"Rajiv Gandhi was Swedish jet link"

The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ...

So low has Indias United Progressive Alliance fallen under numerous corruption scandals that the more it tries to cover them up, the more it discredits itself through yet more manipulation and lying. Worse, it inflicts lasting damage upon democratic ...

Hardly a day goes by when there is no mention of a small or big scam finding its place in the headlines of newspapers, electronic media, in India. Now, even online news portals, which have become more popular than mainstream media, are catching on ...

NEW DELHI: The sharing of the Coalgate probe status report with the political executive before its submission to SC may appear to be a new low for the CBI, but given its regime-sensitive approach to politicallysensitive cases in the last two ...

For those who came in late: the latest controversy involving Dr Manmohan Singh and his UPA government has its genesis in a March 2012 Draft CAG report on 'allocating coal blocks in an inefficient manner' during the period 20042009, when the coal ...

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley Friday accused the Congress of using the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to "subvert" the truth about airwave allocation corruption scandal. "If the JPC finds they (Prime Minister Manmohan ...

PC Chacko, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum, has outperformed B Shankaranand of the Bofors JPC report fame, in whitewashing clean charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance minister P Chidambaram, in ...

1. Communalism: India is a proudly secular country. Various Congress governments have been involved in a record number of communal riots and they go out of their way to appease minorities. Yet they are considered secular simply because they call ...

A BISHOP I know was offered the costliest ticket to watch an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Nagpur. He could have sat in the VIP gallery and attended the post-match celebrations also. Though he is a cricket enthusiast, he refused to accept the ...