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Friday, October 3, 2025
TopicCorruption

Topic: Corruption

Top defence finance official & husband accused of bending rules to get govt contract

Ex-MP complains to defence ministry and PMO about ‘corruption at the highest level’, alleges official used her influence to get the contract for husband.

Talk Point: The direct beneficiaries of demonetisation are the poor

We have to understand demonetisation in the right perspective. The reason why the Honourable Prime Minister took this call was deep-rooted corruption, the complete anonymity about black money wherein nobody knew who is hoarding cash.

Talk Point: Demonetisation was a passion play by PM, there was no cost-benefit analysis

One year later, it is clear that the economic upside to demonetisation—if there is one—is a long-term proposition. How the government is going to ensure long-term gains is still unclear.

Talk Point: Demonetisation hasn’t even attacked 1 per cent of the black money

Exactly a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ambitious but enormously disruptive decision to invalidate Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes, ostensibly...

Talk Point: One should not hyper-analyse a particular shot fired in a war

Demonetisation was the first major formal recognition by the Government of India that the issue of black money needs to be tackled decisively. What has India gained and lost from demonetization and what are the lessons learnt?

A year of NaMo’s DeMo: All that we have achieved in the last 365 days

After the drama, we are now looking back not-so-fondly at demonetisation. We still have no answer to why there is a Rs 2,000 note and no Rs 1,000 note.

‘With Dhumal as CM face, Modi & Shah want to escape blame for BJP’s impending defeat’

Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh claims voters will reject BJP because of policies such as note ban and GST.

‘BJP should announce its CM candidate in poll-bound Himachal’

Former CM Prem Kumar Dhumal cites a ‘flawed ticket distribution' process as the main reason behind BJP’s loss in the last election

Modi’s New India will be ‘communalism-free’, pledges BJP

Party outlines PM’s vision for New India by 2022, leaders pass six-point resolution at national executive meet in New Delhi.

Adarsh: The officers who took a stand

The MoD probe report commends two officers who it says were the only ones who stood up for the truth. MANU PUBBY

On Camera

Nodal officers to fast-tracking NOCs, Kerala govt’s heeding investor concerns, and it means business

As many as 21 policy reforms are under implementation following Invest Kerala Global Summit, as LDF govt works to change perception that the state is not conducive to businesses.

Finnish giant ICEYE to build signature radar microsatellites in India, offers full control to govt

Company builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, cheaper to produce. ICEYE will develop & launch micro-satellites, hand them over to India, which will have full control & sovereignty.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.