A few weeks back Fortune magazine and CNN carried a long online blog titled ‘Dirty Medicine’ by Dinesh Thakur, a former employ of Ranbaxy, where he recounts how he came across several procedural and other lapses in the company’s manufacturing facilities.

What do the Boundless Informant and Verizon stories mean for India?

Edward Snowden's disclosures to The Guardian and the The Washington Post of surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a public storm. Simply put, it is now clear that all those dismissed as conspiracy theorists have been right all along – every bit of digital communications are today under NSA's scanner. NSA violates the privacy of its own citizens, the sovereignty of other countries and the privacy of all foreigners, – dubbed as “aliens” in the US law.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has finally subsumed the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The iron has gone deep into the soul of West Bengal’s ruling party, the Trinamul Congress. On the morning of June 9, 2013, as he left his home for his morning walk, the Communist leader Dilip Sarkar, age 65, was shot by four “unidentified miscreants,” as the national news agency (UNI) put it.

To anyone visiting China for the first time, the experience comes as a shock, despite all that one has read, heard or even seen on TV.

Over 4,000 Delhi University alumni and well-wishers have signed a petition addressed to Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Pallam Raju, Minister of Human Resource and Development, Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, UPA, Hamid Ansari, Chancellor, Delhi University, Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President of India to express their shock and dismay at the academic 'reforms' and the manner in which the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Dinesh Singh is bringing them about. The petition has been supported by distinguished personalities across sections of the society. Six former students handed over the petition with all 4000 signatures to the PMO, the President and the MHRD today.