A country is judged on at least 40 parameters and the Enforcement Directorate's remit of money laundering and terror financing is just one of those 40.
The prime minister says he rescued 'the holy sengol' from Anand Bhavan, Nehru's family home, and Amit Shah now wants the people of Tamil Nadu to show their gratitude to the BJP by electing over 25 NDA MPs. New Delhi: Days after Narendra…
Questions are also being asked about a near disaster in February 2023, when a failure of the railways signalling system sent a passenger train on a collision course with a goods train. New Delhi: Alongside a preliminary report that five…
Modi's promise of 'stringent punishment' of those responsible for the disaster clearly presupposes the accident was caused by individual action – and not by systemic problems with the railways or his government's financial choices
Examining the misrepresentations, half-truths and the journey of the sengol from Allahabad Museum to the new Parliament building. New Delhi: Contrary to reports that the sengol, installed in Parliament on Sunday, May 28, was “mis-labelled”…
An ex-chief election commissioner says some machines being defective is routine, but 6.5 lakh is too high a number and is a “serious” matter. Experts have called for more transparency. The Election Commission is yet to respond to our…
The Supreme Court may have refused to hear a collective petition by multiple political parties for directions on the work of central agencies, but in many matters, The Wire found incongruities and serious questions that need answering.
The ED has cast its dragnet wide. It is using the interpretation of a circular issued by the agency itself in 2020 for this purpose. The circular was intended to define its role. But it has a clause giving its director enormous…
India's silence in the wake of the US SEC fining Oracle for paying nearly half a million dollars in bribes to rail officials is a replay of the manner in which the Louis Berger bribery scandal in Goa and Assam involving top politicians has…
Attempts by the Union law ministry to curtail his powers – and place them with the Solicitor General – even before Rohatgi had started his stint are understood to have led to his decision to say no.