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TopicPradeep Sharma

Topic: Pradeep Sharma

Once a ‘whistleblower’, now convicted for money laundering: Who is ex-IAS Pradeep Sharma

After accusing Modi & Shah in 2013 of using state machinery in 2009 to monitor a woman, Sharma now convicted of siphoning off illegal gains from land allotments below market rates to his family.

Why the police class of 1983 was feared by Mumbai’s underworld

In the late 1980s, there was only one destination of choice for ambitious, young policemen: Mumbai. And 90 cadets from the infamous Nashik 1983 batch was posted there.

After chor-police for 36 years, Mumbai’s ‘Dirty Harry’ set to begin political innings now

Pradeep Sharma, Mumbai Police officer of 1983 batch, will contest against two-time Nalasopara MLA Kshitij Thakur as a Shiv Sena candidate.

At the heart of potato farmer’s Rs 490 ‘gift’ to Modi, a crisis in India’s aloo mandi

Pradeep Sharma, a UP potato farmer, scored a profit of just Rs 490 on 19 tonnes of produce.

On Camera

SHANTI Bill, SMRs and now Australian uranium—why India’s nuclear pieces are falling into place

Russia and France remain important nuclear partners. Canada has long been supplying uranium to India. Australia could now become another reliable long-term supplier of uranium.

Maharashtra, Odisha women cash schemes drive financial autonomy, alter household spending—EAC-PM paper

Paper finds male relatives of women getting cash transfers in Maharashtra spend 49% less, save 23% more monthly, while women’s own spending is up 46%. Odisha also shows dip in men's spends.

DIA effect: Canada steams ahead with TKMS for new submarines, India’s P 75I still in works

Ottawa has handed over execution functions of critical defence projects to a CEO-led organisation for reducing procurement timelines and making it solely accountable for outcomes.

Congress is ceding ground to BJP on nationalism. It’s pushing India towards one-party system

The Congress party’s abandonment of nationalism is the most intriguing aspect of its post-2014 politics. The real Congress was never a party of bleeding heart pacifists.