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Paid news pandemic undermines democracy

May 10, 2013 P. Sainath, The Hindu Top civil society bodies are challenging the government’s ‘counter-affidavit’ in the Paid News case which seeks to gut the Election Commission’s powers In a major twist to the Ashok Chavan vs. Madhav Kinhalkar legal battle… Continue Reading →

Supreme Court tells Centre to decide on POSCO’s mining license

Fri, 10 May 2013 By Newzfirst 5/10/13 New Delhi – The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Orissa high court order which had quashed state government‘s petition to allot iron ore license to South Korean steel major POSCO in Khandadhar hills in… Continue Reading →

Villagers’ bid to decide Vedanta project fate puts Niyamgiri hills on radar

By Nitin Sethi, TNN | 10 May, 2013   NEW DELHI: The villages of DongriyaKondhtribals around Odisha‘sNiyamgiri hills are set to become a flash point again, with the Centre and the state government along with civil society groups planning to converge on the site of… Continue Reading →

Supreme Court of India – ‘Revolving door’ in lawsuits

M J Antony  May 07, 2013 , BS The Court now limits review petitions to only grave errors in judgments When litigants lose their final appeal in the Supreme Court, most of them learn to grin and bear it. However, lawyers tend… Continue Reading →

Devinderpal Singh Bhullar’s wife moves SC for stay on execution of death penalty

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 13:32 IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI The apex court had on March 26, 2002 dismissed Bhullar’s appeal against the death sentence awarded by a trial court in August 2001 and endorsed by the… Continue Reading →

Anti-Vedanta body to march near Niyamgiri

The march next week will inform villagers about the gram sabha to be conducted as directed by court Ruchira Singh , livemint First Published: Wed, May 08 2013. The gram sabha (village council) will play a crucial role in deciding whether Vedanta… Continue Reading →

Koodankulam:A Court in the Supreme Contempt of its People

  The Supreme Court’s verdict on Koodankulam rests on three hugely contested premises: the judges’ belief in the necessity of the nuclear energy for India’s progress, their faith in the country’s nuclear establishment to perform its role, and the judges’… Continue Reading →

Tribal affairs ministry gets cracking on apex court’s order on Vedanta #goodnews

Author(s): Kumar Sambhav S… Issue Date: 2013-5-2 Odisha government gets a slew of orders to ensure the order is properly implemented The ministry of tribal affairs seems to have pulled up its socks to ensure the Supreme Court’s order in… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – Demolition of a dream house

Alok Deshpande , The Hindu, may 1,2013 _ Campa Cola residents on protest against demolition notice (Source:- Facebook Community ‘Save Campa Cola Compound’) Mumbai is rapidly becoming a place for chosen few. Chosen, on the basis of money. The rich,… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – Contours of a conspiracy

Frontline May, 2013 A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri weaves together evidence, from contemporaneous phone and police control room records, pointing to the role of the powers that be in manipulating the Godhra incident to plan the violence against… Continue Reading →

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