The Supreme Court was hearing petitions filed by P. Chidambaram challenging the Delhi High Court order, which refused to grant him anticipatory bail in the CBI and ED cases.
The CBI suspects that Chidamabaram and his son Karti received kickbacks from other companies to facilitate foreign investment clearances through the FIPB route.
The Delhi High Court had called Chidambaram the “kingpin” in the case. High profile economic offenders like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya have earlier fled India.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said while other accused in INX Media case have not been arrested, Chidambaram is being held without a legal basis.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The western world needs money and jobs. As long as India can buy things from these governments, Modi can get away with anything. Human Rights is a nice word to listen but it is a relative words. Some has more rights than the other.
”Even the smartest and brightest of them all, the former finance-home minister P. Chidambaram, has feet of clay.” Many Journalists also have feet of clay and many journos were, and still are, for sale given the right amount of money. Some prominent names came up in the Augusta Westland case to modify public opinion. Amit Shah is sorting the NDTV first. Then he will look into others. He has enough time in his hand. He will be the Home Minister till 2029 at least.
Jyoti seems to be going from bad to worse. She is hoping for people to create trouble in the valley so that she can gleefully confirm I told you so! Jyoti, India does not intend to anything which will affect rights of the people and in fact, this action of Modi Shah is to give them their full rights under our constitution. We need to manage the anti India terrorism for which various restrictions are required for the time being. Why should Modi not thank UAE and France who stood with India? He should in fact go all over and thank everyone who supported us. What is managed by him is a great achievement for a country who lived under fear of UNSC all the time. What happens in future is always in the future and we will cross the bridge at right time. Remember Modi hai to Mumkin hai!!
Ms malhotra should read about the great chanakya(kautilya)..how he went about creating a great empire ….gr8 civilazations have withered away in the sand of time..we are the oldest and are still going on strong…opinions..pov’s might differ but what matters is the core belief..
“bharat” is on the threshold of becoming a great nation again….its time has come…and modi is just a strong catalyst in it..
(“sama..dama.. danda ,bheda”)….as the saying goes…
All these countries live in glass houses….nobody is a champion of freedom democracy..human rights etc..they all have huge chinks in their armour..
they know it is unwise to throw stones at others..some times certain “words” have to be added along with “sentences” to satisfy their own little lobbies and groups (and to feel somewhat good)…..but at the end… at the high table..eveything is about big business(money)..and if india can leverage this aspect then wt is wrong about it?
Wt i dont understand is….trying to run a person down and making “abstract” fun…is not the way to run a counter viewpoint..u keep wasting ur time in this..while he is miles ahead wt his actions and narratives..(that is also the main reason as to the failure of the entire opposition…and for a strong india a strong opposition is important)
As a seasoned and experienced journalist u should b able to see the bigger picture..the higher cause ..and the greater good..in certain actions taken recently….
Lastly ..out of the four lions..(there are 3 lions that are visible) in our official emblem of the GOI (the ashoka emblem)…which symbolize courage,pride,cofidence and “power”
The 4th lion …which is never visible..well.. what u r seeing now is probably .. the power of that “fourth” (non-visible) lion bieng exerted..which i believe is for a greater good and for a higher cause…
Jyoti, You made the Indian PM meeting French counter part pretty simple. Our PM went there to just tell about Kashmir. if global relations are so simple one minute affair, possibly everybody would have been happy. You think, you can write a crap and everyone will agree with you. Recently I was able to see your fixed interview with Chidambaram, who was literally asking you to get out of his room if you ask him anything about his corruption deals and he said you breached his trust, which means you have already agreed that certain questions cannot be asked. He literally bullied you while answering and I expected a better respect for journalists from policians, no matter who he was.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has tweeted in solidarity with the noble people of Kashmir, noting his country’s traditional friendship with India. The increased tensions between India and Pakistan and the situation in the Valley are on the world’s mind, whatever may be our aversion to internationalisation of the Kashmir issue. Diplomatic capital is being expended to sell our point of view. Felt happy to read that the Indian Ambassador visited the NYT. There is a whole wide world outside our echo chamber.
When I fret over the economy, the concern is not only about the Sensex. Saw a clip about children in Yogiji’s UP’s Mirzapur district having a nutritious midday meal in school. The menu alternates between roti with salt, and rice with salt. The rest of the world knows how things are. We do not sway them with soaring rhetoric.
I guess that happened in west Bengal too(salt-roti stuff). Oh sorry I forgot WB is not your jurisdiction.
UK will have less than two percent growth this year. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Why blame Modi?
ashok JI’s echo chamber is the jewel in crown of comments. But then as they say कुएँ का मेंढक!…!!!
Gopal you momentous dimwit! Why compare the growth rates of our country and the developed world. We can’t feel satisfied with our growth journey till the last Indian lives with economic dignity. Is the fact that more than 20 crore people live in abject poverty not imoortant? Isn’t the fact that UK has a per capital income more than 12 times the average Indian not imoortant. Keep your saffron cap and your bhakti aside for a moment and smell the coffee.
Ajay – with due respect, the per capita income difference is a weak argument. We are talking about a country that’s the birthplace of industrial revolution, a former imperial power, mostly homogenous, with less federal complexity compared to India, and virtually zero-corruption bureaucracy.. Yes, we can accuse Yogi after 3-4 years of his inability to transform UP (an endeavour in which he will certainly fail) but on the whole, India is entwined with global economy. Unfortunately (and I am blaming no one), we put all our eggs in the IT-BPO services basket and ignored large-scale manufacturing, not to even mention innovation in high-end engineering.
This is because indians have kept middle East religions in their backyard unlike Chinese. Homegenise India under only India based cultures with forward direction, then see how growth increases.
The western world needs money and jobs. As long as India can buy things from these governments, Modi can get away with anything. Human Rights is a nice word to listen but it is a relative words. Some has more rights than the other.
”Even the smartest and brightest of them all, the former finance-home minister P. Chidambaram, has feet of clay.” Many Journalists also have feet of clay and many journos were, and still are, for sale given the right amount of money. Some prominent names came up in the Augusta Westland case to modify public opinion. Amit Shah is sorting the NDTV first. Then he will look into others. He has enough time in his hand. He will be the Home Minister till 2029 at least.
Jyoti seems to be going from bad to worse. She is hoping for people to create trouble in the valley so that she can gleefully confirm I told you so! Jyoti, India does not intend to anything which will affect rights of the people and in fact, this action of Modi Shah is to give them their full rights under our constitution. We need to manage the anti India terrorism for which various restrictions are required for the time being. Why should Modi not thank UAE and France who stood with India? He should in fact go all over and thank everyone who supported us. What is managed by him is a great achievement for a country who lived under fear of UNSC all the time. What happens in future is always in the future and we will cross the bridge at right time. Remember Modi hai to Mumkin hai!!
Ms malhotra should read about the great chanakya(kautilya)..how he went about creating a great empire ….gr8 civilazations have withered away in the sand of time..we are the oldest and are still going on strong…opinions..pov’s might differ but what matters is the core belief..
“bharat” is on the threshold of becoming a great nation again….its time has come…and modi is just a strong catalyst in it..
(“sama..dama.. danda ,bheda”)….as the saying goes…
All these countries live in glass houses….nobody is a champion of freedom democracy..human rights etc..they all have huge chinks in their armour..
they know it is unwise to throw stones at others..some times certain “words” have to be added along with “sentences” to satisfy their own little lobbies and groups (and to feel somewhat good)…..but at the end… at the high table..eveything is about big business(money)..and if india can leverage this aspect then wt is wrong about it?
Wt i dont understand is….trying to run a person down and making “abstract” fun…is not the way to run a counter viewpoint..u keep wasting ur time in this..while he is miles ahead wt his actions and narratives..(that is also the main reason as to the failure of the entire opposition…and for a strong india a strong opposition is important)
As a seasoned and experienced journalist u should b able to see the bigger picture..the higher cause ..and the greater good..in certain actions taken recently….
Lastly ..out of the four lions..(there are 3 lions that are visible) in our official emblem of the GOI (the ashoka emblem)…which symbolize courage,pride,cofidence and “power”
The 4th lion …which is never visible..well.. what u r seeing now is probably .. the power of that “fourth” (non-visible) lion bieng exerted..which i believe is for a greater good and for a higher cause…
Jyoti, You made the Indian PM meeting French counter part pretty simple. Our PM went there to just tell about Kashmir. if global relations are so simple one minute affair, possibly everybody would have been happy. You think, you can write a crap and everyone will agree with you. Recently I was able to see your fixed interview with Chidambaram, who was literally asking you to get out of his room if you ask him anything about his corruption deals and he said you breached his trust, which means you have already agreed that certain questions cannot be asked. He literally bullied you while answering and I expected a better respect for journalists from policians, no matter who he was.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has tweeted in solidarity with the noble people of Kashmir, noting his country’s traditional friendship with India. The increased tensions between India and Pakistan and the situation in the Valley are on the world’s mind, whatever may be our aversion to internationalisation of the Kashmir issue. Diplomatic capital is being expended to sell our point of view. Felt happy to read that the Indian Ambassador visited the NYT. There is a whole wide world outside our echo chamber.
With such overwhelming, preponderant power, time now to fix a broken economy.
When I fret over the economy, the concern is not only about the Sensex. Saw a clip about children in Yogiji’s UP’s Mirzapur district having a nutritious midday meal in school. The menu alternates between roti with salt, and rice with salt. The rest of the world knows how things are. We do not sway them with soaring rhetoric.
I guess that happened in west Bengal too(salt-roti stuff). Oh sorry I forgot WB is not your jurisdiction.
UK will have less than two percent growth this year. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Why blame Modi?
ashok JI’s echo chamber is the jewel in crown of comments. But then as they say कुएँ का मेंढक!…!!!
Gopal you momentous dimwit! Why compare the growth rates of our country and the developed world. We can’t feel satisfied with our growth journey till the last Indian lives with economic dignity. Is the fact that more than 20 crore people live in abject poverty not imoortant? Isn’t the fact that UK has a per capital income more than 12 times the average Indian not imoortant. Keep your saffron cap and your bhakti aside for a moment and smell the coffee.
Ajay – with due respect, the per capita income difference is a weak argument. We are talking about a country that’s the birthplace of industrial revolution, a former imperial power, mostly homogenous, with less federal complexity compared to India, and virtually zero-corruption bureaucracy.. Yes, we can accuse Yogi after 3-4 years of his inability to transform UP (an endeavour in which he will certainly fail) but on the whole, India is entwined with global economy. Unfortunately (and I am blaming no one), we put all our eggs in the IT-BPO services basket and ignored large-scale manufacturing, not to even mention innovation in high-end engineering.
This is because indians have kept middle East religions in their backyard unlike Chinese. Homegenise India under only India based cultures with forward direction, then see how growth increases.