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TopicCorruption survey

Topic: Corruption survey

Over 50% population in 13 states paid bribes to govt departments in last one year: Survey

New Delhi: Over 60 per cent people paid bribes to various government departments in the last one year in eight out of 20 states,...

New corruption survey says 56% Indians admitted to paying a bribe in last one year

Property registration and land issue authorities found to be most corrupt departments, cash dominated as primary mode of paying bribe.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.