There are many signs that the NDA Govern-ment is going ahead with the agenda of GM crops and the multinational companies which control these crops, ignoring the strong scientific evidence against GM (genetically modified) crops.
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Government Goes Ahead With GM Crop Trials: Warnings By Top Scientists and Sangh Parivar Objections Ignored
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BJP’s Real Face and Real Agenda Unmasked
15 December 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
Replying to a debate on ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) or reconversion of Muslims to Hinduism—initiated in the Lok Sabha by Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia—Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu yesterday, inadver-tently or willingly, exposed the real (...) -
Putin’s Visit and India-Russia Summit
15 December 2014, by Arun MohantyThis was the fifteenth annual summit between India and Russia but since this happened to be the first summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a swiftly changing global geopolitical environment, there (...) -
Tribute to V.R. Krishna Iyer
15 December 2014In the death of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who entered his 100th year last month, the country as a whole has become poorer, not just the world of Indian jurisprudence.
In one of the most incisive tributes to the departed personality, Prof (...) -
Indian Constitution — Some Creative Mutations Mooted / "Conflagration Nandigram": Letter to West Bengal Governor
15 December 2014, by V R Krishna IyerWe offer our sincere homage to his abiding memory by reproducing two of his pieces that appeared in Mainstream—an article and an open letter—in 2007. We are also carrying two tributes from persons who knew him well.
Indian Constitution—Some (...) -
An Activist Judge with Aristotle’s Mental Range, Fearless Krishna Iyer was a Game-changer
15 December 2014, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
If style maketh the man, opinion maketh the judge. A wise opinion memorably expressed goes directly into the conscience of society and the annals of time. Such was the opinion: “Law without politics is blind. Politics without law is (...) -
End of an Epoch
15 December 2014, by Vijay KumarWhen Prof Julius Stone, one of the most distinguished legal scholars of last century, passed away, his disciple, himself a great contemporary jurist, Prof Upendra Baxi, in a moving tribute, wrote: “Writing is a career of death in a sense it (...) -
Russia Confronts US’ Containment Strategy
15 December 2014, by M K BhadrakumarThe annual address to the Federal Assembly by the Russian President is an occasion to dilate on the state policies, but this year’s speech by Vladimir Putin on December 4 at the Kremlin’s St George Hall before a 1000-strong audience of the (...) -
Stray Thoughts of a Human Rights Lawyer on Human Rights Day
15 December 2014, by Nandita HaksarThe following article has been written on the occasion of the Human Rights Day (December 10).
For those behind bars
The best moments in my life are those when I stood outside a jail waiting for my client to step out—a free man again. Yes they (...) -
A force like INA needed
15 December 2014, by Kuldip NayarThe Indian National Army (INA) was the force which Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had raised when he was living in Singapore after escaping British rule in India. The force was meant to be an armed hand of the people participating in the national (...)