Reserves untapped in India’s ‘land of coal’
Jharkhand is home to vast reserves, but a bungled approach to development is holding back its exploitation
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A number of corruption scandals have blown up under the watch of the Congress-led coalition government, enraging the country’s middle class and threatening to undermine the legacy of Manmohan Singh
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Regulation could cost Indian telcos $50bn
India’s struggling telecoms face an 150% – or roughly Rs4,577bn – rise in their debts if proposals for a mobile spectrum auction go ahead
India airport scandal hits government
Audit accuses Indian government of leasing airport land to private company at a rate that could see state lose $29bn in potential revenues
India’s ‘Dalit queen’ in statues scandal
Kumari Mayawati faces investigation after local police found evidence that construction prices were inflated to build $1.8bn statue park
India’s former telecoms minister bailed
Andimuthu Raja is freed on bail after 15 months in jail on corruption charges over his alleged involvement in an improper sale of 2G licences
Telenor may quit India over 2G licence
Norwegian telecoms group writes down its remaining $680m exposure and warns of leaving if proposals for the reauction of spectrum are introduced
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Public outrage will serve its purpose if it promotes the transformation of today’s corrupt politics. In this sense, the latest scandal has a silver lining
India: Suspended animation
Political inertia, red tape and a dearth of foreign investment are impeding a overhaul of infrastructure, writes James Fontanella-Khan
Beware the ‘gush-up gospel’ behind India’s billionaires
Trickle down has not worked .That’s why in a nation of 1.2bn, India’s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to a quarter of gross domestic product, writes Arundhati Roy
India must not let slip its moment for reform
The challenge is to ensure the country’s poor and lower middle class share more in the benefits of economic growth, writes Eswar Prasad
India’s battle for democracy has just begun
The urban middle class, a child of India’s rising prosperity, has formed the base of the movement. That also means it will have the internal resources to last, writes Ashutosh Varshney
Manmohan’s final challenge on graft
Corruption raging around his government threatens to undermine Mr Singh, so for both India and his legacy, he must tackle graft
India’s squeezed middle complains of a corrupted dream
Until leaders become less self-serving and more honest, faith alone is unlikely to be enough to keep India’s dreams alive, writes James Lamont
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