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By 1751, the Marathas controlled the administration of Orissa. The river Subarnarekha served as the border between Bengal and Maratha-controlled Odisha. [101] [102] The Marathas improved Orissa's profile as a pilgrimage site, especially to the Jagannath Temple where maintenance and repairs were strongly encouraged. They paid extra attention to ...
State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.. The term was first used by the World Bank in 2000 to describe certain Central Asian countries making the transition from Soviet communism, where small corrupt groups used their influence over government officials to appropriate ...
Odisha (English: / ə ˈ d ɪ s ə /; [19] Odia: ⓘ), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), [20] is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area, and the eleventh-largest by population, with over 41 million inhabitants. The state also has the third-largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India. [21]
Since 1994, numerous locations in South Africa have been renamed. The following article covers the name changes in South Africa by province since the 1994 South African general election . National place names, such as towns, suburbs, and natural landforms, are decided by the South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC), and provinces have ...
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, better known as the Zondo Commission or State Capture Commission, was a public inquiry established in January 2018 by former President Jacob Zuma to investigate allegations of state capture, corruption, and fraud in the public sector in South Africa.
The State Cabinet approved for the move in June 2008 and the government of Odisha passed a resolution in the state assembly in August 2008 for the purpose and sent it for Center's approval. [3] The bill having been passed in both the houses of the Parliament, the enactment of the legislation has been assented by the President of India. [4]
A significant portion of Chipkin's research has been dedicated to the study of corruption and state capture. With Mark Swilling and others, he co-authored a May 2017 PARI report on state capture Betrayal of the Promise: How South Africa is being stolen, that analyzed the phenomenon within the country's political economy.
This is a list of the dates when African states were made colonies or protectorates of European powers and ... South Africa: 1879 United Kingdom: Fante Confederacy ...