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Waqf through the ages: How Rs 1-lakh crore property owner board acquires land and what the govt aims to changeThe Waqf Board is reportedly the third-largest landholder in India, following the Railways and the Defence Department. Waqf boards control ...
Major land scam unearthed in Jammu; 5 FIRs registeredThe Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Jammu has discovered a major scam involving over 28 acres of land usurped by the land mafia in connivan...
Fear and ambition propel Chinese President Xi Jinping's nuclear accelerationXi has expanded China's atomic arsenal faster than any other Chinese leader, bringing his country closer to the big league of the United St...
Hemant Soren refused to receive arrest order; has 'illegal possession' of a dozen Ranchi plots: EDThe criminal case filed by the federal agency against the 48-year-JMM leader emerges from a June 2023 ECIR (ED term for FIR) following raid...
Enemy property scam: CBI registers 4 FIRs, conducts searchesCBI has booked Samandar Singh Rana, the then officiating Custodian of Enemy Property of India (CEPI) at Delhi; Utpal Chakraborty, Assistant...
Why are Olympics going on despite public, medical warnings?The medical journal The Lancet has raised questions about the health risks and criticized the World Health Organization and other health bo...
View: With no 'anti-Gujarat' Delhi, BJP may find it tough goingRecent conversations have increasingly focused on widening inequity and diminishing opportunities. This anti-incumbent sentiment has not be...
Why barter trade is considered biggest confidence-building measure between India and PakistanThe cross-LoC barter trade may have had a rickety journey, but it is still considered to be the biggest confidence-building measure (CBM) b...
Union Budget 2017: Full speech of Finance Minister Arun JaitleyFinance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Modi government's post-demonetisation Budget on Wednesday. Here is the full speech of the Finance M...
In spite of several agencies at work, Bengaluru's lakes still at riskBesides civic agencies, the Karnataka Pollution Control Board and the Karnataka Public Lands Corporation are also tasked with protecting la...
Activist questions the allotment of Oshiwara plot to Hema Malini at a nominal plotDebt-laden Maharashtra, which is facing fund shortage to complete infrastructure projects, has given a Rs 40-crore land parcel to the MP fo...
Haryana policy gives big housing a pushThe NILP will cover Gurgaon and Manesar, Faridabad, Ballabgarh, Sohna, Sonipat, Kundli and Panchkula.
- Omar Abdullah slams PDP after general secretary convicted of graft
Omar said PDP leaders have not only "stolen" rice meant for the poor and needy but also "stolen" the rice-bags meant to distribute that ric...
Vote on Account 2014: Three economic strategies that can boost growthIt seems the political parties aspiring to win the elections are getting the message from the people: improve implementation, reduce corrup...
Countless ways in which tsunami of AAP is changing Indian political landscapeTo ensure the swift death of AAP, it must be ensnared into the system; it must get its hands dirty, and form government without a majority.
- How Karnataka's mine mafia can be reformed
The Supreme Court and Lokayukta verdicts can't fix the right incentives for good mining practice, administrative innovation can.
- Jharkhand's insurgency, there are no rules, just fear
In Jharkhand's insurgency, there are no rules, just fear. Not content with the dominance born out of political patronage, money and arms, M...