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Sep 12, 2012 The Last Word: Should the sedition law be scrapped?: "The sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been dropped. But do we also need formal guidelines or regulations for the media?"
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India sedition cartoon: Court grants Aseem Trivedi bail: "In one of his cartoons, the customary three lions in India's national emblem are replaced with three wolves, their teeth dripping blood, with the message "Long live corruption" written underneath. Another cartoon depicts the Indian parliament as a giant toilet bowl."
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India cartoonist Aseem Trivedi's arrest sparks outrage: "The arrest of an Indian anti-corruption cartoonist on sedition charges has sparked widespread criticism."
Sep 12, 2012 The Telegraph: Indian cartoonist jailed for mocking corruption: "A political cartoonist whose drawings mock Indian government corruption has been jailed in a sedition investigation that was widely condemned as evidence of political leaders' growing intolerance of criticism."
Sep 12, 2012 Sad that corruption is prevalent in India: Dalai Lama
Sep 12, 2012 The Star: Indian cartoonist’s arrest on sedition charges sparks outcry
Sep 12, 2012 Our gold-plated culture of corruption
Sep 11, 2012 The Vancouver Sun: Political cartoonist who criticized Indian gov't corruption jailed in sedition investigation
Sep 11, 2012 Cartoonist who criticized corruption in India jailed
Sep 11, 2012 The Gazette: Political cartoonist who criticized Indian gov't corruption jailed in sedition investigation: "as evidence of political leaders' growing intolerance of criticism."
Sep 11, 2012 India: turning gloomy
Sep 11, 2012 Survey: Indians disappointed with economy, gov’t
Sep 11, 2012 The Globe and Mail: Cartoonist jailed on sedition charges: "An Indian cartoonist detained on sedition charges for his satirical drawings highlighting widespread corruption among India’s political elite has been jailed for two weeks, rekindling a fierce debate on freedom of speech in the world’s largest democracy."
Sep 11, 2012 The Guardian: Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi jailed after arrest on sedition charges: "Satirist whose drawings highlighted corruption among India's political elite imprisoned for two weeks after refusing bail"
Sep 10, 2012 Ex-coal minister Bagrodia’s brother got hefty mining contract: "PSU power giant National Thermal Power Corporation awarded a coal mine contract worth over Rs 23,000 crore to a joint venture company in which 10% shares are held by the family of former coal minister Santosh Bagrodia."
Sep 10, 2012 10 ways how doctors in India loot patients: "I recently had a chat with some doctors, surgeons and owners of nursing homes about the tricks of their trade. Here is what they said 1) 40-60% kickbacks for lab tests."
Sep 10, 2012 Gulags like Gurap: "During her two years at the Gurap home for women, Gayatri Devi saw a friend get murdered, many others die to be clandestinely taken away for burial, children denied milk and enough food, and women made to “pay” electricians and plumbers with their bodies."
Sep 10, 2012 Bizarre Sedition Charge Against Anti-Corruption Cartoonist: "Trivedi has for the moment refused to hire a lawyer and does not intend to apply for bail: "I want to first see how a British-era law like sedition is going to be applied against a cartoonist in free India.""
Sep 10, 2012 Cartoonist's arrest: 'Politicians are creating climate of fear': "Famous cartoonist Hemant Morparia has come out in support of Aseem Trivedi saying that his arrest is a proof of the increasing high-handedness of the state."
Sep 10, 2012 Watch: Aseem Trivedi's arrest sparks nationwide outrage: "While the Press Council has called the charges against the cartoonist ridiculous, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that police custody was not needed."
Sep 10, 2012 Woman gang-raped by policemen in Uttarakhand: "she was molested by a group of policemen who stopped the car in which she was travelling along with acquaintances in Roorkee's Gangnahar area on Saturday night. Two of the police constables later gang-raped her, she alleged."
Sep 10, 2012 Arrest cops, politicians behind cartoonist Trivedi's ordeal, Justice Katju says: ""Because under Section 342 of the PIC, wrongful arrest and confinement are serious criminal offences ... If you are arresting a person who has not committed a crime, then you are committing a crime. So, these politicians and these police officers should be arrested and made to face trial,""
Sep 10, 2012 Political parties log Rs 4,662 cr income: "of Rs 2,008 crore followed by BJP at Rs 994 crore"
Sep 9, 2012 A Raja is still telecom minister, says DoT website: "A Raja, the disgraced DMK member of Parliament, may have been divested of the communications portfolio as far back as November 2010 and spent more than a year -- from February 2011 to May 2012 -- in jail for his role in the infamous 2G spectrum scam. He may have been out on bail since May 2012. His trusted aide and personal assistant, RK Chandolia, too may have spent time in jail at the same time for having been hand in glove with him. By any yardstick, the duo should be persona non grata in anything to do with the government, but not with the department that they brought infamy to."
Sep 9, 2012 Textbook case of crony capitalism: "Mail Today has been at the forefront of cracking the code on the Manoj Jayaswal-Darda extended family working in cahoots to grab coal blocks"
Sep 9, 2012 Cartoonist targets corruption, sent to police custody
Sep 9, 2012 HC notice to govt on alleged corruption in Vidarbha irrigation works: "alleging massive corruption in the execution of irrigation projects in Vidarbha region."
Sep 9, 2012 SINGH A TRAGIC KING! Manmohan Singh A Sitting Duck PM Who Presides Over Corrupt Government, Says Washington Post: "The story came close on the heels of Manmohan Singh being dubbed an “underachiever” by Time magazine"
Sep 9, 2012 Tytler let his police escorts get beaten up: DCP: "Three policemen were allegedly attacked by Congressmen when they were escorting Jagdish Tytler inside Congress Bhawan."
Sep 9, 2012 Odisha violence fallout: "Three days after violence outside the Orissa assembly the police have booked Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for criminal conspiracy."
Sep 9, 2012 Inexcusable blunder by WB Govt: "In a shocking case of disrespect to the Indian flag West Bengal government has handed out class 2 textbooks with the Tricolour printed upside down. But what is even more shocking is that the teachers in Mamata Banerjee's West Bengal continue to swear by it refusing to correct this inexcusable blunder by the state Govt."
Sep 9, 2012  Hyde And Seek Dabbu-dabbu-dabbu. That’s Hyderabad talk for how the city’s become the scam capital.: "going by the number of VIPs currently lodged in Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad, the joke is the police will soon be placing orders for gilded plates of biriyani. There are at least 10 “special” prisoners, all accused in various scams—Jaganmohan Reddy, of course, remains the star visitor, followed closely by industrialists, bureaucrats, a former minister and now judges as well."
Sep 9, 2012 After men, society raped me, again and again: "While seeking justice, rape victims battle a system that is often prejudiced against them at every step."
Sep 9, 2012 गर्भाशय कांड: जवाब ढूंढती सरकार..: "हालांकि कुछ प्रभावित ग्रामीण इलाक़ों में घूमते हुए ज़्यादातर लोगों से मैंने यही सुना कि योजनाओं को लूट से बचाने वाला नहीं, लूट मचाने वाला ज़्यादा ताक़तवर हो गया है."
Sep 9, 2012 जेल में हैं तो क्या हुआ, हम वीआईपी हैं...: "वकीलों ने उन्हें अदालत से विशेष कैदी का दर्जा दिलवाया है जिसके चलते वो अलग कमरों में मनपसंद खाना बनवाने की सुविधा सहित रहते हैं, मानो अपने घर में हों."
Sep 9, 2012 Mumbai: Cartoonist arrested for 'mocking Parliament': "Aseem Trivedi, who depicted Parliament as a commode and showed the national emblem with wolves, has been charged with sedition."
Sep 9, 2012 CBI probe points to criminal conspiracy by Coal Ministry officials: "a criminal conspiracy hatched by Coal Ministry officials along with certain functionaries of the Power Ministry and State governments in accepting and pursuing forged documents from tainted companies, including that of Congress MP Vijay Darda-linked JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited, for fraudulent allocation of coal blocks."
Sep 9, 2012 Mumbai: IAC activist Aseem Trivedi arrested on charges of sedition: "Trivedi has been sent to a week of police custody for allegedly posting 'ugly and obscene' content on his web portal."
Sep 7, 2012 Ministers’ kin landing coal blocks adds to UPA woes: "Documents show that besides the kin of Union tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai and Congress MP Vijay Darda, relatives of Union minister of state Jagatrakshakan (of the DMK) and RJD's Prem Gupta, corporate affairs minister in UPA-1, were also allotted coal blocks"
Sep 7, 2012 PSU promised TN mantri’s firm coal at Rs 25 per tonne: "The state-owned Puducherry Industrial Promotion Development Corporation (PIPDIC) entered into a memorandum of understanding with J R Power Gen Private Limited, owned by Union minister S Jagathrakshakan's family, to sell coal at a throwaway price of Rs 25 per tonne even before it was allotted a coal block"
Sep 7, 2012 Explained: All you wanted to know about the coal scam: "Between 1993 and 2011, the government of India gave away 206 coal blocks for free to government and private companies."
Sep 7, 2012 Orchestrated scam in merchant power projects, captive coal blocks and PSU bank loans?: "There seemed to be an orchestrated move towards benefitting a few influential private companies backed by individuals to exploit land and coal resources with the help of the public moneys raised by PSU banks, alleged EAS Sarma, the former secretary with the GoI"
Sep 7, 2012 Sunanda K Datta-Ray: City of dreadful scams: "Both were worrying long before the CNNGo finding that Delhi is the world’s third worst “scam city” and “full of cons”."
Sep 7, 2012 Coalgate: Whole world is discussing your corrupt practices, BJP tells PM Manmohan Singh: ""Tere Bhrashtachar ke charche har zubaan par, sabko maalum hai, aur sabko khabar ho gayi"."
Sep 7, 2012 ‘Protect ordinary citizens from corrupt officials’: "In India, unfortunately, not only is there corruption at the highest levels, but the ordinary citizen too faces harassment from corrupt petty officials."
Sep 7, 2012 Cash-for-bail scam: Second chargesheet filed by Anti-Corruption Bureau: "The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today filed a second chargesheet in the cash-for-bail scam case against seven persons including former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, two Karnataka MLAs and two suspended judges."
Sep 7, 2012 No bail for corrupt politicians if we win elections: Kejriwal
Sep 7, 2012 PM's involvement proved: Jaitley: "Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, on Friday (September 7) spoke exclusively to TIMES NOW, and said the Prime Minister's direct involvement in the decision making has been proved and the new revelations will take the scandal to the next level."
Sep 7, 2012 One month, 5 explosive disclosures: "We began with exposing the delay in the tabling the CAG report in Parliament, and then went to the root on Coalgate, bringing you the screening commitee papers. The more we investigated, the deeper the links of nepotism and impropreity ran. And today, TIMES NOW brings you the biggest expose on Coalgate- the PMO internal note."
Sep 7, 2012 Congress Mob Brutalises Woman Cop in Odisha: "Congress workers chase away a policewoman during a protest over coal blocks allocation in Bhubaneswar."
Sep 6, 2012 Are political rallies being reduced to goondaism?: "Protests over coal blocks allocation turned violent in Odisha when several thousand Congress workers clashed with police."
Sep 6, 2012 After inaction, an outrageous defence: ""Just because the whole country says trip must be cancelled. It cannot be cancelled." If the inaction wasn't infuriating enough, there now comes this outrageous justification for the Karnataka Government's refusal to act."
Sep 6, 2012 Gadkari aide was alloted a coal block: Jairam Ramesh: "Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has now dragged BJP president Nitin Gadkari into the coal block allocation scam."
Sep 6, 2012 Question over DMK's Jagathrakshakan: "Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting & DMK leader, S Jagathrakshkan, is in the dock over Coalgate. TIMES NOW exposes the central minister's link to coal block allocations. The minister is alleged to have helped his company get coal block allocations in Odisha."
Sep 6, 2012 बिहार में घात और घपले का सियाह कारनामा: "सरकारी बीमा योजना मुफ़्त में इलाज जैसी राहत देने के बजाय आफ़त बनकर आई."
Sep 6, 2012 CBI clerk, seven others sent to jail for fraud: "A special court here Thursday sent to 14 days judicial custody a CBI data entry operator and seven others for allegedly hacking the bank account of the probe agency's officials and misusing Rs.1.5 crore."
Sep 6, 2012 Coalgate: Norm violated by govt to favour Jindal: "Documents show how Congress MP Naveen Jindal was given a coal block while the government Navratna Coal India Ltd was refused."
Sep 6, 2012 Have our MPs brought disrepute to Parliament?: "Members of Parliament from the BSP and the SP come to blows in the Rajya Sabha over the bill for promotion quota for SCs and STs."
Sep 6, 2012 In neck-deep water for days, villagers demand land: "The villagers in Madhya Pradesh have been protesting in neck-deep water for almost two weeks now"
Sep 6, 2012 Animals clean 5 lakh toilets, Supreme Court told: "With the government introducing a bill to prohibit employment of manual scavengers in Parliament on Monday, it would be left to animals - pigs and dogs - to clean dry toilets in the rural areas.", "of a total 24.6 crore households in India, over 26 lakh toilets were termed insanitary as they discharged excreta directly into open drains (13.14 lakh toilets) or were cleaned manually or serviced by animals (12.91). The census figures showed Delhi had 583 toilets cleaned by manual scavengers and 633 'serviced by animals'"
Sep 6, 2012 CAG nails power mess, loss up to Rs 14,000 crore: "According to the CAG, due to the inefficiency of the NHPC, only two of 16 planned projects have been completed."
Sep 6, 2012 The Washington Post: India’s ‘silent’ prime minister becomes a tragic figure: "Attendees at meetings and conferences were jokingly urged to put their phones into “Manmohan Singh mode,” while one joke cited a dentist urging the seated prime minister, “At least in my clinic, please open your mouth.”"
Sep 5, 2012 NRI businessman offers Rs 1 cr prize for garland of shoes for Raj Thackeray: "London based NRI Anshuman Mishra has offered Rs 1 crore prize money to anyone who puts a garland of shoes on MNS chief Raj Thackrey."
Sep 5, 2012 WB: Vice Principal arrested for beating students: "The Vice Principal hit the students with a fire extinguisher while they were decorating the classroom for the Teachers Day celebrations."
Sep 5, 2012 धरती पर अबतक नहीं उतरा ‘आकाश’: नरेंद्र मोदी
Sep 5, 2012 Jagannath Temple Sevayats: From petty harassment to big time murder: "Harassment and loot of devotees is now passé. A section of the sevayats (servitors) in the holy Jagannath Temple in Puri has now graduated to bigger things: land deals, drug peddling, politics and even murder."
Sep 5, 2012 SP, BSP MPs scuffle in Rajya Sabha over quota: "Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Aggarwal and Bahujan Samaj Party MP Avtar Singh Karimpuri pushed each other in the Rajya Sabha."
Sep 5, 2012 Watch: MPs fight, push each other in Rajya Sabha over quota: "SP MP Naresh Aggarwal and BSP MP Avtar Singh Karampuri pushed each other in the Rajya Sabha while fighting over the SC/ST Quota Bill."
Sep 5, 2012 US paper calls Manmohan Singh a 'tragic figure': "Taking a potshot at the PM, the Opposition said that Manmohan Singh's image has demolished badly."
Sep 5, 2012 Shettar pulls up MLAs holidaying abroad: "Jagadish Shettar has asked a dozen legislators who were holidaying abroad to return home immediately."
Sep 5, 2012 नाकाम प्रधानमंत्री कहलाए जाएँगे मनमोहन?: "ये छवि है एक ऐसे प्रभावहीन नौकरशाह की जो भ्रष्टाचार से डूबी सरकार का नेतृत्व कर रहा है."
Sep 5, 2012 Washington Post calls Manmohan as a 'tragic figure': "Even as the Time magazine termed him as an ‘underachiever’, the Washington Post targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday quoting his dramatic fall from grace in his second term in the office following the slow but steady tarnishing of his reputation. The magazine further quoted “the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat has slowly given way to a completely different one: a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government.”"
Sep 5, 2012 Government to seek apology from Washington Post for calling Manmohan a 'tragic figure': "US daily that published an article calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a "tragic figure".", "He has been described as "a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government"."
Sep 5, 2012 Watch: How politicians have shamed India: "Let us take a look at some of the worst performances by our legislators and parliamentarians."
Sep 5, 2012 Railway cop, friend rape 20-year-old in New Delhi station room: "the two accused convinced the victim to come with them to a second-floor waiting room in the VIP arena of the station, near the international tourist information office. They took her to room 201 and raped her there"
Sep 5, 2012 CVC examining ex-IA chief's letter alleging scam in civil aviation ministry: "the former chairman-and-managing director of Indian Airlines, to the then cabinet secretary alleging that the national carrier was arm-twisted into taking several decisions that led to the financial crisis in the company."
Sep 4, 2012 CM comes clean on 'corrupt' colleagues: "Seven out of 15 politicians, who served as ministers and were chargesheeted for corruption, have been acquitted during the past 12 years"
Sep 4, 2012 Pune: Police raid a party, face criticism: "Over 300 people, mostly students, were detained in a party where alcohol was allegedly being served without a permit."
Sep 4, 2012 CBI raids Cong, BJP-linked firms, files 5 coal FIRs: "The CBI conducted raids at 30 locations in 11 cities, including Nagpur, Kolkata, Bhilai, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR"
Sep 4, 2012 TN: Court to hear bail plea of Alagiri's son: "The police had issued a look out notice against him and several others for their alleged roles in the multi-crore granite mining scam."
Sep 4, 2012 Mining baron's cos named in CBI FIR: "There are shockwaves after mining baron Manoj Jaiswal's companies were found to be among those named in the CBI FIR on Coalgate today (September 4). However, the Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal distanced himself from Manoj Jaiswal after CBI filed the FIR."
Sep 4, 2012 Karnataka CM cancels MLAs' study tour: "Facing public outcry over legislators undertaking a foreign trip when the state is hit by drought, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today ordered the cancellation of an overseas "study" tour by a legislature committee and asked them to return."
Sep 4, 2012 BBC: 'Coalgate' row: India police raid coal firms: "Government officials and company employees are also under investigation. State auditors say India lost $33bn (£20bn) allotting coalfields at below market rates in the years up to 2009."
Sep 4, 2012 GAIL Gave Rs 246 Cr Undue Benefit to Pvt Power Cos: CAG: "GAIL was also criticised for failure to check subsidised gas being used by fertiliser companies for manufacturing non-fertiliser products."
Sep 4, 2012 Tucked away in bushes, knives and iron rods: "It is suspected that either a few students or outside miscreants hid the weapons on the premises, in order to create a ruckus when the college reopened after its student elections."
Sep 4, 2012 Akhilesh govt transfers over 400 engineers on party leaders’ orders: "In a move considered unprecedented even by the political benchmarks of Uttar Pradesh, more than 400 junior engineers in the state’s Public Works Department were transferred last month in violation of the Akhilesh Yadav government’s new transfer policy, a majority of them on the recommendation of Samajwadi Party politicians."
Sep 3, 2012 Coal Scam Blackening Country's Face: Modi
Sep 3, 2012 Why was the delay for 5 years?: "TIMES NOW unearths former MoS Coal Dasari Naryana Rao's reply in the Lok Sabha in 2007, revealing how the government had rejected the state government's objections against the allocation procedure in 2007. It has raised fresh questions on the Coal Ministry's role and the reasons for the delay."
Sep 3, 2012 Two ex-ministers convicted in corruption cases in Odisha: CM: "Two former ministers have been convicted in disproportionate assets and corruption cases during last 12 years in Odisha even as the anti-corruption vigilance wing filed chargesheets against 13 ex-ministers and incumbent panchayati raj minister."
Sep 3, 2012 Activists Against Corruption Claim Police Harassment: "Failing to put these blocks up for auction caused India of loss of nearly $34 billion in revenues, according to the country’s chief auditor."
Sep 3, 2012 Department clean chit can't save corrupt from trial: SC: "The Supreme Court has ruled that officials caught taking bribe shall be subjected to criminal trial regardless of in-house inquiry absolving them of corruption charge."
Sep 3, 2012 Tango dances vs drought hit citizens: "After TIMES NOW exposed that the Karnataka MLAs' 'study trip' to South America is nothing but an all expense-paid holiday funded by the tax payers' money, the chorus has grown to call back the MLAs from their trip."
Sep 3, 2012 देश की मुंह पर कालिख पोत रहा कोयला घोटाला: मोदी
Sep 3, 2012 TIMES NOW accesses original coal note: "Eight years back, a 6-page note written by the Coal Secretary to the Minister had called for competitive bidding, warning the government of windfall gains to private companies, lack of transperancy and objectivity in the allocation process. It also mentioned that the process could lead to different kinds of pressure in allocation of the blocks."
Sep 3, 2012 The Last Word: How do India's top business leaders view the govt?: "It seems clear that Parliament will not function and the hope of reforms to revive the economy could remain unfulfilled."
Sep 3, 2012 Kolkata faces dengue outbreak, govt apathetic: "Two patients have succumbed in the past fortnight and government and private hospitals are flooded with dengue patients."
Sep 3, 2012 Encephalitis back in UP, 21 dead in 3 days: "So far, 241 encephalitis deaths have been reported since the beginning of the year."
Sep 3, 2012 WB: Book criticises Mamata, publisher raided: "Dr Nazrul Islam, in his book 'Musalmander ki Karaniya', has indirectly criticised Mamata's minority politics."
Sep 2, 2012 Corruption allegations plague Thane road project: "officially known as Barrister Nath Pai road, is tarred with allegations of inflated project costs, corruption and collusion between Thane civic officials, contractors and politicians."
Sep 2, 2012 Coal scam: UPA govt is a national security risk, says Yashwant Sinha

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