Securities market regulators from the Asia-Pacific region have created a common database that will include details of enforcement actions undertaken by the regulators. This has been done to establish greater coordination and facilitate inf
Securities market regulators from the Asia-Pacific region have created a common database that will include details of enforcement actions undertaken by the regulators. This has been done to establish greater coordination and facilitate inf
There has always been a lurking fear of the dragon in North and South Blocks on Raisina Hills, from where the country is governed. While this has been proved each time issues related to India’s border with China have come up for discus
In terms of sheer volume of trade (around $66 billion in 2012), the economic engagement between India and China has always been hailed as a successful model. Under this fierce ‘economic statecraft’, India thought it would normalise bor
I was born a year after the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, which had claimed a distant relative, an incident I was to learn much later in life. Besides the few times someone in my family would talk about it, I had no knowledge or understanding o
On April 30, president Pranab Mukherjee was in Jharkhand’s Godda district, laying the foundation stone for Jindal Steel and Power’s 1,320-MW power plant. Barely a kilometre away, at the Sundarpahari police station, more than 50
The supreme court has called for making the CBI truly independent after its chief confessed to sharing a probe report with the law minister and others. A noble objective indeed, even if it is as difficult as removing poverty. A beginning, however,
The political fraternity is caught in a storm over former additional solicitor general Harin Raval`s letter to attorney general G E vahanvati, which exposed the UPA government`s lies on interference in the CBI`s handling of the Coalgate case. Rava
Already termed as the "least productive", the 15th Lok Sabha may be headed for further trouble with new escalation in the government-opposition stand off. The budget session of the House may move towards an early closure followin
Expressing concern over the prevailing water scarcity situation in Maharashtra, Governor K Sankaranarayanan today assured people that the state government is taking all necessary steps to overcome the situation through short and long term measures
Editor`s note: While the Congress is making an issue of corruption in Karnataka under the BJP ahead of the assembly elections on May 5, with Rahul Gandhi specifically alleging that the saffron party won the polls in 2
In his first press conference after assuming the charge, CBI director Ranjit Sinha seemed to have a premonition of things to come. He candidly admitted that he suffered from the foot-in-mouth disease and therefore would prefer to keep a distance w
The shoe-gate checked inside a Delhi courtroom on Tuesday afternoon after an irate protester hurled one at the judge at Karkardooma court in east Delhi after he acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of all charges in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
On Tuesday, the supreme court criticised the central bureau of investigation for keeping “it in the dark about sharing the probe report with government”. The reference was to the March 12 hearing when additional solicitor general Harin
While prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told reporters that he would personally study the supreme court’s observation on coal blocks allocation scam before taking “whatever action is called for”, leader of opposition in Ra
The bench headed by justice RM Lodha must have been exasperated. Here was the chief of the premier investigating agency of the country, admitting on an affidavit that he had indeed “shared” with political masters a draft of the progres
In a major reshuffle, several officers of Delhi police have been shifted, some of them given postings outside the national capital. Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Chhaya Sharma, who was posted in south Delhi, has been transferred to M
On a day supreme court blasted the CBI for keeping it in the dark about sharing the coal blocks allocation scam’s status report with the law minister and other bureaucrats, the Congress-led UPA government was left completely isolated in parl
Two of the country’s top law officers obliged the UPA government by lying to supreme court about the CBI’s status report on coal scam, as has become clear from additional solicitor general Harin Raval`s letter to his boss, Goolam Vahan
Hours after the supreme court issued a notice to the central bureau of investigation (CBI) asking it agency to explain why YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy should not be granted bail, a special CBI court on Monday afternoon dismissed the
