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A copy of the CAG report that was tabled in Parliament.

A whitewash job

The CAG resorts to selective use of facts and adopts double standards in order to provide a “clean chit” to the Modi regime.

Stand-in Finance Minister Piyush Goyal arrives in Parliament to present the 2019-20 Budget on February 1.

Election manifesto in disguise

In keeping with its scorn for institutional propriety, the Modi regime presents a full-fledged Budget instead of a vote on account, that too full of t

RBI Governor Urjit Patel (right) and Deputy Governor Viral Acharya at a news conference after the monetary policy review in Mumbai, on December 5. Five days later Urjit Patel resigned as Governor.

Hand in the till

In a remarkable display of brinksmanship, the embattled Narendra Modi regime goes for broke by forcing the Reserve Bank Governor to quit. Clearly, Mod

Uday Kotak, non-executive chairman of the new IL&FS board, with Vineet Nayyar, vice chairman, at a media briefing in Mumbai after the board meeting on October 4.

Road to ruin

The government’s late reaction to the IL&FS crisis is likely to achieve little, but the larger question is whether the company deserves to be saved.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Writing on the wall

Rising fuel prices, stagnation in industry, agrarian crisis, growing unemployment. In the last lap of its tenure, the Narendra Modi government is sink

Raghuram Rajan. As the RBI Governor, he was responsible for egging on the banks to resolve the NPA mess.

Banks on the brink

The unprecedented crisis in the Indian banking sector, which has brought banks’ lending operations to a virtual standstill, means that they can do lit

The IDBI Towers, the bank’s head office, in Mumbai. A file picture.

Shotgun marriage

The coerced takeover of the publicly owned IDBI Bank by LIC, the country’s largest insurer, will neither protect the interests of the beleaguered bank

THOOTHUKUDI,TAMIL NADU, 27/05/2018: A view of the Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi on May 27/05/2018: Photo : N. Rajesh

Serial offender

Sterlite’s culpability in Thoothukudi is only rivalled by the record of the Tamil Nadu government and its prime regulatory arm in this case, the TNPCB

‘RBI chiefly responsible for PNB scam’

Interview with Thomas Franco, general secretary of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation.

A mega bank scam

The scandal at Punjab National Bank reveals dangerous cracks in the Indian financial system. The Reserve Bank of India, the Finance Ministry and bank

Spectacle sans substance

Union Budget 2018-19 turns out to be an exercise that carries forward the use of hyperbole on which the Narendra Modi regime rests. Two major welfare

Chennai: DMK leader and former union minister A Raja and his party colleague Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi arrive at Chennai airport, on Saturday after their acquittal in 2G Telecom case by a special court. PTI Photo (PTI12_23_2017_000072A)

The great telecom swindle

The narrow focus on political corruption, targeting individual politicians or bureaucrats, has distracted attention from the wholesale rigging of Indi