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Torture Bill is a travesty
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If
the Manmohan Singh government has its way, India will
soon adopt a law against torture that will make a mockery of our
obligations as
a democracy, a civilised socity, and a signatory to the United Nations
Convention Against Torture (CAT). India signed CAT in 1997 and is meant
to pass
standalone domestic legislation outlawing this barbaric crime.
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 The Tortured Bill, Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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Supreme Court Re-opens Bhopal gas Case
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Seven
Indians, who were executives of Union Carbide, and
were sentenced to two years in jail for their role in the Bhopal Gas
Tragedy of
1984 could soon be looking at tougher charges. The Supreme Court has
re-opened
the Bhopal case.
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70 year old want to Die- Approaches Karnataka HC
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The
Karnataka high court on Tuesday directed the state
government to furnish medical records of HB Karibasamma, a 70-year-old
woman
seeking the court’s permission for euthanasia.
Justice Ajit Gunjal while hearing the petition asked the
government to provide the records in a week’s time. Gunjal also issued
notices
to the ministry of parliamentary affairs, ministry of law and justice,
and the
chief secretary, Karnataka.
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No DTC Ticket
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The
Direct Tax Code Bill has been tabled in Parliament. There was aleady a
sense that it would be somewhat of a missed opportunity.Yet, now that
the full details are available, it is dazzlingly clear that it is a
mere sleight of hand;
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India gets to access more Swiss Bank Data
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India
will now have the right to track banking information from Switzerland.
Cases like the IPL scam or the Madhu Koda mining scam where the Indian
revenue department could not get information about the numbered bank
accounts of those prosecuted may now be investigated with ease, even
though finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told Parliament on Tuesday
that the “provision will be applicable only for prospective information
and not for past information”.
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Hospitals Blatantly Flout SC Ruling
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Earlier
this year, a 28-year-old woman from Jahangeera-ganj locality of
Ambedkar Nagar delivered at the gates of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule district
hospital in UP after being refused admission. Why? Because she was HIV
positive. In April 2008, a woman delivered still-born twins under a
tree outside Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in northeast Delhi after being
refused a ed, as she didn't have an OPD card.
“These incidents are in complete aberration of the Supreme Court
ruling. The hospitals cannot refuse admission and treatment to the
critically ill or emergency patients on any grounds," said Ashok
Agarwal, legal rights activist and advocate, Delhi High Court.
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Mirror unto Ourselves
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Pratap
BHanu
Mehta's editorial on the Liberhan Commission report in the Indian
Express.
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| P. Sainath |
| Food Security- By definition
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In
1963, the government of
Maharashtra ended famine forever
in the State. It did this without adding a morsel to anyone's diet. It
did so
simply by passing an Act in the Legislature that deleted the word
‘famine' from
all laws of the State. No kidding. This was called ‘The Maharashtra
Deletion Of
The Term “Famine” Act, 1963” (And was dug up after decades by an
independent researcher
from Bangalore.)
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| Roberto Toscano |
| We need a definition of Terrorism |
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Roberto Toscano , Italy’s
ambassador
to India, has published extensively on various aspects of
political philosophy. As a career diplomat, he served in countries as
diverse as Chile, the Soviet Union, Spain and Iran. He chaired the
Network on Conflict, Peace and Development of DAC-OECD between
2000-2003. In a recent collection of his writings, Between Terrorism
and Global Governance, he argues that we need to have an international
consensus on what constitutes terrorism to attain the common goal of
banning it legally, politically and morally.
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