Modi's Dilemma

Our precipitous decline is being noticed and recorded abroad with alarm.It is strange that within India we are carrying on as if it is business as usual, observes Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Prime......

India ranks 81st in global corruption perception index

India has been ranked 81st in the global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International, which named the country among the "worst offenders" in terms of graft and......

Don't pay taxes if government fails to curb corruption: HC

In an interesting observation, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay high court has said that citizens should not pay taxes if the government fails to curb corruption. The bench observed that citizens......

Is India forever condemned to live with corruption?

Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption The Opposition has demanded that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj should quit for allegedly facilitating......

What Vikas Yatra is Modi talking about?

A report by the Azim Premji University showed that during the pandemic 270 million Indians were pushed into poverty.Meaning that they were not poor according to the government poverty line before,......

Incidents of bribery in India reduced by 10% since 2018: Survey

People in Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, West Bengal, Kerala, Goa and Odisha reported low instances of corruption, while Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and......

Neglect of 1992 scam led to Mallya, Modi frauds

'The Modi government has been taking credit for improvement in respect of the ease of doing business in India.''But when I look at the scams I cannot help feeling that it is too easy to do business......

Best states to invest in India, Gujarat tops

The report said that out of the 21 states, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand will have to do a significant amount of catching up.     Gujarat has topped the list of 21 states with most......