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Lokpal: An Unending Quest

Above: Social activist Anna Hazare with comrades Kiran Bedi and Kumar Vishwas in Delhi in 2011/Photo: Anil Shakya The government has appointed senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi as an “eminent jurist” o...

Vyapam’s Slow Death

Above: Congress activists protesting against the Vyapam scam in New Delhi/Photo: UNI Three years after the Supreme Court entrusted the CBI with the task of getting to the bottom of Vyapam scam, the...

Abuse in Shelter Homes: Dens of Depravity

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence Increasing incidents of rape and molestation of children in supposedly safe havens (shelter homes) reveal the revolting exploitation of kids ~By Vipin Pu...

Walk the Talk

Above: Allahabad High Court lawyers protesting against the demand of their counterparts from western UP for a separate bench/Photo: dnaindia.com Despite promises by the political establishment, the...

Barred from Voting Too

Above: Mukhtar Ansari of the Bahujan Samaj Party who is in jail was barred from voting in recent Rajya Sabha elections In a first case in the state, two jailed MLAs, who are yet to be convicted, we...

Tardy Progress

Above: The board on the Andhra-Telangana border signals entry into Telangana/Photo: highwayonlyway.com Despite the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 being enacted four years ago, there has be...

An Unfair World

Above: The SC/ST students of Banaras Hindu University on a protest agitation/Photo: UNI A new University Grants Commission order will reduce representation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and...

Blackmail Won’t Work!

Above: File photo of the quota stir/Photo: UNI The apex court has taken a dim view of arbitrary arrests under this Act and has laid down guidelines to protect public servants and private employees ...

Festering Womb

Above: File photo of newborns at a surrogacy clinic/Photo: UNI The Union Cabinet’s decision to approve amendments to the Surrogacy Bill has paved the way for the enactment of draconian legislation ...

Economic Offenders: Knee-Jerk Response

In view of the growing number of absconding defaulters, the government has tabled the Fugitive Offenders Bill in the Lok Sabha. But is it serious about getting them back? ~By Kingshuk Nag With ...

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