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Making sense of Vyapam scam

It is an admission and recruitment scam involving politicians, senior government officials, businesspersons and touts. Undeserving candidates bribed politicians and MPPEB officials, through middlemen, to get high ranks in entrance tests to profess

Vyapam links are yet to be exposed: Dr Anand Rai

The Vyapam scam took place in Madhya Pradesh, but fraudsters involved in it are spread across states like Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh – making it necessary for an inter-state probe agency to step in, said Dr Anand Rai, th

Morning briefing: Sushma says a Congress leader sought diplomatic passport for coal scam accused

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj today claimed that a senior Congress leader pressed her to give diplomatic passport to coal scam accused Santosh Bagrodia. "A senior Congress leader was pressing me hard to give diplomatic passport to t

Banks nationalisation was a sin, says economic advisor

Terming the nationalisation of banks in the 1960’s as one of the ‘biggest economic sins’ in the history of India, chief economic advisor, Arvind Subramanian called for establishment of more banks. He was speaking at a talk organi

Evening digest: Centre wants constitution bench to hear Aadhar plea

With an enrollment of over 80 crore people under Aadhar scheme the centre seems to be firm on institutionalizing the scheme. Accordingly the government today urged the supreme court bench hearing the Aadhar case to refer it to a constitution bench

Sushma ready for debate but unrelenting opposition parties force RS adjournment

The monsoon session of the parliament began on Tuesday. Even though the government is willing the opposition is not ready to allow the session to proceed smoothly. At the parliament house, prime minister Narendra Modi voiced hope th

Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Memon to be hanged as SC rejects his curative petition

The supreme court has rejected  the curative petition filed by death row convict Yakub Memon who is currently lodged in the Nagpur central jail.Memon has been sentenced to death in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.This will be the

Goa crime branch probe into bribery scam involving US firm

The Goa government has decided to review all projects in which services of US-based company Louis Berger were engaged even as the state crime branch has started the investigation into the bribery scam over allegations of kickbacks for a water deve

Crisis of the Greek debt and what next?

Greece accounts for just two per cent of the GDP of the Euro zone.  But the turmoil in that country has had effects on some of the major economies of the world. This necessitates an attempt to understand the causes and implications of the Gre

Behemoths of our times

The UN held its first session of deliberations, in the week beginning July 6, to thrash out an international legally binding instrument to regulate, under international human rights law, transnational corporations (TNCs) and other businesses. The

The art, craft and business of chocolate-making

When the US secretary of state, John Kerry, toppled off his bike in the picturesque village of Scionizer in June he had already achieved his twin objectives that have become constants with his Geneva trips over the last two years. The first object

Morning briefing: Parliament`s stormy monsoon session begins today

Parliament is set for confrontation between the Opposition-led by Congress and the government. The Narendra Modi government will be hauled up over Vyapam scam and Lalit Modi episode. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is likely to make a stat

Evening digest: Kejriwal asks Bassi to give list of constables with mobile numbers

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asked Police Commissioner BS Bassi to provide details regarding crime against women in the national capital."We asked Bassi to give us details on the number of FIRs registered on the basis of com

Govt’s new job portal to help private companies too

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday unveiled the government’s job board called National Career Service (NCS) portal. Though it is a government por

Delhi cops take on their CM over ‘thulla’ remark, complaint against Kejriwal

Two constables of Delhi police have filed complaints against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for his ‘thulla’ remark against cops. "A case can be lodged by the Anti-Corruption Branch against anyone for being in

Move forward on land bill is the request of the prime minister

Responsibility to run parliament has to be shared by all, said prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday at meeting of political parties convened on the eve of the monsoon session.  The all-party meet was called by Parliamentary Affairs Minister

Look at GIS as a way to discover opportunities

I  took a straw poll and asked couple of my well informed friends a question. What does GIS mean? One gave its full form before launching into the technical aspects of how satellites, drones, aircraft and balloons are used to scan an area. An

Bibipur: It’s not just the ‘selfie’ that has clicked

The photograph of the Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s ‘selfie’ with American president Barack Obama and British prime minister David Cameron at South African leader Nelson Mandela’s memorial celebration in De

Morning briefing: Kejriwal to meet Delhi police chief over law and order issue today

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Delhi police commissioner BS Bassi today (Monday) to discuss law and order in the city. the immediate provocation is murder of a 19-year-old girl, stabbed 35 times for protesting harassment. But the l

Handheld devices, servers drive India`s hardware growth

Giving a flip to the Digital India campaign, the ICT hardware sector in India has registered a healthy growth of 23.9 percent, clocking overall revenues of $15.87 billion during 2014-15. Leading the growth are the handheld devices – smartpho

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