Author: New Delhi Post

The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), under the aegis of its State Development Council/Madhya Pradesh State Chapter, and in association with M.A.D Ideaz, the New & Renewable Energy Department (Government of Madhya Pradesh), CLASP, Tata Power, and other partner organisations, successfully hosted the “Harit Urja Conclave 2025 – Madhya Pradesh Edition”. As the Industry Partner, PHDCCI reiterated its strong commitment to advancing Madhya Pradesh’s and India’s overall green energy transition. Centred on the theme “Empowering Madhya Pradesh: Clean Tech for a Greener Grid”, the conclave placed special emphasis on appliance efficiency as a key driver of sustainable energy…

India marked a milestone on November 22 with the launch of the YouthAid Entrepreneurs’ Federation of India (YEFI) in Pune, a national platform created to connect grassroots entrepreneurs with government schemes, banks, CSR partners, markets and investors. YEFI aims to raise standards of quality, branding and ethics in micro-businesses while enabling sustainable scale. “This federation is essential for last-mile inclusion, dignity and economic justice,” said Chairman Mathew Mattam. The launch took place in the middle of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2025, observed across more than 200 countries under this year’s theme, “Together We Build”. Joining the inauguration virtually from the…

Under the aegis of its State Development Council and Chhattisgarh State Chapter, and in association with Visa Inc., PHDCCI organised the second edition of the India Business & Public Policy Forum on 19 November 2025 at Hotel Sayaji, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The initiative seeks to provide a platform where businesses and communities can meaningfully engage with state governments and the policy-making process. “A fast-changing international business landscape is offering both extraordinary opportunities and complex challenges. India, now the world’s fourth-largest economy, holds immense potential and remains a dynamic arena where business expertise must align with global fundamentals. Today, public policy is…

ABOUT THE BOOK Indian Prime Minister Priya Kaul is cornered. The country is in turmoil; the Opposition is closing in; and her own son, the heir apparent, has become an enemy within. Desperate for escape, she turns to her spiritual guru, whose counsel leads her to attempt India’s first-ever nuclear test, hoping to distract the masses and salvage her collapsing popularity. With the American President openly hostile, the CIA station chief in Delhi is instructed to stop her and engineer her downfall. Across the border, Viper, an ISI operative, moves swiftly to unleash chaos in India. With the odds stacked…

A majority of lawmakers in the newly constituted Bihar Assembly continue to carry criminal cases and substantial personal wealth, according to a detailed analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Bihar Election Watch. The organisations examined the self-sworn affidavits of all 243 winners of the 2025 Assembly polls, presenting what they term a “sobering snapshot” of the state’s electoral realities. The data reveal that 130 of the 243 winners — 53 per cent — have declared criminal cases, a reduction from the 2020 House, where 68 per cent of MLAs faced similar charges. Yet ADR notes that the…

ABOUT THE BOOK In 1973, inspired by the popular socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan, Ravindra Kishore Sinha, then a journalist earning a modest salary of ₹250, quit his job to establish SIS (Security and Intelligence Services), a private security firm created to help ex-servicemen find employment as security personnel. Today, SIS is a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, ranked among India’s top ten private employers, with over 300,000 employees and more than 22,000 clients spanning security, facility management and cash logistics. So how did an accidental entrepreneur, with no formal management education, go on to build one of the largest global companies in its…

Anatomy of a Mega-Fraud A Cobrapost investigation, titled “The Lootwallahs: How Indian Business is Robbing Indians”, presents a forensic dissection of what it alleges is one of India’s most significant corporate frauds. The core accusation against the Reliance ADAG, promoted by Anil Ambani and his family, is the systematic and deliberate siphoning of funds from publicly listed companies. These funds, sourced from loans from public sector banks (PSBs), money raised through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), and bonds sold to investors, were not used for their stated purposes. Instead, they were allegedly diverted through an elaborate labyrinth of domestic and offshore…

A disturbing campaign of cyber harassment and religiously charged incitement has been launched against Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Blitz news portal. Choudhury is widely known for his counterterrorism investigations and reporting on Islamist militancy across South Asia. The coordinated online assault targeting Choudhury exposes the perilous intersection of religious incitement, digital harassment and press suppression in Bangladesh. According to credible sources, the campaign is being orchestrated by Engineer Muhammad Nasir Uddin, chairman of the ASH Foundation. This Chittagong-based organisation has faced scrutiny for alleged links to radical clerics. The coordinated effort, involving the circulation of…

In the backdrop of ‘Operation End Game’, conducted on 17 September, the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of the former DGP of Chandigarh Police, Surinder Singh Yadav, has surfaced once again. The report, which was put on the back burner, has been brought back by the Chandigarh Police, aiming at corruption-free policing. The Union Government has also asked for the ACR. In the ACR report, accessed by New Delhi Post, it was revealed that out of 65 inspectors, 45 are facing inquiries related to the CBI, Enforcement Directorate (ED), intelligence reports, departmental probes, vigilance investigations, and corruption cases. Many of them,…

Under “Operation End Game”, launched on 17 September 2025, the Chandigarh Income Tax (I-T) department has uncovered North India’s largest online betting network to date, with links now traced to Delhi. The I-T department has informed the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Union Finance Ministry, and Union Home Ministry about the involvement of several police and administrative officers—some from the UT cadre currently posted with Delhi Police, along with other personnel stationed in Chandigarh. The I-T probe has revealed that the network spans eight states—Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh—and Delhi, with overseas connections to…