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Mar 13, 2012 Govt not for strong Jan Lokpal Bill: Anna: "Anna says he has no such plans as the government won't listen."
Mar 13, 2012 Sreeramulu claims to have spent Rs. 200 crores for BJP Govt formation: "A video footage in which former minister B Sreeramulu purportedly claimed to have spent Rs 200 crore for forming the first ever BJP government in the south in Karnataka has surfaced"
Mar 13, 2012 Half of Indians defecate in open, but more own a mobile phone: "Jharkhand tops the list with 77 per dent of households having no toilet facilities, followed by 76.6 per cent people in Odisha and 75.8 per cent population in Bihar."
Mar 13, 2012 Census 2011: Half of India have mobile phones, but no toilet at home: "49.8 per cent Indian households defecate in the open"
Mar 13, 2012 Mayawati's wealth doubled to Rs 111.64 crore during her term as chief minister: "The BSP president has Rs.6,51,53,538 as total income in tax return for the financial year 2010-11"
Mar 13, 2012 Graft, policy drift hurting the economy: "Rampant corruption and a policy paralysis in the government have emerged as the biggest problems confronting the country today. Scams are breaking out every other day, either involving the Central government or the state governments, and even ministers are landing up in jail."
Mar 13, 2012 FIR filed in bomb disposal suit scam case: "a departmental probe be launched against then deputy commissioner Shrikant Tarwade for dereliction of duty. The ACB found that he had no authority but released Rs 6.25 crore to Agarwal's firm."
Mar 13, 2012 Pulitzer winner Boo unmasks Mumbai poverty in new book: "The corruption that permeates every level of the government and legal system is captured when a teenager called Abdul is falsely accused of murdering a neighbor named Fatima, while Fatima in turn dies in a hospital devoid of adequate medicine to treat her burns."
Mar 13, 2012 Anna to return to Jantar Mantar to fast for Narendra Kumar
Mar 13, 2012 Corruption, scandals top concerns for Indians; jobs for others: "71 per cent of Indian surveyed said that corruption and financial or political scandals are their biggest worries."
Mar 13, 2012 Woman succumbs to honour killing in Mysore: "A 27-year-old woman was killed, reportedly by her brother, in the Nazarbad area of the city on Tuesday for marrying outside her caste."
Mar 13, 2012 200 million Indians have no TV, phone or radio: "One-sixth of the country, or 200 million Indians, don't possess any of the most basic assets like a transistor or TV, phone, vehicle of any kind or a computer."
Mar 13, 2012 Don’t work after 8pm, Gurgaon tells women: "the Gurgaon administration on Monday passed an order virtually abdicating its responsibility of ensuring women are safe. The administration has told all malls, commercial establishments and pub owners that they cannot have women employees working beyond 8pm."
Mar 12, 2012 India: Dynasty, Corruption And Plunder: "In 1950, A.D.Gorwala’s report observed that quite a few of Nehru's own ministers were corrupt."
Mar 12, 2012 Large amounts paid to KG Balakrishnan's kin: Govt to SC: "the government for the first time filed an investigation status report before the Supreme Court detailing large payments allegedly made to his two sons-in-law and brother when he was the CJI."
Mar 12, 2012 Gurgaon: 23-year-old girl raped by 6 men: "was allegedly gang-raped by six youth in a flat in the city."
Mar 12, 2012 Jagan DA case: SC notice to ministers, babus: "The Supreme Court notice asks why no case has been filed against the ministers and the bureaucrats in the case."
Mar 12, 2012 Meet The 23 Richest Politicians In The World: "#4 Sonia Gandhi, Net Worth: $2-19 billion"
Mar 12, 2012 US website says Sonia wealth at $2-19 bn; time to sue?: "According to Business Insider, the UPA chairperson’s wealth is currently valued at $2-19 billion (Rs 10,000-45,000 crore)."
Mar 12, 2012 Opposition sees nothing new in Prez speech: "The session witnessed uproar by the Opposition when the President spoke about the minorities sub-quota."
Mar 12, 2012 Jaganmohan's assets case: SC notice to 6 Andhra ministers, 8 IAS officers: "on a plea alleging that the CBI was not proceeding against them despite having sufficient evidence that they helped former Congress leader Y Jaganmohan Reddy accumulate massive illegal assets."
Mar 11, 2012 Insight: In India, a dynasty’s tryst with decline: "He dressed down and grew a beard to look more rugged as he campaigned tirelessly for the ruling Congress party in Uttar Pradesh"
Mar 11, 2012 Court to frame charges against 6 in CWG street lightning scam: "MCD Superintendent Engineer Sugan, the senior-most official, as the "kingpin" of the conspiracy, and said tenders were opened in his office on May 14, 2008 and he allowed fudging of Sweska's tender papers."
Mar 11, 2012 Liquor mafia nexus: 7 AP cops booked for graft: "Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today arrested seven police officials on charges of receiving illegal gratifications in lieu of official favour to liquor mafia"
Mar 11, 2012 Corruption is an unfortunate symptom of babudom: Sandel : "“In order to tackle the problem of corruption it is probably necessary to reform the bureaucracy that gives rise to it.”"
Mar 11, 2012 Bollywood starlet in fixing racket?: "About 44,000 pounds to batsmen for slow scoring, 50,000 pounds for bowlers who concede runs and 750,000 pounds for a player or official who can guarantee a match outcome."
Mar 11, 2012 Leave or be paraded naked: Villagers to rape victim: "they are telling me to commit suicide"
Mar 11, 2012 35 pc of MLAs have criminal cases, 66 pc are 'crorepatis': "35 per cent or 252 of the 690 MLAs elected to the five Assemblies -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhan, Manipur and Goa -- have criminal background, a rise of eight per cent since 2007."
Mar 11, 2012 WB: Tribal girl raped at gun-point, ostracised: "The girl was raped on February 26 and now has now been asked to leave her village by the villagers"
Mar 11, 2012 AP liquor scam: Top police officers arrested: "At least 40 bootleggers were arrested last month and a total 1,600 litres of illicit liquor was seized."
Mar 10, 2012 Zero Worship? Election 2012 shows up the Gandhi scion as a political novice Congress can’t bank on: "In Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli, Congress failed to pick up any of the five seats; in his own Amethi, only two out of five seats went to Congress."
Mar 10, 2012 Stones For Words Pillars of the state in a blood feud. The symptoms are dire.: "“When the lawyers beat the journalists,they were wrong. Now, their decision to boycott courts is also wrong. They can’t blackmail the system."
Mar 10, 2012 Now, MP sand mafia fire at magistrate, cops: "The week ended with a sub-divisional magistrate, a sub-divisional police officer and their team facing a hail of bullets while on inspection to track down illegal sand miners in Panna district"
Mar 10, 2012 Caste tension runs deep in UP village as BSP loyalist is killed, FIR names SP MLA: "the husband of the village pradhan, who had turned away the SP candidate a month ago saying that the village would vote only for the BSP, was dragged out of his house by a mob of over 50 men and stabbed to death."
Mar 10, 2012 2 women paraded naked in Faridabad village on Holi: "They forced us to strip and move around the neighbourhood. None of the neighbours came forward to help"
Mar 9, 2012 K'taka: Lokayukta police raids IAS officer: "The Karnataka Lokayukta police acted on a report carried by CNN-IBN on malnutrition deaths in Raichur."
Mar 9, 2012 Is India really a superpower?: "India is still bogged down by a number of serious domestic challenges. These include a disruptive Maoist guerrilla; the terrible waste of human resources that is the Hindu caste system; and a corrupt and divided political leadership that can’t ever come up with a coherent, grand strategy for anything from developing the economy to rebooting the military."
Mar 9, 2012 Dynasty can do no wrong: "Problem lies with Congress, not high command"
Mar 9, 2012 Scam hits J&K cricket body, Farooq faces flak: "Two JKCA office bearers have been asked to step down following charges of their involvement in the alleged embezzlement of funds.", "Fake accounts used in scam"
Mar 8, 2012 Corruption pulling the Congress down
Mar 8, 2012 UP: SP workers in another act of violence: "On Tuesday, a 7-year-old child died during celebratory gunfire by SP leaders after the historic UP polls verdict."
Mar 7, 2012 Billion dollar home overlooks Mumbai slums
Mar 7, 2012 Indians cannot be leaders, it’s in their culture: Chappell: "“The culture of India is such that, if you put your head above the parapet someone will shoot it. Knock your head off. So they learn to keep their head down and not take responsibility.”"
Mar 7, 2012 48 hours, 4 rapes: victim at judge door: "allege that the zonal manager of a private bank had lured her with a job offer and raped her in a hotel room", "Home guard jawan Mahto, who was deputed at State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), has been accused of raping a 15-year-old mentally challenged girl who had come to Ranchi from Gumla with her father for treatment."
Mar 7, 2012 'राहुल का यूपी चुनाव प्रचार पिकनिक की तरह रहा': "राहुल गांधी का यूपी में चुनाव प्रचार 'पिकनिक' की तरह था."
Mar 7, 2012 Jat protest escalates: "As the Jat agitation took a violent turn with protesters torching a police post and a judge's car following the death of a person in Hisar, the district administration today (March 7) sought the army's help and announced closure of all educational institutions for three days."
Mar 7, 2012 UP: Candidates With Criminal Records Bite the Dust: "Mukhtar Ansari, accused of being a co-conspirator with Bajrangi, has several criminal cases including that of murder against him. He lost from Ghosi where he came third but won the Mau seat."
Mar 7, 2012 Is this what Uttar Pradesh voted for?: "Victory celebrations for the Samajwadi Party turn into a tragedy for a family in Sambhal as their 12-year-old boy is killed by a stray bullet during celebratory firing by Samajwadi party supporters. Workers from the same party also wreck havoc in Jhansi as they clash with the media damaging their equipment."
Mar 7, 2012 Cong's dynasty politics fails in UP: "The children, spouses and siblings of senior Congress leaders, all failing to make a successful debut in the state."
Mar 7, 2012 Hisar: 1 killed as Jats clash with police: "The community has been holding protests for the last few weeks demanding OBC quota in government jobs and educational institutes.", "Hisar, Haryana: DM calls army to restore order"
Mar 7, 2012 State election routs cripple India's ruling party: "India's ruling party needed a series of state election victories to reinvigorate its scandal-plagued government."
Mar 7, 2012 Only 55 women elected from 690 seats in 2012 state polls: "Goa is the worst with no women in its new 40-member House."
Mar 7, 2012 Anti-corruption wave swept away Goa Cong: "solely due to the strong anti-Congress mood in the state that resulted from the mining scam, allegations of corruption and land deals over the last five years."
Mar 7, 2012 CTV: India's ruling party a 'lame duck' after state poll: "The most damaging results came from India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress party's star campaigner and prime minister-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi had canvassed for months."
Mar 7, 2012 Quack or quick PM’s task arduous but not much left to lose: "Congress lost Goa, failed to win back Punjab, struggled in Uttarakhand and finished a miserable fourth in high-stakes Uttar Pradesh."
Mar 7, 2012 Haryana not in a hurry for a CBI probe in forest scams: "The Haryana government on Tuesday indicated that it was not too eager or in a hurry to execute Union government's recent missive asking the state for a CBI probe into allegations levelled by Sanjeev Chaturvedi, an IFS officer, into forest scams."
Mar 7, 2012 India unlikely to become a superpower: LSE report: "India is unlikely to be a superpower, nor should it strive to be one. That is the conclusion of a report published this week by the London School of Economics."
Mar 6, 2012 Election results: CBI’s sword hangs over Mulayam, family: "a five-year-old Supreme Court order asking the CBI to inquire into an alleged disproportionate assets case of Mulayam Singh and kin"
Mar 6, 2012 Disillusioned with Democracy: India: "as contributor Ajoy Bose reports from New Delhi on the wave of public disgust with corruption that is sweeping the country in advance of this year's elections."
Mar 6, 2012 UP Results: Will Cong now dump Rahul as showpiece campaigner?: "The Congress general secretary has clearly failed to work wonders for the party."
Mar 6, 2012 98% of Missing Children Not Found: "following a Public Interest Litigation the High Court observed that it is sad that only 2% of the missing children have been recovered."
Mar 6, 2012 CPM MLA Sushanta Ghosh beaten up with shoe near court: "Five skeletons were dug up from a pit near Ghosh's ancestral house at Benachapra village under Garbeta assembly constituency in West Midnapore district in June last. Ghosh was arrested by CID"
Mar 6, 2012 Will start another Andolan after August 16: Anna Hazare: "The elections will change nothing for the aam aadmi declares Team Anna as they announced another agitation plan this year."
Mar 6, 2012 MLA daughter got in with help of fake papers: College to cops: "Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s parliamentary secretary and Jangpura MLA Tarwinder Singh Marwah has been accused of getting his daughter admitted to a Delhi University college on forged documents."
Mar 6, 2012 BSP MLA’s son held for beating Russian woman: "son of a BSP MLA for allegedly assaulting a Russian woman and snatching her passport."
Mar 6, 2012 'Goondaraj' not over: Boy killed in SP celebratory firing, scribes attacked: "after a party candidate's victory in Sambhal while workers from the same party clashed with several TV cameramen in Jhansi during which their equipment was broken."
Mar 6, 2012 Forest scam rocks Haryana assembly: "probe into forest and herbal park scams allegedly involving two Haryana ministers and senior government officials"
Mar 6, 2012 Fake job letters scam in Air India?: "the accused had floated a website to target their victims and also reportedly asked them to deposit a certain amount in a bank account."
Mar 6, 2012 'Rahul Gandhi drubbing may boost India': "Besides offering food subsidies to around two-thirds of the population, the current government will mostly be remembered for corruption scams that paralyzed its leaders."
Mar 6, 2012 Adarsh scam: CBI arrests own lawyer, ex-Cong MLC: "The anti-corruption branch of the CBI arrested four persons including former member of legislative council Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and CBI retainer counsel Mandar Goswami for allegedly accepting bribe to dilute Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam probe."
Mar 6, 2012 Adarsh scam: CBI arrests 2 lawyers on corruption charges: "The CBI on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy of dilution of charges against the accused in the muti-crore Adarsh housing scam and arrested its own counsel and a former Congress MLC"
Mar 6, 2012 India bars IMI from contracts for 10 years: "India has barred six defense companies, including Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) from bidding for defense contracts for ten years, on suspicion of involvement in a major corruption scandal involving former director general of the Ordnance Factory Board Sudipta Ghosh."
Mar 6, 2012 Sonia Gandhi part of 2G scam: Swamy: "He accused UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi of being party to the scam and said everything has been happening with her tacit approval."
Mar 5, 2012 Frauds blow a hole in insurance firms: "Indian insurance companies have collectively lost a whopping Rs.30,401 crore due to various frauds which have taken place in the life and general insurance segments during the year,"
Mar 5, 2012 Ex-minister Anbumani Ramadoss may be charged in admission scam: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file charges against former Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss along with two senior officials of the health ministry and two doctors of Safdarjung Hospital for allegedly helping Index Medical College (Indore) to admit students in 2008 in violation of the Supreme Court order."
Mar 5, 2012 Rs 5 crore spent to protect Ambedkar statue!: "The State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) has spent Rs 5 crore in just salaries to the jawans posted to protect his statue at Madhavbaug in Sarangpur"
Mar 5, 2012 Corruption In India - Past And Present: "A Documentary Film Focusing On Various Facts And Allegations In The Context Of Corruption In India And The Connections Of Royal Gandhi Family With Corruption."
Mar 5, 2012 Court frames charges against Jaya Jaitley in corruption case: "A Delhi court on Monday framed charges against former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitley and two others in an alleged corruption case of 2001 relating to a defence deal."
Mar 5, 2012 Why the UP results could take India back by 20 years: "the grouse that people have against Mayawati is that she patronised corruption, besides squandering away the public exchequer on statues."
Mar 5, 2012 Missing documents make CWG corruption probe tough: "A number of documents related to Commonwealth Games projects have either gone missing or are untraceable making tough the ongoing probe into alleged irregularities in conduct of the Games."
Mar 5, 2012 ‘Spate of corruption cases turning foreign investors cautious': "There is a shift from the ‘need' to ‘greed' as a motive for committing frauds"
Mar 5, 2012 Bloomberg: Jailed Lawmakers Rule in India as Murder Brings Re-Election Not Punishment: "“Anyone I killed got what they deserved but it’s not like I have killed a busload of people,” the six-foot-five Ansari, 51, said as he sat in his Agra cell"
Mar 5, 2012 Anti-graft bureau carries out raids in India: "The massive liquor syndicate scam continues to unfold in Andhra Pradesh with the Anti-Corruption Bureau carrying out raids at excise and prohibition departments in many more districts"
Mar 5, 2012 Anbumani Ramadoss faces corruption charge for Indore College affiliation: "Ramadoss could be in the dock as the CBI might soon file a chargesheet against him for colluding with the management of an Indore-based private health college in granting affiliation despite the institution failing the criteria."
Mar 5, 2012 Retired Lt Gen, intelligence officers plotted against Gen VK Singh: Army HQ: "in the throes of a vicious factional feud, with Army HQ publicly accusing a group of serving officers of the Military Intelligence (MI) of conspiring to create a rift between Army chief General VK Singh and the government."
Mar 5, 2012 Missing documents in CWG scam -repeat of every scams in India
Mar 5, 2012 Ordnance scam: Defence ministry blacklists six firms: "The defence ministry today blacklisted six companies including Singapore Technologies, Israeli Military Industry and Germany’s Rheinmetall Air Defence for 10 years for their alleged role in the ordnance factory scam."
Mar 5, 2012 Kingfisher Airlines: Flying high at public expense: "At the other end of the economic spectrum, industrialists in cahoots with politicians, are sucking tens of thousand crores out of inflated infrastructure projects. Only occasionally, a dogged litigation leads to path-breaking verdicts, as in the 2G-telecom licence scam. Most scams and swindles, including the plunder of Air India, are not even investigated properly."
Mar 5, 2012 J&K student exposes his corrupt school principal: "Zubair, the student, was asked by his school principal to pay a bribe of Rs 500 for his certificates"
Mar 5, 2012 Disclose Rahul Gandhi's poll expenses: Team Anna: "Arvind Kejriwal asked Digvijaya Singh to make Rahul's helicopter and the party's other election expenses public."
Mar 5, 2012 Karnataka: Arrest warrant issued against BSY: "The former K'taka CM has been charged with cheating and criminal conspiracy in the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) sites allotment scam."
Mar 5, 2012 'Maya not acting against Siddiqui unacceptable': "UP Lokayukta has for the first time aired his unhappiness with the Mayawati administration."
Mar 5, 2012 Disclose Rahul Gandhi's poll expenses: Arvind Kejriwal: "Team Anna today asked the party to make public expenses incurred for hiring choppers for the just-concluded Assembly elections to five states, particularly for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, and the source of funding."
Mar 5, 2012 Mumbai Police flooded with calls on Kripashankar Singh's wealth: "The city police have been receiving calls from unidentified people offering to share "information"-sometimes gratis, sometimes in exchange for money-about former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family's as yet unknown properties."
Mar 5, 2012 Non-bailable warrants issued against B S Yeddyurappa, family in land denotification cases: "The Lokayukta Special Court Judge N K Sudhindra Rao ordered issue of non-bailable warrants against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, his family members and a former minister in two illegal land denotification cases"
Mar 4, 2012 Fearing govt change, UP babus pack bags: "there's frenetic activity gripping UP's government offices. While some are packing their bags to leave, others, insiders say, are clearing out their desks, preparing to move to bigger, more spacious offices."
Mar 4, 2012 Bloomberg: Jailed Lawmakers Rule India in Corrupt System: "Mukhtar Ansari has been in jail since 2005, charged with ordering a rival’s murder by hit men who pumped 400 bullets into the victim’s car."
Mar 4, 2012 Republic Day thought: Has our constitution failed? Or have we?: "On the 63rd Republic Day, India needs to ask itself: has our constitution failed us, or have we failed the constitution? Or is it a mixture of both?"
Mar 4, 2012 If Rushdie had spoken: "It may have precipitated a nuclear war with Pakistan. Mercifully, the ruling government saved the day"
Mar 4, 2012 Dental exam sham caught on camera: "One seat for Rs 35 lakh, that is the price expected of you if you have to pass a private dental entrance exam in Tamil Nadu. The principal of one such college in Chennai caught on hidden camera demanding capitation fees and calling the entrance exam a mere eyewash."

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