Pranab, Sebi chief accused of batting for Sahara, RIL, MCX
Jagannathan • 14 years agoA leaked letter brings allegations of corporate cronyism and interference in regulatory affairs right to the door of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
SBI pays the price for being a govt-owned bank
Jagannathan • 14 years agoThe finance ministry is planning to play Scrooge on State Bank's capital requirements. And it's share prices are already reflecting this negative impact
Rs 630 cr penalty: How DLF duped home buyers with false promises
Kirpal • 11 years agoLabelling DLF's contracts with home buyers as "blatantly unfair, even exploitative," the CCI's observations in a complaint filed by apartment owners in Belaire project in Gurgaon amount to stinging rebuke
Journo's murder: UPA's policies partly to blame
Jagannathan • 14 years agoThe prime culprit in the murder of journalist J Dey is the policy of over-subsidising kerosene in the name of the aam aadmi. It has gotten worse under the UPA. The government needs to take moral responsibility for this.
Stereotyping gender roles: Gujarat textbooks and what they teach
Fp Staff • 11 years agoGujarat Board Textbooks replete with errors also show gender bias in textbook with images and text promoting stereotypical gender roles.
Senior citizen rapes teenager, makes her pregnant
Fp Archives • 11 years agoPolice said the wife of the accused and another girl at their home assisted him in the crime.
Coalgate: Govt wanted CBI chief to lie on oath, but he resisted
Fp Archives • 12 years agoAt least two top legal officials in government may have fibbed to the Supreme Court, but the CBI Director managed to resist the pressure to lie to court
Katju has reinforced the corrupt patronage system
Jagannathan • 12 years agoToo many judges like Markandey Katju are accepting post-retirement jobs - which compromises them with the system of patronage and corruption.
Shah Rukh is 100% right. He is the wronged man here
Jagannathan • 12 years agoShah Rukh Khan has said nothing wrong in his article. His main point is about stereotyping, not ingratitude to secular India
Indians are guinea pigs for clinical trials
Fp Archives • 12 years agoThe basic premise of a clinical trial is that a subject should participate voluntarily. Since this is not done with poor people, many trials are thus unethical