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Dec 27, 2011 People will teach this Govt a lesson: Anna: "Anna Hazare said his team will go to the people and tell them how this Government has cheated the people of India."
Dec 27, 2011 'हिरासत में हर दिन चार लोगों की मौत': "राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग के आंकड़ों के मुताबिक़ भारत में वर्ष 2010 और 2011 के बीच पुलिस और न्यायिक हिरासत में 1574 लोगों की मौत हुई."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt Lokpal Bill is like a post office: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal also says the Citizens' Charter Bill will collapse within 10 days of enactment."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill totally unacceptable: Hegde: "Justice Santosh Hegde has asked if FDI in retail is more important than fighting against corruption."
Dec 27, 2011 No RTE effect; primary schools in a sorry state: "Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some schools."
Dec 27, 2011 US lists Delhi's Nehru Place among notorious markets in world: "An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR)."
Dec 27, 2011 Chidambaram would be in jail if CBI comes under Lokpal: Anna Hazare: "Anna Hazare on Wednesday accused it of cheating the people by bringing a weak Bill to save corrupt politicians."
Dec 27, 2011 1996 Telecom scam: HC orders ex-minister Sukhram to serve sentence: "also upheld the conviction of ex-deputy Director-General of the Department of Telecom (DoT) Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Managing Director P Rama Rao."
Dec 27, 2011 Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due towards Air India: "In 2011-12, foreign travel bill of cabinet ministers was a staggering Rs 460.78 crore till December 16, 2011"
Dec 27, 2011 'All GSM phones vulnerable to scams'
Dec 27, 2011 Yet Another Fast by India’s Anti-Corruption Crusader
Dec 27, 2011 Big scams, complex crimes kept CBI busy during 2011
Dec 27, 2011 Calgary Herald: Jain: Prosperity hasn't cured all that ails India: "rich have grown richer and the poor have become poorer", "Rahul Gandhi - son of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Rajiv's Italian wife Sonya - who now indirectly runs the government, preached that the only way to eliminate corruption was to modify the democratic system"
Dec 27, 2011 The Sydney Morning Herald: Time is running out for a respectable leader trapped in a bad government: "In the most dramatic scene in Shakespeare's play, an aged and humiliated King Lear - betrayed by the corruption and avarice of those around him - staggers into a storm railing against his own folly in trusting "thou wretch that hast within thee undivulged crimes, unwhipped of justice". In the colourful land of Indian politics, Manmohan Singh is perhaps the least demonstrative Prime Minister the country has known.", "His telecom minister was also jailed this year, charged with robbing the country of $40 billion and taking massive kickbacks.", "Singh, once venerated, is now mocked by opponents as a puppet of Gandhi, and beholden to vested backroom interests."
Dec 27, 2011 India tycoon's got tons of cash, nowhere to invest: ""If you are an honest businessman in India, it's very difficult to start up anything," said Jamshyd Godrej, chairman of manufacturing giant Godrej & Boyce."
Dec 27, 2011 Lokayukta raids on ex-BBMP commissioner, 2 other officers: "Karnatka Lokayukta police today raided 14 premises of three IAS officers, including former city corporation commissioner Siddaiah who unearthed an alleged multi-crore scam in the civic body, and another official and found 'unaccounted' wealth to the tune of Rs 5.88 crore. Siddaiah, shunted out of the civic body post days after he handed over the probe into the Rs 1,539 crore scam to police last month, was found to be having Rs 1.90 crore unaccounted assets"
Dec 27, 2011 The C in Congress: "Perhaps the Congress is in love with the “C” in its name. Corruption was not enough. It had to become corrupt, casteist, communal and cynical. India’s tragedy is that there is no national level challenger to this party that is diminishing us all."
Dec 26, 2011 Reuters: Gandhi clan blamed for keeping India in poverty: ""Who has exercised corruption? The party in power, and the party in power for the majority of the years has been the Congress party and in the Congress party, the Gandhi family.""
Dec 26, 2011 Indian Activist to Fast Against Corruption
Dec 26, 2011 Kiran Bedi blames Congress, Gandhi family for corruption in India: "The Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for most of the 64 years since independence has kept the world's largest democracy in poverty"
Dec 26, 2011 Rajini throws weight behind Hazare
Dec 26, 2011 At Ramlila, giant LED screens to telecast Anna’s fast live
Dec 26, 2011 Team Anna says linking Hazare with RSS is govt propaganda
Dec 26, 2011 'Middle-class Indians find it easier to BRIBE': "The anger against corruption, independent India's deadliest disease, spilled over on to the streets this year."
Dec 26, 2011 We are sure Kranti will be a success, says Team Anna
Dec 26, 2011 Bangalore gears up for Jail Bharo
Dec 26, 2011 Rajinikanth offers protest venue to Anna supporters
Dec 26, 2011 Our self-serving public servants: "Members of Parliament want red beacons on their cars as that will set them apart from the masses whom they claim to represent!"
Dec 26, 2011 Bhanwari killed on Maderna's order: CBI sources: "Sahi Ram Bishnoi, was allegedly paid money by Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh to kill the nurse."
Dec 26, 2011 DD anchor abducted, robbed, let off: "A dorrdarshan anchor was kidnapped outside Pacific Mall in Kaushambi by three unidentified persons, who forced him to withdraw Rs 40,000 from two different ATMs. They drove away with the journalist’s Maruti Swift after letting him off."
Dec 26, 2011 They scrutinise assets of others, but yet to post own returns online: "Among the 3,200 IRS officers who handle direct taxes including income-tax, at least 700 are also yet to put their assets in the public domain."
Dec 25, 2011 $128 billion siphoned out in a decade: "The report has been prepared by international watchdog Global Financial Integrity (GFI)"
Dec 25, 2011 Kalam’s three-point recipe for graft-free India
Dec 25, 2011 Over 71k answer Team Anna’s Jail Bharo call
Dec 25, 2011 Al Jazeera: India's Hazare versus government corruption: "I've seen scores of ordinary Indians coming out on the streets in his support, the numbers increasingly swelling in his favour and rattling the government"
Dec 25, 2011 Team Anna writes to PM, seeks suo motu probe power for Lokpal
Dec 25, 2011 2011 SC: Corruption, 2G and CVC Drama
Dec 25, 2011 Will you be marked for life if you join Anna’s ‘jail bharo’?: "“In case of any job application or a visa application, you will only be asked if you have been convicted for any offence or not,” reasons Nagpal. “”And conviction is different from being arrested.”"
Dec 25, 2011 Fight for Lokpal: Anna in Mumbai tomorrow: "Anna Hazare, who is expected to touch base on December 26 for his three-day protest fast against government's 'weak' Lokpal Bill."
Dec 25, 2011 WB horror: 9 babies dead in 48 hours: "Three more infant died at Malda Sadar Hospital on Saturday taking the death toll in the state-run facility to nine in the past two days."
Dec 25, 2011 Pyramid of corruption
Dec 25, 2011 UP minister for small-scale industries draws salary as principal, teacher: "the assignment is making him richer by approximately 4,50,000 a month as salaries of all 17 teachers in the staff, was found to be credited to his account regularly. It was discovered that the list of teachers was fictitious."
Dec 24, 2011 Lokpal agitation: In 2 days, 68000 sign up to go to jail: "Anna wants to know if you're willing to go to prison. And 68,000 people and counting have volunteered in the last two days."
Dec 24, 2011 UK regulator hints “covert” Ambani fund invested in RCom: "Indian markets regulator, Sebi, settled for a penalty of Rs 50 crore on the group through a “consent order” under which Anil Ambani and four of his board members were barred from investing in the markets till the end of the year."
Dec 24, 2011 Guess who’s the real ‘dictator’: Not Team Anna, but Sonia: "you have a Rajmata who has her regal way by trampling legitimate criticism from within her own government and gets a fiscally ruinous bill rammed through – and won’t even appear in public to address the concerns relating to the bill."
Dec 24, 2011 Murky drug trial in Indore - Part 2: "One of the doctors in the clinic allegedly involved in drug trials of mentally ill admits to trial on them, and a family alleges drug trial on an infant."
Dec 24, 2011 Drug trial on mentally challenged?: "In an out and out treachery by a pharma company in Indore, TIMES NOW's investigation has revealed how a mentally ill patient was used for a drug trial without consent. The patient from a poor family was used like a guinea pig by the medical practitioners"
Dec 24, 2011 Bijli, sadak, jaati: "It remains unclear whether the party believes that minorities can be ‘fooled’ by any other kind (read: its own) of rhetoric."
Dec 24, 2011 National Interest: The caste of corruption: "do Muslims tend to be more criminal than Hindus", "Mera Neta Chor Hai""
Dec 24, 2011 North India shivers, death toll 128
Dec 23, 2011 State govt aided Adarsh scam: CAG: "The state government has been blamed for actively aiding and abetting the Adarsh housing society scam, in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India"
Dec 23, 2011 The Independent: Indian campaigner urges supporters to cause jail chaos: "The government was initially stunned by the campaign, which earlier this year saw thousands of people take to the streets of the major cities."
Dec 23, 2011 Lokpal Bill impotent if CBI not included: Mohandas Pai: "Director of Manipal Universal Learning and the Former Director of Infosys said the CBI has to be under the control of the Lokpal to make it effective."
Dec 23, 2011 Odisha 2011: Maoist Activities, Calamities and Scams: "vast areas turning safe havens for the red rebels marauding from neighbouring provinces in 2011, seen as a year of calamities and scams in the state."
Dec 23, 2011 CBI counsel draws parallel between OMC, Satyam scams: "urged the court to reject the bail applications of the accused - Gali Janardhan Reddy and BV Srinivas Reddy of OMC."
Dec 23, 2011 Transparency International: South Asia: Corruption plagues daily life - Political parties and police seen as most corrupt : "more than one in three people who deal with public services said they pay bribes. In previous surveys of this nature, only Sub-Saharan Africa had a higher rate of bribe-paying."
Dec 23, 2011 Why Abdullahs are critics of Anna Hazaare…?: "Jammu and Kashmir was last year declared and ranked as second corrupt state in the country. In such circumstances, the state of Jammu and Kashmir needed to take lead in making any such anti corruption law at its own which will have provision of even investigating and prosecuting the chief minister in chair."
Dec 23, 2011 The New York Times: Anticorruption Bill Provokes an Outcry in India: "India’s national government, led by the Congress Party, has spent the past year mired in ugly corruption scandals or stumbling from self-inflicted political miscues."
Dec 23, 2011 1,390 Mumbaiites sign up for Anna’s jail-bharo campaign: "“Corruption has become rampant in our nation."
Dec 23, 2011 Netas, cops most corrupt: Survey: "The survey, released by Transparency International, found that 64% Indians bribed police for one reason or the other while 55% felt that the government was ineffective in the fight against corruption."
Dec 23, 2011 Alert against cock-eyed graft fight: "underlined the need for reforms in tackling graft."
Dec 23, 2011 Jail-bharo call makes police nervous: "The police estimate that 15,000 to 20,000 people are likely to participate in the Andolan. “Even if we keep all lock-ups empty, it won’t be enough.”"
Dec 23, 2011 Corruption impeding investments, says Moody’s: "A report from Moody's has said that policymakers need to stamp out "rampant corruption" as part of measures to support investment and prevent the country from falling into a low-growth high-inflation trap."
Dec 23, 2011 Wall Strret Journal: Corruption Rampant In South Asia, Study Says: "More than one in three people who deal with public services in South Asia pay bribes", "Political parties and the police are the most corrupt institutions in each of the six countries, followed closely by legislatures and public officials"
Dec 23, 2011 IAC aims for ‘Jail Bharo’ world record: "The Mumbai unit of India Against Corruption (IAC) approached the Guinness Book of World Records on Friday, informing them about the three-day Jail Bharo Andolan scheduled across the country between December 30 and January 1."
Dec 23, 2011 One step forward, two steps back: "Hopelessly ineffectual and constitutionally suspect, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 is nothing less than a betrayal of national trust."
Dec 23, 2011 NRI youth's refusal to identify with India prompts reform campaign in Punjab: ""When my granddaughter told me that she was hesitant to identify herself as an Indian in response to her American teacher's question, I lost the sense of pride in being an Indian"
Dec 23, 2011 ‘Investors’ are realty’s mafia; that’s why prices can’t come down: "these investors are not generally you and me buying a second flat for investment, but non-resident Indians or even politicians channelising their black money into the sector."
Dec 23, 2011 Ratan Tata exhorts Indian youth to fight corruption: ""The youth of today will need to recognise that they shoulder a great responsibility...They will need to fight for rooting out corruption, for ensuring that no one is above the law,"
Dec 22, 2011 Gunmen chase, kill realtor in bustling Howrah locality: "A promoter was chased down a busy road by 8-10 gunmen in Howrah on Thursday morning, cornered in a residential locality and shot and hacked to death in front of horrified women and children."
Dec 22, 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 21, 2011 Pune: Is Symbiosis cheating on students?: "Students have alleged that the institute ties up with coaching centres giving their students an unfair advantage."
Dec 21, 2011 FTN: Are politicians scared of an independent CBI?: "Team Anna on Wednesday attacked the government for keeping CBI out of Lokpal's ambit."
Dec 20, 2011 Indian schools dwarfed in global ratings programme: "some 16,000 15-year-olds from schools in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu taking part. They ranked near the bottom in all categories, outscoring only Kyrgyzstan."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 Over 1,500 died in custody: NHRC: "As many as 1,574 people were killed in custody in the past year, according to the data released by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 331 deaths being reported in both police and judicial custody."
Dec 20, 2011 Koreans face wrath of cops, detained for nine hours: ""Even the policeman thrashed us. The police treated us like criminals and kept us in the police station for hours."
Dec 20, 2011 Voice of America: India’s Cabinet Approves Controversial Anti-Graft Bill: "the bill, which would create a nine-member ombudsman office to investigate and prosecute senior politicians and civil servants suspected of graft."
Dec 20, 2011 Harvard Punishes Free Speech in India: "The Harvard Crimson justified the move by saying, in part, "there is the further concern that his publications may incite religious violence.""
Dec 20, 2011 Team Anna prays for ‘sane govt’: "In the morning, hundreds went to Mahim church and, in the evening, to Haji Ali Dargah."
Dec 20, 2011 BJP targets Chidambaram: "accusing him of showing "disrespect" to Parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier."
Dec 20, 2011 Wagah the new drug route?: "The Indo-Pak border is used by smugglers to push narcotics and counterfeit currency notes into India. Investigations reveal that security officials and border rangers on the other side of the border in connivance with the smugglers."
Dec 20, 2011 Outrage, clinical trials on mentally ill: "It is the worst form of treachery and deceit. Reports suggest that over 200 mentally ill patients were subjected to drug trial in Bhopal. The report of the Economic Offences wing details how informed consent was not taken from the patients, and how more than 80 patients underwent severe aftereffects of the drugs."
Dec 20, 2011 Team Anna rejects Govt's draft: "they will reject a draft that seels to keep CBI out of Lokpal."
Dec 20, 2011 Declare property in 2 days: Speaker - Warning for MLAs reluctant to furnish details: "corruption cases are pending against several public figures, including former chief minister Madhu Koda and four of his cabinet colleagues."
Dec 20, 2011 Lokpal: Anna to fast for 3 days, calls govt a cheat: "Anna Hazare rejected the Lokpal draft and Citizens' Charter Bill, and threatened to resume his agitation."
Dec 20, 2011 HC notice to ailing Koda and Co.: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda and his cabinet colleagues Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Shahi today invited the ire of Jharkhand High Court, which hauled them up for allegedly faking illness to avoid being incarcerated in Birsa Munda Central Jail.", "He also questioned the role of the jail authorities and doctors of RIMS who have allegedly connived to ensure that high-profile prisoners stay in RIMS and do not have to go to jail.""
Dec 20, 2011 Lokpal draft a worthless legislation: Kiran Bedi: "Kiran Bedi said if the CBI is not under Lokpal then the government is only wasting its time."
Dec 20, 2011 Lokpal draft not acceptable to us: Team Anna: "Sources say that the CBI will report back on only those cases of corruption to Lokpal which are referred to it."
Dec 19, 2011 Gujarat Bar opposes Justice Pal’s transfer to state: "Chief Justice of India is earnestly requested that Gujarat High Court may not be considered as a dumping ground.", "Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi of Punjab and Haryana High Court had apprised the CJI of “illegalities and irregularities” in an order delivered by Justice Pal."
Dec 19, 2011 22 months after Bellary dy mayor killed, CID probes links with a Reddy: "Padmavathi Yadav, 36, was known to be a close confidante of Bellary City MLA G Somashekhar Reddy, one of the Bellary Reddy brothers."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja hatched 2G conspiracy: Former aide: "Jailed former communications minister A. Raja's former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary Monday told a special court here that the DMK leader hatched the conspiracy on 2G spectrum licences much before he headed the ministry."
Dec 19, 2011 2G accused corporate honchos visited Raja since 2004: Ex-aide: "the former minister was in touch with Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra even during his stint with the ministry of environment and forests between 2004-07."
Dec 19, 2011 Fake notes: Can’t ‘bank’ on banks: "Getting forged notes from ATM counters has now become a regular affair in the city.", "The cops quizzed me about the places from where I got the money. I was interrogated as if I had printed the fake notes. It was adding insult to the injury,""
Dec 19, 2011 Hazare's anti-graft campaign is good for the country: Narayana Murthy: "350 million Indians live on Rs 36 a day, Murthy lamented: "With this kind of income you cannot keep our body and soul together"."
Dec 19, 2011 Anger over Bangalore University's apathy: "TIMES NOW's special investigation exposes the shoddy state of affairs at Bangalore University. Nearly 200 students who have enrolled for a special integrated science course are made to sit in guest house, which includes empty labs, a library filled with beds and mattresses and more importantly a frustrated bunch of students who are at the mercy of the university officials."
Dec 19, 2011 CAG challenges Government: "CAG puts out detailed mathematical logic, methodology and figure estimating the loss. The CAG has challenged government and is sticking to the estimated 1.76 lakh crore loss figure on 2G scam."
Dec 19, 2011 True cost of Dynasty: Sonia sends us a Rs 5,45,000 cr bill : "The Sonia-Rahul re-election bill so far thus amounts to Rs 3,05,000 crore."
Dec 19, 2011 Another shocker from Bengal: "The family of the deceased baby alleges that the death was caused after a drunken sweeper removed the baby's oxygen mask."
Dec 19, 2011 Nearly 50 lakh child labourers in country: Govt: "”As per Census 2001, there were 1.26 crore working children in the country in the age group of 5-14,” "

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