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Are men more prone to violence? The fact is that men commit 90% of the world’s homicides and have started all the wars. In an interesting article in the latest issue of “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society”, three authors – Melissa McDonald, Carlos Navarrete and Mark Van Vugt have discussed the interesting concept of [...]
Telenor is one of the companies whose licenses got cancelled by the Supreme Court, after the Government dragged its feet on the 2G scam. Well, Telenor – the Norwegian company that was impacted isn’t happy and is ready to play tough ball with the Indian system. The company will take all its assets to a [...]
Two guys, Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian - one an Investment Banker who studied at University of Pennsylvania and other from MIT – came to India to work at the UID project. Recently, there was a big debate (see Sushma Swaraj’s speech in the Indian Parliament below) about how the Government had announced that anyone living [...]
Goolam Vahanvati is the first Muslim Attorney General of India. And if, what is being said is true of him, he might be the most corrupt. If A. Raja the Telecom Minister is the one who has been behind the bars because of being made the “poster boy” of the 2G scam, then P. Chidambaram [...]
A democracy has special checks and balances. One of the checks is the way one of the three branches of the Government – Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary – can make sure that the country is not been taken apart by the other two working in connivance. In India’s case, Executive and Legislative branches are in [...]
The entire movement of Team Anna was built on the sentiment of commen men and women wearing “I Am Anna” on their head. That meant what Anna was asking of the political class, every Indian who supported him, also wanted to ask. So to treat Anna’s ask in his campaign as just the talk of [...]
Mayawati’s Government is in serious trouble over a rural health program, where Rs 4900 crores has gone missing and there is nothing to back it all up! Where have Rs4,900 crore of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds gone in Uttar Pradesh? The state government says it spent the amount to strengthen rural health services [...]
Do you feel that your Air India flight landing is a bit bumpy? Or the pilot doesn’t seem quite sure when he comes out for his “bio-break” whether he has been pushing the right buttons? You know that look, right? Or worse, he is coming out with the manual with the confused look asking YOU [...]
What happens in the Home Ministry offices and corridors directly impacts the security and well being of the country. We have seen how Chidambaram and his wife have been defending the terrorists and smugglers while P. Chidambaram was the Home Minister or to be one. (Chidambaram, Tapuriah, Hassan Ali, and Taufiq Gaffar: A Surreal Picture!). [...]
In a new book called “Corruption in India: The DNA and RNA”, authors Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari have estimated that India’s public servants loot Rs.92,122 crore ($18.42 billion),
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