Spectrum Swindle
Potential loss to public exchequer: Rs 10,000 crore

Communications and Information Technology Minister A Raja has blatantly tried to bend rules
to allocate scarce electromagnetic spectrum to specific mobile phone companies that would result
in a Rs 10,000-crore loss to the exchequer.
But he may not succeed. ..........MORE

  
 
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H Y Sharada Prasad
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he served as information Advisor to Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was formerly a trustee of IGNCA and chairman of NID.
Syeda S Hameed
is a Member of the Planning Commission. She is the founder member of Muslim Women's Forum and a founder trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia.
Cmde C Uday Bhaskar 
 is senior defence and strategic affairs analyst,
New Delhi.