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EDUCATION LAW AND POLICY
- Can educated MPs do more for education?
- A school for me too
- The Reservation syndrome
- Imperiling public education
- Plugging the skills gap
- Sterilisation deaths: What’s new, after all?
- Why the Chhattisgarh sterilisation tragedy may happen again
- What surrogate parenting entails in India
- A committee to exonerate industry?
- Hot ash burns child to death
- Missing the woods and the trees
- A continuous struggle between ‘power’ and the people
- Finding the right reasons for reform
- The fate of Sikkim's sacred river hangs in balance
- A new course for iron ore mining in Odisha
- Can a post box save the Indian whistle blower?
- Rules to restrict rights
- Fishy, with lots of money
- Big money seeks common man's blessing
- Kokkarni, saviour of paddy
NEW IPR POLICY
Missing: Intellectual Property Rights with a social lens
Missing: Intellectual Property Rights with a social lens
The Modi government has moved fast and furious on charting a new policy regarding intellectual property rights but Shalini Bhutani’s recap of recent developments shows that much of it has been with an overt focus on industry.
 LAND ACQUISITION ORDINANCE
What the new processes mean for the dispossessed The recently promulgated ordinance amending the national law related to land acquisition dilutes several clauses of the earlier legislation that were meant to protect the rights of holders. Kanchi Kohli summarises the key changes brought in by the ordinance. |
 FOREIGN INFLUX
SC verdict puts the spotlight on Bangla immigrants in AssamShould foreign immigrants in Assam enjoy Indian citizenship as outlined by the Assam Accord and endorsed by Section 6A of the Citizenship Act? Or do they pose a threat to constitutional sovereignty and integrity? Tanvi Bhatikar reports on a recent court ruling that focuses on these questions. |
 CYBER CRIME
How to avert the dangers of being an Internet userA recent UGC-sponsored seminar on the incidence of cyber crime, hosted in Kolkata, drew attention to the safeguards to be adopted as also the right procedure to be followed in order to obtain redress. Amrita Mukherjee reports. |
 DR. VERGHESE KURIEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Why Raghuram Rajan has lost patience with defaulting promoters“We need a change in mind set, where the wilful or non-cooperative defaulter is not lionized as a captain of industry, but justly chastised as a freeloader on the hardworking people of this country,” said the RBI governor in his recent lecture at IRMA, Anand. An unedited transcript of his speech: |
 E-COMMERCE POLICY
Crying out for clarityThe e-commerce space in India has been growing in leaps and bounds but inchoate rules and dated laws have created ‘grey areas’ that need to be cleared at the earliest. Akshatha M outlines the key issues in the debate. |
 MEDICAL CORRUPTION
Who will lead the anti-corruption agenda in the health sector?The conduct of election of members to the Medical Council of India in 2013 and its subsequent actions over the past year have underlined the brazen corruption in the regulatory body. Developments in the health ministry raise doubts over whether these issues will be tackled at all. A round up: |
 GOOD SAMARITAN LAW
Can a court order end passive violence?The recent SC order directing the Centre to protect people, who come forward to help accident victims, from legal and other hassles, is a significant step towards reducing road accident fatalities. Shoma A Chatterji examines the broader social psyche and issues to be addressed to make the world more humane. |
 NREGA TO BE DILUTED?
Will the government heed calls to save rural jobs?The Prime Minister has received at least two letters in the past week from eminent economists, activists and citizen groups, raising their voices against dilution of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which seems imminent from recent announcements by the government. |
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IPR LAWS
An old policy Modi must hold on toThe government’s clarification on the Indo-US joint statement on Intellectual Property Rights issued during Modi’s visit to the United States highlights the imperative of maintaining India’s original stance on patent laws and refusal to yield to US demands made in its Special 301 Report. Shambhu Ghatak has more. |
 LAW COMMISSION REPORT
The laws we forgot we hadA September report from the Law Commission of India identified 72 antiquated laws that require immediate repeal, among a total of 261 that must be reviewed for an assessment of their relevance. Tanvi Bhatikar looks at a few of these and the rationale behind the Commission’s recommendation. |
 STATE SECURITY COMMISSIONS
Why a depoliticised police force is a distant dreamWith only 14 functional State Security Commissions in the country, and those too with flawed compositions and diluted roles, the efforts towards minimising government interference in police functioning have naturally been lax. Navya PK cites critical findings of a CHRI Report that shows the present sad state of our SSCs. |
 RTI POWERS FOR THE CAG
What good is an auditor without information? A recent letter written by the CAG Shashikant Sharma to the finance minister, seeking access to required information through RTI, exposes once more the lacunae in the powers of the Supreme Audit Institution. Himanshu Upadhyaya analyses the debate around the issue. |
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