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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
TopicCentral Vigilance Commissioner

Topic: Central Vigilance Commissioner

CVC is supposed to have 3 members, but is running with just one commissioner since June 2021

Central Vigilance Commission last functioned as 3-member body in Oct 2020, has had no appointments since April 2020. Opposition blames Modi govt for 'undermining' institution.

Corruption has come down in past three years: Chief Vigilance Commissioner

CVC K.V. Chowdary tells ThePrint in an exclusive interview that the graft watchdog is working on an ‘integrity index’ for government departments to check corruption.

On Camera

Nuclear power is cleaner, more reliable than solar energy. India must ease regulations

Besides engineering, there have been significant developments in the regulatory framework for nuclear energy, with countries building standards and safeguards to avert future disasters.

Resurgence in India’s air cargo expected to continue as Red Sea crisis crosses one-year mark

After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.