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Global ScanWikiLeaks still leaking
The US government can do no wrong…because it is the US government! But if it goes wrong, it cannot be questioned…because the boss...
Cover Story‘The RTI now offers open protection to the corrupt’
I left the police force in 2005 because I could not stand the level of corruption prevailing. In my 1985 batch of 82...
Bric a BracUP’s ‘property festival’ Builders cough up ‘unofficial’ sums
Uttar Pradesh should have been the richest state in the country, riding on the boom in the real estate industry. Going by the...
By the WayRao wished for years, got months
Sad luck for Nirupama Rao! Her diplomacy just did not work on home turf. The search for the new Foreign Secretary has just...
THEATRE REVIEWSuffering becomes Woman
Writer-director Quraishi makes IPTA’s latest offering a memorable one Aur Ek Sacch, presented by the Indian Peoples Theatre Association, Delhi, at the India...
Talk Time‘Dr Bhabha’s vision would have solved India’s energy shortage’
Anil Kakodkar is an eminent Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and...
First Stirrings‘Bureaucrats are basically control freaks’
I was the Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, and then Secretary, Planning. I was also Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce in Delhi. Unlike...
Talk Time‘Community alertness is very important in tackling terrorism’
A 1996-batch IPS officer of the AGMUT cadre, DCP Jaspal Singh heads the law and order machinery of Central District – one of...
CommentsGiving a long arm to probes
Whenever there is a piece of “breaking news” of a scandal relating to criminal acts by the powerful or influential, an all-too-familiar pantomime...
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