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Two years after his highly publicized ouster from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), its former Special Director Rakesh Asthana has been named Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF). Interestingly, he continues to hold additional charge of Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)....

The goods and services tax (GST) regime, especially its architecture and implementation, continues to bug the authorities. Fraudsters keep exploiting the loopholes in the system. In our state alone, GST frauds worth thousands of crores of rupees have come to light. In the latest of...

Help!! I’m being cheated. The meat industry, the pesticide polluters, the hunters and the factories have combined to make so many wondrous creatures die out – even before I could feast my eyes on them. The Smooth Handfish has been declared extinct. It was an...

Facebook Inc. has been in news recently. Not just in India but globally. Recent history has shown the company in a very poor light in its own motherland, the United States of America. With the November 2020 Presidential election campaign picking up, this social media...

Many thought the Naga issue was over. Far from it. Now the primary Naga organization, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN (I-M) has termed the Indo-Naga Treaty as insulting the Nagas. The NSCN (I-M) has accused the Centre’s interlocutor for Naga peace...

This 15 August was the 74th Independence Day for India. We, as a nation, seem to adore living on thin air and celebrating ceremonies without trying to understand what, if any, relevance those functions hold for our daily existence. We are troubled that our Rakhi...

India will take over as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) in January 2021. The government has begun preparations by deciding to upgrade India’s diplomatic presence at the UN. The Indian delegation is being strengthened with the appointment of an additional deputy...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its latest monetary review meeting last week, decided against extending the six-month moratorium it had allowed, in phases, for customers on repayment of their existing loans. The central bank had allowed a choice to people to decide if...

I  have known Merritt Clifton for many years now. He, his wife Beth, and son Wolf are completely devoted to animals, and run an e-magazine called ANIMALS 24-7 which you should all read. One of their board members, Vicky Crosetti who died recently, was a...

The Supreme Court Tuesday not only reasserted the Amendment to the Hindu Succession Act of 2005 in which daughters gained equal inheritance rights as sons but also gave a retrospective ruling to that Act. Earlier, the law was implementable from 2005 onwards. The SC decision...