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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicBofors scandal

Topic: Bofors scandal

Supreme Court washes hands off MPs law, and Afghanistan ties up with India

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Rahul Gandhi wants House panel probe into Rafale deal, but history shows it’s pointless

India has seen five Parliamentary panel probes into corruption and impropriety but not one has led to any real action.

Guns, thieves & ghosts

India, tangled in a web of defence acquisitions, will likely keep muddling along, battered by scandals and shortages, and not catching any of the guilty.

Coal vs coalition

BJP believes the CAG report on coal gives them their 2012 Bofors moment. But they also believe that a parliamentary discussion will dilute their case against Congress.

That funny Bofors feeling

To those of us old enough to remember, this sentiment is not unfamiliar. We have seen this at least thrice in the past decades.

And the pot told the kettle

There has been a continuing slide into politics of inquiries, where governance is in the back-seat, political debate forgotten & acquisition of power reduced to trying to fix your rivals.

A plane tale from the past

Rao took an incredibly bold decision which the BJP, locked in a bitter electoral battle with him, was suspicious of, but did not make an issue of, in the national interest.

When unleaded turns leaded

When ‘polarisation’ is the buzzword in our politics, it will be even more dangerous than communal divide because it will undermine the faith in our system of governance, democracy.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.