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Should India abolish death penalty?

 |  Sunday, July 01, 2012, 16:47 [IST]
Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam had to deal with a total of 25 mercy petitions but uneasiness about confirming the death penalty made him order a study into the underlying cause in each case. His memoirs Turning Points: A ...

Kalam did not prevent Sonia from becoming PM in 2004

 |  Saturday, June 30, 2012, 14:36 [IST]
The 11th President of India APJ Abdul Kalam was ready to swear in Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister after the 2004 general elections but she proposed Manmohan Singh's name instead. In his soon to be published memoirs Turning ...

French 'rapist dad' may escape stringent punishment

 |  Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 15:16 [IST]
After much dilly-dallying, the French national who allegedly raped his three-year-and-ten-month-old daughter was arrested by the Bangalore police on Jun 19, 2012. Pascal Mazurier, deputy head of chancery in the French consulate at Bangalore, was subsequently remanded to judicial custody for ...

Public prosecutors like Preet Bharara need of the hour

 |  Sunday, June 17, 2012, 17:56 [IST]
Two Indian Americans were at the centre of the just-concluded insider trading trial in the United States. Still IIT Delhi alumnus and former McKinsey chief executive Rajat Gupta may well be ruing the fact that Preet Bharara, US attorney for the ...

Was Chidambaram fairly elected from Sivaganga in 2009?

 |  Friday, June 08, 2012, 18:46 [IST]
The country witnessed a bizarre spectacle on Jun 7, 2012. Despite the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court dismissing P Chidambaram's plea to dismiss an election petition against him, the Home Minister came up with the strange logic that the ...