Opinion

Understanding misappropriation of assets at workplaces

14 May 2022 03:10 AM IST

Asset misappropriation is the most common type of occupational fraud. It occurs when an employee steals or misuses the organisation’s resources such as cash, fraudulent billing, inventory, or inflated expenditure reports.

Civil Services’ recruitment process, training need reform

13 May 2022 06:55 AM IST

Civil Services’ recruitment process, training need reform

TOKYO MEETING MUST ISSUE A QUAD CHARTER

12 May 2022 07:44 AM IST

The prospect of Ukraine joining Nato apparently made Vladimir Putin so nervous that he tried to stop that from happening by invading it. This is possibly the most simplistic way of looking at what is happening in Ukraine, because there are enough voices from inside Nato that suggest that the

WHO’s ‘excess Covid-19 deaths’ report is slanted

12 May 2022 07:41 AM IST

World Health Organisation has been toeing China’s line of defence since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

SHOULD POLITICIANS PUBLICISE THEIR TIME OFF?

11 May 2022 05:47 AM IST

After a video showing Congress MP Rahul Gandhi partying at a nightclub in Nepal went viral, this sparked off a debate as to whether politicians should be seen frequenting nightclubs and taking time off. Of course, the bots and the trolls went after Rahul Gandhi since the timing of this

Ukraine war: Re-reading geopolitical contours of Russian foreign policy

11 May 2022 05:45 AM IST

The geopolitical narratives underlined by the Russian geopolitical thinkers provide a framework to examine the Russia-Ukraine war in a broader geopolitical context. Though the war is in full swing, what needs to be underlined here is that the geoculture rooted in distrust between Russia and Ukraine is the moot point

INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS AND INDIA: A CASE OF WRAP-UP SMEAR AT WORK

10 May 2022 05:08 AM IST

There is something terribly off about the international rankings when it comes to India, with this country performing poorly in almost all the following spheres—be it democracy, press freedom, or human/religious rights. And now even in terms of Covid deaths, apparently India has the highest death count, with 4.7 million

Thank God that PM Modi does not act with vengeance

10 May 2022 05:03 AM IST

There is need for one and all to create an atmosphere of liberal values so that nobody suffers due to actions emanating from political vendetta.

POLITICAL PARTIES LOWER THE DIGNITY OF INDIAN POLICE AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM

09 May 2022 02:43 AM IST

Several recent incidents wherein the State police machinery has been used to settle political scores is something that shall hurt our democracy in the long run. The judiciary, particularly, the Apex Court must take cognizance of what is happening around us and give appropriate directions to the Centre and the

Modi 2.0: Empowering India’s bond market

09 May 2022 02:38 AM IST

The relevance of a healthy bond market that was ignored for the longest time by erstwhile dispensations is finally getting its due under the Modi government, in more ways than one.

CONGRESS DECIDES NOT TO PROJECT A CM FACE IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

07 May 2022 05:13 AM IST

In order to keep the party united ahead of the Assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh later this year, the Congress High Command has decided not to project anyone as the Chief Ministerial candidate. Instead, the central leadership has constituted a widely representative state unit with Pratibha Singh, wife of the

Lines blur between politicians and civil servants

07 May 2022 05:11 AM IST

Some retired civil servants have imagined themselves as protectors of the current dispensation and pounce on anyone who dares to find fault with present government.