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This article deals with the decision of the Delhi High Court to dismiss six petitions against the entry of foreign newspapers into India, as of March 1994.

The article offers information on the sixth edition of the popular International Conference on Electronic Warfare in India, EWCI 2020 organized by the India Chapter of Association of Old Crows, and held during February, 17-20 2020 in Bangalore. It featured that EWCI 2020 has started off with a traditional Inaugural Function in the presence of several dignitaries; and also presented a large number of technical papers.

The article focuses on the consultation paper for goods and services tax (GST) system released by the government of India. The consultation paper provides taxpayers with information related to the suggested structure and design of the taxation system for goods and services that is due for implementation in 2010.

The article reports on the decision of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to make its agenda papers and minutes of its agenda meetings publicly available. Papers and minutes can be accessed on the Web site of SEBI after each board meeting, which will provide citizens with greater insight into regulatory provisions and their formulation. SEBI also made the documents available on its Web site each week in late November 2008.

The article discusses the highlights of the Second International Conference on Electronic Warfare (EW) held by the Association of Old Crows (AOC) India at the National Science Seminar Complex in Bangalore on February 21-24, 2012. It included pre-conference tutorials on varying topics such as airborne self protection suite and EW and radar threat simulators. About 81 papers were presented at the event, 25 of them were from abroad. The event also held a dinner and a cultural program.

The article announces the winners of the first India legal transaction awards from the magazine "AsiaLaw" in 2008, including the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rove by Tata, a syndicated term loan facility for Ballarpur Paper and the launch of an initial public offering (IPO) by Reliance Power.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.

Offers news briefs related to libraries as of November 1, 2000. Presentation of a collection of notebooks and papers of the poet William Butler Yeats to the National Library of Ireland; Closure of libraries during a one-day strike in September 2000 in Scotland; Efforts to save rare books which were damaged by monsoon floods at a library in Hyderabad, India; Journalists' library which was opened by the Freedom Forum in Bamako, Mali; Laws requiring schools to hire librarians by the Education Ministry in Japan.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference in Chandigarh, India entitled "Theatres of Decolonization" is presented. Topics included art, architecture, decolonization, and others. Gayatri Spivak delivered the final keynote speech focusing on architecture, urbanism, and social redistribution.