There’s a lot that is intriguing in this letter to the CBI by Sudipta Sen, whose Saradha Group started the avalanche of bankruptcy in chit fund-crazy West Bengal – a disaster that is certain to have nationwide consequences in the weeks
Slowly, but certainly, December 16 is coming back to haunt us. Yet another rape in the national capital — of a five-year-old this time — that has enraged the nation with its brutality, and yet another open season for politicians to ope
Look at photographs or TV footage of the protests in the capital after the rape of a child last week and you can’t miss the branding: people there were drawing your attention as much to their anger as to the organisation they were affiliated
His smile may have been demure but as Vinay Bhalla sat down in his apartment at Uday Park, in south Delhi, he showed the ease and confidence of a man who has fought a long, hard battle and has emerged a winner. And that he sure has.
Committing to carry forward the economic reforms programme in the remaining term of UPA-II, finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government will take more executive actions in the next two to four months and sought cooperation of t
The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum scam has done an outstanding job. It has absolved Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of all the charges without even once talking to him. And it has put the entire blame on the then telecom min
Drawing attention to the neglected area of primary education, a primer on early literacy has asked the government to make preschool education available at anganwadis created under the integrated child development scheme (ICDS).
Days before demitting office, comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Vinod Rai has landed another blow on the credibility of the UPA-II government. A constant thorn in the flesh of the Manmohan Singh government, Rai’s team has knocked the bas
Keeping up the heat on the government, BJP today demanded resignation of prime minister Manmohan Singh on the coalgate issue as other parties raised various matters leading to adjournment of parliament till noon. Members of BJP, Trinamool
In another cue that that Trinamool Congress leaders refuse to look beyond their supreme leader, intentionally or otherwise, the Delhi Police on Monday arrested six activists belonging to CPI(M) and its youth wing, the Students’ Federation of
When in doubt cut it out, says an old axiom of journalism. The UPA government of Manmohan Singh, too, tries to adopt it at times. When in doubt, the government fields home minister Sushilkumar Shinde. The former cop, certain to be diagnosed with a
Has law minister Ashwani Kumar, and to a lesser extent prime minister Manmohan Singh, lost confidence of Congress MPs and even ministers? Going by the overall lack of discomfiture among many ministers and MPs, and their apparent disinterest in com
The second part of the budget session of parliament began on a stormy note on Monday as members from various parties forced adjournment of Lok Sabha on various issues, including heckling of Mamata Banerjee, incidents of rapes and demand for separa
As he approaches his superannuation in May, comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Vinod Rai knows it well that he has been the chief tormenter of the UPA government. “I can assure you that the government, if they did make a mistake appointin
While A Raja on Friday said he would give a detailed note of around 100 pages to the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam and concluded that he had “misled” the PM on the issue during his tenure a
Now, investors may breathe a little easier trading in the stock market as the new measures proposed by market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) could make the investment environment less volatile. In a bid to boost inv
While the opposition is set to raise the heat on coal blocks allocation scam, the buzz in the corridors of power is that a senior bureaucrat in the prime minister’s office (PMO) is on sticky wicket. Several senior CBI officers are l
At the stroke of the midnight hour on August 14, 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of India’s tryst with destiny, Pratapgarh—barely an hour’s drive from his hometown of Allahabad—decided to miss that date with India’s
Now that a career in politics is over, at least for the time being, former Pakistan dictator Pervez Musharraf is looking at alternative career options, it is learnt. A day after his arrest, Perv, as Musharraf is called in many quarters in
Veerendra Patil, a veteran of several political battles, had once said that the aspiration of the Congress cadre was a double-edged sword: it could bring the party to power or it could mar the party’s prospects. “Yeh pagalpan hai (this
