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Bofors scandal was just a media trial: President Pranab

Almost three decades after the controversial Bofors scandal, President Pranab Mukherjee has called it a media trial that could not be proven in any Indian court. The remarks have come just......

'CBI should reveal discoveries from Swizz evidence on Bofors payoffs'

Journalist and author Chitra Subramaniam has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to make public its discoveries from the 'box of evidence' received from Switzerland on Bofors payoffs which,......

Why the Bofors scandal CANNOT be forgotten

To many who remember the politics of the late 1980s, this is a worryingly familiar moment for India. The two periods have several common features: a rudderless government, an insurgent......

3 decades after Bofors scandal, India gets its first howitzer guns

After a 30-year wait for new artillery guns since the Bofors scandal, the Indian Army on Thursday received the first two ultra light howitzers from the United States as part of an order for 145......

Babus coached Bofors execs on shielding Rajiv Gandhi: Book

Senior Indian bureaucrats had "tutored" Bofors officials in a "secret meeting" in 1987 on "how to absolve then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of all blame" in the infamous bribery scandal, according......

Hinduja group chairman Srichand Parmanand Hinduja dies in London at 87

His business successes which started with the international distribution rights for the Bollywood blockbuster movie 'Sangam' in 1964 made him one of the richest in Britain but it was the Bofors......

Do politicians really want to bring black money back?

At the height of the Bofors scandal, one distinctly remembers that a Swiss bank account code-named 'Rajiv' made it to the headlines. The then opposition was jubilant that it had 'caught' the then......

Once he's out, society will embrace Raju

Raju need not fear ostracism once he's out - society will embrace him. A friend in Washington told me that Indians working in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund began to swagger around......

RBI-govt tussles are not new

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan recalls a tussle between the government and RBI when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister and how it was resolved. IMAGE: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Reserve Bank of......

Rahul's 'suit-boot' jibe: Modi to turn pro-poor in Budget

The record of other prime ministers too shows how much can change when a prime minister is faced with the two-year challenge, says T N Ninan. Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi to turn pro-poor......

Amitabh lets fly in his blog

Amitabh Bachchan is the latest star to realise the reaches of the Internet, and blogs. The superstar has become a regular blogger, and uses the medium to vent. From his erstwhile rival Shatrughan......

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Bofors scandal was just a media trial: President Pranab

'CBI should reveal discoveries from Swizz evidence on Bofors payoffs'

Why the Bofors scandal CANNOT be forgotten

3 decades after Bofors scandal, India gets its first howitzer guns

Babus coached Bofors execs on shielding Rajiv Gandhi: Book

Hinduja group chairman Srichand Parmanand Hinduja dies in London at 87

Do politicians really want to bring black money back?

Once he's out, society will embrace Raju

RBI-govt tussles are not new

Rahul's 'suit-boot' jibe: Modi to turn pro-poor in Budget

Amitabh lets fly in his blog

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