|
Home
|
|
|
| Getting India's Money Back from Tax Havens |
Getting India’s Money Back from Tax Havens
 Arun Shourie
Read More >> |
|
| India Shows Us the Curse of Black Money | India Shows Us the Curse of 'Black Money'
Raymond Baker
India's opposition party leader L.K. Advani sparked a political conflagration with pre-election campaign remarks that India
was losing tens of billions of dollars each year in illicit financial
outflows, or "black money". He asserted that the National Democratic
Alliance would vigorously pursue recovery of these lost assets if voted
into power. With the rolling election now in progress, the issue of India's missing ...
Read More >> |
|
| Don't Talibanise Elections | Don't Talibanise Elections
Amba Charan Vashishth
Election Commission (EC) issues notice to two IPS officers of BiharEC
orders removal of portraits of chief ministers and prime minister in
public offices after the announcement of election schedule.It is nothing short of electoral fundamentalism and, to a great extent, Talibanisation of our election law.
because they had the temerity to wish their chief minister on the
occasion of holy festival of Holi after the Mod ...
Read More >> |
|
| Protecting India from Terror | Protecting India from Terror
Jai Prakash Sharma
Releasing the booklet entitled “Protecting India from Terror—The Congress Party’s Pledge” outlining his party’s “comprehensive action plan” to tackle terrorism, on 7April 2009, Home Minister P. Chidambaram declared that “It is only the Indian National Congress that can deal with the scourge of terrorism squarely and decisively but without weakening the delicate strands that have,...
Read More >> |
|
|
|
|
|
| Editorial: Corruption Not an Election Issue |
Editorial: Corruption Not an Election Issue
In the course of five stage Lok Sabha elections, so far the least heard of issue is that of corruption. It is ironical to note that that cash paid to parliamentarians for winning Trust-vote in parliament just less than a year back has not effectively surfaced as an issue. The issue of corruption which ails the system the most remains buried in the din of inane issues centering around personality clashes and meaningless sops promised by different individuals and parties. There was a time when a government that was elected with more than two-third majority came crashing down at the hustings when the kickbacks involved in Bofors gun deal was exp...
Read More >> |
| |
|
|
| Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 3 |
Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 3
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
It
has been pointed out earlier that, after the present Congress Party led
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government came into power, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh appointed a high level committee in March 2005,
under the chairmanship of the retired Supreme Court Judge Justice
Rajinder Sachar, to investigate the social, economic and educational
status of Indian Muslims. Before proceeding further, let us make it
clear, first, what inspired the ruling Congress Party to set up a
committee to investigate the social, educational, financial and other
aspects of the Muslim community and second, what is the rea...
Read More >> |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
