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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicInvest UP

Topic: Invest UP

Once Mayawati, Akhilesh & Yogi’s top-performing IAS officer, now under ED radar—Who is Abhishek Prakash

Prakash has been suspended as CEO of Invest UP for allegedly demanding a bribe for a solar project contract. The 2006 batch officer has held several key positions in UP administration.

Nikant Jain, ‘high-profile tout’ at centre of solar project scandal that got Invest UP CEO suspended

According to a senior UP police officer, Jain had a habit of name-dropping and used his family connections to network with people and get through to senior govt officials.

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Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.