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

February 28, 2004 00:00 IST
With the petitioners changing their tune altogether and delinking the Government’s decision to cut IIM fees from its implications for t...
Sat, Feb 28, 2004
February 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Not only the IIMs, even the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and the Indian Institute of Forest Management—both rated lower than IIMs&...
Fri, Feb 27, 2004
February 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Reversing its earlier decision, glossing over the disturbing fact that just under nine of every ten fail to qualify, the Government has said...
Tue, Feb 24, 2004
February 22, 2004 00:00 IST
The judge who delivered the Bofors verdict exonerating Rajiv Gandhi is back in the news. Justice J D Kapoor, who retires in April, has been ...
Sun, Feb 22, 2004
February 19, 2004 00:00 IST
In the Lok Sabha election of 1999, the NDA’s manifesto promised to take ‘‘effective steps to create a riot-free order.’&...
Thu, Feb 19, 2004
February 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Murli Manohar Joshi has quoted the Supreme Court out of context in his controversial order reducing the fees in the six Indian Institutes of...
Wed, Feb 11, 2004
February 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Simon has been tried under TADA for three separate incidents in which he was accused of being an accomplice of the dreaded Veerappan. Justic...
Thu, Feb 05, 2004
January 31, 2004 00:00 IST
What do India-Pakistan talks have to do with the Best Bakery case? Or for that matter, Zaheera’s age? A lot, if you read the Gujarat Hi...
Sat, Jan 31, 2004
January 30, 2004 00:00 IST
In a bid to avert a political controversy in the run-up to polls, Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley is said to have advised CBI against seekin...
Fri, Jan 30, 2004
January 30, 2004 00:00 IST
Amidst the hype about the ‘feel good’ economy, international businesses may still be feeling a little bad about certain aspects of...
Fri, Jan 30, 2004
January 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Expert panel reports only gather dust. One exception to this dismal trend has been the report submitted two years ago by the Constitution Re...
Thu, Jan 22, 2004
January 08, 2004 00:00 IST
Despite being the prime proponent of ‘‘good governance,’’ L.K. Advani has blotted the Vajpayee government’s record ...
Thu, Jan 08, 2004
January 01, 2004 00:00 IST
If the Lok Sabha poll is advanced, as is being speculated, to late April or early May, then the Election Commission is bound to club it with...
Thu, Jan 01, 2004
December 31, 2003 00:00 IST
On December 16, the very day the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of POTA, the Lok Sabha passed an amendment to this anti-te...
Wed, Dec 31, 2003
December 25, 2003 00:00 IST
For a 16-day session in which Parliament enacted 21 laws, including two constitutional amendments, there is little surprise in a small chang...
Thu, Dec 25, 2003
December 23, 2003 00:00 IST
In an affidavit filed last week before the Supreme Court to explain its failure to do justice to the post-Godhra riot victims, the Gujarat g...
Tue, Dec 23, 2003
December 20, 2003 00:00 IST
In a veiled warning, the Narendra Modi Government today raised fears of communal disturbances returning to the state if the Supreme Court tr...
Sat, Dec 20, 2003
December 17, 2003 00:00 IST
The Centre’s apparent change of heart on POTA’s most draconian provision convinced the Supreme Court today to endorse it—even...
Wed, Dec 17, 2003
December 14, 2003 00:00 IST
The Delhi police today challenged the acquittal of lecturer S.A.R. Geelani in the Parliament attack case by blurring the distinction between...
Sun, Dec 14, 2003
December 11, 2003 00:00 IST
The sight of Judeo accepting a bribe. The sound of Jogi offering a bribe. The Express exposed the Union minister’s shenanigans three we...
Thu, Dec 11, 2003
December 11, 2003 00:00 IST
After trying to erode the autonomy of IITs and IIMs, the Human Resource Development Ministry has tightened its grip over architecture colleg...
Thu, Dec 11, 2003
December 09, 2003 00:00 IST
One law he drafted, the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), made the Government hold a rare joint session for the first time in 24 years. Bu...
Tue, Dec 09, 2003
December 06, 2003 00:00 IST
Don't tell this to Satyendra Dubey’s family. One full year before he blew the whistle on the Prime Minister’s showpiece project an...
Sat, Dec 06, 2003
December 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Even as the two neighbours have been offering diplomatic sops to each other, India has pulled off a major victory over Pakistan and the Euro...
Wed, Dec 03, 2003
November 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Twelve days after The Sunday Express expose on Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo, 10 full days after Prime Minister A B Vajpayee secured his ...
Fri, Nov 28, 2003





