N. R. MADHAVA MENON The National Mission to improve the delivery of justice is at work. In October 2009, on the basis of a Vision Document adopted at a judicial conference in New Delhi, the Government of India approved in principle a National Mission to reduce pendency and delays in the judicial system and [...]
India’s Right-to-Information Act, which came into effect October 13, 2005, was a milestone piece of legislation for the country, allowing Indian citizens to file requests for information to almost all government bodies. Prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist Krishnaraj Rao looks at what RTI has meant for the country so far. Looking back at six [...]
Mahtab Alam The Indian Social Institute (ISI) in Delhi’s picturesque Lodhi Road institutional area was bustling with the activities planned for the day. The day being a Sunday, several small and big meetings, consultations and deliberations on various socio-political, economic and educational issues were in full swing. In one of the rooms of the Institute’s [...]
Afroz Alam Sahil, BeyondHeadlines India is talking about transparency at every level; luckily we also have national movements against corruption leading lakhs of Indians to streets to pressurize government to be more transparent and accountable to citizens of country. But transparency seems to be a distant thing, at least answers to RTI’s filed to the [...]
The perception that in last five years the king has become weak no longer holds true. He is in fact rising in popularity largely due to the mistakes of the Maoists led governments. Afroz Alam Sahil It is now increasingly believed in Nepal that since the Parliament started to strip off the powers of King [...]
Mahtab Alam Mahfooz Ahmed, barely 21 years old, hails from Rasoolabad Village of Azamgarh, a district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. A second year student of Bachelor of Arts at the town’s Shibli National College, Mahfooz also work with his college as a watchman of its guest house in order to support his studies as his [...]
How the BJP and its friends across party lines tried to shoot down the draft Communal Violence Bill in the NIC meeting John Dayal I must begin with a disclaimer: I was a member of the Working Group of the Mrs Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, which drafted the Prevention of Communal Violence [Access to [...]
Navaid Hamid Much has been said and written, in the past few days, about unearthing of the network of the terrorists killed and captured in and aftermath of the ‘encounter’ at L-18, Batla House, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. In coming days and weeks, the nation would hear and read new details of briefing from security [...]
Asad Ashraf, BeyondHeadlines Three years ago on September 19, 2008, two young boys (Atif Amin and Mohamed Sajid) allegedly Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists, were killed in an ‘encounter’ in Batla House locality of Jamia Nagar in southeast Delhi. The shootout led to arrest of a number of local Muslim youths. Atif and some of the [...]
Afroz Alam Sahil, BeyondHeadlines Prof. PK Basu used to teach at Centre for Management Studies (CMS), Jamia Millia Islamia. He has been a well-known teacher in the student community. Basu has been teaching at Jamia for several years and also reportedly does not take any salary for his service to the university. The unfortunate incident [...]
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