The Government of India’s latest Ease of Living index survey has upturned many expectations and mindsets about urban living and policy planning on their heads
~By Sucheta Dasgupta
The results of...
Above: The three service chiefs, Gen Bipin Rawat, Admiral Sunil Lanba and Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, with the PM; plans to appoint a chief of defence staff post the 1999 Kargil conflict ...
Above: Satyam, the company owned by Ramalinga Raju, fudged cash and bank balances
With increasing corporate misdemeanour and the government under pressure to tighten the screws on auditors, many ar...
Above: Then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar receives French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian for signing the Rafale contract in September 2016/Photo: UNI
It is naïve to imagine anything secretive a...
In a shocking case, the MP police busted a gang making forged documents to facilitate the release of hundreds of criminals across the state—with the likely collusion of lawyers
~By Rakesh Dixit i...
Above: Citizens in Mumbai demand arrest of the killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh who was shot outside her home in Bengaluru (file picture)
The Karnataka government has accelerated the investigati...
Above: (L-R) Tim Schellberg, Rekha Sharma and Sidharth Pandey during the panel discussion on the use of forensic DNA evidence/Photo: Anil Shakya
Though India lags behind in conducting DNA tests on ...
Above: Indian players celebrating after winning the Kabaddi World Cup 2016 final match against Iran in Ahmedabad/Photo: UNI
India’s superb international record notwithstanding, veteran kabaddi play...
Above: The exorbitant fares charged by Air India for tickets booked by government employees under the LTC scheme opens up avenues for their misuse
As an indirect subsidy to cash-strapped Air India,...
Above: Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan being received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a meeting at Hyderabad house, in New Delhi (file pic)/Photo: UNI
~By Seema ...