-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the worst in India's post-Independence...

-The Hindu Business Line     The South-West Monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast on June 3 this year, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on The South-West Monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast on June 3 this year, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. The onset forecast has an error margin of four days, IMD said in a statement. The normal onset of monsoon over the Kerala coast...

-The HIndu For all its influential reach, the IPL has done little to combat the existing stereotypes about women and done everything to reinforce them IPL 2013 is heading towards its high-intensity, high-octane, high-pitched finale. After the season's numbers have been crunched, the League will dissipate into general back-slapping, errors and omissions excepted. Except that 2013 has been a revelation in itself. While the IPL occupies "soap opera" prime time on TV for...

-The Hindu Ahmedabad: The BJP government in Gujarat has decided to put on hold its decision to seek the death sentence for the former Gujarat Minister, Mayaben Kodnani, and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case, following stiff resistance from the Sangh Parivar. The Narendra Modi-led government has asked the special prosecutor probing the case of massacre of 91 people during the 2002 riots to put on hold its...

-The Indian Express Lucknow: The Kusaili village panchayat in Etawah district has announced that they would burn a man allegedly involved in the gangrape of a minor girl, who was forcibly detained and sexually assaulted for about a week. The accused, who belongs to the same village, is absconding. The panchayat was held on Sunday evening after a case of gangrape and illegal detention of the victim was lodged at the Chaubia...