ThePrintPod: ‘Intention to cheat’—bank’s case against Reliance Home Finance as CBI raids ex-director Jai Anmol Ambani

In 2021, floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli brought back to the fore concerns that the disaster may have been caused by a nuclear device lost close to the Nanda Devi peak during a joint IB-CIA operation. The New York Times has now examined fresh evidence to piece together the sequence of events that ended in the CIA losing a portable “beach-ball-size nuclear device” on the roof of the world. In episode 683 of #CutTheClutter, first published on 15 February 2021, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta recreates this fascinating story of espionage, subterfuge, and mystery in the Cold War.

ThePrintPod: India wasn’t always like this. Things have never been as bad as they are today

ThePrintPod: How China reads US National Security Strategy—a return of America First in new language

IndiGo crisis & how it was handled is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. There’s much to blame IndiGo for, but its greatest crime is to have made the government appear as a saviour in the face of furious public opinion. Watch this week’s national interest with Shekhar Gupta. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/indias-top-airline-just-handed-sarkar-the-keys-thats-indigos-real-crime/2804627/  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Pakistan's former ISI chief Faiz Hameed has been sentenced to 14 years' rigorous imprisonment by a military court. #CutTheClutter with Shekhar Gupta looks at the case, the four charges he was tried on, and what this verdict means. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief also shares details of the April conviction of Retired Air Marshal Javad Saeed, how the two cases show the tussle for top jobs in Pakistan & how Munir has managed the top job, as well as accommodated those who are on his side. Episode 1770  @MSArenaOfficial  #Victoris #VictorisSUV #GotItAll #MarutiSuzukiSUV #MarutiSuzukiArena

Madras High Court judge Justice G.R. Swaminathan has found himself embroiled in controversy more than once. The first-generation lawyer has often been in the eye of a storm in recent months, both for his orders in court and statements outside the courtroom—from praising the Vedas to saying the Constitution hinges on the country’s “demographic profile”. Now, over 100 INDIA bloc MPs, led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, have moved a motion before Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. https://youtu.be/inN1eyYC1HI

"Donald Trump’s security doctrine speaks of something that scholars used to discuss, but defence policy documents rarely did. Can ethnic or racial diversity undermine national security? Trump has no doubt it can, and it does. Scholars have always said: It depends on history and institutions," says Ashutosh Varshney. Watch:----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/for-trump-india-matters-only-for-indo-pacific-security/2801621/

"Was the system in India always so lax that politicians could watch citizens being poisoned, stranded, or burned alive and get away with it? Why do the politicians do this? Because we let them. We will moan. We will groan. But when we go to the polling booths, none of this will matter," says Vir Sanghvi in this week's #SharpEdge.----more----Read article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/sharp-edge/indigo-delhi-air-pollution-goa-fire/2802473/