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The National Advisory Council has proposed a framework for the National Food Security Act. But its potential could be wasted by a flawed approach to the PDS.

People’s Tribunal on the Safety, Viability and Cost Efficiency of Nuclear Energy met for three days in Mumbai between May 19-21, 2011 and recorded depositions of experts, scientists, doctors and project affected persons from the Konkan and other regions of the country. Officials and senior functionaries of the central and state government as also the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NMCIL) were also been invited to depose, but they never came. See news reports on the independent tribunal.

Criminal Review Petition under Article 188 of the Constitution read with Order XXVI, rule 1 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1980 against the Judgment of the Supreme Court passed on April 21, 2011 in Criminal Appeal No.167/2005 arising out of Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No.114/2005

Privatization of higher education in Sri Lanka is a cause for concern for students coming from underprivileged background. Free education at both secondary and tertiary levels has played a pivotal role in increasing the living standards of low-income families. In spite of its low per-capita income, Sri Lanka’s Physical Quality of Life Index is nearly as high as that of the developed world owing to the availability of free education and free health care services to all citizens. The trade union action that the FUTA has embarked on coincides with the crucial move made by the government to establish private universities in Sri Lanka.

The curiosum of a ‘red regime’ with a knack to get re-elected term after term for over more than three decades within the ambit of a full-fledged multi-party democracy has finally disappeared.