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The fire accident at a bed and breakfast unit in south Delhi, which killed 21 people, including 12 foreigners, is unfortunate. It should serve as a wake-up for policymakers about the rising incidence of fire incidents across the country in recent times.
The five-floor narrow building that housed Flourish Stay B&B had no approval from the fire department. It had a...
The appointment of D.K. Shivakumar as chief minister of Karnataka marks a smooth transition of power from one Congress leader to the next preceded as it was by three years of wrangling. The Congress high command can heave a sigh of relief as two tall leaders, Mr Shivakumar and Mr Siddaramaiah, have pledged to work together, unlike in several other states where such an exerci...
Accidents happen, and many of them can be traced to human error. But the fire that broke through the Flourish Stay Bed and Breakfast in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi reveals a brutal truth of another kind. The fire seems to have started in the basement where the commercial LPG cylinders were stored, and climbed up to the ground floor restaurant, and then to the five floors wi...
The Centre’s decision to significantly expand the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a lot more than a routine cadre restructuring. It marks the formal recognition of a reality that the ED is no longer a niche financial investigation agency but one of the most powerful instruments of the Indian State.
The rationale is straightforward. The nature of financial crime has c...
Such was Calcutta Corporation’s reputation when the eminent writer, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, went to work for it in the 1920s that the municipality was popularly known as “Calcutta Corruption”. Among non-English-speaking Bengalis, it was the “Chorporation”. Whether or not West Bengal’s new chief minister will be able to make any difference to this tarnished reputation, it isn’t t...