Search committee shortlist includes more than 20 names, but Lokpal selection panel — that will meet today — can pick members from outside the list too.
Justice S.M. Subramaniam says ‘it’s a painful situation’ that even after 4 weeks no work was done, assures he is willing to pay if there’s an issue of funds.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will hear the plea on 28 March to decide whether the matter should be referred to a Constitution bench.
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
wrong for this govt to make the final selection of lokpal when the election schedule has already been announced. Somebody should challenge the appointment.
TS Thakur is straight as an arrow and would have been the right man for Lokpal, rather than PC Ghose.
When this gov’t has no power to take any policy decision, how can it appoint a lokpal when in five years it failed. The new gov’t that comes in should do it.
Governance is now officially in caretaker mode. This appointment will come almost five years after it ought to have. Better in all respects if a submission were made to the apex court that this solemn task should be performed by the next government, ideally within the first one hundred days of its term. 2. No question of either Justice Dipak Misra or Justice Khehar to have been in the zone of consideration.
wrong for this govt to make the final selection of lokpal when the election schedule has already been announced. Somebody should challenge the appointment.
TS Thakur is straight as an arrow and would have been the right man for Lokpal, rather than PC Ghose.
When this gov’t has no power to take any policy decision, how can it appoint a lokpal when in five years it failed. The new gov’t that comes in should do it.
Governance is now officially in caretaker mode. This appointment will come almost five years after it ought to have. Better in all respects if a submission were made to the apex court that this solemn task should be performed by the next government, ideally within the first one hundred days of its term. 2. No question of either Justice Dipak Misra or Justice Khehar to have been in the zone of consideration.