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Are turf wars hindering probe?

Another example of the government’s right hand not knowing what the left is doing. Only this time around the mistake may prove to be very costly. Even though the Mumbai police’s ATS was quick to claim on Monday that it has managed to crack the 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts, it has now been revealed that the case is far from solved largely due to the turf war between Mumbai ATS, Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi police Special Cell.

18 medicos debarred for cheating in exam

In an act of shame and disgrace, 18 medicos were on Sunday caught while adopting malpractice during the post-graduate medical examinations here.

Naveen calls meet as law & order worsens

Apparently shaken by numerous reports of rape and molestation pouring in from different parts of the state almost everyday, and the Opposition parties mounting pressure for his resignation, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday called for an emergency meeting of senior officials and reviewed the law and order situation.

Opt for individual health cover, not family floater

I owe Rs 1.5 lakh towards a personal loan and a credit card. Because of this, banks are refusing to sanction a home loan to buy a flat. Please suggest how to manage my dues and avail the housing loan.

Maoists kill 13 policemen in jharkhand

Thirteen policemen, including the officer in charge of Bhandaria police station, were on Saturday killed and two others injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast near the jungles of Bariganwa in this district.

Opt for individual health cover, not family floater

I owe Rs 1.5 lakh towards a personal loan and a credit card. Because of this, banks are refusing to sanction a home loan to buy a flat. Please suggest how to manage my dues and avail the housing loan.

Open and shut case. Or is it?

(1) When Vijay Kumar Singh, a teenaged Rajput boy from Haryana submitted his innocuous UPSC form for admission to the National Defence Academy in 1966, he could hardly have imagined that it would rock the country four and a half decades later. But that’s exactly what happened.

Biggest fraud on Indian army?

Gen V.K. Singh never has asked for a change in his DOB. This issue was fabricated and pursued from the year 2006 by two Army Chiefs and their cronies, i.e., three Military Secretaries, when they realised that a three-year tenure as COAS for Gen. V.K. Singh would derail the chances of one particular individual.

‘A serving chief should not go to court’

Air Chief Marshal S. Krishnaswamy (Retd) says Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh should not have taken the government to court while holding the post of Chief of Army Staff (COAS). Speaking to Sridhar Kumaraswami, he explains why.

The guilty men of 2012

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The unfolding saga of a service chief going to court to protect his honour, as he puts it, has the entire nation riveted. All kinds of opinions are being expressed by everyone. Some strongly feel that a serving army chief should not have gone to court while others feel that as a citizen he has the right to do so when he is being denied justice by the establishment. The issues that stand out in this episode are by now well known.

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