Therefore, the decision taken by the Pakistan Supreme Court in the Panama Papers Scandal is worth emulating by our courts and our law makers. The Pak court heard the case and pronounced the verdict in just 15 months. Is this possible in our country? On July 28 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave a…
Quietus seems Divine! By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief The Supreme Court on Monday had asked the UP Government headed by Yogi Adityanath to clarify its stand over the largesse, the grant of aid of Rs. 103.92 crore given to Chaudhary Charan Singh Degree College founded in 1983 and run by Shiksha Prasar Samiti in Etawah during…
As a journalist my academic diet has been newspapers. Missing a day’s newspaper (not TV or Radio) is like missing a day’s meal. Of the many news, sometimes some news items tend to evoke memories of the past with such emotion and nostalgia I get lost in a mystical reverie. Such a news I read…
The ‘Mahaghatbandhan’ in Bihar has collapsed. In a stunning development that has taken everyone by surprise, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi last night. However, by way quirk of fate, today he is back as the Chief Minister by other means. He was sworn-in for the sixth time…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Mysuru: Senior Kannada litterateur and Saraswati Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa regretted that the Mysore Airport at Mandakalli that was established with much fanfare has no takers now. Expressing his concern over the languishing airport, he gave some of his ideas to develop the Airport and increase passenger and air traffic….
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief On July 3, 2017, I wrote in this column about Dr. NO. Now, let me write about the same profession where some fail to follow medical ethics. They work like robots that too make mistakes, not because they are irresponsible but because of some technical error. But what about the human…
Musings on Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Supreme Court I often shudder to think what would happen to our Right to Free Speech and Expression if Courts were not there to rein in the governments that become autocratic. Before the Liberalisation and booming Information Technology sector, there was our Constitution giving us protection for…
How to fix India’s problem? I have no escape from Mahatma Gandhi while I write about Justice N. Santosh Hegde, presently the conscience-keeper of Karnataka, just as Anna Hazare of Maharashtra — both are relentlessly fighting to eradicate corruption in our Government and society. Mahatma Gandhi had declared long before we got our independence that…
My friend Sudhir was away in Spain and Portugal for 20 days and returned a few days back. He was in Mysuru yesterday on some business and came to see me. “Rain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain,” I began asking him, “Is it true?” He laughed and said he was actually in Lisbon,…
By K.B. Ganapathy Recently, the Deputy Director of Pre-University Education Department (DDPUE), Mysuru, Jayaprakash was caught red-handed by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths while accepting Rs. 25,000 as part of the Rs. 2.5 lakh bribe which he had allegedly demanded from the management of Vijayachetana PU College in Kuvempunagar, for renewal of licence. Generally in such…
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