Category: Political Analysis
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Money, Power & Political Protection: How Defence Negligence Survives When Accountability Is Weak
India’s defence system combines some of the world’s highest peacetime defence allocations. Recurring audit findings on delays, cost overruns, quality lapses, and incomplete offset obligations in key procurement and production programmes. The documented costs of crashes, defective ammunition, and failed offsets are dispersed across public budgets. Armed forces operations and soldier families, while institutional accountability…
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When Warnings Were Ignored: Crash Files, Classified Reports, and the Machinery of Cover-Up
India’s defence sector generates extensive documentation in the form of audit reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), defence ministry annual reports, and parliamentary committee proceedings.
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From Factory to Frontline: The Hidden Crisis of Sub-Standard Defence Production in India
India’s military-industrial base-spread across massive public-sector enterprises like HAL, the former OFB, BEML, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, and dozens of ancillary units-was built to ensure Defence Production.
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Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls 2025: Balancing Electoral Integrity and Voter Inclusion
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls represents one of the most extensive voter verification initiatives in democratic history, encompassing 51 crore electors across 12 states and union territories. Phase-II of this politically significant exercise commenced on November 4, 2025, with over 5.3 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs) undertaking door-to-door verification until December 4, 2025.