violence in the past five years. Our government shall further strengthen and st...
Thu, Apr 15, 2004
April 14, 2004 00:00 IST
All the sanctimonious talk by the Government on protecting the IIMs’ autonomy flies in the face of its bureaucrat’s words of wisdo...
Wed, Apr 14, 2004
April 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Giving a green signal to mop up non productive assets (NPAs) worth over Rs 1,00,000 crore, the Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional...
Fri, Apr 09, 2004
April 08, 2004 00:00 IST
While IIMs suffer setbacks in their battle on autonomy, architects have with the help of the judiciary repelled three different attacks on t...
Thu, Apr 08, 2004
April 04, 2004 00:00 IST
IIMs can seek some comfort—by proxy. In a quiet but significant reform in the face of stiff opposition from Health Ministry officials, ...
Sun, Apr 04, 2004
April 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Confronted with stark evidence of ‘‘misleading’’ the Supreme Court on the status of the accused in key riot cases and qu...
Sat, Apr 03, 2004
April 02, 2004 00:00 IST
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has come out against the Government’s decision to exempt over 3,000 doctors, who have done their MBB...
Fri, Apr 02, 2004
April 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Going by pre-poll surveys, President Abdul Kalam may be spared the constitutional challenge faced by his immediate predecessors of dealing w...
Thu, Apr 01, 2004
March 24, 2004 00:00 IST
The HRD Ministry’s hopes of a split in the IIM fraternity over the issue of its fee cut have begun to unravel with the youngest and the...
Wed, Mar 24, 2004
March 20, 2004 00:00 IST
Three weeks after disposing of the PIL challenging the IIM fee cut, the Supreme Court today ‘‘recalled’’ its order as th...
Sat, Mar 20, 2004
March 18, 2004 00:00 IST
The interim arrangement made separately for the first two one-day internationals will now apply for the rest of the Indo-Pak series. Upholdi...
Thu, Mar 18, 2004
March 18, 2004 00:00 IST
In India, cricket is said to be more than just sport. It is religion. And when it comes to religion, we have a tendency to disregard the rul...
Thu, Mar 18, 2004
March 16, 2004 00:00 IST
Putting what the Government calls the ‘‘public interest’’ ahead of the sanctity of a contract, the Supreme Court today d...
Tue, Mar 16, 2004
March 13, 2004 00:00 IST
For all its professions that the fee cut does not amount to meddling, the HRD Ministry today baulked at giving an undertaking to the Supreme...
Sat, Mar 13, 2004
March 12, 2004 00:00 IST
The HRD Ministry says that since the IIM Society has not made any by-laws, whatever fees IIM Ahmedabad has charged the last 40 years is ille...
Fri, Mar 12, 2004
March 10, 2004 00:00 IST
The 80% IIM fee-cut, the issue that HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi may have thought was an open-and-shut case after the Supreme Court deci...
Wed, Mar 10, 2004


