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EconomySocietyGold Glitters with Cold Jitters
There is something happening with gold, especially in India. At the one extreme, negative in nature, the country’s central bank has highlighted risks...
Cover StoryTHE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL
THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, and moves—up and down, straight and back, sideways,...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 18 : LOOSE SHEETS, DIARIES & SPREADSHEETS
REMEMBER the 1991 Jain diaries hawala case, which involved alleged bribes to politicians from several parties. Or the recent cases, when two of...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 17 : The Twin Curses Of Earth And Sky
LOOK at some of unsavory global facts. There are possibly two dozen nations in the world that earn more than 50 per cent...
GovernanceRANA SUGARS How they duped the investors
THE GDR (global depository receipt) scam, which was perpetrated by dozens of companies between 2002 and 2014, was as simple as it gets....
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 16 : Capital Drain, Capital Gains
IN the 1980s, the Indian public got to know of two sets of strange offshore entities that were based in global tax havens....
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 15 : Havens, Heaven, and Hell
FROM the onset, the British Empire, initially through the East India Company (EIC), was founded on, and steeped in, corruption. As the first...
GovernanceTHE CON IN TELECOM
ON August 18, 1993, in the Conference Hall of New Delhi’s Sanchar Bhawan, which housed the telecom ministry, the bids were opened for...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 14 : The Body Collectors
A decade ago, Business Week, a leading American business magazine, dubbed several of the US-based Indian software firms as “High-Tech Sweatshops”. These were...
Globe ScanPlaying with the minds of VOTERS
IN 2014, Nix, a senior person in Cambridge Analytica, the defiled and defunct UK-based firm that was accused of manipulating elections in the...
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