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Sep 30, 2012 'Judges' decisions affected by post-retirement plans': "Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and former law minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said 'the clamour for post-retirement jobs among judges is affecting the impartiality of the judiciary'. He also pitched for a two-year cooling off period before retired judges are appointed to tribunals and commissions."
Sep 30, 2012 Two bank heists in 2 days: Delhi's rising crime graph: "a Rs 5.25 crore robbery in broad daylight left a security guard in the upmarket Defence Colony area of Delhi, bruised with gunshot injuries. The following day, came the news of a failed robbery attempt at a bank in Inderlok, and finally in the evening, as if to cap it all, another ATM cash van was looted by its own driver, who after drugging the two security guards accompanying him, ran off with Rs 51 lakh."
Sep 30, 2012 ‘पार्टी फंड की दाल में काला ही काला': "सबसे बड़ी पांच पार्टियों ने 2004 से 2011 के बीच चंदे और आर्थिक सहयोग से लगभग 39 अरब रुपए की कमाई की."
Sep 29, 2012 Corruption in Gondia ZP solar water pumps
Sep 29, 2012 Corruption biggest challenge before nation, says RSS chief
Sep 29, 2012 Haryana shame: 3 gang rapes in 3 weeks: "3 gang rapes took place in the last three weeks all in the same State. Another 16-year-old girl was gang raped in Sonepat"
Sep 29, 2012 Caught on tape: Gurgaon's barbarians: "Gun culture returns to Haryana. Goons armed with pistols, daggers and iron rods attack toll plaza officials at Badshapur, Gurgaon on the Sohna-Alwar highway. Goons shoot at toll staffers, vandalising vehicles parked near by in Gurgaon. 25 year old toll staffer Rajesh who was directly hit by the bullet is critically injured. In Sept, 2011, a toll booth staffer was gunned down for mere Rs 27 in Gurgaon."
Sep 29, 2012 20-year-old thrashed, dies in custody: "20-year-old Deepak Yadav never realised that when he left home after being picked up by Bareilly Police that he would never return home. His family alleges that he was beaten to death even as authorities suspended 3 policemen and slapped a case of murder against them. Mystery surrounds Deepak's death while in police custody but will any lesson be learnt."
Sep 29, 2012 Is this justice Mr CM?: "Husband of JDU MLA Poonam Yadav, Ranbir Yadav, who grabbed bodyguard's gun and threatened protesters has been given clean chit. Police question bodyguard instead. FIRs lodged against protesters. Ranbir Yadav, husband of JDU MLA Poonam Yadav, brandished a carbine of a policeman to disperse the protestors who were creating a ruckus at Nitish Kumar's rally in Khagaria."
Sep 29, 2012 Girl gangraped at Jharkhand MLA's house in Patna: "A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Patna at an MLA's house by five men. The woman filed an FIR with the Patna police and all five accused have been arrested."
Sep 29, 2012 16-yr-old raped at Bihar MLA's house, 5 held: " two of the accused spotted the girl, a Class 9 student, at Patna Junction and tricked her into going with them to the MLA's house."
Sep 29, 2012 पैसा फेंक, ग़रीबी देख: "झुग्गी टूरिज़्म में शामिल होने वाले विदेशी प्रयटकों की संख्या बढती जा रही है"
Sep 29, 2012 Loot on in name of reforms and aam aadmi, Mamata Banerjee says: "Nowadays, the trend is whenever any anti-people decision is taken, it is taken in the name of reforms,""
Sep 28, 2012 'Austere' UPA's 3rd anniversary bash cost Rs 7,700 per head: ""The Rs 7,700-a-head dinner comes at a time when the government has announced austerity measures. Incidentally, the UPA-2 had stipulated that Rs 28 per day is sufficient to keep a person out of poverty. ""
Sep 28, 2012 India's Oscar entry Barfi! has at least 10 scenes lifted from Hollywood films: "too many scenes in Anurag Basu's Barfi!, India's official entry for the Oscars, which have been copied frame by frame from international classics, notably Charlie Chaplin's films."
Sep 28, 2012 MLA's husband brandishes gun: "Janata Dal (United) MLA Poonam Yadav's husband Ranbir Yadav snatches a carbine from his wife's bodyguard taking law into his hands showing off strength threatening protesters with the weapon."
Sep 28, 2012 Contractor-politician nexus across India: Whistleblower: "Chief Engineer Water Resources Vijay Pandhare, who blew the lid off the Maharashtra irrigation scam, has said that the nexus between contractors and politicians exists in all states."
Sep 28, 2012 Mother of all scams, order inquiry: INLD: "Terming the change of land use in the Gurgaon Manesar Urban Complex master plan as the mother of all scams, the INLD on Monday demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge into the issue."
Sep 28, 2012 Want to escape a scam? Create another one
Sep 28, 2012 India's Kleptocracy loots masses of humanity: "A 'kleptocracy' refers to "rule by thieves". A kleptocracy is a capitalist-oriented society where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class. In such a society, like India, politicians operate at the expense of the wider population as a basic "way of doing business" without pretence of honest service. This type of government corruption is often achieved by the embezzlement of state funds. In India, constitutional democracy exists in "name only"."
Sep 28, 2012 IAS officers misused their position: Cops tell HC: "the two IAS Officers, who were booked for alleged corruption in the illegal granite quarrying case, had grossly abused their position with a malafide intention to favour PRP Exports."
Sep 28, 2012 My cartoons will now spew more venom: Aseem Trivedi: "people in large numbers thronged the railway station in Kanpur to receive him"
Sep 28, 2012 An underachieving India has only its leaders to blame
Sep 28, 2012 Will India Ever Rid Itself of Corruption?: "“We will vote, but we are losing faith in politics,” said a student at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. ”Young people are very pessimistic, and don’t think voting will change anything.”"
Sep 28, 2012 Coal scandal: India's tough fight against corruption: "His business rivals never fully understood how Manoj Jayaswal got so rich so fast, except that he often seemed joined at the hip with powerful politicians. He hosted them at lavish parties, entertained them at his daughter's opulent Thai wedding and stood among them at India's presidential palace"
Sep 28, 2012 ‘Police is one of the scariest examples of corruption’: "you have a gangster in police uniform, then there is no recourse for the common man"
Sep 28, 2012 Whistleblower alleges harassment after exposing corruption in Sports Authority of India: "He claimed that officers were inflating bills for sports goods by 400 per cent to 500 per cent and had been doing this for years. "They are making crores. This practice has been going for the last 20 years."
Sep 28, 2012 Courts can’t quash graft FIRs: SC: "the Supreme Court put corruption on par with heinous offences as it ruled that FIRs registered under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act cannot be quashed by high courts even if the victim and offender reach a settlement and the accused will have to face trial after completion of investigation."
Sep 28, 2012  Is Ajit Pawar the only Maharashtra politician involved in the irrigation scam?: "India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari had refused to speak out on the irrigation scam in Maharashtra."
Sep 28, 2012 Delhi: ATM van carrying Rs 5 crore cash looted: "New Delhi: An ATM van carrying Rs 5 crore cash was looted by robbers in broad daylight on Friday in Delhi's Defence Colony."
Sep 28, 2012 Sonia has role in scams, PM needs to answer: Modi: "Attacking Sonia Gandhi he said that the UPA took the FDI decision a day after she came back form the US."
Sep 28, 2012 Indian Dairy Uses Satire to Stick It to Politicians in Butter Ads: "ads for Amul brand butter have stuck the knife into Indian politicians for all manner of blunders, scams and gaffes."
Sep 28, 2012 Everyone corrupt in state: IAC: "not just the party in power, but even the Opposition in Maharashtra is corrupt"
Sep 28, 2012 Urban India rejects UPA's reforms, even PM: Poll: "Feeling the pinch of the fuel price hike, the urban middle class has dealt a severe blow to the Manmohan Singh Government, giving the Prime Minister's push for reforms a big thumbs down. The aam admi, Congress' target group, feels the government has not just lost credibility in the face of corruption charges, but also that its policies are burning a hole in their pockets."
Sep 28, 2012 The trouble with political financing in India: "Political financing in India remains opaque The more things change, the more they remain the same."
Sep 27, 2012 “BBMP is a den of corruption”: "INTERVIEW WITH SANTOSH HEGDE"
Sep 27, 2012 The corrupt ‘Don’ Sonia Gandhi is world’s 4th richest politician: "Manmohan Singh was involved in a $32 Billion 3G scandal which involved almost all major players of his cabinet."
Sep 27, 2012 It's BJP versus the whistleblower: "An RTI activist has alleged that BJP president Nitin Gadkari did not want her to pursue the irrigation scam in Maharashtra"
Sep 27, 2012 Congress of the corruption, by the corruption, for the corruption: Mamata
Sep 27, 2012 BBC: India tiger killed by poachers inside Itanagar zoo: "In June 2006, 30kg (66lb) of tiger parts - mainly bones and nails - were seized from a vehicle belonging to a police officer in Assam state."
Sep 27, 2012 Rotting grain has deprived food to 80 million people: "An estimated 36,000 tonnes of grain has gone bad at the various storage facilities of the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) since 2008, enough to feed 80 million people at a per capita consumption of 440 grams"
Sep 27, 2012 The man who uncovered the irrigation scam: "the chief engineer who blew the lid of the 72,000 cr rupee scam has broken his silence. Top bureaucrat Vijay Pandhre speaks to TIMES NOW on how the unearthed the details that opened a can of worms."
Sep 27, 2012 65-year-old woman beaten to death for practising 'black magic': "A 65-year-old wife of a retired headmaster was on Wednesday beaten to death at her house in Kandlapalli village in the district allegedly by a man on suspicion that she practised 'black magic'"
Sep 27, 2012 Baby allegedly raped in Kolkata, four detained: "Four persons have been detained in connection with the alleged rape of a one-and-half-year-old child of a pavement dweller in Kolkata's Park Street area"
Sep 27, 2012 Sahara - massive, splashy...and mysterious: "The company did not respond to several attempts by Reuters to get answers to written questions."
Sep 27, 2012 Poachers cut rhinoceros' horn in Kaziranga park: "Kohara: A Rhinoceros' horn was cut by poachers and the animal was later found conscious by Kaziranga National Park authorities. A medical team is working on stabling the wounded animal."
Sep 27, 2012 Tigress killed, hacked into pieces at Arunachal zoo: "Itanagar: A tigress was killed and hacked into pieces in her enclosure by poachers at Itanagar zoo on Tuesday. The poachers broke in and killed the six-year-old tigress on Tuesday night reportedly taking advantage of the absence of the three guards on duty."
Sep 27, 2012 Rashtrapati Bhawan asks for return of gifts taken by private family trust of Pratibha Patil: "The President's Secretariat has taken steps to recover return gifts received by former President Pratibha Patil in her official capacity as President of India", "Former President Pratibha Patil was embroiled in a controversy over misuse of the highest office of the nation for leisure and pleasure of her family members, relatives and friends by undertaking expensive official trips costing more than Rs 200 crore"
Sep 27, 2012 CBI to probe RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder: "The case has been transferred to the CBI after the Gujarat Police gave a clean chit to BJP MP Dinu Solanki in February this year."
Sep 27, 2012 J&K Deputy CM uses 25 official cars: RTI: "As per a government order, a minister is entitled to two vehicles - one for himself and his guards and the other for his personal staff."
Sep 27, 2012 UP: HC questions 24-hour power supply to VIP districts: "The districts include Amethi, Raebareli, Etawah, Kannauj, Mainpuri and Ramnagar."
Sep 25, 2012 Can political parties put good economics over bad politics?: "The Congress and the BJP debate if good economics can be put over bad politics by the political parties."
Sep 25, 2012 Three reasons why Barfi! is an Oscar dud: "One, there’s little that is original about Barfi!. Blatant plagiarism aside, there’s nothing wrong with making a Bollywood movie “inspired” by Western genres or plot lines."
Sep 25, 2012 India is like a boat without a sailor: Modi: "“The PM doesn’t speak… or he cannot speak… or he doesn’t have anything to speak… Imagine, friends, the country is like a boat without sailor,”"
Sep 23, 2012 Scams in Air India: SC notice to Centre on plea for CBI, SIT probe: "probe into alleged irregularities, including purchase of aircraft for the national carrier and giving up of profit making routes to private airlines, when Praful Patel was Civil Aviation Minister."
Sep 23, 2012 AP land sold to firm at Re 1 per acre: "The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) allegedly sold 100 acres of land at Mambattu village in Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district, at the rate of Re 1 per acre to Apache Footwear India Pvt Ltd, a Singapore-based footwear company in March 2010, when K Rosaiah was Andhra Pradesh chief minister."
Sep 23, 2012 Akhilesh Yadav government to withdraw criminal cases against over 3000 SP workers: "the SP government is withdrawing criminal cases not only against its party leaders but also against mafia-turned-politicians like Abhay Singh, Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra. fact, Singh, Ansari and Mishra won elections from inside jail."
Sep 23, 2012 Who’s running Birsa Vihar? - JTDC boss unaware outsourced firm already on board: "Situated on the Main Road, bang opposite Ranchi Club, it was shut down in 2007 after a costly makeover, mismanagement and allegations of funds bungling."
Sep 23, 2012 ‘For 15-20 years now, we have been attending the elongated funeral rites of the parliamentary system’: "former telecom minister Arun Shourie says it’s important for Parliament to function and that he is worried about the state of the economy"
Sep 23, 2012 Is the UPA a lameduck government?: "Mulayam and Mayawati are likely to support the UPA to avoid a snap poll while the BJP says the government will not last till 2014."
Sep 23, 2012 UPA spends Rs 100 cr for image makeover campaign: "After singers like Kailash Kher, the government is also planning to rope in other big names for its TVCs."
Sep 23, 2012 The Rs 16,653 cr lie at heart of govt’s diesel price justification: "If we were to apportion the subsidies paid in proportion to their private shareholdings, you will find that non-government private institutions and retail investors bailed out the government to the tune of Rs 16,653 crore."
Sep 23, 2012 Caught on cam: Women slapped, dragged by Raj police: "The police slapped and dragged women for no reason after a family alleged that the police tried to cremate the body of one of their family members without taking them into confidence.", "the question remains unanswered whether there was an attempt by the police to hush up a crime."
Sep 23, 2012 No justice for the poor in Hisar: "They refuse to conduct his final rites. A father who could not bear to see his daughter’s trauma when a 16 year old was abducted and gang raped and then threatened into silence until an MMS clip of the horrific crime surfaced."
Sep 23, 2012 India shocked, Mumbai shamed: "Unaware of the intentions of her savage tormentors this Class 9 student was assaulted, stripped in public and paraded by four women all in a brutal backlash to a feud with her mother."
Sep 23, 2012 Kin of man found dead accuse cop: "The family of a 31-year-old man has alleged that he succumbed to injuries after being beaten up by a Delhi police constable in custody last week."
Sep 23, 2012 Coal Min Jaiswal faces public ire: "In Kanpur, agitated traders tried to stop Union Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal's cavalcade, waiving blackflags, shouting slogans and even hurling shoes at his car. However, Jaiswal drove away from the scene."
Sep 23, 2012 After the violence, the unease: "the police immediately took shelter in the main office, where 20 people were crammed into a space not wider than an elevator. Eyewitnesses claim the mob torched buildings next to the police station and then assaulted the main office. “We were crammed there and the crowd was trying to get in. With no option, we opened fire and it was only then that they dispersed,”, "“First our business was ruined, several shops were looted, some even burned."
Sep 15, 2012 2437 murders in 6 months, UP CM admits crisis: "The initial euphoria after Akhilesh Yadav's victory in elections has been replaced by a fear of the return of the 'gunda raj'."
Sep 15, 2012 Iron ore export scam: CBI registers five cases, searches: "Spelling more trouble for BJP MLA G Janardhan Reddy, the CBI has registered five new cases in illegal iron ore exports worth Rs 2,500 crore and carried out searches at 17 locations including on the premises of associates of the jailed mining baron today."
Sep 15, 2012 Two IAS officers charged with corruption: "a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against IAS officers N Mathivanan and C Kamaraj and other state government officials."
Sep 15, 2012 MoD's directive to Army officers: "After Tatra scam, the Defence Ministry is now mulling over restricting Army officers from joining as consultants with arms traders. In the recent years, a large number of Defence personnel have joined these kinds of firms."
Sep 15, 2012 K'taka: Touring MLAs return, cost state Rs 4 cr: "The tour came at a time when the state was reeling under a severe drought and the MLAs refused to return despite pleas from the CM."
Sep 14, 2012 Provide list of corrupt officials: Himachal court: "The Himachal Pradesh high court has directed the state's chief secretary to furnish a list of government functionaries involved in corruption and moral turpitude cases over the past 10 years."
Sep 14, 2012 Scams spread, scamsters get bolder: "People feel corruption is not only deep-rooted but institutionalised as well"
Sep 14, 2012 ‘Bureaucratic corruption is more rampant than political corruption’: "How to Clean Up India deals with the eternal question haunting India today: why are we so corrupt?"
Sep 14, 2012 Police Transport Organisation (PTO) reeks of corruption: "senior police officers claim the allegations levelled by suspended head constable K N Giri Prasad Sharma about corrupt practices at the Police Transport Organisation (PTO) are indeed true."
Sep 14, 2012 Large cash market main driver of corruption: RBI
Sep 14, 2012 Deputy collector, aide held for taking bribe: "The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Pune, on Wednesday night arrested a deputy collector and his assistant for taking a Rs 2 lakh bribe to clear a file regarding a land deal"
Sep 14, 2012 Our MPs pay peanuts for breakfast, lunch at Parliament House canteen: "The subsidies involve telephone calls, air and rail fares, housing, water, electricity, personal assistants, DA, TA, the lot. An average MP gets a salary of Rs 80,000, taxfree."
Sep 14, 2012 Coalgate: Action against small players in a big scam?: "Government on Thursday accepted the Inter-Ministerial Group's recommendations to cancel allocations to 4 companies for 8 coal blocks."
Sep 14, 2012 Stop giving absurd solutions: HC to Nirmal Baba: "Asking self-styled godman Nirmal Baba to stop giving "absurd" or "illogical" solutions to his disciples"
Sep 14, 2012 Narendra Modi calls Congress 'coal thief': "The Gujarat Chief Minister said the AICC means All India Coal Congress."
Sep 14, 2012 Wake up govt, smell the coffee, the world has changed
Sep 14, 2012 The Enemy Within: "The complicity of some J&K policemen in militancy-related activities has now become an issue of major concern, as modules operating with their help have been particularly difficult to identify and neutralize."
Sep 14, 2012 Aseem Trivedi out on bail, govt yet to drop sedition charge: "Cartoonist and anti-corruption activist Aseem Trivedi is out on bail. But the government is yet to drop the sedition charge slapped against him."
Sep 14, 2012 Is the state intolerant towards public protests?: "Dramatic scenes in Madhya Pradesh as the state used force to evict a group of villagers protesting in neck deep water."
Sep 14, 2012 Bihar: Police manhandle accused, caught on camera: "While taking the accused on a rickshaw, a policemen sat with his feet on the chest of the man."
Sep 14, 2012 How the police selectively draw the line: "The latest controversy surrounding the sedition case against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has left the Mumbai Police with egg on its face. It has also exposed the force’s double standards and its misplaced priorities while dealing with complaints. Surely the police cannot believe that Trivedi’s cartoons pose a greater threat than MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s constant tirades against north Indians?"
Sep 12, 2012 Wikipedia: Indian Coal Allocation Scam
Sep 12, 2012 Mulayam dubs Congress as scam-tainted: "Every day a new scam unfolds."
Sep 12, 2012 HC order highlights scam in Haryana jobs: "quashing the recruitment of 1983 physical training instructors in schools"
Sep 12, 2012 देखिए कोयला घोटाले का सबसे बड़ा सच...: "आजतक के हाथ लगी है सीबीआई की एफआईआर. इस एफआईआर के मुताबिक, कोल ब्लॉक के आवंटन में दर्डा और उनकी कंपनियों ने झूठ और फर्जी दस्तावेजों का सहारा लिया. सबसे चौंकानेवाली बात तो यह है कि तत्कालीन कोयला राज्यमंत्री संतोष बागरोड़िया को इन सबके बारे में पता था, फिर भी उन्होंने कोयला खदान का आवंटन इन्हें होने दिया."
Sep 12, 2012 Shocking defence, shocking inaction: "An absolutely bizarre defence by Jammu and Kashmir's Irrigation Minister Taj Mohiuddin after his bodyguards bloodied a cop for daring to do his duty. Traffic policeman Mohan Lal, said, "The PSOs got out of the vehicle and started fighting with my subordinate. One of the PSO tried to hit me with a rifle when I stopped him another PSO hit me with an AK 47 and I got injured.""
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India cartoonist Aseem Trivedi freed from jail on bail: "Mr Trivedi said his "battle against sedition law and oppressive behaviour by the government will continue". "
Sep 12, 2012 Coalgate: Another Jindal company under scanner: "Congress MP Naveen Jindal has claimed that he has nothing to do with the company that was served a notice."
Sep 12, 2012 MIT is No. 1 among world's 100 top universities, not a single Indian varsity among hundred
Sep 12, 2012 FTN: Are benami transactions bedrock of electoral politics?: "An exhaustive survey done by association for democratic reforms which shows how political parties are consistently increasing their wealth."
Sep 12, 2012 Can drawing a cartoon be seen as an anti-national act?: "Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi refuses bail till the sedition law is repealed, sent to jail till the September 24."
Sep 12, 2012 Watch: IAC members try to storm Scindia's meet: "The IAC members were denied intro into the venue of Jyotiraditya Scindia's press conference, following which they shouted slogans."

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