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Aug 10, 2011 'A Case Of A Monumental Fraud': "'The Prime Minister overruled the Cabinet Secretary, he overruled the Prime Minister’s Office, he overruled three successive ministers, and he overruled what the original bid was'"
Aug 10, 2011 Adarsh scam: CAG report indicts ex-chief ministers: "A latest report on the Adarsh scam indicts Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh for flouting norms"
Aug 10, 2011 Alagiri's wife grabs temple land in Madurai: "Alagiri's wife bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crore, which can't be sold, for just Rs 85 lakh."
Aug 9, 2011 India’s world class heist: "The games cost a staggering $4.1 billion instead of the $270 million initially estimated. The revenue that was supposed to pay for the event amounted to a measly $38 million."
Aug 9, 2011 Adarsh scam, a case of fence eating crop: CAG: "Terming the Adarsh Housing Society scam a classic example of fence eating the crops, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Tuesday said rules were flouted to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and military authorities."
Aug 9, 2011 Rs 20 crore public money spent on Mayawati's home: "Sandstone walls, 18-feet tall, run round the plot. The copper-and-brass gates are locked. Inside, on the compound, Maya has installed an 18-feet statue of herself which stands under a marble canopy next to that of her mentor Kanshi Ram. The flooring in the centrally airconditioned house is said to be of Dholpur stone. The latest addition is a state-of-the-art underground parking lot. The house also has of its very own RO (reverse osmosis) plant for clean drinking water."
Aug 9, 2011 Corruption Scandals Spark New Clashes in India: "Police in India's capital blasted protesters with water cannons and beat them back with batons outside parliament Tuesday as they tried to contain rising outrage over a series of corruption scandals."
Aug 9, 2011 Karnataka Lokayukta raids six sub-registrar offices: "Karnataka’s new Lokayukta (ombudsman) Justice Shivaraj V. Patil ordered raids at six sub-registrar offices in Bangalore Rural and Doddaballapur districts and unaccounted cash running into thousands of rupees was seized from officials, brokers and agents."
Aug 9, 2011 Bhopal gas survivors burn effigy of corruption
Aug 9, 2011 Ruckus in LS after BJP alleges Maken took bribe: "BJP MP Yashwant Sinha claimed Madhu Koda paid bribe to Ajay Maken to save his government."
Aug 9, 2011 A poor country, rich in corruption: "By their corrupt acts, politicians are snatching morsels from the mouths of hungry, malnourished children, and denying a lifeline called education to millions of others. For how long are we going to tolerate this shamelessness?"
Aug 9, 2011 Stench of corruption has stuck to UPA: All-India survey
Aug 9, 2011 Clashes erupt in Indian capital during anti-graft protest: "A Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) youth activist pleads to Indian security personnel during a protest in New Delhi on August 9, 2011."
Aug 9, 2011 Clashes erupt in Delhi during anti-graft protest: "Police fired water cannons and tear gas at opposition party activists on the streets of the capital on Tuesday, as thousands of anti-government protesters rallied against the ruling Congress party over corruption scandals."
Aug 9, 2011 Police use water canons, batons to control angry protest in Indian capital against corruption
Aug 9, 2011 Combative Anna Hazare in Mumbai
Aug 9, 2011 Manmohan Singh behind corruption in India : "Manmohan singh exposed"
Aug 9, 2011 Egg on Army face: J&K encounter fake: ""The two conspired and stage-managed the encounter for personal benefits," he said. He meant promotions and rewards. The duo reportedly picked up an unidentified mentally challenged civilian from Rajouri on August 5 and took him to Dobawali Doka forests in Surankote where they allegedly shot him dead the next day."
Aug 9, 2011 Anti-government protests disrupt traffic in central Delhi: "around 25-30,000 participants from Delhi, UP, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Gujrat, MP, Rajasthan and Maharashtra assembled."
Aug 9, 2011 Over 540 tonnes of foodgrains damaged this year: Govt
Aug 9, 2011 Govt targeting me, checking my records in Army: Anna Hazare: ""How many IAS, IPS officers and how many ministers have been jailed?"
Aug 9, 2011 Former Health Secretary surrenders: "Former Health Secretary and suspended IAS Dr Pradeep Kumar was on Monday sent to jail after he surrendered before the CBI court in connection with Rs 130 crore drug scam."
Aug 9, 2011 CWG scam rocks Parliament; Question Hour stalled: "'Ab toh yeh spasht hai, Sheila Dikshit Bhrasht hai (now it is clear, Sheila Dikshit is corrupt)"
Aug 9, 2011 Custodial killing exposes arbitrary shifting of police lock-up: "Fernandes, who was kept in Panaji police station as there was no lock-up available that day, was allegedly killed in police custody."
Aug 9, 2011 CAG slams military authorities for Adarsh housing scam: "Slamming military authorities for misappropriating prime defence land for the Adarsh housing society, the CAG has said rules were bent to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and senior Service officers including former Army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij."
Aug 9, 2011 Fight against corruption second battle for Independence: Hazare: "He favoured strong punishment to deter the corrupt. "Why not provide for life term? In fact, we are saying that the corrupt should be hanged,""
Aug 9, 2011 BJP says PM appointed Kalmadi on Sonia's order: ""Gali gali me shor hai, Sonia Gandhi chor hai (Sonia Gandhi is a thief)," the BJP members shouted."
Aug 9, 2011 Foodgrain left to decay in Haryana: " Foodgrain has been kept in a shocking state of decomposition with insects and worms on them."
Aug 9, 2011 Politicians, babus, Army bent rules to grab Adarsh land: CAG: "Slamming military authorities for misappropriating prime defence land for the Adarsh housing society, the CAG has said rules were bent to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and senior service officers including former Army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij."
Aug 9, 2011 Ruckus in LS after BJP alleges Maken took bribe: "Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken took bribe from former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda."
Aug 8, 2011 Cops behind fake encounters should be hanged, says SC: "The Supreme Court on Monday said those responsible for fake encounters should be given the death sentence and hanged in what marks a significant toughening of stand against extra-judicial killings by trigger happy cops."
Aug 8, 2011 Karnataka: ex-CMs Kumaraswamy, BSY summoned: "Both Yeddyurappa and Kumaraswamy were named in the Lokayukta report on illegal mining."
Aug 8, 2011 Law catches up with politicos: "Monday was the worst ever day for Karnataka politicians, with two former chief ministers, an ex-minister and a corporator facing the daunting pro­spect of severe legal action."
Aug 8, 2011 Youth from 20 states to protest against corruption and ‘corporate plunder’
Aug 8, 2011 Anti-corruption protests shut India's parliament again
Aug 8, 2011 Rakesh Bhatnagar: Why not arm CAG with judicial powers?
Aug 8, 2011 Ex-minister Katta and son jailed in graft case: "Former Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Katta Subramanya Naidu and his son Katta Jagadish were Monday sent to judicial custody in a corruption case after their bail pleas were rejected by a court here."
Aug 8, 2011 OFB to take action against six defence firms: "As per a CBI report, six companies including Israel Military Industries, Singapore Technologies, German Rheinmetall Air Defence and the Russian Corporation Defence were involved in payment of illegal gratification to former OFB Chairman Sudipto Ghosh."
Aug 8, 2011 Lokayukta court issues summons to Yeddyurappa and others: "In fresh trouble for former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, the special Lokayukta court on Monday issued summons to him and 14 others to appear before it on August 27 in connection with a private complaint against them alleging denotification of lands favouring his family members."
Aug 8, 2011 It's cold blooded brutal murder, hang fake encounters cops: SC: "Coming down heavily on police personnel involved in fake encounter killings, the court said as custodians of law they are expected to protect people and not eliminate them as contract killers.", "... If crimes are committed by ordinary people, ordinary punishment should be given but if the offence is committed by policemen much harsher punishment should be given to them because they do an act totally contrary to their duties.""
Aug 7, 2011 Systematic corruption: Change the system, not just CMs: "Given the mood of public revulsion against the tsunami of scams, it should have been in the Congress-led UPA coalition government's interest to reach out to all sections of civil society and bring the PM under the proposed Lokpal bill,"
Aug 7, 2011 PM's role 'questionable' in 2G scam, CWG: ""In both the 2G and KG basin matters, the prime minister was fully aware of the developments but did not stop the wrong doings. The prime minister has to own up responsibility for presiding over this corrupt regime,""
Aug 7, 2011 Tough SC, CAG prompt clamour for strong Lokpal
Aug 7, 2011 RTI Act toothless, can't bite corrupt: Anna Hazare
Aug 7, 2011 UPA-II lacks governance: Infosys chairman NR Narayana Murthy: "India Inc's anger over governance and ethical deficit in the Manmohan Singh government burst out in the open yet again, with NR Narayana Murthy, Infosys Chairman Emeritus, saying that corruption and indecision were proving to be biggest drags on development."
Aug 7, 2011 Mahatma Gandhi's personal secy joins Anna Hazare's crusade
Aug 7, 2011 Final audit slams India’s conduct on Commonwealth Games; findings could lead to prosecutions
Aug 7, 2011 It's government of, by, for the elected: Santosh Hegde
Aug 7, 2011 Indian auditor raps Delhi govt over C.Games fiasco
Aug 7, 2011 BBC: Auditor slams Delhi Commonwealth Games preparations: "India's state auditor says preparations for last year's Commonwealth Games were deeply flawed, riddled with favouritism and vastly over budget."
Aug 7, 2011 90% against UPA's Lokpal Bill in Bangalore 'referendum'
Aug 7, 2011 Bill will set up a Lokpal with no effective powers, says Karat
Aug 7, 2011 India should learn a lesson from Hong Kong on tackling corruption: "India can learn a lesson or two from how this corrupt colony has transformed itself into a bastion of transparency. The credit goes to its formidable anti-corruption agency, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)."
Aug 7, 2011 MNREGS, NRHM schemes: CAG criticises state govt for corruption
Aug 7, 2011 The new entrants in the fight against corruption: "The Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA) formed a gathering of students from 56 private schools who then together formed a human chain in and around St Joseph’s Indian High School to ask for a corruption free India in the form of a stronger Lokpal bill."
Aug 7, 2011 Lokpal Bill must echo people's views: Justice Santosh Hegde
Aug 7, 2011 'RTI can make India corruption-free'
Aug 7, 2011 Singh must own responsibility for the most corrupt govt: Karat: "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is leading the most corrupt Government since independence. He is presiding over a team of pilferers and pickpockets,""
Aug 7, 2011 The Other Scam You Forgot About : "The Karnataka Lokayukta’s report on the PDS mess is as damning as the mining scam revelations,"
Aug 7, 2011 Crony Money?: "Corruption in the running of the Commonwealth Games 2010 cost India some Rs 18,500 crore (about $4.5 bn),"
Aug 7, 2011 Lokpal should not be toothless: Rajnath Singh
Aug 7, 2011 Greedy breed of Indian political leaders: "The people of the country witnessed the entire cash-for-votes scandal on television. So, to say that the police or the parliamentary committee investigating the episode cannot find evidence in the case, is a real shame"
Aug 7, 2011 KAPIL SIBAL - " Mascot Of Corruption/Scams in India " - EXPOSED
Aug 7, 2011 5 children contract polio from vaccine
Aug 7, 2011 CWG scam: How crores were squandered for vanity: "The amount spent for streetscaping and beautification of roads for 'aesthetics' before the Commonwealth Games could have been enough to build a new 94 km two-lane highway with paved shoulder between Delhi and Panipat. The three government agencies in the national capital spent Rs 332.45 crore for such works at an exorbitant expenditure of Rs 4.8 crore per km."
Aug 7, 2011 Fertilisers are being smuggled across the border: CAG
Aug 7, 2011 Mass copying racket in private medical college busted, 13 held
Aug 7, 2011 Anna to fast; supporters burn copies of govt's lokpal bill
Aug 7, 2011 The India story could end: "Deve Gowda was prime minister and treated his trip to Davos as an excuse for a family holiday. He came with a gaggle of grandchildren and spent more time with them, in his fine hotel in Klosters, than he did in the conference halls of the World Economic Forum."
Aug 7, 2011 UP tops 'fake' encounters list, Manipur second: "Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake encounters with nearly 120 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in past three years."
Aug 6, 2011 Reworked PAC report questions PM, PC in 2G case: "report on the 2G scam that questions the role of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister P Chidambaram."
Aug 6, 2011 Bhopal: Drug trials conducted on gas victims: "At least 80 pc of the patients on whom trials were conducted, were victims of the gas tragedy."
Aug 6, 2011 Delhi: No electricity at IGI T-3 for 5 hours: "All check-ins were done manually and security check-ins were compromised as machines were not working."
Aug 6, 2011 CAG raps Maya statues worth Rs 288 crore: "A total amount of Rs 287.56 crore were spent on the statues alone."
Aug 6, 2011 CAG says AI lost Rs 5,000 crore in bad deals: "An RTI reply from the government has revealed that Arvind Jadhav, who was made chairman of AI in 2009 just before the last general election, had been rejected for the position a year ago as he did not have any experience in aviation."
Aug 6, 2011 Without Armour No legal cover at all for our whistleblowers : "Whistleblowers have to brave threats when exposing corruption, Prof Kumar of IIT Kharagpur has been suspended for exposing irregularities at IITs and in the entrance test, His complaint is with the CVC, Sajib Nandi, the whistleblower who is trying to unveil systematic doping at SAI, also faces threats"
Aug 6, 2011 Property attachment notice issued against ex-Health Minister: "he CBI court issued a notice of property attachment against former Health Minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi and suspended IAS officer Pradeep Kumar in Ranchi on Friday."
Aug 6, 2011 SC: Second probe as bad as first one: "There was no respite to the Delhi Police from the Supreme Court on its “shoddy” investigation into the “cash-for-vote” scam as the top court slammed its second probe report, saying that it was not even shades better than the previous report filed before the interrogation of some persons. “Your second investigation (report) is as meaningless as the first investigation,” a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha told Additional Solicitor-General (ASG) Haren Rawal appearing for the police"
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: fight for proper mid-day meal in Andhra Pradesh: "Chaitanya turned citizen journalist to expose plight of school children due to corruption."
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: Have you ever paid a bribe?: "Citizens tell if they have ever paid a bribe to get their work done."
Aug 6, 2011 CAG report: Railway finance in a mess: "The CAG report on Indian Railways says that losses from passenger services have crossed Rs 15,000 crores"
Aug 6, 2011 Glaring flaws in coastal security: CAG report: "The Coast Guard lacks teeth to guard India's coastline even two years after 26/11, says the CAG report"
Aug 6, 2011 Supporters pray for Sonia's recovery
Aug 5, 2011 Congress scams and failures: "scams in india, congress scams, andhrapradesh scams"
Aug 5, 2011 CAG finds manipulations in Tatkal ticket bookings: "CAG report holding booking clerks, agents and touts responsible for the non-availability of the facility to genuine passengers.", ""There were irreuglarities such as booking of all Tatkal quota tickets within a few minutes of the opening of reservation,"", "CAG has found that during login at the website exactly at 8 am on the day of booking for Tatkal or general tickets, the system would hang. "It took 4-5 minutes to login, by which time Tatkal quota was sold out,""
Aug 5, 2011 Cash-for-vote: How middleman can subvert parliamentary system, asks SC: "The Supreme Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for its tardy investigations into the cash-for-votes scandal of 2008, when the Congress-led central government was accused of bribing MPs to win a trust vote in Parliament.", "The court said: "You must find the source of the money." It further asked it to follow the law both in letter and spirit while conducting the investigations.""
Aug 5, 2011 Krishna sues PTI news agency for calling him absent-minded: "Foreign minister S M Krishna on Friday served a legal notice on Press Trust of India (PTI) for reporting that he appeared to be absent-minded", "he was caught in a public gaffe when he read out a speech of his Portugese counterpart by mistake in the UN Security Council."
Aug 5, 2011 Haryana land use law changed for Gandhi Trust: "Haryana govt allowed charitable institutions to be considered owners of the land taken from Panchayats"
Aug 5, 2011 BJP attacks Manmohan, calls him Sonia's puppet: "He may make a statement in Parliament if Her Majesty (Sonia Gandhi) allows him to make a statement. But Her majesty is in the US. The Prime Minister is not a free Prime Minister. He can't take his own decisions. He has not even won a municipal poll to be the Prime Minister,""
Aug 5, 2011 Even PSU looted Games funds: CAG: "The CAG audit found that ECIL prepared a "highly inflated cost estimate", approved at Rs 346 crore by the government. The PSU made a profit of Rs 126 crore on just items procured from external suppliers"
Aug 5, 2011 SC terms cash-for-vote scam probe hopeless: "The Supreme Court on Friday slammed Delhi police for failing to take its probe in the cash-for-vote scam to a logical conclusion and expressed its disgust over ''some middlemen being allowed to subvert Parliament proceedings.''"
Aug 5, 2011 Supreme Court judge says PM should come under lokpal
Aug 5, 2011 The CAG Report
Aug 5, 2011 CWG, according to CAG: "Irregularities and lack of foresight on the part of agencies headed by CM, L-G and OC chief are highlights of report"
Aug 5, 2011 CAG blames PMO and CMO: "The country’s top auditor has pointed out massive wastage of public money in organisation of the October 2010 Commonwealth Games, blaming the loss on poor governance and planning right from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to the office of the Chief Minister of Delhi."
Aug 5, 2011 CAG punches holes in coastal security: "The audit watchdog's latest report, tabled in Parliament on Friday, paints a dismal picture about how coastal security is besieged with ad hoc planning and bureaucratic bottlenecks, huge manpower and equipment shortfalls and turf wars among different agencies, including Navy and Coast Guard."
Aug 4, 2011 Truth of Black Money: "vishwa bandhu gupta"
Aug 4, 2011 CNN: Activists consign India's graft bill to flames
Aug 4, 2011 BBC: India's activists on warpath against the government
Aug 4, 2011 'Lokpal Bill tilted in favour of the corrupt’: ""What we have is a jokepal... It is a deceit on the nation,""

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