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Jan 20, 2012 Rushdie no-show and the borders of our shrunken minds: "The mullah-maulvi brigade that got into a fit of manufactured apoplexy over writer Salman Rushdie’s planned participation to the Jaipur Literary Festival has managed to create an atmosphere of intimidation severe enough for Rushdie not to attend the festival."
Jan 20, 2012 Pilots fail test for small planes, but get big ones to fly: "Imagine a person found misfit to drive a small car being allowed to get behind the wheels of a big truck. If that sounds scary, then read on."
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi not to resign as IOA president: "Shunned by his political masters, the IOA position is Kalmadi's only hope of staying in the limelight."
Jan 20, 2012 CJ Manglaram exposes corruption in Government schemes: "Forced to use crutches after he was beaten up, this farm labourer from Bamnor in Rajasthan filed RTIs in his crusade against corruption."
Jan 20, 2012 Caught in web of corruption: "It is fine for India to be proud of its high GDP growth rate, but that does not serve to shift attention at home and abroad from the growing corruption at all levels of governance."
Jan 20, 2012 West Bengal: 20 infants dead in 72 hours: "The Malda hospital says the babies were all malnourished, underweight and brought at the last stage."
Jan 20, 2012 Govt downplaying the tuberculosis threat?: "1000 TB deaths everyday"
Jan 20, 2012 Illegal mining: Court allows probe of Krishna, Kumaraswamy's role: "In a jolt to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister"
Jan 20, 2012 Should Kalmadi remain the President of IOA?: "Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the CWG scam, walked out of Tihar jail on bail after nine months."
Jan 20, 2012 Modi criticises PM on malnutrition issue: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it."
Jan 20, 2012 Why can't IOA move a resolution for sacking Kalmadi?: "Are Kalmadi's henchmen ensuring his survival in IOA?"
Jan 20, 2012 Plea filed in SC against former CJI K G Balakrishnan: "filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre for an inquiry into allegations of misbehaviour against former Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and to ensure his removal as NHRC chief."
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi in no mood to quit as IOA president: "Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi, who was freed on bail on Thursday after nine months in jail, is in no mood either to resign"
Jan 18, 2012 Sorry state of affairs in PSUs exposed: "CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a note that shows that a contender for the post of NMDC chairman is being probed in a corruption case."
Jan 18, 2012 WB: Video showing BSF torture surfaces: "Reportedly, the person shown being beaten up in the video is a Bangladeshi national and was indulging in cattle smuggling."
Jan 16, 2012 CNN: Red tape chokes India’s economic rise: "India is hamstrung by its bureaucracy."
Jan 16, 2012 Paid News: How corruption in the Indian media undermines democracy: "Sections of the media in India have willy-nilly become participants and players in practices that contribute to the growing use of money power in politics"
Jan 16, 2012 India ranks poor in nuclear material security, Australia may stop uranium sale
Jan 16, 2012 Overcoming Corruption: "corruption is now perceived as a threat to India’s national security."
Jan 16, 2012 ‘India needs long-term strategy to fight graft’: "the visiting Mayor of Germany's Stuttgart city, Wolfgang Schuster, said here on Monday."
Jan 16, 2012 कांग्रेस दिल्ली लूट रही है तो मायावती लखनऊ: गडकरी
Jan 16, 2012 Army Chief moves SC on age issue: "Army Chief Gen V K Singh today took the unprecedented step of dragging the government to the Supreme Court before which he has challenged its decision over his date of birth that will mean that he retires in May next."
Jan 16, 2012 ISRO declines to disclose probe report on Antrix-Devas deal: "into the alleged irregularities in the S-Band spectrum deal between Devas Multimedia and ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation."
Jan 16, 2012 SC declines interim bail to senior woman IAS officer: "The Supreme Court today declined to grant interim bail to Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, one of the accused in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case involving Karnataka's Reddy brothers"
Jan 16, 2012 UP: Girl set on fire after being gangraped: "The victim is currently admitted to a government hospital and is suffering from 75 per cent burn injuries."
Jan 16, 2012 India cannot supress fundamental rights: Google India to HC: ""The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China,""
Jan 15, 2012 Dreams of a better India put elderly, young on track: "a kati patang that represented an India cut loose by corruption. "Thanks to corruption, the public is denied quality healthcare, education, and other fundamental rights,""
Jan 15, 2012 Shanta dares Sonia: Come clean on foreign accounts: "Daring Congress president Sonia Gandhi to give an affidavit that she or her family members never had an account in any bank abroad"
Jan 15, 2012 The anatomy of corruption: "typically, for a plan involving costs of over Rs 5 crore in Jharkhand, a file goes through 240 stages. Laws created ostensibly to protect the common man are used to extract higher bribes instead."
Jan 15, 2012 Power scam CWG ke naam: "power stations that never supplied a single MW of power to the CWG? Why was the Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, so keen to get power from places 1,500 km away from Delhi?"
Jan 15, 2012 Second rat attack in Rajasthan govt hospital: "The body of 25-year-old Janta Devi has been attacked by rodents in the mortuary of Beawar's Amrit Kaur Hospital."
Jan 15, 2012 The Great Bangalore Robbery: "That sums up the Rs 25,000-crore fake bills scam in the Palike. The sadder part is the BBMP head honchos asserting there is no scam at all."
Jan 15, 2012 EC teams seize Rs 19 crore cash, 36 lakh ML liquor in Punjab: "Surveillance and Income Tax department teams, deployed for checking black money and narcotics in poll—bound Punjab, have seized close to Rs 18.84 crore cash and confiscated over 36 lakh ML of foreign liquor"
Jan 14, 2012 Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily: "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years", "The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."
Jan 14, 2012 Over 7k SMSs against auto men
Jan 14, 2012 Guardian - UK: Social audits in India – a slow but sure way to fight corruption: "more than 38,000 disciplinary cases brought against officials involved with the jobs scheme. Hundreds have been suspended or punished."
Jan 14, 2012 maharashtra: false arrest - With Wing Clipped - A desperate state is making Maoists out of innocents : "“If I work for downtrodden children or hold a particular opinion, I can be arrested. This cannot go on. In a sense, we have many Binayak Sens.”"
Jan 14, 2012 India placed at bottom of nuclear safety index compiled by US thinktank: "In the first-ever index of security of nuclear materials, India almost brings out the rear - just above Iran, Pakistan and North Korea."
Jan 14, 2012 Indian students rank 2nd last in global test: "scratch the glossy surface of our education system and the picture turns seriously bleak. Fifteen-year-old Indians who were put, for the first time, on a global stage stood second to last, only beating Kyrgyzstan when tested on their reading, math and science abilities."
Jan 14, 2012 Baby lifted from state-run hospital: "Hours after a woman died giving birth to twin babies on road on being refused admission to two state-run hospitals, a 2-day-old child went missing from another government hospital"
Jan 14, 2012 'चाय बागान के पांच मज़दूरों की भूख से मौत': "पश्चिम बंगाल के उत्तरी ज़िले जलपाईगुड़ी के देखलापारा चाय बागान में पिछले एक महीने में पांच मज़दूरों की मौत हो गई है."
Jan 14, 2012 India isn’t China: "it is deeply worrying how our free courts and democratic government have invoked China as worthy of emulation."
Jan 14, 2012 CBI to probe sale of Army plot to private builder in Mumbai: "The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) into Maharashtra government's decision to sell a plot of just over an acre, occupied by the Army in suburban Kandivli, to a private company."
Jan 13, 2012 18 month baby left to die in Bengal: "A defunct oxygen mask connected to an empty oxygen cylinder. This is the horror story of 18 month old Samir Sharma"
Jan 13, 2012 Now, politics over 19 year old's rape?: "The 19-year-old helpless girl from Arjunagada village under Pipili police station in Odisha is fighting for her life for daring to take on men who molested another girl. This young girl was raped by a group of youths from the locality on November 28, 2011 after she agreed to become a witness in another rape case involving her friend."
Jan 13, 2012 Kolkata shocker: Woman gives birth, dies on road: "Condemning the govt, the CPI(M) demanded that Mamata Banerjee give up her health portfolio to someone else."
Jan 13, 2012 Karunanidhi’s daughter accused of fraud: "complaint against M Karunanidhi's daughter Selvi and a few others for cheating him of Rs 69 lakh after promising him a member's post in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)."
Jan 13, 2012 Air India pilots report sick, operations disrupted: "Protesting non-payment of their salary and allowances, a section of Air India pilots had yesterday decided to go on "no-pay-no-work" agitation"
Jan 13, 2012 AIIMS paper leak: 2 city doctors nabbed: "Mohit charged Rs 18 lakh for admission in radiology and orthopaedics departments. The less popular options like gynaecology were pegged at Rs 15 lakh."
Jan 13, 2012 The NR EYE: For NRI cash, govt must deal with red tape, corruption: "In 2011 India was ranked 95th out of 178 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. As for bureaucratic hurdles, India occupies the 132nd spot among 183 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index for 2012."
Jan 13, 2012 Wall Street Journal: India’s Bureaucracy a ‘Nightmare’: "The report, which was based on over 2,000 surveys of employed residents and expatriates across Asia, blamed India’s poor infrastructure, widespread corruption and “fickle” regulations for making business a “frustrating and expensive” affair."
Jan 13, 2012 CBI registers graft case against 2 AI officials: "for alleged financial irregularities in purchase of portable entertainment appliances."
Jan 13, 2012 Half of Goa’s iron ore exports in 2011 were illegal: "More than 43 per cent of the record 54 million tonnes of iron ore shipped out of Goa last year came from unauthorised mining operations. In 2009-2010, over a third of the ore exported — most of which is going to build China — was also illegal."
Jan 13, 2012 60 Air India pilots may keep off flying duty: "The airline which has piled up losses of Rs 21,000 crore till March 2011, sent an SOS this week to the ministry asking for an immediate release of Rs 250 crore from the Contingency Fund of India."
Jan 13, 2012 अमर सिंह के 'सियासी' बोल, डॉन हैं मुलायम
Jan 13, 2012 CBI arrests Central Excise Commissioner in Delhi: "Srivastava was arrested by the agency soon after the private hospital, where he had got himself addmitted for treatment, discharged him.", "named as an accused for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 40 lakh from two businessmen."
Jan 13, 2012 Is babus’ performance a national secret? Court to decide soon: "The Delhi High Court on Friday heard a plea seeking all performance appraisal of all government officials (popularly known as ACRs) be made public under RTI Act."
Jan 13, 2012 Woman dies on road after being refused admission to hospitals in WB: "The 40-year-old woman gave birth to the twins on the roadside"
Jan 13, 2012 Democracy at crossroads, silent majority should speak up: CAG: "Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, who has won many foes after a number of scams were unearthed by his watchdog, today said the democracy was at the “crossroads” and it was time for the “silent majority” to speak up."
Jan 13, 2012 Vinay Rai vs Facebook: Govt uses courts to censor the Internet: "The government is back to curbing online portals and social networking sites; this time, via the judiciary."
Jan 13, 2012 Why print rupee notes here when Pakistan is doing it for free?: "Pakistan has been trying to damage us economically by pushing in counterfeit notes smuggled through our porous borders with Nepal, Bangladesh"
Jan 13, 2012 Rs 1,000 crore Nehru Stadium in ruins: "New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is the same venue where the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) were held. But today the nation’s showpiece stadium is in a state of shambles."
Jan 13, 2012 Many other ‘national shames': "Malnutrition — and more so among children — is not the only national shame. There is corruption that has spread nationwide which is an equally bigger national shame."
Jan 13, 2012 Petty babus as our rulers : "I sent three e-mails to the Ministry of External Affairs, both to its general address and to the particular office, asking for contact details for two Indian missions abroad. My messages explained that the information was needed as I would soon be visiting those countries. There was no response."
Jan 13, 2012 Indian fake notes printed in Pak press: "Delhi Police confirmed the massive haul of fake currency worth 6 crore printed in a Pakistan government press, smuggled into India by ISI."
Jan 13, 2012 Raped for raising her voice: "even the police has not helped us", "her family running from pilar to post trying desperately to get help alleging that while she fought for her life, her rapists roaming free, sheletered by those in power"
Jan 13, 2012 Turned away by hospitals woman delivers twins on Kolkata road, dies: "a woman died giving birth to twins on the pavement after being denied admission by two state-run hospitals despite possessing health cards."
Jan 13, 2012 Indian Christians fear backlash due to Sharia ruling: "All India Christian Council in New Delhi on Friday feared backlash against Christians in the country due to incrimination of pastors Jim Borst and CM Khanna by Srinagar's self-styled Islamic Shariat court."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha: SC rules bypassed in land allotment: "Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land to judges from the ministers' discretionary quota."
Jan 12, 2012 Mining scam: Reddy to remain in jail as court extends remand: "court today extended till January 25 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and three others accused in the mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC)."
Jan 12, 2012 Anti-corruption raids on MP officials yields crores: "While Lokayukta raid on Kailash Sangte, a lower division clerk of Ujjain Municipal Corporation unearthed assets of worth Rs.8 crores."
Jan 12, 2012 BBC: India's bureaucracy is 'worst in Asia': "Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy ranks bureaucracies across Asia on a scale from one to 10, with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.21"
Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Fellow ministers too given quota flats: "It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa."
Jan 12, 2012 Rs 1,000 cr Nehru stadium in ruins: "Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is the same venue where the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games were held but today the nation's showpiece stadium is in a state of shambles. Almost two years after the CWG games, the stadium whose renovation cost the tax payer 1000 crore was a source of embarrassment when one of the world's best football clubs Bayerns Munich match was played there."
Jan 12, 2012 Not sure of date of birth: Parkash Singh Badal: "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be in trouble for allegedly furnishing contradictory information about his date of birth. According to the affidavit filed before the 2007 assembly polls the Punjab Chief Minister's age is 76 years but the one filed earlier this week highlights that he is 84.However the Punjab Chief Minister has played down the issue saying he is in fact not sure about his date of birth."
Jan 12, 2012 Lt Gen Bikram Singh under the scanner?: "The Defence Ministry has taken cognizance of media reports about allegations against Lt Gen Bikram Singh, who is the front-runner for the post of next Army Chief"
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 12, 2012 Delhi: Fake currency worth Rs 6 crore seized: "According to the police, this is the biggest fake currency haul to have happened in Delhi."
Jan 12, 2012 We can block websites like China if steps not taken by social sites: Delhi HC: "The Delhi High Court today warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China"
Jan 12, 2012 Human safaris do happen in Andaman: Tour operators: "The local administration in the Andamans has denied any violation in the Jarawa tribal reserve, but CNN-IBN found a different story."
Jan 11, 2012 Shocker at Govt hospital in Jodhpur: "A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Jodhpur was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept."
Jan 11, 2012 Chief unsettled, successor uncertain: "Even before the row over the Army Chief's date of birth has been settled the succession battle has taken a murky turn. Several allegations have now surfaced against the frontrunner Lt Gen Bikram Singh. One of the claims dates back to when Bikram Singh was posted in the UN Peace Keeping Mission in Congo and officers under his charge were allegedly involved in a sexual scandal."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman’s Jarawa women forced to dance for food, probe ordered: "In what is a glaring evidence of what tourism has reduced the indigenous Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands to, a recent video released by the UK-based daily, The Guardian, has been the centre of outrage. It shows females of the tribe — some bare chested, and one naked, trying to cover herself with a polythene bag containing grain— being asked to dance by an off-camera policemen."
Jan 11, 2012 India’s babus need a mental makeover: "Insensitive, indifferent, unresponsive, corrupt, slothful, arrogant and unintelligent — the typical Indian bureaucrat has been accused of being all this and even more. The fact that bureaucracy, the`steel frame of India’ has rusted beyond repair and has lost the purpose of its existence, needs no overstating."
Jan 11, 2012 Democracy On Anger Street: "It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task"
Jan 11, 2012 Succession war for Army Chief's post gets murky: "Allegations of a fake encounter have re-surfaced against Lt Gen Bikram Singh, who is slated to become the next Army Chief."
Jan 11, 2012 Maharashtra: Dalit woman stripped, paraded naked: "A Dalit woman was harassed in Satara district after it was discovered that her son had eloped with an upper-caste girl.", "Such kind of incidents are not rare"
Jan 11, 2012 TMC workers heckle Bengal college principal: "Rampurhat College principal Sibashish Banerjee fainted due to heckling and was admitted to a hospital."
Jan 11, 2012 Probe ordered into alleged exploitation of Jarawa tribals: "a video footage showing semi-naked Jarawa tribal women allegedly being ordered to dance before tourists in return for food."
Jan 11, 2012 Rats nibble at paralysed patient in govt hospital: "An elderly paralysed man, who was on ventilator support, has been seriously injured after allegedly being nibbled at by rats"
Jan 11, 2012 Jarawas are treated like animals: UK reporter: "IBN-18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to The Observer reporter Gethin Chamberlain, who released the video.", "Rs. 15000 can buy a policeman"
Jan 11, 2012 Guardian - UK: Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists - video: "The Jarawa tribe have lived in peace in the Andaman Islands for thousands of years. Now tour companies run safaris through their jungle every day and wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman tribals dance: Centre seeks explanation: "Wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman human safari a national embarrassment?: "The Observer has set off a storm after releasing a video showing members of the protected Jarawa tribe dancing for tourists."
Jan 11, 2012 Sonia Gandhi's family residing at Ulhasnagar?: "A social activist has found a ration card on the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) premises that was issued in the names of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka, bearing their Delhi address. The family's annual income was shown as Rs 30,000."
Jan 11, 2012 Indian bureaucrats have 'terrific powers', rated worst in Asia: "The bureaucrats were rarely held accountable for wrong decisions and it would be extremely difficult to challenge them when there were disagreements"
Jan 11, 2012 'Revamp laws to curb corruption'
Jan 11, 2012 All-night vigil for that elusive LKG seat: "Nursery admissions in Bangalore couldn’t get hotter than this. Rushing to grab that Kindergarten seat — mostly allotted on a first-come-first-served basis — anxious that their children would miss out, parents are camping outside schools ready to spend the night in a queue."
Jan 11, 2012 ICU patient dies after rodents feast on him: "The incident reaffirms the sorry state of affairs at the government hospitals in Jodhpur."
Jan 10, 2012 Over 68 pc milk adulterated; contains detergent: "A new report says that milk only in Goa and Puducherry was not adulterated"

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