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Control Agenda

Above: Professor Balveer Arora The centre’s decision to replace the University Grants Commission (UGC) with a new regulatory body, called the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), has evoked...

“Who Wants An Honest Police Officer?”

Above: Former DGP of UP Prakash Singh/Photo: Anil Shakya Twelve years after the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment in Prakash Singh versus Union of India laid down a set of seven directives to be...

“The Army knows what is to be done, and when, in J&K”

As Chief of Army Staff from 2010 to 2012, GENERAL VK SINGH had laid the roadmap for transformation of the army into a lean and mean fighting unit and highlighted concerns and forced the government to ...

Aruna Roy: Go Beyond the Vote

Above: Aruna Roy/Photo: UNI ARUNA ROY resigned from the IAS in 1975 to work with farmers in Devdungri in Rajasthan. She subsequently helped co-found the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) whose ...

“There is no political will to set things right”

BEZWADA WILSON’S fight to eradicate manual scavenging in the country began in 1986 when he was only 20. His struggle continues despite Parliament enacting the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Const...

Arif Mohammad Khan: Why shouldn’t personal laws be done away with completely?

Above: Arif Mohammad Khan “With this verdict, I feel when the petition against polygamy is heard, the reaction of Muslims will be more sensible and they will be open to reason,” says the former Uni...

“Govt Obliged to Share Information on Demonetisation”

He is not a bureaucrat nor is he an RTI activist. He was a professor at National Law University at Hyderabad before he became Central Information Commissioner. Prof MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR ACHARYULU, 61, u...

A Great Enemy of a Judge is Ego: Gopal Subramanium

Former Solicitor General GOPAL SUBRAMANIUM has had an illustrious career. Starting as a counsel with the Justice AN Verma Commission probing into Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, Subramanium has handled ...

“The Collegium is Here to Stay”

Senior advocate RUPINDER SINGH SURI was elected as the Supreme Court Bar Association president in December 2016. This alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi, has been in the legal profession for four ...

Every lawyer dreams to become a constitutional expert: Vikas Singh

Parliament was recently rocked by arguments among legislators over judicial overreach. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had a tough time answering pointed queries from MPs on what the centre fel...

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