Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju Monday termed the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi as “stupid” and demanded action against politicians and police responsible for arresting the cartoonist. “The charges are stupid and this is not sedition. This is misuse of the state machinery. Those politicians and policemen who have made this [ Read More ]
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Over one lakh netizens pledge to court arrest to back Anna HazareThe online campaign of Anna Hazare’s ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’ has received over a lakh registrations within three days of the launch, an India Against Corruption (IAC) volunteer said Monday. The IAC, an umbrella organisation, launched the online campaign jailchalo.com Friday which allowed people to register themselves for courting arrest and supporting Hazare in his protest [ Read More ] Sharad Pawar protects the corrupt: Anna HazareNot long after his controversial, tongue-in-cheek remark over the slapping incident involving Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has once again taken Pawar head-on in his latest blog posting on Tuesday. In a strongly-worded post, Hazare signalled that after the Jan Lokpal movement, he would launch a movement to compel the state [ Read More ] Lokpal panel plans report during winter sessionThe parliamentary standing committee on law and justice examining the Lokpal issue plans to submit its recommendations to parliament during the month-long winter session that begins Nov 22. Sources said that members cutting across parties are “concerned over the issue and want the panel to submit its recommendations to parliament during the winter session”. “Everybody [ Read More ] Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray attacks Anna Hazare againShiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray came up with an angry rejoinder Friday to activist Anna Hazare’s reaction to his Dussehra day comments on the anti-graft movement. In a sharp statement this evening, the 85-year-old Thackeray warned Hazare to stop behaving in a “childish manner” and not to lock horns with the Shiv Sena. “Yesterday, I [ Read More ] States act on graft, governance – prodded by people’s powerFixed timeframes for the completion of public works, penalty for officials who fail to deliver, wide-ranging powers to anti-graft bodies. Prodded into action by Anna Hazare’s movement, states across India are taking steps to empower the people and nail corruption. The bills and laws are of different names, but largely work on the same premise [ Read More ] HC to hear petition challenging Lokpal Bill tomorrowNew Delhi, Aug 31 A petition challenging the government’s action to present Gandhian Anna Hazare’s as well as its own Lokpal Bill in Parliament has been filed in the Delhi High Court and is slated to come up for hearing tomorrow. The petition filed by Delhi-based lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma has alleged that the [ Read More ] Anna Hazare’s movement might become a case study for XLRIGandhian Anna Hazare’s success with his anti-corruption movement might soon become a case study for management students at the famed XLRI School of Business and Human Resources. “The movement is fit as case study for budding management students here and we are seriously contemplating to look into various aspects of the movements, particularly Hazare’s [ Read More ] How Anna united people for a common causeThere is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi. Yet they have been bound together by a common link called Anna Hazare. Prasad has been literally camping at the Ramlila Maidan here in central Delhi for the past 11 days – ever [ Read More ] Anna’s blood pressure falls, health deterioratesDoctors attending on Anna Hazare Saturday expressed worry over the fasting social activist’s falling blood pressure and said he should end his fast, which entered day 12, as his health has begun to deteriorate. ”Blood pressure that was earlier steady has come down and his heart rate has increased. The cause of worry is the [ Read More ] |
