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Oct 7, 2011 Food inflation rises to 9.41per cent; matter of concern, says Pranab: "Food inflation rose to 9.41 per cent for the week ended September 24 on the back of costlier vegetables, fruits, milk and protein-based items.", "The rate of price rise in food items was 16.88 per cent in the corresponding week of 2010."
Oct 7, 2011 US Sikh group seeks Kamal Nath's prosecution in Belgium: "A US based Sikh human rights group has sought criminal prosecution of Indian Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath during his upcoming visit to Belgium for his alleged role in the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi.", "Belgian law provides for "extra territorial jurisdiction" to criminally prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity and genocide committed outside Belgium, he said. It also does not provide immunity to any heads of states or other dignitaries. Under this law, criminal prosecution was initiated against former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, for his role in the 1982 Sabra-Shatila massacre in Lebanon"
Oct 7, 2011 Indian tycoon accused of one of biggest corporate frauds in Oz: "Indian-origin tycoon Pankaj Oswal has been accused of one of Australia's biggest corporate frauds for siphoning an additional 113 million dollars out of his Burrup Fertilisers"
Oct 7, 2011 Don't vote for Cong: Hazare issues video appeal: ""We have appealed to people in this polls. Congress should be defeated as it has failed to bring Jan lokpal Bill," he said in the ten-minute CD named 'The Government of the Corrupt'."
Oct 7, 2011 Badals in transport scam?: "The Punjab Government is under the scanner for allegedly tweaking policies to favour private transport companies. The Opposition has sharpened its attack, saying the Chief Minister is monopolising state transport. The state government has however refuted all charges. The Lokayukta Police, meanwhile has launched a probe into the alleged transport scam in the state making it difficult for the Badal govt to distance it self from the charges."
Oct 7, 2011 Diamond mafia behind Shehla's death?: "Proof now emerging of a possible link between her murder and the powerful illegal diamond mining mafia in Chhatarpur region in Madhya Pradesh, home to some of the world’s biggest diamond mining companies."
Oct 7, 2011 Anna to burn the corruption Ravana on Dussehra: "Anna Hazare will use the occasion of Dussehra to send out a strong message against corruption."
Oct 7, 2011 15 Women Thags Arrested from Pandals: "who were stealing cash, jewellery and other belongings of the devotees taking advantage of the crowd."
Oct 7, 2011 No Indian university makes it to world's top 200: "Not a single Indian university, not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs figure in the latest ranking of the world's top 200 universities, with American varsities dominating the list."
Oct 7, 2011 Omar hands over ‘fixer’ to cops, he dies in custody: "A 61-year-old retired teacher and National Conference (NC) “sympathiser” who allegedly took money from two party leaders on the promise of getting them a ministership and a legislative council seat through union minister Farooq Abdullah, died in custody after he was handed over to the Crime Branch by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The family of the man, Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf, has alleged he was killed by the police because he knew “too many secrets”.", "“He did not die, he was killed in custody.”", "his constituency representative in Ganderbal had attempted to buy a ministership from an alleged middleman for Rs 71 lakh. “It is shocking for me. That fellow (Ganderbal’s Mohammad Yousuf) told me that he had taken a loan and given it to the party fund. But now I know that he had taken Rs 51 lakh from a toll barrier guy (the contractor runs the toll collection station) in Tangmarg, and Rs 5 lakh from his own PSO.”""
Oct 6, 2011 Where is the Prime Minister?: "Much as it will sound like a cliché, India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is playing puppet while his country is sinking into a quagmire of squabbles and scams."
Oct 6, 2011 Indian children caught in deportation saga: "Six-year-old Keshav and seven-year-old Kamani Chumber were served with trespass orders after protesting in Parliament’s debating chamber about the Government’s decision to deport them with their parents to the slums of India, Immigration adviser Tuariki Delamere said.", "as a former Minister of Immigrations I do not understand how any NZ politician can take steps they know will result in NZ citizen children becoming effective orphans or sent to live in abject poverty in the third world,”"
Oct 6, 2011 ‘PDS kerosene scam’ rocks Assembly: "“Eight lakh quintals of wheat is coming every month to Punjab under PDS but is not going to the poor. It is being cornered by flour mills in connivance with government officials. We demand a CBI inquiry into the whole PDS scam,”", "The Indian Express, in a three-part investigative series carried out in August 2009, had revealed how PDS kerosene in Punjab was not reaching the poor but and being diverted by the oil mafia."
Oct 6, 2011 Anna’s video to hit Hisar ahead of byelection: "Anna has already announced not to support Congress"
Oct 5, 2011 Haji Yousuf tortured at Omar's residence: Witness: "An eyewitness Abdul Salam Reshi recounts his version on what transpired at the J%26K Chief Minister's residence."
Oct 5, 2011 India launches $37 tablet with Montreal firm: "Suneet Tuli is CEO of Montreal-based Datawind, which makes the tablets."
Oct 5, 2011 Is India Very Corrupt?: "Recent corruption scandal involving ministers, high officials, and parliamentarians have badly shaken the confidence of general public in the government"
Oct 5, 2011 Unholy coalitions and bad governance: India faces a cruel double whammy: "Corruption has taken time to grow in India. It has graduated from a slow pace, covert and cautious activity in the Nehru era to a fast, audacious and daring occupation of politicians and bureaucrats today, as can be seen from the size and frequency of scams. Party funds of all political parties started swallowing cash 'donations' from public and corporate houses which encouraged generation of black money and patronised the affluent donors."
Oct 5, 2011 The Australian: Corruption sucking the life out of India : "It has the world's largest pool of poor, sick, starving and illiterate. Access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipedream for most, disease is endemic and life is nasty, brutish and short for far too many Indians. A 300 million-strong middle class leaves 750 million poor. On present trends, in 2020 India will still have half a billion poor people. Worldwide, India ranks 134 on ease of doing business indicators, 119 on human development, 122 on gender equality and 87 on corruption.", "Last year, India's road death toll was about 150,000, three times as many as the US or, on a per vehicle basis, almost twenty times the US."
Oct 5, 2011 Corruption warning to Congress party in India
Oct 5, 2011 Hisar awaits Anna Hazare
Oct 5, 2011 Pranab, Sebi chief accused of batting for Sahara, RIL, MCX: "One by one, skeletons are tumbling out of the UPA’s cupboard. This time it’s big, really big. The scams so far have targeted ministers and politicians at the periphery of the power pyramid: an A Raja here or a Suresh Kalmadi there."
Oct 5, 2011 From Ram Lila to Wall Street: The spread of middle class rage
Oct 5, 2011 Should CAG be auditing Padma awards? Given the abuse, why not?: "The national awards have been abused by successive governments for far too long. There’s need for corrective action. ‘Exceptional and distinguished service’ to the nation cannot be subject to political fancies and used as an instrument of favour."
Oct 5, 2011 PM can’t disown responsibility: "The Telecom scandal was not an overnight affair that happened without anybody getting a whiff of it. A Raja plotted and executed the 2G Spectrum scam over a period of time during which there was elaborate correspondence between him and other Ministers. At every stage, A Raja made it a point to keep Manmohan Singh in the loop. The Prime Minister can’t deny that"
Oct 5, 2011 BBC: What is it like to be a child bride?: "Some 40% of the world's child marriages take place in India. In the northern state of Rajasthan I witnessed the wedding of two sisters who were about six and 11 years old."
Oct 5, 2011 Poor, poorer, poorest states? It’s Bihar, MP, Odisha: "after the official estimates received flak for using an outdated methodology that underestimated the proportion of poor in the country, puts Odisha as the state with the maximum proportion of poor at 57.2 percent in 2004-05."
Oct 5, 2011 BBC: India launches Aakash tablet computer priced at $35: "Critics also point out that an earlier cheap laptop plan by the same ministry came to nothing. In 2009, it announced plans for a laptop priced as low as $10, raising eyebrows and triggering worldwide media interest. But there was disappointment after the "Sakshat" turned out to be a prototype of a hand-held device, with an unspecified price tag, that never materialised."
Oct 5, 2011 IIT exam panel behind poor student quality: Super 30 founder
Oct 5, 2011 How realistic is Plan Panel's Rs 32 BPL cap?: "The Planning Commission's definition for poor has raised a storm across the country."
Oct 5, 2011 Railways losing thousands of crores in ore fraud: "Investigations have revealed a massive scam by many iron ore miners in defrauding railways to the tune of a few thousand crore rupees by passing off export consignments of ore as meant for domestic consumption, and thus paying only one-sixth of what they owed to the railways in freight charges."
Oct 4, 2011 Anna asks voters to reject Cong: "Oct 13 by-election in Hisar in Harayan where he would campaign against the Congress. He also hit out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for being ''remote controlled''."
Oct 4, 2011 Influential politicians, ministers involved in mining scam:PAC: "Indicting the Goa government for the mining scam, the state assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is understood to have said there is reasonable doubt prevails that influential politicians, including ministers, and those close to the power are deeply involved in it."
Oct 4, 2011 With 75 districts UP remains backward: "Nine districts created by her in early 2000 were scrapped by her bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav. She had recreated them in 2007."
Oct 4, 2011 Rot starts at top: Indicted IIT chiefs go scot-free: "Poor quality of engineers is not the only problem afflicting the IITs. The rot has set in from the top. At least two of its directors - Damodar Acharya of IIT-Kharagpur and A K Bhowmick of IIT-Patna - are still in office, despite the Central Bureau of Investigation's indictment in the past."
Oct 3, 2011 Hasan Ali Khan earned Rs 1.1 lakh cr over 8 yrs
Oct 2, 2011 Bangalore corporator killing was a supari job: Cops: "the gruesome murder of 46-year-old Congress corporator from Gandhinagar S Nataraj on Saturday was a supari (contract) killing involving professional hitmen."
Oct 2, 2011 IAC's campaign in Mira Road has no effect on menace: "The auto unions have become so brazen that they have even put up a fare chart outside the Bhayander (west) railway station and the rates are much higher than that approved by the RTO. Passengers also complained that the RTO and the traffic police did not register a case against any errant drivers.", "There are seven auto unions in Mira Road and all are against implementing meters."
Oct 2, 2011 Gandhi family loyalist joins PMO
Oct 2, 2011 India’s wounded state: "the consequences are disturbing: Indian society, the core of Indian nationhood, is now questioning the very legitimacy of the Indian state."
Oct 2, 2011 To put the Republic back on the rails: "In recent years, exponentially growing corruption has assumed unacceptable levels."
Oct 2, 2011 Root for transparency: "India should consider how technology can help enable accountability and transparency."
Oct 2, 2011 The Rs. 81,500 crore lie: "In a season of scams, the biggest one has gone undetected, that of black money spent in every election. Politicians typically shrug it off, saying that historically they have always entered Parliament with a 'lie on our lips'. Except that, now, the lie has gotten bigger. It is, by one estimate, the Rs. 81,500 crore lie. Many say electoral reforms can tackle this. But we expose how political parties have sabotaged every attempt to clean up a political system rife with corruption, criminality and lack of internal democracy."
Oct 2, 2011 Nationwide referendum on Jan Lokpal from today: "The survey will kickstart from the constituencies of major political leaders in Uttar Pradesh, including those of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi, and Samajwadi Party boss Mulayam Singh Yadav."
Oct 2, 2011 'Amendments to Lokayukta bill should be made public'
Oct 2, 2011 India Today Group's Campaign Against Corruption: "Justice Santosh Hegde and others take the pledge against corruption."
Oct 2, 2011 Dalai Lama terms corruption a form of violence
Oct 2, 2011 PDP demands Omar & Farooq's resignation: ""They must resign. So long as they remain in power, they will manufacture evidence. They will attempt to coerce, cajole or bribe witnesses,", "Syed Mohammad Yousuf, an NC worker from south Kashmir's Anantnag district, died allegedly in police custody after two fellow party workers had accused him of taking Rs 1.18 crore from them for getting them berths in the Legislative Council."
Oct 2, 2011 978 pregnant women marooned in flood hit Orissa district: "Rinarani Ojha has named her daughter 'Vanya' (flood) after the child was born safely on the rooftop of a building surrounded by floodwaters in Kendrapara district where 978 marooned women are in advanced stage of pregnancy."
Oct 2, 2011 CJ show: 50 citizens against corruption: "On this episode we showcase 50 citizens who stood up and fought against corruption."
Oct 2, 2011 Will expose Robert Vadra next: Subramanian Swamy: "Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said he was gathering proof of corruption against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra."
Oct 2, 2011 Trim the fat, get technocrats into PM's cabinet: "One of the reasons the UPA government is falling apart at the seams is that the Union Cabinet is top-heavy with 77 ministers and ministers of state. Several are ineffective, rarely attend cabinet meetings and don't speak up when they do. Most are in the cabinet as a result of coalition dharma.", "During the past seven years, agricultural growth has stagnated at an average of 2% a year. Besides a conflict of interest between his political and business interests, Pawar continues to preside over a broken public distribution system and chronic food inflation."
Oct 1, 2011 With 58% figures, India tops in open defecation: "According to a UNICEF survey, 58% of the world's population practicing open defecation lives in India"
Oct 1, 2011 ‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’: "Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills of the Sitheri hills in Harur taluk, Dharmapuri district, in an apparent search for smuggled sandalwood. Over the next two days, government officers raped and humiliated 18 tribal women, beat up dozens of other unarmed villagers, tore down homes and polluted drinking water sources with diesel and the carcasses of village goats they butchered for dinner."
Oct 1, 2011 Dead Men Talking: "The Indian state can silence the living, not the voice of the silent ", "Here stands, India’s ‘gravest’ threat Paramilitary forces have laid siege to the forest. All resistance, armed or unarmed, has been branded ‘Maoist’. Entire villages are being burned."
Oct 1, 2011 His Barony, Undermined: "How did mining baron and former Karnataka tourism minister, Gali Janardhana Reddy, go from pauper, to prince, to prisoner in a little under a decade?", "his net worth was reduced to the negative as of March 31, 2003, and prior to 1998, he was not even an I-T assessee. But, for the financial year 2003-04, he declared a total income of Rs 12 lakh and a taxable income of Rs 9 lakh. For 2004-05, there is a stupendous jump in total income to Rs 8.38 crore. In 2005-06, this doubled to Rs 17.8 crore. In the same period, there was a simultaneous increase in his moveable and immovable assets. The total value of these assets rose from Rs 32.45 lakh in 2003-04 to Rs 43.52 crore in 2005-06. A similarly mercurial growth can be observed in the total assets of his wife Lakshmi Aruna."
Oct 1, 2011 CM offers don’t-pay helpline - Promise of identity cover and prompt police action: "Mamata Banerjee today renewed her advice to industrialists not to pay extortion money to “anybody”, offering to keep complainants' identity confidential and promising prompt police action"
Oct 1, 2011 Will expose Robert Vadra next: Subramanian Swamy: "Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Saturday said he was gathering proof of corruption against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra."
Oct 1, 2011 Goa may be worse than Bellary: "Illegal mining...With sanction to extract 180 million tonnes of earth a year, Goa will cease to exist"
Oct 1, 2011 Corporator killed in brazen attack in Bangalore: "A Congress corporator was hacked to death by a four-member gang in broad daylight on Saturday, the second member of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to be murdered in a year."
Oct 1, 2011 Kashmir villager sends Rs26 to Manmohan, Montek: "asked them to show how to spend a day on that amount."
Oct 1, 2011 BJP activist beats Karnataka minister with slipper: "A senior Karnataka BJP minister was today beaten with a slipper by his own party worker in full public gaze in the well guarded state secretariat, apparently venting his anger on him for not helping him become head of a state owned board or corporation."
Sep 30, 2011 Democracy of some, by some, for some: Santosh Hegde
Sep 30, 2011 Dhaula Kuan is the feared zone in Delhi: "A survey has found the south Delhi area to be the most unsafe for women in the National Capital Region."
Sep 30, 2011 Live on Rs 32 a day: Aruna Roy to Montek: "60 million tonnes of grain are piling in FCI godowns implying that the government itself is hoarding grain to increase food prices.", "Even as we write to you, over the next twenty four hours, close to 3,000 Indian children will die of malnutrition related illness.""
Sep 29, 2011 'Corruption a war that has to be fought on all fronts': ""Corruption is widespread and deep-rooted in our society"
Sep 29, 2011 India Today Group's campaign against corruption: Bangalorean secures passport without bribing officials: "It thus becomes one of the most common corruption practices in the country in the name of police verification."
Sep 29, 2011 Governance, corruption worry UK investors in India: survey: "a majority said they are frustrated by the time taken to get approvals and clearances, particularly from state and local government departments"
Sep 29, 2011 NGO crackdown: Addresses only on paper?: "NGOs suspected to have violated norms and alleged to have links with terror groups. What we found was shocking. Some NGOs operated out of false addresses; some have shut shop and some coming out in vehement defence of their organisations."
Sep 29, 2011 Vachati mass rape: All accused 'guilty': "215 government officials have been found guilty of atrocities in the 1992 Vachati mass rape case. The verdict comes two decades after an entire village of Harur, at Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, was tortured by policemen and forest officials."
Sep 29, 2011 A nation of flashers: "“Public servants,” justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya remarked, “are actually servants of the public.” It is a timely reminder. The roving cars with their flashing lights are against all this country was meant to be — a democratic republic where public servants, such as MLAs, MPs and bureaucrats, are meant to serve, not rule us as the British once did.", "the Delhi Police started a crackdown on the illegal use of emergency lights. Nearly 300 government officials — including paramilitary officers, the daughter of an MP, a roadways official, a sales tax official — were prosecuted for unauthorised use. Instead of backing the unprecedented crackdown, a group of 100 MPs, across parties, requested the chairman of the committee that governs their privileges to allow them emergency lights (and toll-free passage on national highways). The reasoning? Without red lights, their cars were being prosecuted for traffic offences. The use of emergency lights by is governed by The Motor Vehicles Act, which allows specific officials to use red and blue light. Some lights can revolve, others must be stationary. The rules are comical, befitting a banana republic."
Sep 29, 2011 India top weapon purchaser among developing nations in 2010: US report
Sep 29, 2011 1992 Vachati mass rape case: 215 forest personnel held guilty, nine for rape: "tribals accused forest and police personnel of raping and torturing them during the Veerappan operation by the forest and police personnel in June 1992. The tribals said they were picked up under the guise of questioning during the operation to nab Veerappan and some of the women were raped and the men tortured for information about the dreaded sandalwood bandit's whereabouts."
Sep 29, 2011 Anil Ambani being probed in 2G scam, CBI tells SC: "The CBI on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was probing the alleged involvement of Anil Ambani in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The premier investigative agency also said that it was going to probe further to find out the real beneficiaries in the 2G scam."
Sep 29, 2011 215 held guilty in TN mass rape case: "Brutal assault and rape on tribals took place in Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district on June 20, 1992. * Accused belonged to police, forest and revenue departments. * 18 tribal women were raped and over 100 assaulted. * Apart from rape, assault, the other charges were of atrocities against tribals * Of 215 sentenced, 125 belong to forest department, 84 are policemen and five are revenue officials."
Sep 28, 2011 Charest backed into corner on corruption inquiry: "MONTREAL—In India, a 74-year-old man’s protest vow to “fast unto death” prompted lawmakers to finally act on endemic corruption. In Quebec, a hunger strike might be one of the few options left for those seeking a public inquiry on corruption, calls for which have been going on for nearly two years, and counting."
Sep 28, 2011 2G: CBI saving Chidambaram, says BJP
Sep 28, 2011 Shielded by a deal, it’s a jolly good life for Abu Salem: "For someone being tried in more than eight criminal cases, including the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and the killing of music baron Gulshan Kumar, Salem looks unperturbed. He dresses immaculately, puffs away his favourite brand of cigarettes and gets all the luxuries he needs in jail. Last year, during a surprise visit to the Arthur Road Jail, Maharashtra’s Minister of State for Home, Ramesh Bagwe, was shocked at the lifestyle of the don. He had a cell phone, had marble flooring in the cell and excellent bathroom facilities. The cell had a bed and utensils. There was a stock of fruits to last an inmate 10-12 days."
Sep 28, 2011 If Chidambaram’s role does not warrant probe, no other crime does: Jaitley: "“If the Prime Minister has confidence in Chidu, then he must stand up and explain his actions."
Sep 28, 2011 Protect truth, not tainted minister: BJP to PM: "The BJP accused the govt of protecting Chidambaram and instead targeting DMK ministers."
Sep 28, 2011 Now, Goa government in illegal mining trouble: "After Karnataka, is the stage set for another government to fall because of illegal mining?", "How illegal mines owned by a leading politician from the NCP""
Sep 28, 2011 We don't have numbers, govt will collapse on its own: BJP: "Home Minister P Chidambaram is as culpable as A Raja in the 2G spectrum scam and alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was protecting “tainted ministers”."
Sep 28, 2011 B Pravakaran, the kingpin of Orissa mining scam: "He has taken illegal control over 10 major iron ore mines in Orissa in the last eight years.", "Vigilance department was under pressure to build the weak case against him."
Sep 28, 2011 India: fighting corruption or adapting to it? : "Mammoth corruption scams in India or rather the sudden exposure of those scams to the people over past many months has caused such a furor among the Indian public that the integrity and honesty of everyone high up in the power hierarchy has been in question, including that of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,"
Sep 28, 2011 Hegde calls for boycott of the corrupt in polls: "there must be a societal boycott of people whom “you perceive to be corrupt” in elections."
Sep 27, 2011 Mother of all mining scams in Odisha: Rs 30,00,00,00,00,000: "a mining scam estimated at Rs 3 lakh crore, a scale that dwarfs the Bellary mining scam in Karnataka and the Goa mining scam"
Sep 27, 2011 Delhi: Man shot by rogue constable dies: "The man was trying to help the police catch the constable who was fleeing after looting and killing a businessman."
Sep 27, 2011 2G: Is the UPA crisis deepening?
Sep 27, 2011 Row hits Karnataka governor over ADC's promotion: "Bhardwaj, a veteran Congressman and former central law minister, is said to be insisting on promoting the ADC K.C.V. Mane to the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre though he is not eligible."
Sep 27, 2011 Is police India's most archaic govt institution?: "A truck driver was beaten to death by police in Uttar Pradesh for refusing to pay a bribe.", "People fear police as much as criminals", "Killers in khakhi?", "Police are being misused by the establishment as their militia"
Sep 27, 2011 Anna's 'Say No To Bribes' drive to target police now: "Team Anna's 'Say No To Bribes' campaign will roll out from Parliament Street police station on Wednesday when volunteers will urge police personnel to sign an undertaking that they will not demand any illegal gratification."
Sep 27, 2011 JPC summons Finance Secretary to explain why 2G note was not submitted to it: "a “breach of privilege” if the note was withheld deliberately by the Finance Ministry when it was asked by the JPC to submit to it all documents related to the 2G spectrum allocation."
Sep 27, 2011 Chidambaram has lot to answer for: BJP: "Arun Jaitley also took a dig at the Congress, saying its leadership was trying to find a "patchwork" solution to the "crisis" created in the party by the March 25 note of the Finance Ministry and that its infighting "does not answer" as to who is responsible for the loss."
Sep 27, 2011 2G scam: Centre opposes CBI probe in Chidambaram role: "The government today opposed in the Supreme Court any CBI probe against Home Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the 2G spectrum case."
Sep 27, 2011 This Celebrity Holiday Cost Rs. 30 Crore: "A couple of celebrities from Mumbai were among the invitees for the week long sponsored vacation in New York, courtesy the Delhi-based son of a Union minister."
Sep 27, 2011 Chennai airport staff steal cellphones
Sep 27, 2011 Elections have become the biggest source of corruption: SY Qureshi: "Chief Election Commissioner, Dr SY Qureshi speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the challenges from a corrupt electoral system and that it is ready to conduct internal party elections."
Sep 26, 2011 Injured worker begged for help for an hour, then hanged himself: "he knocked on door after door at Cherthala in Alappuzha district asking for help. Nobody answered, either to give him a bandage for his wounds or a glass of water when his legs buckled. In pain and slipping into unconsciousness, Oran stumbled into the local temple and hanged himself with a rope.", "Oran sought help for an hour, his condition deteriorating as he bled profusely. “Some people saw Oran commit suicide,”"
Sep 26, 2011 UPA to UP govt, BJP narrates tale of 100 ‘scams’: "The BJP on Monday released a booklet — ‘Kahani Ghotalon Ki’ (A Tale of Scams) — about the alleged scams during the regimes of Mayawati in UP and UPA at Centre."
Sep 26, 2011 I will reveal more: Swamy: "2G petitioner and Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy upping the ante on home minister P Chidambaram on the finance ministry's 2G note to the PMO on spectrum pricing issue threatened more revelations. Swamy said if needed he will seek persmission from the court to submit new documents which no one has seen so far. He further said the CBI and the counsel for Chidambaram have not contested any of my documents, and therefore the documents are taken as confirmed. Swamy claimed that Chidambaram was in the loop on spectrum pricing."

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