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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
TopicAnti-corruption campaign

Topic: Anti-corruption campaign

Anti-corruption site bribes.fyi goes offline. Any lawyers or CA around, it asks

Engineering student Aryan Nishad puts his viral anti-corruption website on hold to ensure safety, denying any official legal complaints.

3 years since launch, Lokpal is a non-starter. Complaints dry up, questions rise over intent

From ex-judge who resigned from Lokpal to former members of Anna Hazare movement, many say corruption watchdog set up in 2019 is 'toothless' — and this may have been the intention.

How the opposition can strike a balance between positive and negative campaigning

Neither Modi-bashing nor supporting Narendra Modi on everything will help the opposition. There's a third way.

Hassan Rouhani’s image is now nothing more than that of an Iranian scapegoat

If Rouhani couldn't alleviate the country's worsening political and economic problems during his good times, it's unlikely he can do anything now. 

Our Singapore fantasy

The upper crust in India do not particularly want a dictatorship, but a more controlled, less noisy, better-managed democracy. This is the new Indian elite's Singapore fixation.

On Camera

Modi is now the establishment, not an outsider. And he is running out of enemies to name

Jawan, kisan, vigyan, knowledge, new thinking—each word spoken from Red Fort offered an idea of what India might become. Dimagi Naxal is not an addition to that rich vocabulary. It is a subtraction.

India needs guardrails around shadow loans, not bans

RBI’s attempt to limit credit access through non-bank financiers could leave self-employed professionals and small business owners with fewer flexible credit options, says Andy Mukherjee.

85-member Army contingent leaves for Thailand for joint counter-terror exercise MAITREE-XV

This two-week exercise includes field training, combat discussions, lectures, and demonstrations, culminating in a final exercise to test the troops' skills.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman