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Sep 26, 2011 School bus with 30 children plunges into river
Sep 26, 2011 The price of honesty, truck driver beaten to death: "A truck driver was today (September 26) killed allegedly by Road Transport Office (RTO) staffers after he refused to pay bribe during a vehicle checking drive in Naubatpur locality in Sayyadraza area here"
Sep 26, 2011 'We are abused and beaten up routinely': "Attendants of Guragon Expressway toll booth, where a 22-year-old operator was shot dead last night, on Saturday (September 24) said that they are routinely abused and beaten up."
Sep 26, 2011 CBI to probe Maran over illegal phone lines: "Nearly four years after getting complaints, the CBI will start a formal probe into allegations that over 300 telephone lines were allotted to the residence of Dayanidhi Maran in Chennai and illegally linked with a television channel owned by his brother. These 323 residential lines were in the name of BSNL General Manager connecting the Boat House residence of Maran with office of Sun TV through a dedicated underground cable during the tenure of Maran as Telecom Minister"
Sep 26, 2011 2G: Raja says entire Cabinet must face trial: "Former telecom minister A Raja's lawyer, Sushil Kumar, on Monday told the court that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram was a party to all the decisions taken in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation."
Sep 26, 2011 2G scam: CBI to include fresh charges against Raja, Kanimozhi: "slap the fresh charge of 'breach of trust by public servants' against former Telecom Minister A Raja and two others in the 2G spectrum allocation case."
Sep 26, 2011 Delhi cop turns robber, loots and kills businessman: "the rogue cop, head constable Ajay Kumar Tomar of Delhi Police's 7th battalion, was in uniform and used an illegal .32 revolver for the crime. Police have also recovered 12 live cartridges and another illegal revolver from his house."
Sep 26, 2011 Paris Hilton gives $100 to Indian beggar: "who is in India on a three-day business trip, showed her humanitarian side when she tipped a beggar $100. "Yesterday (Sunday) when Paris was travelling to launch her bag store, a woman with a baby was begging near her car; she was so moved that she gave her a $100 note,""
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for refusing to give bribe in UP: "truck was not overloaded, but demanded Rs 1,000." His father was willing to pay only Rs 500 after which the RTO constables and one Shiv Kumar of the weighing centre beat him brutally, causing his death", "and the police fired in the air and lathicharged to control the situation,"
Sep 26, 2011 Team Anna plans referendum in constituencies of Sonia, Lalu and others: "Lok Sabha MPs are likely to be under intense scrutiny from October 1 with Team Anna planning a series of "referendums" in their constituencies. Those on target include major political leaders like Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP veteran L K Advani, SP boss Mulayam Singh Yadav, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav and RJD's Lalu Prasad."
Sep 26, 2011 BBC: India: Woman injured during Baba Ramdev crackdown dies: "A woman who was seriously injured during a police crackdown in June on an anti-corruption hunger strike by yoga guru Baba Ramdev has died."
Sep 26, 2011 Corruption in India is endemic because like charity, corruption begins at home, too
Sep 26, 2011 Chidambaram is a traitor: Swamy: "“He is a traitor and the most corrupt minister in the UPA government. There are proofs of his anti-national activities, which I have placed before court. He has Rs 50,000 crore in foreign banks,”"
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for not paying bribe
Sep 25, 2011 Guardian: Shehla Masood battled corruption in India. Was that why she was killed?: "she had information that would shake the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh to its core.""
Sep 25, 2011 RPF calls on the people for a mass revolution: "While reiterating its stand on the ongoing revolution against the India government on the occasion of its 33rd Raising Day, the proscribed UG group Revolutionary Peoples' Front (RPF) called for mass revolution against the India government for a peaceful and free Manipur.", "Corruption is in its highest crime in the state where a well educated youth finds it impossible to get a government job without filling the pocket of the corrupt politicians and officers. With such irresponsible practices, many educated youths of the state have spent their lives in vain and many have drowned in the sea of drugs and intoxicants."
Sep 25, 2011 A call for change: "Anna and his team may have won the first round against corruption, but there are several battles waiting to be fought in India."
Sep 25, 2011 India seeing emergence of corrupt elite: Mulford warned in 2006 (Wikileaks)
Sep 25, 2011 UP traders to launch rath yatra against corruption, MNC entry
Sep 25, 2011 Gangraped UP girl raped by SHO again: "the victim and her father reached the Khanna police station in Mahoba to lodge a complaint. Senior sub-inspector Deepak Pandey, also the station house officer, arrived after a long wait. After quizzing the victim for almost an hour, he allegedly asked the girl's father to leave telling him that the girl would have to stay back as her statements were to be recorded. The next afternoon, the girl reached home and told her father that she was raped again by Pandey. The shocked family then approached senior police officers of the district, but nothing happened."
Sep 25, 2011 Bellary-like mining scam in Goa worth Rs 8K cr: "VS Dempo had permission to extract 11 lakh tonnes from its 3 mines. But it extracted over 20 lakh tonnes in 2008."
Sep 25, 2011 CJ show: Citizens fight against corruption: "stories of courage and determination of citizens against corruption."
Sep 25, 2011 Bellary mining scam: Hegde cites time constraint in nailing culprits: ""Mere five officers scrutinised four lakh documents and assessed 40 lakh bank accounts. If we had got two more months, we would have literally nailed everyone involved in the Bellary illegal mining scam,""
Sep 25, 2011 Manmohan Singh 'got spoilt' in Congress company: Modi: ""Congress party has become a burden for our country. It has rotten"
Sep 24, 2011 A cunning Plan: "Planning Commission is planning to push the poverty line down a few notches so that a lot of folks can now come out bobbing up to the surface."
Sep 24, 2011 Now, third child can land you in jail in Kerala: "In a bid to redefine Draconian, the Commission on Rights and Welfare of Women and Children feels that nothing lesser than a fine of Rs 10,000 or three months simple' imprisonment deserves to be slapped on the expectant father of a third child."
Sep 24, 2011 Corruption is our birth-right; Anna, please excuse us: "about the recent flash strike by autorickshaw drivers in the city. What were they protesting about? Their right to cheat. The Regional Transport Office (RTO) decided it would conduct a check for tampered autorickshaw meters. On the first day of their drive, RTO officials checked 200 of them and found more than half to have been tampered with."
Sep 24, 2011 'Controversial' DGCA man at work: "Five months after the senior DGCA officer was suspended, RS Passi has been reinstated with additional responsibilities. TIMES NOW has accessed documents which show Joint DG, DGCA AK Sharan assigned crucial duties to Passi. RS Passi was suspended in April following TIMES NOW expose on fake pilot scam. Passi had misused his position as Director Air Safety, DGCA to help his 'ineligible' daughter get a CPL."
Sep 24, 2011 BJP: Chidambaram should be in Tihar: "Upping the ante against Home Minister P Chidambaram in 2-G spectrum scam, BJP today (September 24) said his place was in the same cell in Tihar jail in which former Telecom Minister A Raja has been lodged and demanded a probe into the alleged role of the Prime Minister in the case. "There is so much evidence that has come out against P Chidambaram in the 2-G spectrum case that for CBI to say in court now that he is not guilty would be laughable. Chidambaram's place is in the same cell in Tihar jail in which A Raja has been lodged,""
Sep 24, 2011 Less And Lesser - The state’s BPL criteria is befuddling: "Now if members of Parliament get subsidised food in the Parliament canteen, is it unreasonable to seek a similar subsidy for the poor?"
Sep 24, 2011 Is Anything More Corrupt Than A Govt Buying MPs?: "The focus of the fight against corruption should be on UPA-II. After all, some of the accused in the 2G scam have even said that spectrum sales had the tacit approval of the PM."
Sep 24, 2011 Hazare attacks Chidambaram, seeks enquiry into 2G allegations: "Gandhian Anna Hazare today demanded an enquiry into allegations against the Union Home Minister in the 2G spectrum scam and criticised the Congress for backing him."
Sep 24, 2011 Deve Gowda's yet another son faces probe over assets: "Troubles mounted for former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda as a court Saturday ordered probe into his eldest son's assets while his another son and daughter-in-law are already battling graft cases.", "he has acquired assests worth Rs.500 crore."
Sep 23, 2011 Salem women abort on predictions: "Desperate women, under pressure to produce male heirs, are seeking out astrologers to help predict which of their pregnancies will yield a baby boy. And until they reach the predicted second or third pregnancy, they resort to feticide and sometimes female infanticide."
Sep 23, 2011 Corruption, political instability major constraints in South Asia
Sep 23, 2011 IAC begins anti-bribe drive at govt offices
Sep 23, 2011 Reuters: BREAKINGVIEWS - Bring back Manmohan Singh: "India's government has lost its mojo. Its mishandling of corruption scandals comes as the culmination of almost two years of policy inertia. Anna Hazare, the campaigner who last month forced the government into a humiliating u-turn"
Sep 23, 2011 2G scam: CPI quizzes PM's role: "it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's responsibility to look into the irregularities of his ministers. The minister further slammed the Prime Minister's earlier statements that dismissed various scams as a result of his ministers' individual policies."
Sep 23, 2011 Pranab note puts Chidambaram under 2G scanner: "Pranab Mukherjee had sent a note to the PM in March 2011 saying Chidambaram as then Finance Minister could have prevented the scam."
Sep 23, 2011 JDS to file complaint against CM kin on alleged IT evasion: "JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy today said he would file a complaint before Income Tax Department and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee over alleged IT evasion by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's family members.", "a trust owned by Kumaraswamy's brother H D Balakrishna had received Rs 250 crore as donation from the mining sector and 164 Bangalore Development Authority sites were allotted to his (Kumaraswamy) relatives when he was Chief Minister"
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram guilty of inaction in 2G case: Note: "A Finance Ministry note indicated that Chidambaram did nothing to make A Raja change his 2G decisions."
Sep 23, 2011 Plan panel's joke on poor: Rs 31/day enough for family of 5: "Is a daily expenditure of Rs 31 enough to sustain a family of five in a city like Delhi and Mumbai? Country's top-most planning body, Planning Commission, says yes."
Sep 23, 2011 Some dismal signals: "Is the Indian economy becoming ungovernable? The increasing confusion over inflation, the increasing pessimism over the government’s ability to ease supply and cost constraints on the economy"
Sep 23, 2011 CBI raids ex-Chairman of Dental Council: "A case has been filed by the CBI on Anil Kohli over disproportionate assets."
Sep 23, 2011 Watch: Gurgaon toll-plaza attendant being shot dead: "The assailants who came in an SUV refused to pay the toll fees, instead argued with the attendant and then shot him"
Sep 23, 2011 2G: Cong defending Chidambaram to shield PM?: "If the court suggests an investigation into Chidambaram's role as finance minister, it's bound to put even the Prime Minister in dock. So, a worried Prime Minister, in defending Chidambaram, is also shielding himself from such an eventuality."
Sep 21, 2011 Dynasty politics making India bankrupt: Ramdev: "Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has demanded end of dynasty politics in India to save the country from bankruptcy."
Sep 21, 2011 Do we need a planning Commission?: "Such a planning commission is a blot on India. In this age, when corruption in each department has run in billions, when salaries of government staff and their counterparts are zooming up, our planning commission shamelessly tells the Supreme Court that Rs 25 ( not even fifty cent) a day is enough to live a life."
Sep 21, 2011 Japan Times: Game show challenge in India: "corruption is ubiquitous in India, from routine dealings with police and minor officials to big deals involving public funds. Assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) said that only 15 percent of every rupee of government welfare spending actually reached the poor; the rest was siphoned off in corruption. Public outrage erupted after a series of high-profile cases, including the sale of 2G telecom licenses, where failure to set proper prices cost the government an estimated $39 billion, and controversy over the over priced 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games."
Sep 21, 2011 India rising or chaos in the offing?
Sep 21, 2011 BJP comes out with ‘Ghotala Chaleesa’ of Cong, BSP: "UPA government is responsible for corruption worth Rs 4 lakh crore nationwide. At the same time, it accused the BSP government of allegedly being involved in scams worth Rs 2.54 lakh crore in UP during the past four years."
Sep 21, 2011 Fight corruption through effective deterrent action
Sep 21, 2011 Can we find 500 good men and women to govern India?: "The punishment suffered by wise men who do not take part in government, is to suffer under the government of worse men –Plato."
Sep 21, 2011 Finance ministry note points 2G finger at PC
Sep 21, 2011 Nearly half of Goa’s mines illegal: PAC: "Less than a month after the first arrest in the country’s biggest mining scam in Karnataka’s Bellary, the lid is about to be blown off the illegal mining that has cost Goa — the state that exports 40% of India’s iron ore — thousands of crores,"
Sep 21, 2011 11-year-old girl raped, murdered in Ajmer: "The mutilated body of the victim was found in a farm in the village."
Sep 21, 2011 Was Chidu note on spectrum to PM a covert nod to Raja?
Sep 21, 2011 'किस दुनिया में रहती है सरकार?': "योजना आयोग ने कहा है कि शहर में 31 रुपए और गांवों में 25 रुपए प्रति दिन कमाने वाले व्यक्ति को ग़रीब नहीं माना जा सकता."
Sep 21, 2011 कितना कमाते हैं हमारे मंत्री?: "क्या आप जानते हैं कि भारत सरकार के मंत्री कितना कमाते हैं या उनकी संपत्ति किस रफ़्तार से बढ़ती है?", "आप कितने भी कल्पनाशील हो जाएँ तो वहाँ तक नहीं पहुँच सकते जो आंकड़े बताते हैं."
Sep 21, 2011 BBC: India: Half a dollar a day 'adequate', says panel: "Half a dollar a day is "adequate" for an Indian villager to spend on food, education and health, the country's main planning body has said. Critics say that the amount fixed by the Planning Commission is extremely low and aimed at "artificially" reducing the number of poor who are entitled to state benefits.", "Officially, 37% of India's 1.21bn people live below the poverty line. But one estimate suggests the true figure could be as high as 77%."
Sep 21, 2011 Reddy & associates have 200 bank lockers: CBI: "The CBI, probing illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company, has found that the arrested mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his associates had allegedly booked 200 lockers in a private bank here."
Sep 21, 2011 After Pranab's note, Swamy targets Chidambaram: "Swamy on Wednesday said that criminal culpability was clear on the part of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation after new report suggesting the then finance minister's involvement in the case."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: SC surprised TRAI found no loss in spectrum allocation: "Telecom regulator TRAI's report purportedly assessing zero loss in 2G spectrum allocation during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja on Wednesday came under sharp criticism of the Supreme Court which questioned the functioning of the autonomous body."
Sep 21, 2011 Spend Rs 32 a day? Govt says you can't be poor: "The Montek Singh Ahluwalia-headed Planning Commission had drawn flak from the apex court which, on May 14, took exception to the poverty line definition which initially said anyone spending more than Rs 20 in urban areas and Rs 15 in rural areas should not be considered poor."
Sep 21, 2011 Make public paid-news report: CIC to PCI: "The Central Information Commission has directed the Press Council of India to make public the report of two-member sub-committee on paid news as part of suo motu disclosure mandated under the RTI Act."
Sep 21, 2011 Ramdev starts Bharat Swambiman Yatra: ""My yatra, 2012 Mahasangram, will awaken people in the entire country on the issue of black money and corruption."
Sep 21, 2011 Rajasthan minister meets President, expresses regret over 'loyalty-rewarded' remarks: "Khan as having told the party workers that Patil was so dedicated that "she used to make tea and cook food at Indira Gandhi's residence" and due to her honesty, devotion and loyalty, she is now the President."
Sep 20, 2011 Officials at intel agency filmed women colleagues in toilet: "The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), the country’s premier technical intelligence agency set up after the Kargil intrusion, is already under the scanner of the Supreme Court for a slew of alleged irregularities. The latest is a shocking case of officials using secret service funds to illegally film their women colleagues in the toilet."
Sep 19, 2011 Friend or Foe?: "Delhi, Mumbai blasts: Riven by corruption, Indian police is unprepared to tackle modern terror", "Corupt To The Core There is a good reason why the police are perceived to be among the most corrupt government departments. In Maharashtra, policemen comprise 23 per cent of government servants netted for bribe-taking over the past six years. Experts say the figure could well be a national average. Police corruption takes the form of extortion: bribes are taken for not enforcing the law. Policemen wield immense powers relating to the life and liberty of citizens, implement legislation relating to gambling, prostitution, dance bars, hotels, economic offences, and in some states, prohibition. They are tasked with checking activities having the potential to generate black money. Even simple measures like free registration of First Information Reports (FIR) is not adopted. A check of the complaints register at any police station usually reveals hundreds of unregistered cases. Nobody is punished for such lapses. Law and order gets priority over crime and corruption thrives. Graft is so endemic to the force and the opportunities for retail corruption so many, that bribes are paid for recruitment."
Sep 19, 2011 BBC: Ombudsman in Indian state of Karnataka resigns: "A senior judge and ombudsman in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has resigned following allegations that he has breached land ownership laws."
Sep 19, 2011 Mind power and corruption
Sep 19, 2011 Hazare launches city group's campaign against corruption
Sep 19, 2011 Ill-effects of corruption: "Corrupt practices coupled with inadequate penalties result in drain on public resources."
Sep 19, 2011 Corruption in academics and UPA’s inaction- A case of AMU
Sep 19, 2011 Despite CVC report, govt shielding guilty?: "One of the key concerns in the fight against corruption is the prosecution sanction required from the department concerned even after probe has established the accused official's guilt. Usually, the power to grant prosecution is put to good use to unnecessarily delay action against the guilty."
Sep 19, 2011 Railways most corrupt government organisation,says cvc annual report: "public sector banks like the Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank, State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank, besides the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which have high public interface, follow the railways in the CVC's roll call of dishonour."
Sep 19, 2011 NYTimes: Waving the Flag Against Corruption
Sep 19, 2011 NY Times: Health Officials at Risk as India’s Graft Thrives: "Who Killed the Doctors?: Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh are trying to figure out how the killing of three prominent doctors fit into the country's systematic corruption.", "“We sometimes don’t even have soap for our hands,” said P. N. Tiwari, the center’s vaccination officer. “Meanwhile, they are looting like monkeys,” a reference, he said, to politicians, bureaucrats and contractors. Half a dozen babies are born in the clinic daily, but the water tank is broken, so deliveries are performed without running water. The center has an ambulance, but it, too, is broken. Repairs would cost only about $30, but there is no cash to pay for it. Crucial medical supplies, like oral rehydration salts for children with diarrhea, have been out of stock for months."
Sep 19, 2011 Delhi docs at heart of UK medical insurance scam: "Indian doctors and their touts providing false medical certificates as part of an insurance scam for visiting foreign tourists"
Sep 19, 2011 Ramdev to start on yatra against corruption, black money: "Aim of the yatra was to awaken people on the issue of "Rs 4,00,000 crore black money stashed in the foreign countries","
Sep 16, 2011 Corruption as a Violation of Human Rights: India’s Challenges to Establish a Rule of Law Society
Sep 16, 2011 The Grammar of Anarchy: "Faced with a monumentally corrupt – and yet popularly elected – government,"
Sep 16, 2011 All that glitters is gold in Reddy palace: "Priceless items have been found in the house of former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI on September 5."
Sep 15, 2011 Wall Street Journal: Delhi Journal: Carbuncles And Corruption – The Commonwealth Games Legacy
Sep 15, 2011 Time: India's Other Hunger Strike: 11 Years and Counting: "Irom Sharmila, who has been on an 11-year hunger strike protesting an Indian anti-terror law, leaves a court hearing in Imphal"
Sep 15, 2011 Premature deaths high in India: WHO: "India ranks very high among the nations struck by the rising wave of “premature deaths” caused by noncommunicable diseases,"
Sep 15, 2011 Many graft cases would have come out if I had suo motu power: Hegde: "The former Supreme Court judge, who retired as Karnataka Lokayukta last month after being in office for five years, said he was frustrated at times because of lack of such powers as well the government's poor response, vis-a-vis sanction to prosecute tainted officers."
Sep 15, 2011 MP miffed because I denied admission request: Thampu: "The war over rival alumni associations took a new turn on Tuesday when St. Stephen’s principal Valson Thampu said college alumnus and MP Sandeep Dikshit had been targeting him ever since he refused an admission request from Dikshit’s camp for a student last year. Thampu said the college was being held hostage by the “legally unsound and morally untenable” parallel alumni association that Dikshit mentored two months ago."
Sep 15, 2011 Andhra police seize truck carrying Rs 3.9 crore: "Sources have said that the truck was headed to Hyderabad from Bellary in Karnataka."
Sep 15, 2011 Officer court wants booked was chosen for HC blast probe: "Police on Wednesday said they will open an inquiry against Additional DCP Ravi Shankar and three other policemen against whom a Delhi court ordered registration of an FIR for allegedly extorting money from people with threats to implicate them in a false case."
Sep 15, 2011 Policemen unleash tyranny in Bihar: "Police showed brutality on women in Bihar. Women, who were protesting outside a police station in the Nalanda district, were baton charged. The women were protesting against police inaction and delay in locating a missing woman, when the cops suddenly decided to cut loose."
Sep 15, 2011 CAG smells rat in DMK’s Assembly project: "The controversial over Rs 700 crore new Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex here has come in for severe drubbing by the Computer and Auditor General."
Sep 15, 2011 Rs 4.95 crore seized from Bellary truck: "Further thickening the illegal mining plot, the Guntkal police in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday seized Rs 4.95 crore cash when it was being transported in a lorry from Bellary to Hyderabad."
Sep 15, 2011 Lorry full of crores en route from Bellary to Hyderabad seized: "cash to the tune of several crores was recovered by police from a lorry in Guntakal town of the district"
Sep 15, 2011 77% of Union Cabinet ministers are crorepatis: "Jagathrakshakan also tops the list for the highest asset increase percentage wise. His assets have shot up by 1,092%. Congress's MoS (textiles) Panabaka Lakshmi is in second spot, with a growth of 828%. While, MoS (road transport and highways) Tusharbhai Chaudhary has recorded a 705% growth."
Sep 15, 2011 Women chased, beaten by Bihar police: "Hooligans in uniform"
Sep 14, 2011 Audio CD blew lid off Special Cell extortion racket: "An audio CD of a 45-minute conversation between a Head Constable and two cable distributors blew the lid off an alleged extortion racket involving four personnel of the Special Cell of Delhi Police."
Sep 14, 2011 CBI decodes scam, nails ex-MCI chief Ketan Desai: "After Desai's arrest, CNN-IBN conducted a series of investigations that exposed how Desai ran the Medical Council of India like a cartel, extorting money from private colleges to grant them permission."
Sep 13, 2011 BSY, HDK fit for campaigning, but not for court hearing - For ex-CMs, polls are a pill for all ills: "Former chief ministers H D Kumaraswamy and B S Yeddyurappa avoided appearing in the Lokayukta Special Court in cases involving them on the grounds of ill-health."
Sep 13, 2011 Hazare movement is a ray of hope, says Kuldeep Nayar: "Anna Hazare’s movement provided a ray of hope in the current state of disappointment, disillusionment and helplessness in the country"

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