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Apr 28, 2012 BBC: India's former BJP chief Laxman sentenced to four years for bribery: "In the 2001 video, reporters posing as arms dealers offered Laxman 100,000 rupees ($1,900; £1,170) as a bribe for a military contract. Laxman was seen taking the bribe."
Apr 28, 2012 The disastrous presidency of Pratibha Devisingh Patil: "The previous low point that the office of the president witnessed was when the seventh president of India, Giani Zail Singh, clashed with then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He had also famously said that he was willing to become a sweeper but was asked by his leader (Indira Gandhi) to become the president of India."
Apr 28, 2012 Smoking Guns: Eating Out Of A Foreign Hand: "Many Indian politicians carelessly compare cancer to our political system without realising they are part of it."
Apr 28, 2012 ‘Whistleblower’ biotechnologist shown the door: "documents accessed by Roy using RTI, include alleged diversion of 11th five year plan money allocated to NIPER and drawing pension from the institute under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research he was earlier employed with, as well as drawing full salary from NIPER."
Apr 28, 2012 1984 victim brings alive Sajjan's riot act: "“I saw Sajjan Kumar standing in a police vehicle telling the mob, ‘Ek bhi sardar zinda nahi bachna chahiye. In sardaron ko maro, inhone hamari maa ko maara hain’ (Don’t spare a single Sikh. Kill them, as they killed our mother),” Nirpreet said."
Apr 28, 2012 Bangaru Laxman brought to Tihar jail: "72-year-old Laxman has been lodged in jail number 4 in the same ward where sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi had been kept"
Apr 28, 2012 Court jails Bangaru, says corruption worse than prostitution: "Eleven years after having been caught in a sting operation, former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was today awarded four years rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court for taking Rs 1 lakh as bribe in a fictitious defence deal case."
Apr 28, 2012 How the black economy subverts India’s politics: "If you go by the audited balance sheet of the Congress for 2009-10 (the latest available), the answer is Rs 525.97 crore.", "A lot of the black money which evades tax washes up at the doorstep of political parties. The resultant quid pro quo between politicians, business and middlemen lies at the root of land, mining and natural resource scams in India."
Apr 24, 2012 AP govt delaying IAS officer's prosecution in land scam: CBI: "The CBI today accused the Andhra Pradesh government of "intentionally" delaying the process to grant sanction to prosecute suspended IAS officer B P Acharya, prime accused in the APIIC-Emaar township case."
Apr 24, 2012 So retro, so UPA: "Forcing doctors to return from the US shows a state wanting to control, not cure"
Apr 24, 2012 UP food scam: Senior Congress leaders under the scanner: "Some of the party's senior state leaders are set to be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the 35,000-crore foodgrains scam. Late on Monday night, the investigating agency arrested Daljeet Singh Chaudhary, a member of the All India Congress Committee, in connection with the scam."
Apr 24, 2012 India helicopter deal: Italy probes Euro 51 mn ‘payoff’: "Italy is investigating whether a commission of 51 million Euros was paid by helicopter manufacturer Agusta Westland to a Switzerland-based consultant for a deal to sell 12 VVIP helicopters to India."
Apr 24, 2012 BBC: Congress Party leader quits over India tape row: "Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has resigned as the party's spokesman after a video allegedly showing him having sex with a woman was distributed on social networking sites."
Apr 24, 2012 ‘Can you imagine... no one from India met the real investigators of gun deal?’: "former Swedish police head Sten Lindstrom shared key information with journalist Chitra Subramaniam-Duella (The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Statesman) on the Bofors-India deal."
Apr 24, 2012 Bofors ‘Deep Throat’ reveals all: How Rajiv protected Quattrocchi: "Rajiv Gandhi did not personally take a bribe but allowed a massive cover-up aimed to protecting Ottavio Quattrocchi"
Apr 24, 2012 Foodgrain set to rot, storage problem in sight: "If the estimates are accurate, the FCI and state agencies may have to manage the highest ever stock levels this year."
Apr 24, 2012 50 pc of world's pneumonia deaths in India: "3,70,000 Indian children die of pneumonia annually and 60,00,000 children are affected by it every year."
Apr 24, 2012 WB: Woman alleges rape by police officer: "The woman claimed that she was forcibly called by the Officer in charge (OC) to the police station and then raped."
Apr 23, 2012 CISA Annual Lecture: "Is There an Indian Style of Corruption?": "I especially want to explore "big" corruption in India, the recent major scams (such as 2G, Satyam, Commonwealth Games) and the colossal corruption numbers quoted to me in many major Indian cities that I visited this winter, involving land deals, corporate pay-offs, state to center black money flows etc"
Apr 23, 2012 Police in Indian state where Denyse died accused of massive corruption: ""Police are extremely corrupt out there. It's institutionalised corruption.", ""If you break the law, police officers will ask for your wallet and take the money."
Apr 23, 2012 Kalki Koechlin against corruption: ""Corruption is prevalent everywhere in India"
Apr 23, 2012 CBI blames Sajjan Kumar for riots: "The CBI on Monday (April 23) concluded final arguments in Delhi cantonment riots case against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. The investigative agency told a Delhi Court that the Congress leader incited violence in the 1984 riots."
Apr 23, 2012 Uttar Pradesh: Girl burnt alive by molesters: "An 18-year-old girl was allegedly burnt alive by four boys who had earlier molested her."
Apr 23, 2012 Sajjan conspired with police during 1984 riots: CBI: ""There was a conspiracy of terrifying proportion with the complicity of police and patronage of local MP Sajjan Kumar,""
Apr 23, 2012 Vidarbha farmer in suicide note: Don't vote for Congress, NCP: ""They (Congress-NCP) will ruin the country,""
Apr 23, 2012 CBI blames Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for 1984 anti-Sikh riots: "The CBI said Sajjan Kumar went about inciting mobs and that the killings in the Delhi cantonment area in 1984 were not spontaneous. Sajjan Kumar allegedly told mobs: Not a single Sikh should survive"
Apr 22, 2012 Taking steps to stamp out corruption in India : "that foreign direct investment into India fell around 35 per cent short of potential because of the policy uncertainty."
Apr 21, 2012 Corruption of spirit far more serious: Jaswant
Apr 21, 2012 Whistle-blower Indian Forest Service faces fresh probe
Apr 21, 2012 pratibha patil Where Mum Is the Word In Amravati, Rajendra Shekhawat’s writ runs on the strength of his mother’s exalted position: "The Amravati Municipal Corporation, say sources, has been rocked by a land scam that could have “cost it nearly Rs 200 crore”. Under the scanner are the city municipal commissioner and collector, both IAS officers, who reportedly connived with a select set of real estate developers to transfer development rights (TDR) in the last two-three years."
Apr 21, 2012 the next president The Giani’s Riot Act : "The Giani, who had no formal secular education, would later say, with evident satisfaction, that he had repaid a debt. Loyal to the Gandhi family, he had at one point caused a furore by asserting that he’d have even accepted the post of a sweeper from Indira."
Apr 21, 2012 EXCLUSIVE investigation: Tatra kolos deal Drops Of Jupiter Tatra spares is just one of Rishi’s ‘businesses’ : "Rishi’s inroads into BEML began with recruiting a string of officers who were asked to take premature retirement from various departments and join him. The late Lt Gen R.I.S. Kahlon was the first to join him after he retired as MGO. On the radar now are Lt Gen (retd) Amarjit Singh, ex-Director General of Quality Assurance, Lt Gen (retd) A. Sehgal and Col (retd) Pushy Oberoi, none of whom are formally on the rolls of any of Rishi’s companies. The most prominent of them currently is ex-BEML employee Ashok Kumar, who now heads the Bangalore office of Vectra Global. The dirt is just beginning to unravel. Just how deep the rot runs, time and further CBI investigation will tell."
Apr 21, 2012 pratibha patil The Tai Of Fizzle - Pratibha Patil leaves no lasting impression on her office: "As President Pratibhatai Patil’s tenure draws to a close, it might be pertinent to ask what her five years in Rashtrapati Bhavan would be best remembered by. Would it be her surprise selection for the job, or her controversial appointment marked by PILs, or her numerous trips abroad that cost the exchequer Rs 205 crore. Or would it be the men in her life—her husband and son—who allegedly leveraged her office to suit themselves?"
Apr 21, 2012 President's retirement home controversy blows up: "Whistleblower ex-Army man alleges he's being targeted for filing RTI. Earlier, an RTI filed by him revealed irregularities in the allotment and construction of President Pratibha Patil's retirement home in Pune. President's home is being built on 5 acres of prime defence land classified as A1."
Apr 21, 2012 MHADA official owns assets worth Rs 200 cr: "Maharashtra Housing Board official Nitesh Thakur allegedly ran a real estate business in his brother's name."
Apr 21, 2012 J'khand: 1 dead as workers of 2 parties clash: "The clashes broke out over awarding of contracts at Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. A mob smashed several vehicles during the violence.", "the cops were present when this entire incident happened and still they could not do anything", "murders for money and these types of clashes are quite common"
Apr 20, 2012 India seeks a President, merit not needed: "It’s that time again. The time when the next President of India will be elected and the lobbying, jostling and campaigning have begun."
Apr 20, 2012 Burning money in the sky: "Recently, the civil aviation ministry announced a Rs 30,000 crore bailout plan for Air India. This, after half a dozen previous bailout plans have not worked."
Apr 19, 2012 The Globe and Mail: Once a beacon of integrity, India's military is in disarray : "Indians wearied by a litany of corruption scandals and failures of government in recent years have been able to take comfort in the fact that one national institution – the armed forces – remained unbesmirched, its reputation for efficiency and integrity intact. No longer. Leaked secret memos, million-dollar bribe allegations, a “near-coup experience” and a bizarre dispute over the army chief’s birthday have badly tarnished the image of the 1.3 million-member fighting force that controls nuclear weapons in a volatile region."
Apr 19, 2012 Market Watch: India’s economic star is fading: "Once-promising nation has only itself to blame"
Apr 19, 2012 Canadian roughed up in melee as Indian police tear down ashram: "three Canadians stood facing the throng of Indian police", "they were acting on behalf of the thoroughly corrupt Allahabad Development Authority, which sent them to demolish a building because he refuses to pay bribes to government officials. "
Apr 19, 2012 Tackling corruption: "Jammu and Kashmir has the dubious distinction of being the second most corrupt state in India"
Apr 19, 2012 Rush makes Mumbai's lifeline a deathline: "Three people died and 15 others got injured after people fell on the tracks due to overcrowding in local train."
Apr 19, 2012 Mumbai: 18 fall off crowded local train, 3 dead: "A technical snag de-railed the Central Line, and worse, over crowding led to three deaths and at least 15 injuries so far."
Apr 19, 2012 FTN: Are TV babas deluding the public?: "The controversies related to TV guru Nirmal Baba doesn't seen to end. In another revelation, the spiritual guru has been accused of purchasing a hotel with the donation money collected from his followers."
Apr 18, 2012 Labour court judge booked for rape, offences under Atrocity Act: "Atique Mohammad Khan (52), a judge of the district labour court, for allegedly raping his domestic help. The cops have also booked Khan under the Prevention of Atrocity (SC/ST) Act."
Apr 18, 2012 Three State Bank of India officials in CBI net for fraud: "A deputy manager of audit section of State Bank of India's zonal office at Kingsway branch is among the three arrested on Tuesday by the anti-corruption wing of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for an alleged 1.44 crore scam in the banks NRI section."
Apr 18, 2012 VIP quota, reason for rail ticket scam: Dinesh Trivedi: "found that VIPs were the source of such frauds."
Apr 18, 2012 The Gandhis’ dynastic dilemma: "The fabled Congress party is finding that the past just doesn’t sell anymore"
Apr 18, 2012 Clash in Meerut jail: "protesting against extortion by jail employees"
Apr 18, 2012 Scientist assaulted, daughter stripped?: "The scientist and his daughter were evicted from their rented house after the assault allegedly over a property dispute. Cops at Baruipur police station allegedly refused to record the victims' complaint or take them to a hospital. The victims approached West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for justice, but allege that no help was offered by her."
Apr 18, 2012 Scientist freed, hits back at Mamata: "A city court granted him bail after 10 days in jail custody. Ray's arrest was condemned by students and rights activists from across the globe. Partha Sarathi Roy says there was a deliberate attempt to harrass him."
Apr 18, 2012 Govt is keeping away foreign investments from India: Parekh: "HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh has lashed out at the government for it's policy flip flops.", "Huge amount of negativity about India among foreign investors"
Apr 18, 2012 Banerjee shiould behave in a more mature manner: Katju: "West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee must learn to function in a democratic and more mature manner as she is no more a street fighter."
Apr 18, 2012 Math for dummies: Why pay Rs 1 cr for a medical seat?: "If you had that kind of money after school, would you even have to work to earn a living?"
Apr 18, 2012 पश्चिम बंगाल में पैसों के लिए गुर्दे बेच रहे हैं लोग: ""कुछ साल पहले मैंने खुद अपना गुर्दा बेचा था. तभी से गाँव में ये खबर फैल गई कि लोग अपने गुर्दे भी बेच सकते हैं. और फिर लोगों ने मुझसे अपने गुर्दे बेचने का आग्रह करना शुरू कर दिया."", "गाँव वाले और खुद रज्जाक ऐसे तमाम मशहूर अस्पतालों का नाम बताते हैं जहां गैरकानूनी तरीके से गुर्दे का प्रत्यारोपण होता है. इन अस्पतालों में मध्य कलकत्ता का एक मशहूर नर्सिंग होम भी शामिल है."
Apr 18, 2012 ACP booked for rape, faces arrest: "Mahabole allegedly shot a video of her in a compromising position and used it to blackmail and sexually exploit her."
Apr 17, 2012 The shocking truth about India's armed forces: "the civil-military cold war in India has thrown into the public domain alarming facts -- from corruption to lack of preparedness."
Apr 17, 2012 Graft charges: Lokayukta for property attachment
Apr 17, 2012 India fines IMI $70m for alleged bribery: "India's Ministry of Defense seized a $70 million bank guarantee from Israel Military Industries."
Apr 17, 2012 Vodafone issues notice to India over tax proposal: "It says the proposal in the budget to tax transactions with retrospective effect amounts to a denial of justice."
Apr 17, 2012 FTN: Are Indian leaders intolerant of dissent.: "A Jadavpur University professor was arrested after he forwarded some 'anti-Mamata' cartoons to his friends.", "India's great dictators?"
Apr 17, 2012 Vodafone serves notice to India: "Vodafone today threatened to drag the government to international arbitration over retrospective tax legislation under the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between India and the Netherlands."
Apr 17, 2012 'Violent Suppression Of Protest': "Letter to the PM protesting against the developments in West Bengal — arrest of Dr. Partho Sarothi Roy, a young molecular biologist, and the treatment meted out to Professor Ambikash Mahapatra"
Apr 17, 2012 Bureaucrats stalling India's progress: E Sreedharan: "The 'metro man' said that the state of Railways today is at least 25 to 30 years behind the rest of the world.", "There is really no government functioning today"
Apr 17, 2012 क्या ममता तानाशाह हो गई हैं?: "तृणमूल नेता ममता बनर्जी जब से पश्चिम बंगाल की सत्ता पर काबिज हुई हैं उनकी सरकार के कई फैसलों को लोगों की आलोचना का सामना करना पड़ रहा है."
Apr 17, 2012 Scientists write to PM on Didi’s arrest of critics: "Leading scientists and social activists from India and top institutions overseas have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemning the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government’s “high-handed arrests” of a university professor and a molecular biologist, and seeking his intervention."
Apr 17, 2012 Kolkata: Goons thrash retd scientist, strip daughter: "Worse, officers of Baruipur police station, who reached the spot more than two and a half hours after the incident, refused to record the victims' complaint or take them to hospital."
Apr 17, 2012 The Last Word: Mamata Banerjee - intolerant or insecure?: "A Jadavpur University professor was arrested after he forwarded some 'anti-Mamata' cartoons to his friends.", "From didi to dictator?"
Apr 17, 2012 CJ Follow Up: Justice For Kapali: "CJ Parikshit Dalal and CNN-IBN closely track the case of Kapali's death due to alleged medical negligence in Bangalore."
Apr 17, 2012 'We Are Stuck With A Nut': "The arrest of a professor and his 72-year old neighbour in Calcutta for forwarding an e-mail with a cartoon revives the demand for the annulment of the Internet Rules 2011", "Professor Ashis Nandy said, inter alia: "I would advise Ms Banerjee to seek the help of psychiatrists in Calcutta. I would diagose her as suffering from incipient paranoia."
Apr 17, 2012 Contrast shows personal liberty is enslaved by masters of FIR: "Nothing illustrates the threat that the FIR raj poses to personal liberty more starkly than the arbitrary manner in which two complaints in the cartoon case were pursued."
Apr 17, 2012 Outrage over Mamata's intolerance: "A number of scietists from across the country and some parts of the world have written to Singh voicing concern on the "crack down on human rights activists and citizens who are attempting to raise issues of concern"."
Apr 17, 2012 Maharaja can’t rule: "Instead of using taxpayer money to bail out Air India again, read the writing on the wall"
Apr 16, 2012 Indian immigrants' 3rd child more likely to be a boy: "the third-child births of Indian-born women were at a ratio of 136 boys to 100 girls."
Apr 15, 2012 Fighting graft
Apr 15, 2012 Tatra: Scams test BEML chief’s staying power: "Fifty-nine year-old Natarajan is the longest serving head of the organisation, remaining at the helm of affairs for an uninterrupted 10 years, quite a feat given the many close shaves with infamy he has had."
Apr 15, 2012 Can't do much to prevent corruption in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Jairam: "Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has conceded that he can't do much to prevent large-scale corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)"
Apr 15, 2012 Taipeitimes: India market sours for foreign investors: "Companies have long griped about India’s byzantine rules and suffocating bureaucracy, but recent policy flip-flops have further soured the investor mood."
Apr 15, 2012 Serving people or own interest?: "BBMP council now wants honorary membership for all 198 corporators and other top officials to sports associations in Karnataka. The Karnataka Hockey association hits back, saying that it will prefer giving membership to the Mayor only. The secretary of the K'taka Hockey Association has said that membership for corporates is asking for too much."
Apr 15, 2012 Spirituality on TV: The rise and fall of Nirmal Baba
Apr 14, 2012 Inside Slave City: "What is it that makes the Indian middle class treat their domestic help with such derision and abuse?", "90 million is the estimated official number of domestic workers in India;"
Apr 14, 2012 We Are The Higher-Ups: "Using discretionary powers, the government gives away hillsides to the rich and powerful ", "Priyanka Gandhi Owns more than an acre in Charabra, on the outskirts of Shimla, not far from the presidential retreat"
Apr 14, 2012 The spectre of FIR raj Proxy device easy to plant and detonate to settle scores: "The manner in which a professor and a retired engineer were arrested and locked up for over 16 hours in Calcutta has blown the lid off a tactic increasingly being employed in Bengal to intimidate or settle scores with dissenters."
Apr 14, 2012 A shocking violation: "She has already done enough to damage that prestige. It may be recalled that during the days when the UPA Government was on a much-publicised austerity drive, Ms Patil had gone on a foreign trip in a luxury airliner with almost 100 persons on board, including some six cooks — all at the tax payers’ expense. Moreover, her performance as a constitutional head of the state has been far from satisfactory."
Apr 14, 2012 Govt official turns predator in K'taka?: "A rape case has been filed against a Child & Women Welfare Department official in Karnataka. Radhakrishna, the Deputy Director of Women and Child Development Dept in Tumkur, is accused of demanding sexual favours for granting government grants to a school for mentally challenged children. He was arrested after a complaint was filed at the Yelahanka police station of luring the victim to a lodge and committing rape."
Apr 14, 2012 State delays IAS officer’s suspension order: "It has been almost three weeks since the Lokayukta police sent a report to the State government recommending suspension of IAS officer Shamla Iqbal, but the government seems to be dragging its feet over it."
Apr 14, 2012 Cartoon row: Mamata banning free speech?: "A significant section of the urban intelligentsia feels that the situation in WB is moving from abnormal to scary."
Apr 14, 2012 Manual scavenging remains a reality despite ban: "The latest census reveals that there are nearly 8 lakh homes that rely on human beings to clean their dry toilets."
Apr 14, 2012 Bangalore: Top govt official booked for rape
Apr 14, 2012 15 former BSP ministers under lens for funds fraud: "a probe was on into charges of corruption against 15 former ministers in the Mayawati government and 37 ex-MLAs in this and several other schemes."
Apr 14, 2012 Pratibha’s Pune home a break from tradition: "there have been five instances when retiring presidents left Delhi, but in none of the cases a new house was asked to be built."
Apr 14, 2012 Postal assistant gets one-year jail term in corruption case: "He was charged with regularly deducting 20% from the commission amount payable to one Vimla Kumari, an agent for procuring fixed deposits", "The CBI had registered a case against Habib Ansari in 1988 under the Prevention of Corruption Act on a complaint from Vimla "
Apr 14, 2012 Ancient sport of kabaddi under fire from Immigration Canada: "Immigration Canada officials say that of the 670 visas issued in 2011 to players from India, 91 have not returned home, while 27 have filed refugee claims."
Apr 14, 2012 Why India lacks scientific vigour?: "Centuries of servitude, right up until 1947, have made the average Indian docile, obedient and sycophantic. ‘Behave yourself and be rewarded’, is the pragmatic mantra. I believe this feudal–colonial mentality has had far-reaching and debilitating consequences for research."
Apr 14, 2012 Corruption tag hits India mammoth anti-polio campaign: "anti corruption sleuths nabbed a health department official of taking kickbacks for allotment of ‘pulse polio’ kits."
Apr 14, 2012 Daily Mail UK: Corruption confession: Government paper admits institutionalised graft plagues entire bureaucracy and plays havoc on the citizen: "'At senior levels, it (corruption) is usually a result of strong nexus between politicians and civil servants and, at lower levels, it is a result of poor systems and ill-defined public service levels,' the government paper points out candidly."
Apr 14, 2012 The flip side of fighting graft: "Most people I speak with are convinced that corruption has increased enormously in the last decade or two."
Apr 14, 2012 AICTE needs to be looked at positively: S S Mantha: "trying hard to clean up the image of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), an institution that had, at one point, become synonymous with corruption."
Apr 14, 2012 India's Grain Storage Comes Up Short: "in the past red tape has delayed such plans, leaving food out in the open to rot."

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