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Justice cannot be relative
By paraphrasing Marcellus' famous line in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the Supreme Court has shown its extraordinary annoyance about the state of affairs in the Allahabad High Court. The Division Bench, comprising Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan ...

Acquiring memorabilia
A year after some Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia were auctioned for large sums of money and the dust of controversy surrounding this settled, the Government of India has, in a draft policy, outlined its position on the future acquisition of ...

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The republic on a banana peel
By P. Sainath

Media-corporate links are structural. But journalists, certainly entrenched ones, can choose whether they wish to be stenographers or not.

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Challenges before rising Asia
The time has come for Asian leaders to capitalise on the shift in global political power that accompanies the ongoing shift in global economic power so as to wrest control of the future.

I never suggested judiciary is corrupt: Attorney-General
In a letter to the Editor-in-Chief of TheHindu N. Ram, the Attorney-General for India G.E. Vahanvati has said that he had never suggested that the judiciary was corrupt as stated in an article by former Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna Iyer in ...

Brazil's logging at lowest for decades; called ‘promising'
Brazil on December 1 hailed the lowest levels of Amazon rainforest deforestation in more than two decades, although the rate of destruction was higher than expected. Between August 2009 and July 2010 about 6,451 square kilometres of ...

China's climate change battle
On its western frontiers, a massive afforestation drive to battle the spread of the desert reveals fast-expanding efforts to combat climate change.

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