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'CBI should reveal discoveries from Swizz evidence on Bofors payoffs'

Journalist and author Chitra Subramaniam has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to make public its discoveries from the 'box of evidence' received from Switzerland on Bofors payoffs which,......

CBI gets moving on Bofors, seeks info from US investigator

The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent a judicial request to the United States seeking information from private investigator Michael Hershman, who had expressed willingness to share with......

Babus coached Bofors execs on shielding Rajiv Gandhi: Book

Senior Indian bureaucrats had "tutored" Bofors officials in a "secret meeting" in 1987 on "how to absolve then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of all blame" in the infamous bribery scandal, according......

Why the Bofors scandal CANNOT be forgotten

To many who remember the politics of the late 1980s, this is a worryingly familiar moment for India. The two periods have several common features: a rudderless government, an insurgent......

3 decades after Bofors scandal, India gets its first howitzer guns

After a 30-year wait for new artillery guns since the Bofors scandal, the Indian Army on Thursday received the first two ultra light howitzers from the United States as part of an order for 145......

Hinduja group chairman Srichand Parmanand Hinduja dies in London at 87

His business successes which started with the international distribution rights for the Bollywood blockbuster movie 'Sangam' in 1964 made him one of the richest in Britain but it was the Bofors......

RBI-govt tussles are not new

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan recalls a tussle between the government and RBI when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister and how it was resolved. IMAGE: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Reserve Bank of......

Rahul's 'suit-boot' jibe: Modi to turn pro-poor in Budget

The record of other prime ministers too shows how much can change when a prime minister is faced with the two-year challenge, says T N Ninan. Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi to turn pro-poor......

New Rs 186-crore CBI HQ sports corporate look

The new office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, sports a snazzy and corporate look.This is quite in contrast to its previous......

Do politicians really want to bring black money back?

At the height of the Bofors scandal, one distinctly remembers that a Swiss bank account code-named 'Rajiv' made it to the headlines. The then opposition was jubilant that it had 'caught' the then......

Amitabh lets fly in his blog

Amitabh Bachchan is the latest star to realise the reaches of the Internet, and blogs. The superstar has become a regular blogger, and uses the medium to vent. From his erstwhile rival Shatrughan......

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'CBI should reveal discoveries from Swizz evidence on Bofors payoffs'

CBI gets moving on Bofors, seeks info from US investigator

Babus coached Bofors execs on shielding Rajiv Gandhi: Book

Why the Bofors scandal CANNOT be forgotten

3 decades after Bofors scandal, India gets its first howitzer guns

Hinduja group chairman Srichand Parmanand Hinduja dies in London at 87

RBI-govt tussles are not new

Rahul's 'suit-boot' jibe: Modi to turn pro-poor in Budget

New Rs 186-crore CBI HQ sports corporate look

Do politicians really want to bring black money back?

Amitabh lets fly in his blog

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