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Feb 28, 2012 Pulses scam: Babus unable to explain Rs 1,200cr loss: "Instead of the government distributing low-cost imported pulses, private firms were given the imported consignments through questionable tenders."
Feb 27, 2012 'Indians in US complain of rude consular staff': "as many as 76% of the respondents said that they experienced either un-professional and rude behavior from employees of the consulate, while 56% of them rated their overall experience as "very bad"."
Feb 27, 2012 IAS couple in MP amassed Rs240cr assets: "the duo owned 18 flats worth Rs 18 crore in Assam, besides 387.49 acres of land worth Rs 193 crore in tribal-dominated Mandla, Umaria, Sagar and others parts of MP. They also possessed plots in MP worth Rs 3.28 crore, flats worth 3.43 crore, a Rs 2 crore flat in Delhi, shares worth Rs 1.1 crore and Rs 4 crore stashed in ICICI bank. The babu couple also had investments of around Rs 15 crore in businesses"
Feb 27, 2012 Noida rape: Police blunder may hit Maya's prospects: "After the character assassination of Aarushi Talwar in 2008, the Noida police has done it again, this time in a gangrape case."
Feb 27, 2012 इंडिया 360: NCR बना नेशनल कैपिटल ऑफ रेप: "पुलिस पर पांचवे आरोपी को जल्द से जल्द पकड़ने का दवाब था... जिसे पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार कर लिया."
Feb 27, 2012 अर्थशास्‍त्री PM को 100 में 25 अंक भी नहीं: नितिन गडकरी: "हमारे अर्थशास्त्री प्रधानमंत्री देश की अर्थव्यवस्था को व्यवस्थित करने में 100 में से 25 अंक भी नहीं पा सकते."
Feb 27, 2012 No action against Siddiqui, UP govt tells Lokayukta: "So far, Mayawati has dismissed over 20 ministers on the basis of State Lokayukta reports."
Feb 27, 2012 Noida Police fails to protect rape victim's identity: "The Noida SP later defended himself saying that he didn't reveal the victim's identity and blamed a lower rank officer for the mistake", "Who'll rein in cops?"
Feb 27, 2012 Indian link to Mansoor Ijaz?: "A link that he himself mentioned in a letter to a bank that was helping a top Indian politician invest in real estate in Las Vegas. Ijaz reportedly raised over $1.5 million by claiming to have the backing of a politically-influential Indian business family."
Feb 27, 2012 Despite outrage, cop unrepentant: "UP Police today (Feb 27) came under attack for making public the identity of Noida gangrape victim with Union Minister Krishna Tirath demanding action against the erring cops even as the last of the five accused was arrested."
Feb 27, 2012 2 six-yr-olds raped, one has burn marks: "“She had a deep wound near her right eyebrow and was bleeding. She had cigarette burn marks all over her body,”"
Feb 27, 2012 Reuters: Finmeccanica shares down on report of India probe: "the Indian defence ministry had opened a probe into suspect bribery in a 2010 tender for the supply of 12 Agusta Westland 101 helicopters."
Feb 27, 2012 Arvind Kejriwal at Matdada Jagrookta sammelan at Greater Noida : "Arvind Kejriwal at Matdada Jagrookta sammelan at Greater Noida."
Feb 27, 2012 CAG receives pat from US counterpart: "Government auditor CAG, which recently conducted some of the controversial audits unearthing scams like 2G, on Monday received accolades from its US counterpart for professionalism"
Feb 26, 2012 Apolitical, but not apathetic: "as India’s biggest challenge, with 83.5% respondents in Bengaluru outraged at the way scams, big and small, have taken over governance and polity."
Feb 26, 2012 Not wrong about MPs: Kejriwal: ""All types of elements have entered Parliament, including robbers, murderers and rapists. Parliament has become the biggest problem of the country.""
Feb 26, 2012 Not wrong about MPs: Kejriwal: ""All types of elements have entered Parliament, including robbers, murderers and rapists. Parliament has become the biggest problem of the country.""
Feb 26, 2012 24x7 city helpline for victims of graft soon: "The Transparency International's Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) will set up a helpline in the city for those who fall prey to corruption."
Feb 26, 2012 Corrupt In India Are United, Judiciary Alone Can’t Fight Them: Judge: "on sanction to prosecute corrupt public servants, Justice Ganguly had recommended Parliament legislate a fixed time-frame to accord prosecution sanction."
Feb 26, 2012 Huge row after Kejriwal calls MPs robbers, rapists: "terming the Parliamentarians 'robbers' and 'rapists'"
Feb 26, 2012 India's Global Image: Overseas investors tired of the unbridled corruption: "you'd think that all businesses - including that elusive foreign investor - are abandoning the economy."
Feb 26, 2012 Corruption in UP is Unparalleled: SP: ""there was no parallel anywhere to scams like NHRM and MNREGA.""
Feb 26, 2012  corruption in India
Feb 26, 2012 Baba Ramdev exposing Congress and Gandhi family Corruption on India TV 21-Feb-2012 : "बाबा रामदेव इंडिया TV से बात करते हुए बताते है की गाँधी परिवार लुटेरा परिवार है वह कहते है की इस परिवार का इतिहास रहा है देश को लूटने का। वो कहते है की की जब देश की सम्पतियो का रास्ट्रीयकरण किया गया तो उस समय सैकरो, हजारो ट्रको में जो सोना चांदी राजाओ के यहाँ से आया वो कहा गायब हो गया?"
Feb 26, 2012 Freedom of speech laws expose corruption in India
Feb 26, 2012 Don't vote for corrupt Congress: AIMF: "Kamat was responsible for the illegal mining of gold and uranium ore from the state to China and that he ought to be imprisoned for the same."
Feb 26, 2012 Teenager gangraped in a moving car in Noida: "And if the sexual assault wasn't enough, comes the direct attack on her character by men whose duty is to protect her.", "Outrageous response by NOIDA police"
Feb 26, 2012 40% immunisation data sent by states wrong: Azad: ""earlier too while states claimed 80% to 90% vaccination, they actually did 40% vaccination""
Feb 26, 2012 Conmen posing as CBI sleuths duped politician in Adarsh scam: "who not only duped film personalities and policemen charged in the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, but had also conned a politician involved in the Adarsh Housing Society scam."
Feb 26, 2012 Shabnam Mausi wants to clap out corrupt politicians: "The first eunuch MLA of India, Shabnam Mausi, who had won as an Independent candidate from Suhagpur Assembly seat of Shahdol district in Madhya Pradesh in 2000"
Feb 26, 2012 CVC seeks govt nod to prosecute 113 officers for corruption: "The government’s sanction is required to prosecute any employee right from the level of the peon to the prime minister while officials of the joint secretary rank and above enjoy immunity from even registration of any case against them without government’s sanction."
Feb 26, 2012 BREAKINGVIEWS - India's 2G ruling may stir hornets' nest: "India's judiciary is making its presence felt in the fight against corruption and crony capitalism."
Feb 26, 2012 Bahrain's Batelco sells India venture after telecom scandal: "Bahrain Telecommunications Co BTEL.BH is selling its 43 percent stake in Indian affiliate S Tel for $175 million, the first exit by a foreign operator since an Indian court cancelled 122 telecoms licences last week amid a corruption probe."
Feb 26, 2012 I think our Parliament has become a problem: Kejriwal: "RTI activist and team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said there are criminals, rapists and murderers running our Parliament."
Feb 26, 2012 Ramdev backs Kejriwal, says corrupt leaders will be ousted like Gaddafi: "one family and one party had been responsible for bankruptcy and looting of India. "Those corrupt people who are in power, will be wiped off like Gaddafi."
Feb 26, 2012 Murderers, rapists and looters sitting in Parliament: Arvind Kejriwal: ""In this Parliament, 163 members have cases of heinious offences against them. In this Parliament, rapists are sitting, murderers and looters are sitting. How can you expect Jan Lokpal Bill to be passed by Parliament?"
Feb 25, 2012 Patna SP slaps woman protester; she hits back: "A senior lady officer of Patna was caught on camera beating a woman protester in public while the locals were protesting electrocution of two youth in the city's Kankarbagh area on Monday evening."
Feb 25, 2012 Patna SP slaps women,NCW asks for a report : "A brutal incident took place in Bihar's capital Patna where a lady IPS officer beats another lady, not only beat her but abused badly in her house. Accusing the city SP of many charges,sloshed IPS Kim misbehaves with the lady and other family members.After watching all this national commission for women has asked for a report."
Feb 25, 2012 CBI conducts raids on former top BSNL officials: "The CBI on Saturday raided the premises of former BSNL chairman, three top officials and a private firm, considered close to former Telecom Minister A Raja, in connection with the Rs 535 crore scam in the awarding of contracts to WiMax services."
Feb 25, 2012 Woman 'raped' at gunpoint by constable: "Despite repeated appeals, the police reportedly took no action against the accused.", "The woman has been running from pillar to post for over three months hoping that some day she would get justice."
Feb 25, 2012 Cops under fire for ignoring child rights: "the police sat idle and deaf to frantic pleas of people whose minor children went missing. The members of the commission rebuked the state police for being lax."
Feb 25, 2012 Plagiarism replay: "the Prime Minister’s top science adviser, C.N.R. Rao, is a co-author of three research papers with plagiarised text have stirred a debate about seniors accepting authorship while being oblivious to the papers’ contents."
Feb 25, 2012 BJP demands probe into Rs 100-crore MSSIDC coal scam: "The Corporation controlled by the Industries department, is entitled to a coal quota of 80,000 tonnes per month for supply to small units like brick kilns, dal mills and small steel units. But there have been complaints of the quota being misused and coal being lifted in names of non-existent and bogus units to be sold at a premium in the market"
Feb 25, 2012 'रातोंरात प्रधानमंत्री बन सकते है राहुल': "'राहुल जी आज चाहे तो रात के 12 बजे उन्हे प्रधान मंत्री पद की शपथ दिलाई जा सकती है. कोई रोक नहीं सकता."
Feb 25, 2012 Rahul can be the PM anytime he wants: Jaiswal
Feb 25, 2012 Bangalore mock drill: negligence by the officials?: "Twenty-five-year-old Nalina died on the spot after she fell while trying to come down from the third floor using a rope."
Feb 25, 2012 Nature calls, but nowhere to go: "Only 504 public toilets for a City spread over 800 sq km is a dismal figure. Even these have become stinking enclosures. Bursting bladders have no other option but to relieve themselves on the roadside."
Feb 25, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI conducts fresh raids in UP: "Earlier, four fresh cases were registered by the CBI on Friday in NRHM scam."
Feb 25, 2012 Senior BRO officials booked for embezzlement: "the BRO officials were involved in criminal conspiracy with the supplier firms and, in violation of the various provisions of general financial rules (GFR), procured several variable messaging systems at exorbitant rates through limited tender, single tenders and thereby caused wrongful loss to the tune of Rs.1.49 crore to the government."
Feb 25, 2012 CBI raids in Tamil Nadu over BSNL-WiMax deal: "former telecom minister A Raja has not been named an accused in the new FIR."
Feb 25, 2012 Major power cuts announced across Tamil Nadu: "Chennai will experience two-hour power cut from Monday and people outside it will go without power for four hours."
Feb 25, 2012 Jaiswal reignites 'Rahul for PM' pitch: "Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today (Feb 25) created a flutter when he said Rahul Gandhi could become Prime Minister "even at midnight if he so desires"."
Feb 25, 2012 Markandey Katju sticks to his stand: "Justice Katju, said, If any journalist writes against the (Bihar) Government or against any minister or official, that journalist is either dismissed from his job or is transferred. Newspaper proprietors are pressured to act against such journalists. Or Government advertisements are stopped. So nobody dares to write against the (Bihar) Government."
Feb 25, 2012 Incompetent fire dept shrugs off blame: "a top official today (February 25) admitted there were no standard operating procedures in place while conducting such an exercise"
Feb 25, 2012 Delhi's gun culture, nation's shame: "Eight youths were arrested in connection with the assault on a 27-year-old chief security officer of a five star hotel in New Delhi 12 days ago,"
Feb 25, 2012 Policing Patna Style, Female SP City Slaps Woman, Woman Slaps In Return, Police Beat Up Her Son : "when two youths were electrocuted on Monday evening near the old byepass, after an open underground power cable chaged water supply in the area."
Feb 25, 2012 Netizens berate Patna SP Kim's 'conduct': "The woman IPS officer slapped a woman protester double her age and then dragged her by her hair", ""Why does general public get treated like animals?"
Feb 24, 2012 AP liquor scam: Ministers hand-in-gloves with mafia: "Nearly 23 FIRs have been registered and 10 excise officials suspended till now in connection with the case."
Feb 24, 2012 ‘Killer’ mariners, and the Quattrochi-Sonia connection: "the arrest of the mariners was mere drama and there could be a ploy to rescue the arrested Italian mariners just the way Quattrochi was rescued."
Feb 24, 2012 Sonia’s official income could be between Rs 50-75 lakh: "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reported assets in excess of Rs 5 crore. Can Sonia Gandhi have only Rs 1.38 crore of assets in her name?"
Feb 24, 2012 And The Footprints Lead To...: "Singh, who started life in Mumabi as a vegetable vendor and pharma company factory-hand, had amassed property and wealth worth nearly Rs 300 crore.", "Singh's cosy relationships with a handful of high-profile builders in the city (Outlook had referred to but not identified the builders) to an extent where one of them had even arranged for his son's wedding reception at the prestigious Turf Club lawns"
Feb 24, 2012 Rs 100 bribe fetches 2 cops 18 months in jail: "the duo had demanded bribe of Rs 100 as entry fee for allowing his vehicle to ply through Kodia Pul bus stand in old Delhi and threatened to file a 'challan' if the amount was not paid in a month."
Feb 24, 2012 Antony orders probe into reports of corruption in chopper deal: "India in February 2010 had inked a Rs 3,546.17 crore deal to acquire the 12 three-engine AW-101 helicopters from AgustaWestland, a unit of Italian major Finmeccanica"
Feb 24, 2012 2 Foreign Telecom Companies Close Shop in India: "the Supreme Court revoked the licenses, citing alleged fraud and irregularities in awarding them. It has been billed as India’s biggest corruption scandal, costing the government $39 billion."
Feb 24, 2012 BBC: India Supreme Court condemns Baba Ramdev crackdown: "India's Supreme Court has ordered the prosecution of policemen who were involved in a midnight crackdown on an anti-corruption protest led by yoga guru Baba Ramdev"
Feb 24, 2012 Balagurusamy blames VCs for corruption: "directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption officials had raided Salem Periyar University following allegations of corruption in paper valuation and staff appointments."
Feb 24, 2012 Gujarat education dept probes GU V-C corruption case: "Just a day after getting bail in the atrocity case and resuming work, Trivedi faced another inquiry in the corruption charges against him."
Feb 24, 2012 Indian helicopter deal sparks corruption row in Italy: "slush funds were generated after a “sudden” escalation of price by 10 million euros in 2010."
Feb 23, 2012 Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, is this the way to protect whistleblowers?: "The whistleblower is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Haryana cadre, Sanjiv Chaturvedi. He has allegedly been harassed for blowing the lid off several scams in Haryana."
Feb 23, 2012 Guardian: Letter from India: elections in Uttar Pradesh: "You haven't, however, got a nice new airport for visiting journalists, nor a public health system that works, decent roads, trained teachers, schools and sanitation for a majority."
Feb 23, 2012 A bloody scam in the heart of India: "that's pretty much how most scams appear and then disappear from public memory till a new one catches attention."
Feb 23, 2012 Daily Mail: WHIPLASH: When fact inches closer to fiction: "As most scams go this one too had money meant for the poor plundered by politicians, bureaucrats and middlemen."
Feb 23, 2012 Why not make Arnab Goswami Prime Minister?: "India today is a nation full of outrages — inflation, malnutrition, scams, rapes,"
Feb 23, 2012 Indian president’s son faces probe: official: "she was hit by accusations that she protected her brother in a murder probe and shielded her husband in a suicide scandal, as well as allegations of involvement in a slew of financial scams."
Feb 23, 2012 Corruption on Wheels—11 (and more) Ways our Money Vanishes in Indian Roads: "As soon as he gets to office, the car and driver are sent home again, for domestic shopping and other work."
Feb 23, 2012 Bollywood finds new muse in anti-graft protests: "A hapless bank clerk who makes an enemy of a local politician and has to bribe himself out of jail seems like an unlikely theme for Bollywood, known around the world for its dance numbers and family melodramas."
Feb 23, 2012 UAE's Etisalat sues Indian JV partners for fraud: "alleging fraud in an attempt to recover some of the losses arising from its scandal-hit investment in the country."
Feb 23, 2012 Kripashankar, the man linked to every major scandal in India: "he is believed to be close to Ahmed Patel, AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s eyes and ears, a connection he never hesitated to flaunt aggressively."
Feb 23, 2012 Kripashnakar Singh: A rags to riches tale: "Kripashankar started off selling vegetables on the streets of city. He did not have a roof to stay and it is amazing to witness a man of his class build luxury houses and offices in India's financial capital."
Feb 23, 2012 Khaleej Times: India needs poll reforms
Feb 23, 2012 From potatoes to the crores: a migrant’s journey to infamy: "he marshalled just enough capital to buy and lug only half a bagful of potatoes from the wholesale market and sell it to the commuters going back home.", "The Bombay High Court has now asked the Mumbai Police Commissioner to personally lead the investigation into the charges of corruption and huge amassed wealth without any source of income."
Feb 23, 2012 Newborn survives pig attack outside hospital: "a newborn girl was rescued by bystanders after she was dragged by a swine outside a government hospital"
Feb 23, 2012 Black money & Prez Patil: Is it time to scrap Rs 500-1,000 notes?: "Such is the ubiquitous presence of black money in India that now even India’s first woman president, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, finds herself enveloped in a controversy involving her son and Congress MLA Raosaheb Shekhawat."
Feb 22, 2012 HC orders Mumbai Congress chief's assets attached: "The high court also ordered the attachment of about 15 properties estimated to be worth Rs 320 crore owned by Singh's family.", "the court said "the right mode of obtaining justice when the investigating agency has so utterly failed, is through the writ court in a PIL.""
Feb 22, 2012 Katju sends notice to Chavan over press freedom: "threatened to recommend to the President dismissal of the state government. “It is the duty of the state government to maintain law and order in the state but it seems to me that your government is neither able to maintain law and order nor prevent attack on journalists"
Feb 22, 2012 Baby denied aid, corpse on bed: "A day after appalling mismanagement and hooliganism of junior doctors were exposed at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), the government hospital — and its superior guardians in the state health department — continued with business as usual, both unashamed and unfazed."
Feb 22, 2012 Did the Cardinal overstep?: "And what's more shcoking is the reported invlovement of Archbishop and recently annoinated Cardinal George Alancherry leading talks on behalf of the Vatican."
Feb 21, 2012 ‘Corruption will lead to collapse of democratic systems': "Expressing concern at the rising levels of corruption, former Lokayukta of Karnataka and Judge of the Supreme Court of India, N. Santosh Hegde on Thursday said any further corruption would lead to collapse of democratic systems."
Feb 21, 2012 Combating corrupt practices in Defence: "The regulatory challenges arising out of anti-bribery laws need to be addressed."
Feb 21, 2012 Black money holders may get red carpet in Budget 2012: "India has never been good at catching wrong-doers,"
Feb 21, 2012 Anna’s movement now in UK varsity’s curriculum
Feb 21, 2012 Corrupt corporation ‘worries’ Pawar, CM
Feb 21, 2012 Need to root out corruption from welfare schemes: Jairam Ramesh
Feb 21, 2012 Full text of the CBI Director's speech on black money
Feb 21, 2012 The civil disorder: " In the 2G spectrum scam or the land scam of Hyderabad, what is it that compelled officers who belong to the constitutionally secured all-India services to do what they did? Could the politicians have given away the public largesse worth billions of rupees without the connivance of the civil servants?"
Feb 21, 2012 Secret note blows cover of govt move to shackle Election Commission: "The note (see facsimile of extract alongside), marked, ‘Secret,’ says that the secretary, legislative department, has been asked to report to the GoM the “progress” made in the matter of giving “statutory shape” to the “executive instructions of the Election Commission of India”."
Feb 21, 2012 Babus seek probe into irregularities in IAS promotions: "'If the allegation that some officers had paid money to be conferred the IAS status is true, it must be investigated by an independent body like the CBI. The IAS is an all India service into which ineligible and corrupt officers should not be allowed to enter by paying bribes,""
Feb 21, 2012 Corruption Perception Holding India Back, Bank of Singapore Says: "A perception of increased corruption in India has hurt investment and contributed to a 15 percent slide in its stock market since early 2008, according to a report from the Bank of Singapore Ltd."
Feb 21, 2012 'Largest' immigration firm on police radar: "Chandigarh: The multi-billion rupee WorldWide Immigration Consultancy Services (WWICS) is under the police scanner after it was found the firm was dealing in work permit visas without having a licence for it."
Feb 21, 2012 Cong vs EC: How many enemies can one party create?: "The Congress loves to shoot itself in the foot.", "Blame it on good old arrogance or plain inability to comprehend the world around it or the rotting think-tank of the party."

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