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Scams Unplugged

We Indians love scams so much that the word ‘scam’ is now part of all Indian languages, though the meaning is not the same as given in the Oxford dictionary; in India ‘scam’ is understood as not any run-of-the-mill dishonest scheme, but a big-ticket swindle, involving top people.

In Bengal, education sector scams have replaced paper leaks

In West Bengal the teachers' recruitment irregularities scam involving crores of rupees has gained such negative popularity that it has overshadowed the fact that though not on a massive scale but incidents of paper leaks had been part of the examination scams.

‘Cyber security must be preventive’

Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal, an IPS officer from the 1997 Batch, is best known for solving Sidhu Moosewala's murder case in 2022. HGS Dhaliwal, as he is popularly known, is chief of the Delhi Anti-Terror Unit Special Cell. He also heads the cyber cell.

Bereft of morals

The greatest cause of concern in the current scenario is that in most cases, the bureaucrats who keep their hands under the table and the politicians who change parties as frequently as we change clothes, are regular guys who behave normally till they get a whiff of money.