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Lessons for City Planners

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...

Policy & Funding: Shortchanging the Forces

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 ...

Audit Firms: Figure This Out!

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...

Rafale Deal: Damage of Secrecy

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...

Bail Fraud: Catch Me If You Can…

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...

Gauri Lankesh Murder Case: The Noose Tightens

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...

Clinching Evidence

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 ...

Kabaddi Federation: Nepotism Stalks the Game

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...

LTC Scam: Authorised Loot

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,...

Missing Indian workers in Afghanistan: Pakistan likely using deep links with Taliban and other networks to engineer kidnappings

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 ...

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