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Government must step in and curb rampant medical malpractice in India20.dubna The cancer of corruption eating into India’s medical sector is no secret. Reports of patients being prescribed unnecessary tests by unscrupulous doctors in league with labs abound. India’s antiquated law on contempt of court restricts personal liberty and must be overhauled20.dubna After having raised the issue of whether the clubby and secretive collegiums system actually preserves the independence of the judiciary former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has now trained his guns on India’s antiquated contempt of court law. He has made the valid point, in this newspaper, that judicial supremacy cannot be based on the law of kings in a democracy. To climb up human development ladder, India must reinvent its mai-baap sarkar20.dubna India’s place has remained unchanged in the latest UNDP rankings for Human Development Index (HDI), the most widely accepted measure of living standards and human welfare. It comes in at a lowly 135th among 185... Case of India’s youths joining ISIS is a wake-up call for Indian security agencies20.dubna In a worrying sign for the Indian security establishment, two of the four youths from Thane who had gone missing in Iraq have admitted to joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Reportedly,... Corruption thrives in secret places20.dubna Our city governments must ditch culture of opacity, embrace concept of open data. “Government ought to be all outside and no inside…Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we... BJP forces will press for saffronisation of history books: Partha Chatterjee20.dubna Partha Chatterjee is an acclaimed academic and professor at Columbia University, New York. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das , Chatterjee discussed the ICHR chair’s recent remarks on ‘secular’ historians, history versus general knowledge — and... Rotten apples20.dubna It’s scary when parents act like high school bullies I would like to preface what i have to say by telling you that i am not a parent. I chose this path because my lifestyle... If cops guard veggies now, crooks could well come up with new crimes20.dubna Perhaps outnumbering its regular guardians of the law India has a self-appointed ‘moral police’ — who dictate what people may or may not do — as well as a ‘book police’ who regulate what people can read or write. Now, if Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has his way, the capital might have a ‘veggie police’ as well. India’s best hope is that the Budget due February 2015 chooses growth and jobs20.dubna The presidential address to Parliament on June 9, 2014 had focussed nearly exclusively on projects and schemes, eschewing policy. Therefore, many had eagerly awaited the budget speech for a policy vision of the new government. Unfortunately, it too left observers guessing on whether the government would tackle tough reforms or rely principally on better implementation. There are no friends in the film industry, says actor Johny Lever20.dubna On being asked whether he has any friends in the film industry, actor Johny Lever mourns that in this industry, there is dosti but no dosts. He feels people make all kinds of promises when they are at work, but none of these amount to much once a film is done and dusted. Lever may be speaking the truth of his own experience, but his life is not the mirror of every life in Bollywood. A ray of hope for J&K20.dubna The Modi government has begun to carry forward a process related to Jammu & Kashmir that the UPA regime had initiated but had then abandoned in all but name. Fifa 2014 showcased the rise of the global South as well as of Germany20.dubna The greatest show on earth just ended. It has seen the demise of greats and the democratisation of football. Brics and later: PM Modi’s foreign policy must reflect20.dubna Beginning this week with the Brics summit at Fortaleza and Brasilia in Brazil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed foreign policy schedule over the next two months. As Flipkart raises a billion dollars, e-commerce is set to explode18.října Almost 15 years ago Jeff Bezos, founder of US online retail firm Amazon, said e-commerce was going to change the way the world shops. |
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