38, including children, killed in stampede at Vijay's rally

Thirty-eight people, including 10 children, died in a stampede at actor-politician Vijay's rally in Karur, about 400 km away from Chennai, on Saturday. IMAGE: A large number of people gathered at......

Commissions of inquiry have become weak, blunted

Commissions of inquiry are potentially powerful instruments to fix responsibility on public functionaries, but everything possible has been done to blunt this instrument, says Dr Madhav Godbole,......

'Why Is Modi Not Sacking Biren Singh?'

'We are in a dilemma if the central government supports this ethnic violence and Biren Singh.' IMAGE: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh calls on Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi,......

Morarji had declined to accept inquiry commission's report: Declassified files

Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai had declined to accept the findings of two Commission of Inquiries that concluded Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash in August 1945, according to the 25......

The boom and bust of mining in India

Some of the conditions laid down by the Supreme Court while allowing resumption of mining in Goa are instructive, says Subir Roy. The boom and bust saga of iron ore mining in India is slowly coming......

Justice R M Lodha: Law is in his DNA

Justice R M Lodha's attribution of guilt to the owners of IPL teams, rather than to individuals, has laid out the law of command and responsibility, responsibility by virtue of ownership of......