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Contempt and punishment

The Delhi High Court's verdict in the case against wah india and the magazine's response to it raise questions about the way the judiciary deals with

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Humps and fears

The building of the three-metre-high humps on the Sardar Sarovar dam causes a controversy as it raises the dam's height to 93 metres from the stipulat

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New strains in the alliance

The BJP's relations with its allies in the NDA have come under increased strain following the Manipur fiasco and the vacillation on the issue of readm

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The Governor's prerogative

Was Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's action in appointing Jayalalitha Chief Minister justified in law?

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More ideas for debate

The second set of consultation papers released recently by the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution contains some radical ide

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Contempt in question

The Supreme Court expresses its dismay over the "tone and tenor" of the averments made by Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar and Prashant Bhushan in their af

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The law and the Order

Legal experts raise questions about the validity of the Election Commission's Order on disqualification and see certain incongruities with regard to t

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The head-count and some gaps

Census 2001, which is expected to make significant additions to the existing data on several counts, raises some controversies too, particularly in th

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Contempt in contention

The issue of notice of contempt proceedings by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to the editor of Kalchakra raises several issues of import.

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Unstable equilibrium

The internal dynamics of the National Democratic Alliance, particularly the Bharatiya Janata Party, appears largely unstable, with various groups spea

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The judicial intervention

ANGERED over the Delhi administration's delay in shifting nearly one lakh polluting industrial units from the national capital's residential areas, a

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The judicial intervention

THE Supreme Court concluded its hearings in the "Veerappan associates" release case, on October 31, a month after it began, and reserved its order, le

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