'Errant Policemen Must Be Punished'

'This government is not in the hands of M K Stalin but in the hands of the bureaucracy -- the IAS and IPS.' IMAGE: Thoothukudi, May 22, 2018: Police personnel lathi charge protestors demanding the......

Commissions of inquiry have become weak, blunted

Commissions of inquiry are potentially powerful instruments to fix responsibility on public functionaries, but everything possible has been done to blunt this instrument, says Dr Madhav Godbole,......

Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar remanded in judicial custody in Gujarat riots case

A court in Ahmedabad on Saturday sent activist Teesta Setalvad and former director general of police RB Sreekumar, arrested for alleged fabrication of evidence regarding the 2002 Gujarat riots......

Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar sent to police custody till July 2

A court in Ahmedabad on Sunday remanded social activist Teesta Setalvad and former state director general of police R B Sreekumar in police custody till July 2 in a case of fabricating evidence to......

The boom and bust of mining in India

Some of the conditions laid down by the Supreme Court while allowing resumption of mining in Goa are instructive, says Subir Roy. The boom and bust saga of iron ore mining in India is slowly coming......

Pawar, Joshi to depose before DPC probe body

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar and Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi are among the 54 witnesses who would depose before the Kurdukar commission that is probing the legality of the......

Justice R M Lodha: Law is in his DNA

Justice R M Lodha's attribution of guilt to the owners of IPL teams, rather than to individuals, has laid out the law of command and responsibility, responsibility by virtue of ownership of......