-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India ranks less corrupt than China for the first time in 18 years, anti-graft organisation Transparency International's annual survey says. The study that includes 175 countries and territories, India was ranked 85 while China came at 100, the Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 said. The Corruption Perceptions Index says that the countries and territories are ranked based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A...
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Police overhaul: Case pending -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express Over nine years after the Supreme Court asked all states and the Centre to bring in reforms to make the police forces more people-centric than ruler-centric, not much has changed on the ground. Few weeks back, following a spate of crimes against women and children in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “Modi-ji, please give up your stubborn attitude and let’s work together. Give police and ACB...
More »Making a dent in world poverty depends on India -Noah Smith
-Livemint.com/ Bloomberg To join the global middle class, India must do much better Max Roser is at it again. The Oxford professor and master of economic data visualization has a new set of maps and charts showing how global income and inequality have changed during the last couple of centuries. The upshot is that while the world has gotten steadily richer that entire time, something very special and very good has...
More »CAG lens on Rajasthan mine allocations -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General has constituted a special team to review allocations of at least 623 mines by the Rajasthan government in 2014-15. The report is expected to be finalized in three months. Though it is a regular audit process, the issue has assumed significance after Congress on Wednesday approached the central vigilance commission seeking a CBI probe alleging a Rs 45,000 crore scam in...
More »Dr Vandana Shiva, scientist and longtime activist against genetically modified BT seeds, interviewed by Pragya Singh
-Outlook Scientist and longtime activist against genetically modified BT seeds, Dr. Vandana Shiva, talks about why BT has a devastating fallout. A sudden pest attack has ruined cotton crops in large parts of Punjab, bringing biotech, or BT Cotton back into focus. Farmers who used bio-fertilisers in the Malwa region of the state are said to be safe from this latest pestilence. But those growing BT cotton have lost everything. There...
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