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Jan 2, 2012 11 kids among 12 killed in road accident: "Eleven children on their way to school were among 12 killed and 20 others injured when an overloaded van carrying them collided with a truck amid dense fog"
Jan 2, 2012 Former Punjab DGP under EC scanner: "EC has transferred 20 police officers from Moga after receiving complaints, that the cops in Moga are allegedly favouring Gill since he allegedly transferred the cops when he was the DGP of Punjab."
Jan 2, 2012 24 foetuses in garbage dump: "24 foetuses were found dumped in a garbage spot in Shimoga, 15 of which were female foetuses."
Jan 2, 2012 Son's body wrapped in red tape?: "Munawar Khan has been carrying his son's body wrapped in a gunny bag in a wooden box. He has been sent from Jaunpur to Lucknow and back only to be told he now has to go to Benaras to get an autopsy. In all of this, not one authority from the hospital, police or Government have come forward to help this man."
Jan 2, 2012 Nobody noticed Election Commission’s duplicity: "When the EC becomes party to a Government’s election strategy, it not only loses its credibility but it also demeans democracy.", "The example of former CEC MS Gill, who is part of the present cabinet after demitting office, and the reasoned argument that it should be necessary for persons in such posts to give an undertaking to not take up any offer from Government is back at centre stage."
Jan 2, 2012 HC cancels Srilakshmi’s bail in OMC case: "The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday cancelled the bail of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Y Srilakshmi in the OMC illegal mining case."
Jan 2, 2012 Police arrest 2 for sacrificing child: "Two men have been arrested in central India for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl and cutting out her liver in a ritual sacrifice to ensure a better harvest"
Jan 2, 2012 CBI arrests senior railway official, tout in job racket: "demanding bribes of Rs five lakh each from two complainants for allegedly arranging them the job of Ticket Collector in the Railways from VIP quota through some senior Railway officers/politician at New Delhi."
Jan 2, 2012 Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister: "Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman"
Jan 1, 2012 New York Times: Political Bickering and Government Inaction Marked the Year in India: "Shouting and bickering like schoolchildren, Indian lawmakers provided the nation with a televised reality show of the political class in action."
Jan 1, 2012 Wall Street Journal: Tihar Jail’s New Year’s Resolution: 100% Literacy: "South Asia’s largest prison, Tihar Jail, is infamous for sheltering notorious inmates, including corrupt Indian bureaucrats and big-ticket politicians.", "Suresh Kalmadi, jailed this year for corruption is not participating in the literacy drive due to “security concerns.”"
Jan 1, 2012 The Lok of India: Person of the Year - 1 of 2: "The Lok of India: Person of the Year is a NewsX year end special which focuses on the personalities of year 2011. Anna Hazare's anti- corruption movement makes a huge difference"
Jan 1, 2012 2012, the year when Lokpal movement will play a bigger role
Jan 1, 2012 CNN: Indian anti-corruption activist hospitalized: "Hazare is chief among those credited with shining a spotlight on India's chronic corruption.", "Corruption has been a part of daily life in India for many years."
Jan 1, 2012 Fighting for a Less Corrupt New Year
Jan 1, 2012 Gulfnews: India's weakest premier
Jan 1, 2012 Anti-graft law defeat caps year of failure for Indian PM: "The Bill's defeat is further blow to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, capping a year of setbacks."
Jan 1, 2012 The saga of the Lokpal Bill: "The drama in the Rajya Sabha showed that the UPA government was not willing to go even by the will of Parliament. This gives rise to fundamental questions about the functioning of Indian democracy."
Jan 1, 2012 India needs real democracy
Jan 1, 2012 Celsius 5, winter clothing 0.5 per head At night, hay to keep warm: "There is a tattered shawl and a frayed women’s cardigan. “The four of us took turns wearing these,”"
Jan 1, 2012 Begging cloud on Bengal pilgrims - 166 Haj participants missing, diplomat points finger at racket, others blame state laxity: "a senior Indian diplomat in Jeddah suggesting in an email that they may have been absorbed into a begging ring in Mecca and Medina."
Jan 1, 2012 Raja, Kalmadi relish paneer, kheer, halwa in Tihar 2012: "Only well behaved prisoners are allowed to use the phone. The prisoners also got special food to mark New Year: vegetable curry with paneer, kheer, halwa, puri, parathas and pulao."
Jan 1, 2012 Many Assam cops, officials into land grabbing: Gogoi: "many policemen and other officials in the state were into land grabbing, which had assumed alarming proportions.", "ministers, legislators and former rebels have also been accused of grabbing land in urban and semi-urban areas"
Jan 1, 2012 12 doctors in drug trial racket let off with Rs 5,000 fine in Madhya Prades: "In a travesty of justice, the Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday imposed a paltry Rs 5,000 fine each on the 12 doctors charged with conducting drug trials on mentally challenged patients."
Dec 31, 2011 Teachers turn pupils into item girls: "“All the male and female teachers were drunk when the hapless students were forced to perform for their entertainment,”"
Dec 31, 2011 Top cops, bureaucrats, politicians’ kin in fray: "It’s a mad rush for party tickets in Punjab. Among the list of lucky ones so far are Punjab’s top cops, senior bureaucrats who until recently held coveted posts in the incumbent regime, kin of politicians, wives of policemen and even some tainted faces."
Dec 31, 2011 Conspiratorial silence: Advani stings PM again: "LK Advani on Saturday charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with “conspiratorial silence and acquiescence” on the issue, saying he opted for silence at a time when the country expected “honest transparent leadership” from him."
Dec 30, 2011 Racism? BBC’s Clarkson mocks India: "Viewers were furious after Clarkson staged a series of Carry On style digs at India's trains, toilets, clothing, food and history, The Daily Mail reported. At one point, the controversial presenter ridiculed the unhygienic conditions and lack of sanitation among the poor by driving around the slums in a Jaguar fitted with a toilet."
Dec 30, 2011 Controversy, scams bent the learning curve: "A fake admissions scam shook the faith in DU's admission process. Ramjas College identified 29 students in the first and second year courses who had taken admission on forged certificates."
Dec 30, 2011 Major Scandals of 2011: "2G Spectrum scam:"
Dec 30, 2011 Mumbai shame, shame, cry netizens: ""Mumbaikars, u don't deserve anything better than those filmi sl**s ! U r cowards, hypocrites,""
Dec 30, 2011 Anti-corruption bill creates chaos in India’s upper house: "Lawmakers adjourn without agreement on the proposed Lokpal bill"
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: Criticism after India corruption bill vote delayed: "India's opposition parties have bitterly criticised the government for its failure to put the controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill to a vote in the upper house of parliament."
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: A subversion of Indian democracy?: "Are India's politicians serious about cleaning up public life?"
Dec 30, 2011 New York Times: Is Lokpal Jinxed, or Was This a Serial Killing?: "Nine times in the past four decades, a Lokpal bill to create an anti-corruption ombudsman has been introduced in India’s Parliament, and eight times the bill has died. In its most current incarnation, the bill is in intensive care."
Dec 30, 2011 Imagining India without corruption: "Indians Like Us (PLU) have chicanery in our DNA. Ending corruption would shatter our delightful economy, scatter our “contacts” and stunt future plans based on cosy “settings”. Anna gave us a temporary guilt trip, but thanks to Parliament's “supremacy” all is well"
Dec 30, 2011 The Canadian: Lokpal in India: Politics around the anti-corruption agency: "Behind the facade of democracy, India, which is among the most corrupt nations on this earth, does everything anti-democratic. The founding leaders of a newly freed India PM Jawaharlal Nehru and police minister Vallabhai Patel, and military minister Menon, by sidelining MK Gandhi who fought for and won freedom from UK, created a system which essentially anti-people; and they are chiefly guilty of creating such a criminally corrupt and state terrorist nation in Asia in the first place."
Dec 30, 2011 The Independent: A fitting end to a disastrous year in Indian politics: "It was a fitting end to a disastrous year for corruption-ridden India’s floundering government, destructive parliamentary opposition, and self-serving politicians."
Dec 30, 2011 Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di: "The Indic tradition allows man to prosper by washing his dirty linen in a muck-flushed river", "the Lok Sabha took to debating the stillborn watchdog bill that was eventually strangulated at yearend by the elders of the upper house of Parliament, my wife bribed the keeper at Delhi Zoo with a crisp hundred-rupee note to walk her and my daughter through the feeding enclosure of the lions."
Dec 30, 2011 India: Acme Of Insincerity, Ineptitude And Infamy – OpEd: "The Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Congress Party headed by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi conducted themselves in a manner that confirmed the suspicions of many — particularly in the younger generation that is the future of this country — that they have been insincere in their professions of wanting to rid this country of the evil of corruption"
Dec 30, 2011 Jaitley coins 'flee-dom' at midnight: "Bringing the Prime Minister in the line of fire, BJP on Friday (December 30) accused him and his ministers for the "choreographed disturbance" in the Rajya Sabha on the Lokpal issue and insisted that since the government wanted a weak ombudsman and lacked numbers, it ran away from a vote."
Dec 30, 2011 Koda & Co. back in jail: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda, his cabinet colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi and businessman Vijay Joshi found themselves back in Birsa Munda Central Jail this evening after a medical board comprising army doctors ruled that they did not require hospitalisation for ailments imagined or real at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)."
Dec 30, 2011 Short of numbers, govt bailed out by clock at midnight - What everybody wanted: nobody’s bill frozen for now : "At midnight — the already extended session had permission from the President to run only till the end of calendar date December 29"
Dec 30, 2011 CBI Trouble for Lalbabu Singh: "After the biggest recovery of cash of 130 crore Rupees by the Income Tax department the CBI has also tightened its noose on Lalbabu Singh, the infamous coal contractor of Dhanbad."
Dec 30, 2011 Koda and his Aides Back to Prison: "Following the investigation by the doctors of Army Hospital, as per the orders of High Court, former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Deepak Joshi have been sent back to the Birsa Munda Central Jail"
Dec 30, 2011 Fraud on Parliament: "Congress is politically bankrupt, morally tainted"
Dec 30, 2011 FIR against 26 for sale of govt land: "The Delhi Police has registered a case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against 26 persons, including eight government officials, for allegedly conniving with property dealers and builder mafia to sell government land"
Dec 30, 2011 Janardhana Reddy’s 2-day escort bail petition quashed: "the CBI opposed the petition saying the programme in Bellary is aimed at intimidating the witnesses. The CBI prosecutor pointed out that Reddy’s supporters arranged a large number of huge cut-outs and hundreds of vehicles in Bellary even before the designated court granting him bail.", "Gali is in possession of several fake passports and could vanish out of the country in no time."
Dec 30, 2011 CIC seeks data on Krishna’s UK visit: "Krishna got his five-day visit in June, 2011 extended to watch a Wimbeldon match."
Dec 30, 2011 Team Anna blames Ansari for Lokpal fiasco in Rajya Sabha: "Team Anna today faulted Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for abruptly adjourning the Upper House sine die without a vote on the Lokpal Bill."
Dec 30, 2011 Who orchestrated chaos in Rajya Sabha?: "The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night.", alleged fixing in parliament"
Dec 30, 2011 Four fake CBI officers arrested: "Kakinada police today arrested four persons for extorting Rs two lakh from a factory manager by pretending to be CBI officers."
Dec 30, 2011 Andhra DGP blames women for rising incident of rapes
Dec 29, 2011 UPA has egg on its face, Bill in deep freeze after RS midnight farce
Dec 29, 2011 Ramjas scam: Staffer tries to poison self: "Pressure seems to be mounting on the accused in the Ramjas fake admission scam."
Dec 29, 2011 Inquiry into sex scam at DCP home: "allegations of flesh racket being run at a spa on a place owned by a deputy commissioner of police. The social service (SS) branch, during its raid at the spa, rescued seven girls."
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill put to sleep at midnight: "Faced with a certain defeat in the Rajya Sabha over the Lokpal Bill, the government on Thursday ducked the vote, leaving the fate of the landmark anti-corruption legislation in limbo and prompting many parties to term it a sad day for India's parliamentary democracy."
Dec 29, 2011 CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe: "The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service"
Dec 29, 2011 The Telegraph: Corrupt elites are being named and shamed – by the people: "Around the world, tyrants and thieving officials are running out of places to hide.", "In India, Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old activist, has used civil disobedience and hunger strikes to force the Indian parliament to pass anti-corruption legislation this year."
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption in India: "The bill, which would set-up independent ombudsmen to keep a check on government corruption"
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption concerns likely to dominate civic polls: "civic representatives are now gearing up to face the electorate in a new avatar - preparing to face some direct questions during their door-to-door campaign and answering some hard questions on corruption."
Dec 29, 2011 Newsmakers of the year: Anna Hazare
Dec 29, 2011 The year of jail, bail and anger against corruption: "the 2G telecom, corruption in Commonweatlh Games dominated headlines throughout the year."
Dec 29, 2011 Jethmalani's remarks create flutter in RS during Lokpal debate: "Noted advocate and BJP member Ram Jethmalani today created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha when he made certain remarks against persons having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 29, 2011 Live: No Lokpal once again, Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die
Dec 29, 2011 Military ‘exam’ for Koda, others: "A court appointed medical board of a military hospital today examined Madhu Koda and three others, but did not reveal its findings to ascertain whether the former chief minister and his cabinet colleagues facing corruption charges were feigning illness to remain in hospital and avoid jail."
Dec 29, 2011 'एक धेले का क़ानून नहीं': "पिछले 30 सालों में सीबीआई के पास करीब 10,000 मामले लंबित हैं."
Dec 29, 2011 No point in passing this 'useless' Bill: Team Anna
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill complicated, absurd: Arun Jaitley: "While speaking in the RS, he said that the sense of the nation should be taken into consideration."
Dec 29, 2011 Congress started corruption in India: Jethmalani: "he made remarks against a former PM having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 28, 2011 A Tangled Anti-Graft Web for India
Dec 28, 2011 Corruption all around: "This has reference to media reports that one-third of South Asians pay bribes,"
Dec 28, 2011 Corruption in India: I was approached for a bribe: "Our correspondent learns first-hand the mechanics of petty bribery in India."
Dec 28, 2011 Anna Hazare makes into CIA's Factbook: "Anna Hazare is currently on fast in Mumbai and has asked people to be ready for an 'aar paar ki ladai' (fight to finish) to stamp out corruption and ensure that "goondas" do not enter Parliament."
Dec 28, 2011 Now, a song to wipe out corruption: "“Jaisa ab hai pehle kab tha, yeh Hindustan yaaron; Rishwat ke baazaar me baithe, kuch beimaan yaaron; Apne desh ki haalat badlo, jaago hosh me aao...”"
Dec 28, 2011 Was that thing in the Lok Sabha really a debate? Naah…: "The debate in parliament on the Lokpal bill suffered from one major deficiency: the fact that it was called a debate."
Dec 28, 2011 5 MLAs face quiz: "All five MLAs named in the cash-for-vote scam and accused of criminal conspiracy by agreeing to accept bribes to vote for a particular candidate during the June 2010 Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand will be summoned by the state vigilance department "
Dec 28, 2011 UPA Govt has betrayed the people of India: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal said if Congress is able to pass the Lokpal Bill then they don't have any problems with the party."
Dec 28, 2011 IPO fraud: Sebi moves swiftly on seven IPOs: "The regulator has unearthed mis-utilisation and diversion of funds from the IPO proceeds by the companies and has ordered them to call back an aggregate of Rs 140 crore and deposit them in an escrow account"
Dec 28, 2011 100 fake doctors? MP hit by Munnabhai scam: "the students, mostly from rich families, had been joining MBBS courses since 2009 by paying crores between them to hire practicing doctors and talented medical students from UP, Bihar and elsewhere to write the pre-medical test on their behalf, forging photographs and signatures."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill won't fight corruption: Bhushan: "Team Anna made it clear that they were not satisfied with the Lokpal Bill that has been passed in the Lok Sabha."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption and the South Asian: "political parties and police as the most corrupt institutions—something which most of us are already aware or agree."
Dec 27, 2011 'Pulse import by Pawar ministry led to Rs 1k cr loss': "companies were given the imported consignments through a skewed tender process. These private companies, the report says, are also major players in the pulses market. They took a long time to lift the imported consignments, which ensured that prices of pulses in the domestic market remained high."
Dec 27, 2011 Techie promised railway jobs, duped candidates of Rs 50L: "contacted them on the pretext of giving them jobs in the railways and he even took Rs 4 lakh from each of them."
Dec 27, 2011 The China Post: Anti-corruption activist begins new hunger strike in Mumbai: "“What is going to be passed in Parliament today is a farce,”"
Dec 27, 2011 Is a consensus possible on the Lokpal bill?: "Anna Hazare has rejected the Lokpal Bill, asking why the government is afraid of bringing the CBI under the Lokpal."
Dec 27, 2011 Maharashtra consumes Rs 100 cr gutkha daily: Oppn leader: "around Rs 100 crore was consumed in state of which Rs 25 crore was in Mumbai alone."
Dec 27, 2011 Students lament Bihar’s dysfunctional schools: "School authority does not take any care while preparing food. The 'daal' they serve us is very diluted and mostly boiled water. When we protest, they ask ‘are we your servants’? “Teachers take no interest in teaching. After we finish our lunch, they forcibly send us home.""
Dec 27, 2011 Know your Lokpal: questions related to the Bill: "Experts share their insights into the Lokpal Bill, which was on Thursday introduced in the Parliament."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's motive on Lokpal highly suspicious: BJP: "Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday said that the government's Lokpal Bill is very weak."
Dec 27, 2011 Lokpal Bill won't tackle corruption: Anna
Dec 27, 2011 भ्रष्टाचार – मुद्दे का सरकारीकरण और एक राजनैतिक साजिश: "यह एक व्यस्था सुधार का विचार है, इसे अब व्यक्ति से दूर रखकर भी सोचो तो भी कटघरे में बेशर्मो तुम ही नज़र आओगे| मगर तुम दुस्साहसी भ्रष्ट लोग ऐसा नहीं करोगे, तुम तो बस बयानबाजी करोगे| भ्रष्टाचार निवारण की ठोस कारवाही करने में हीलाहवाली……. निर्लज्ज सत्ताधारियो… तुम्हारे नंगे तेवर दिखाती है|"
Dec 27, 2011 Govt has weakened the CBI further: Bedi: "Kiran Bedi says the government will have to explain as to why it has kept the CBI out of the Lokpal."
Dec 27, 2011 Anna challenges Sonia to debate on Lokpal: "Hazare said the Lokpal Bill draft has no power and alleges that the Government is not listening to the people."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI files chargesheet against ex Jharkhand minister in DA case: "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda's close aide and his ex-ministerial colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi was chargesheeted today by CBI for allegedly acquiring disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs seven crore.", "The chargesheet had accused Koda of misusing his position to allegedly benefit Sinha and Choudhary in taking "bribes" from various companies in the allotment of lease of iron mines in the State."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI estimates illegal mining by OMC led to loss of Rs 5,100 crore: "The CBI today told a local court that illegal mining allegedly involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy had resulted in a loss of Rs 5,100 crore to the state exchequer."
Dec 27, 2011 Kiran Bedi: Lokpal Bill may go the Women's bill way: "the Lokpal Bill may go the Women's Reservation Bill's way as those in power are comfortable with status quo."
Dec 27, 2011 IPS officer caught cheating in exams: "An IPS and regional police officer, Jai Prakash Singh was allegedly caught cheating while appearing in his law exams at Lucknow University's New Campus", "It was then we frisked him and found a piece of paper (chit) in his pocket. The chit carried relevant information meant for his exams.''"
Dec 27, 2011 Sukhram's conviction upheld by HC: "In a setback to former Telecom Minister Sukhram, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (December 21) upheld his conviction and three year jail term in the 1996 telecom scam."
Dec 27, 2011 Court denies bail to Koda in money laundering case: "former chief minister Madhu Koda. Koda, who has been in jail since November 2009, is charged of laundering over Rs. 1,340 crore."

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