Irony water is not on govt agendaDuring the inconclusive heat spell that’s causing a grave water crisis in different parts of the country, there have been fistfights between people standing in queues.
June 29, 2009
Stern action needed to check Net piracyLast week, a US court fined Jammie Thomas-Rasset of Minnesota $1.9 million for breaking the stringent copyright law to download 24 songs from the internet.
June 22, 2009
Will a PIL make India help Indians in Oz?Perhaps, the Australian judiciary would have taken a suo motu call if Australians were being attacked.
June 15, 2009
Bureaucrats stifle transparency lawWhenever questions arise on the central government’s sincerity in curbing corruption, it reels off a fixed set of replies.
June 8, 2009
Is the PM a silent spectator?If the PM is guided by the disputable principles of coalition governance, some corrupt ministers will become sacred cows.
May 31, 2009
A blatant attempt to subvert democracyThere's enough reason to feel good about the successful completion of the electoral process in the world's largest democracy.
May 24, 2009
Judiciary’s hopes from the new governmentA new Manmohan Singh government should not bank on help from certain allies who are facing criminal charges.
May 17, 2009
Is voter a consumer? Can he sue the EC?A large number of earlier voters had become ‘Pappus’ as their names were missing from the electoral rolls and they couldn’t vote.
May 11, 2009
Definition of rape should be widenedCases relating to rape and violence against women and denial of property rights to daughters are on the rise if judgments by the SC are any trend indicator.
May 4, 2009
Plea spree against poll outcomes soonThere's a strong case for far more petitions challenging poll results on a variety of grounds untested in a court of law so far.
April 27, 2009
Stop ignoring sex education in schoolsA parliamentary panel feels that children should be told that sex before marriage is against social ethos, but is against including sex education in the school curriculum.
April 19, 2009
Estranged parents and child custodyThe pleas of a child should be given equal weightage while deciding who among the two estranged parents would be a better guardian.
April 5, 2009
Law doesn’t always take the right courseThere’s no dearth of people who are distanced from present -day politics and criminal law and who have faced the rigmarole of law.
March 30, 2009
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