Ramishah Maruf, CNN Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives were indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday. Authorities said Adani and seven other senior business executives, including his nephew Sagar Adani, promised more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to… Read More Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges
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The Minister’s Millions I Al Jazeera Investigations Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit goes on the trail of The Minister’s Millions to find out how he built a half-billion-dollar property empire – on a thirteen-thousand-dollar salary. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, a close ally of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, bought hundreds of luxury properties in London, Dubai, and New… Read More The Minister’s Millions: Crime and politics in Bangladesh
I’m finding the angles on this quite hard to keep up with, but the general vibe of his No 10 operation is the sort of snakepit you may expect to find in the Kuntsevo Dacha 15 minutes after Stalin was discovered on the shagpile. Marina Hyde Can someone gift the prime minister a designer spade?… Read More With the best glasses donor money can buy, surely Starmer can see that this week has been a total disaster
Like all despots, major & petty, Mamata thrives on playing the victim. But now, faced with this horrendous instance of a genuine victim, her fake-victimhood shrivels up into a carbonised farce.. Just as global warming creates unpredictably cruel weather, corruption too creates its own hard rain. Ruchir Joshi On the evening of the day Rizwanur… Read More Stormy weather
Sai Mukhesh The disinterestedly wise ought to desire the holding together of all being — Bhagavad Gita, Verse 3.25 Normal men do not know that everything is possible — David Rousset Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present — Albert Camus The liberal democratic apparatus has been imploding, and the… Read More Austerity and Managed Democracy
The brutal rape-murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital has an inescapable geography Saikat Majumdar The brutality of rape and murder elicits a reaction that is not only ethical and political in nature. It also evokes a response that is deeply aesthetic. By aesthetic I mean that visceral reaction to… Read More Beyond the Kolkata Rape And Murder, a history of medical corruption In West Bengal
“Instead of maintaining an uneasy alliance with the Trinamul Congress, and remaining silent about her misdeeds, the INDIA block should dump her and come out in open confrontation with her by leading a mass movement against her… My special appeal to my friend, MP Jawahar Sirkar and the women MPs Mohua Moitra and Sagarika Ghosh… Read More Bengal’s Godmother of ruffians and racketeers
The worrying revelation, that students who were identified to have cleared the university examinations in a fraudulent manner, and were thereby not in possession of a valid law degree, are presently serving as judges, has not merited any serious attention whatsoever. Nileena MS FIVE YEARS AFTER Abhay Kumar Gohil, a former judge at the Madhya Pradesh… Read More Five Madhya Pradesh judges named in exam fraud report continue to serve in district courts
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, noting that he has been in custody for 17 months. A bench of justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan said Sisodia has been in custody for… Read More Supreme Court grants bail to AAP leader Manish Sisodia in Delhi excise policy case
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