Indrani Mukerjea’s allegations against Chidambarams may be a strategy to save herself
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Indrani Mukerjea’s allegations against Chidambarams may be a strategy to save herself

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Reviled as daughter-killer, Indrani Mukerjea is now a stick to beat the Chidambarams with

Indrani Mukerjea is a survivor and her allegations against the Chidambarams may well be a part of her strategy to save herself or reduce her sentence, writes Kaveree Bamzai.

Narendra Modi & Amit Shah’s BJP has taken India’s politics of vendetta to a new level

Indian politics is caught in a vicious cycle of ‘do unto others’, and the BJP has escalated it by weaponising CBI, ED, I-T, TV channels and social media, writes Shekhar Gupta.

Common foundation course for IAS, IPS officers begins, Modi to address them at Patel statue

The first common foundation course for officers of IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS and other premier services began in Mussoorie and Hyderabad this week. The two-month training will conclude with a three-day workshop at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, where PM Narendra Modi will address the new officers, reports Sanya Dhingra.

UPSC question paper gets ‘lost in translation’, RSS-backed body wants it drafted in Hindi

An RSS-linked committee wants the Union Public Service Commission to draft the question papers for the civil services examination in Hindi, and then translate them into other regional languages and English. A committee formed by RSS-linked education body Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas has made the suggestion to the Modi government, reports Kritika Sharma.

The 6 IAS officers being investigated by CBI in INX Media case

Six IAS officers who were on the Foreign Investment Promotion Board when the INX Media deal was cleared in 2007 are also under the CBI scanner for alleged irregularities in its passage. Who are these officers? Read the report by Ananya Bhardwaj.

India’s economic crisis has only one root cause

Today, there is only one root cause for the economic crisis we are facing — the poor leadership of PM Narendra Modi. To know some of Modi’s acts of omission and commission that are directly responsible for bringing the Indian economy to a point of crisis, read this article by Shivam Vij.

CBI lock-up is an AC room with mattress & Western toilet but this isn’t Chidambaram’s cell

The lock-up at the CBI headquarters in New Delhi is a small, centrally air-conditioned room, with iron grilles on one side, a mattress on the floor beside a stack of bottled water, an attached Western-style toilet and a CCTV camera fixed on the wall. But this is not where former union finance minister P. Chidambaram, in CBI custody for his alleged involvement in the INX Media case, is lodged. Ananya Bhardwaj reports.