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Chicago, January 24
The Supreme Court today raised doubts over the Centre’s authority to allocate coal blocks, pointing out that coal was a state resource under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 and as such only the states had the power to execute mining leases.
How can a Parliament comprising persons with criminal record pass an effective criminal law amendment reform? The Justice JS Verma committee has asked the government this vital question in its report
on the anti-rape law.
Shimla, January 24
If
reading and writing of literature promotes, in an intangible way, an
equitable world, an effort seemed to be constantly being made at Jaipur
literature festival.
A unique letter written by Mahatma Gandhi, including textual corrections in his hand and signed by him at the end, is being offered for sale by Mullock’s Auctioneers at Ludlow in the UK.
The type-written letter, valued between £10,000 and £15,000 (Rs 8 lakh
to Rs 13 lakh), was written in 1943, 15 months after Gandhi and other
leaders belonging to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) met first
in Wardha and then in Mumbai endorsed the Quit India Movement calling
for “an orderly British withdrawal” from India.
