Upfront

Rs 50,000 crore

worth of indirect tax evasions unearthed by the Indian government through a series of measures in the past two years, the finance ministry said in a statement.

Deutsche Connection

Anshu Jain, former co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG, along with another ex-Deutsche Bank top executive, Bhupinder Singh, is looking to float a non-banking finance company in India.

Ascetic Hunter

On his debut as Rajya Sabha MP, Subramanian Swamy literally set the House ablaze by spearheading the attack on the Congress top brass for allegedly receiving kickbacks in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.

Back in the Saddle

Harish Rawat was reinstated as the Uttarakhand Chief Minister after comfortably winning the trust vote in the state assembly under the supervision of a Supreme Court appointee. Rawat was earlier removed as CM for allegedly not having a majority in the House after nine Congress legislators defected.

On Popular Demand

Four months before his term ends, speculations are rife that Raghuram Rajan may be in for a second term in office as the RBI governor for coming up with out-of-the-box solutions to India's economic problems.

Tough on Graft

According to The Economist, India was at the ninth place in the crony capitalism index, with its crony wealth dropping to 3 per cent of the gross domestic product, against 18 per cent in 2008.