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Dec 14, 2011 Congress MLAs hurl chair in Odisha Assembly: "Congress was demanding a discussion on the opening up of new police stations in the state.", "Democracy hits a new low"
Dec 14, 2011 Indian lives are cheaper: "Congress was demanding a discussion on the opening up of new police stations in the state."
Dec 14, 2011 Industrial growth shrinks, CII warns of job cuts: "The Confederation of Indian Industry has appealed for urgent measures to tackle the slowdown."
Dec 14, 2011 CBI chargesheets Essar, Loop Telecom in 2G: "In the chargesheet CBI has named Anshuman Ruia, Ravi Ruia, Kiran Khaitan, IP Khaitan and Vikas Saraf."
Dec 14, 2011 CWG scam: Trouble brewing for Sheila Dikshit: "Firm that supplied bulbs at 3 times the original cost was declared qualified after making a plea before Delhi CM."
Dec 14, 2011 India's October industrial production tumbles 5.1%: "Production at factories, mines and utilities plunged 5.1% from a year earlier, far worse than a median forecast for a 0.5% drop"
Dec 14, 2011 No homeless should sleep under open sky this winter: SC to states
Dec 14, 2011 Delhi's shame: Four-year-old raped by elderly man: "the senior citizen allegedly lured the child on the pretext of giving her some eatables. "The accused took the victim inside his room and raped her,""
Dec 14, 2011 Rupee hits new record low of 52.77 per dollar
Dec 14, 2011 Anna Hazare to fast, says second fight for independence has started: "What independence. Corruption, loot is still here. Only 'goras' left and 'kalas' came in, that is the only difference.""
Dec 14, 2011 Indians have this attitude of blaming somebody, including God'
Dec 14, 2011 2G case: CBI files third chargesheet, names Ruias and Khaitans: "All of them have been chargesheeted under section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC."
Dec 14, 2011 India’s billionaires frustrated, want to shift base overseas: "Several Indian billionaires say they are frustrated enough to want to shift base overseas and run their increasingly transnational business empires from cities like London and Singapore. "I'm sick and tired of what's happening here. I don't want to live in this country anymore," said one of India's biggest barons."
Dec 14, 2011 Anna Hazare's fasts tenth top story on Time
Dec 14, 2011 Corruption most talked-about issue in India: BBC Survey
Dec 14, 2011 Anna caps sell like hot cakes
Dec 14, 2011 BBC: India telecoms fraud case: New accused named: "mis-selling of telecoms licences which auditors say cost the country about $40bn (£24.5bn). A spokesperson for the CBI said Essar's Ravi Ruia, Anshuman Ruia and Vikas Saraf, and Loop Telecom's Kiran Khaitan and IP Khaitan were the new accused."
Dec 14, 2011 Newswallah: Four Decades of Lokpal: "The Lokpal bill was later introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2008 and finally in 2010."
Dec 14, 2011 Anna supporters protest in London
Dec 14, 2011 IIPM organizes a walk against corruption
Dec 14, 2011 Hazare says struggle against corruption will go on
Dec 14, 2011 Meet volunteers at Anna's 'paathshala': "Look at what's happening with MGNREGA. Crores are spent on it. But of every rupee spent, not even 10 paise reaches the villages. 70 per cent of the money is spent on cosmetics like a/c offices, cars and on management, only 30 per cent goes towards implementation."
Dec 14, 2011 'CBI Registered Over 500 Corruption Cases in 2011': "The CVC has imposed penalty against 39,123 officers between 2008-10 for their alleged involvement in corrupt practices."
Dec 14, 2011 In UP, Congress seizes on local corruption: "Sompati was made to open a bank account with Rs. 500 for which she had to pay a bribe of Rs. 100 to a local politician."
Dec 14, 2011 Hazare phenomenon enters classroom discussion: "At Jawaharlal Nehru University, known for its socialist leanings, students want to pursue a PhD on Team Anna whereas B-schools like the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University, are studying the success of Brand Anna."
Dec 14, 2011 Quake scams can go deeper than Sharma’s role: "Bhuj Suspended IAS officer Pradip Sharma, who spent nearly 18 months in jail before being granted bail by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, is among the government officers who were hailed as rehabilitation heroes post 2001 Bhuj earthquake and now stand accused of power abuse to facilitate land scams."
Dec 14, 2011 Corruption has ‘taken over India’ but can be eliminated: "While "lower level bureaucracy and police thrive on bribes and baksheesh, higher level (depend) on grease money and scams... "The state withers away and in many parts of India what is left of the state, it appears, is only held together due to corruption and a sophisticated system of sharing the spoils.""
Dec 13, 2011 Andhra woman gets HIV after caesarean operation: "Angry relatives staged a day-long protest against the hospital and the Red Cross society."
Dec 13, 2011 Smart money is losing faith in India, the broken BRIC: "Is India the broken BRIC? Global investors end 2011 overweight Brazil, Russia, and China, but resolutely underweight India"
Dec 12, 2011 Give me your wallet, keep the licence: "Twenty-four-year-old Dinesh Rathi, a school dropout, got himself a constable’s khakis, a getaway car and a button-operated knife and set out to make money.", "while travelling in his Maruti Esteem car to dispose of more than three tonne of pesticides"
Dec 12, 2011 ACP names 14 top babus in FIR: "tremendous pressure was mounted on the complainant, who was working in the same jurisdiction and it was raided illegally. Higher officers forced him to write a false report that apart from the money, fake currency was found and seized."
Dec 12, 2011 SRCC boy held for Ramjas admission scam: "Now, police are probing if staff from these departments had any role in assisting admission or it was the admission department playing a role behind the scene."
Dec 11, 2011 Now, garbage scam raises stink in the Palike: "the Palike already has a garbage contract in place but the corporators continued to pressure the head office to give ‘second shift contract’ to the persons of their choice,”", "the Palike has paid roughly between Rs 45 crore to 50 crore in the last 18 months."
Dec 11, 2011 Anna wave rises again
Dec 11, 2011 India Inc: Don’t blame govt, blame yourselves for current mess: "the scams that have erupted —telecom , mining , land grabbing —all involve corporate India."
Dec 11, 2011 India anti-graft activist fasts demanding strong ombudsman: "A popular anti-corruption crusader who rocked the Indian government with street protests in the summer went on a day-long hunger strike Sunday and has warned of more to come if his demand for a tough law on graft are not quickly met."
Dec 11, 2011 When white ants ate away roadrollers: "“How many geological eras it took the white ants to eat away the roadrollers?” I had asked an august officer, who came pleading to me to settle the objection."
Dec 11, 2011 BJP accuses Mayawati, her kin of 'hiding' money in companies: "has found over 125 companies connected with Mayawati's "friends and family"."
Dec 11, 2011 Reuters: Government admits $9 billion export gaffe: "Already battered by corruption scandals, and less than a week after an embarrassing policy U-turn, the government admitted on Friday that it had accidentally inflated this year's export figures by more than $9 billion."
Dec 11, 2011 Key Programs to Aid Poor Come Under Fire in India
Dec 11, 2011 Corruption in India is growing annually by over 100 percent
Dec 11, 2011 Penetrating India’s beauty, corruption
Dec 11, 2011 Corruption has become cancerous in India: "“India, as I see it, is in a serious stage of corruption. It has turned into a cancer, that is eating the country from within,” opined former judge of Supreme Court of India R V Raveendran"
Dec 11, 2011 Ramdev to list corrupt politicos: "India can become a superpower by bringing back black money and by getting rid of corruption."
Dec 11, 2011 Social media to drive movement against corruption: Survey
Dec 11, 2011 ‘Supply and demand sides of graft should be tackled'
Dec 11, 2011 Anna Hazare ends fast over Lokpal draft at Jantar Mantar
Dec 11, 2011 Team Anna back to targeting Sibal: "this time over his moves to "censor" content on Internet and limit the number of SMSes during a day to control its "popular anti-corruption movement""
Dec 11, 2011 How much do the corrupt earn?: "Public officials in India may be cornering as much as Rs.92,122 crore ($18.42 billion), or 1.26 per cent of the GDP, through corruption", "Real estate and related business services involving registration of property and stamp duties account for Rs.12,534 crore ($2.5 billion) in corruption"
Dec 11, 2011 India's population hurtling toward the top: "Even as headlines tout India's space program, glitzy call centers, fast-growing economy and rising middle class, the nation is struggling to feed, clothe and house many of its people amid the population growth, corruption, inefficiency and weak government."
Dec 11, 2011 Anna Hazare is still a magnet for middle class India: "Today literally all roads led to Jantar Mantar. A crowd of around 3000 people made up of youth, the elderly, children, families, students and women thronged the venue."
Dec 11, 2011 Biggest fire hazard is indulgent NOC babu: "Most water sprinklers and fire alarms in the basement as well as inside the hospital were dysfunctional"
Dec 11, 2011 BBC: India anti-corruption activist Hazare holds short fast: "Among India's recent corruption scandals are an alleged multi-billion dollar telecoms scam, claims of financial malpractice in connection with the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and allegations that houses intended for war widows ended up in the hands of civil servants."
Dec 11, 2011 Over 30,000 pieces of info on black money under I-T scanner: ""Investigation wing of CBDT has detected concealed income of Rs 18,750 crore in last two financial years."
Dec 11, 2011 Anna's crusade draws huge crowd at Jantar Mantar: "Anna on a day-long fast threatened to intensify his anti-corruption protests if the govt failed to pass a strong Lokpal Bill."
Dec 11, 2011 Flying freebies: "The human resources committee of the carrier has found the temerity to propose to the Air India board that its CMD and numerous directors and general managers, along with their spouses, parents, siblings and children, be given free air tickets.", "And when officers pass away, the favours will be passed on a generation like heirlooms."
Dec 11, 2011 Standing Committee on Lokpal has 'betrayed' nation: Shanti Bhushan: "'betraying' the nation by suggesting 'snatching away' of the power of investigation from the proposed anti-corruption watchdog."
Dec 11, 2011 Govt not granting CBI freedom fearing info lying with it: Bedi: ""What all things are hidden in the almirahs of CBI? They don't want things to be made public."
Dec 11, 2011 Anna Hazare calls youth to pack jails for Lokpal; gets partial political backing: "While Anna confidant Arvind Kejriwal attacked Sibal, Hazare took on Chidambaram, saying with such a home minister, India would never progress."
Dec 11, 2011 Cop vanishes with seized Rs.1.5 crore: "While special teams intercepted four vehicles, they are said to have stopped only one vehicle and allowed the other vehicles to flee the scene with the huge cash collected from innocent depositors."
Dec 10, 2011 Noteworthy: Rs 500 minting up 17 fold in 10 yrs: "there are fewer notes of Rs 20 and Rs 50, whether individually or collectively, than the total number of Rs 500 notes out there."
Dec 10, 2011 The untold story of Kolkata's fire tragedy: "the fire actually surfaced much earlier than reported. Sources also said that most of the hospital attendants and nurses allegedly left the patients in their wards and none of the windows were left open."
Dec 10, 2011 Rs 2,150,000,000,000: that’s our gold import bill this year: "Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar says that the overall trade deficit will be in the range of $155-160 billion in 2011-12."
Dec 10, 2011 Bad data? Why $9.4 bn export reporting ‘mistake’ is a scandal: "Where did the rest of the $28-and-odd billion come from? From itsy-bitsy small engineering companies that are not in the BSE 500? Or was so much of illegal ore mined and sent by the Reddy brothers and their ilk in Goa, Odisha, Karnataka, and Jharkhand?"
Dec 10, 2011 On Empty Shelves The UPA’s reforms agenda hits a nadir with FDI retail flopshow
Dec 10, 2011 Shroud Of Paled Hope - Six months on, Mamata’s TMC has ill-used the carte blanche given it by Bengal’s voters : "Unable to come up with a viable plan to reduce burden of Rs 2,00,000 crore deficit"
Dec 10, 2011 The Leftover God - A temple’s demeaning ‘leftovers’ ritual has all sides frothing : "Once the meal is over, Dalits, backwards and people from the local tribes are allowed to roll on the leftovers The belief is the ritual will cure the ‘devotees’ of ailments"
Dec 10, 2011 Cold Draft Of Dissent: "Arvind Kejriwal expresses disappointment at the current shape of the draft bill."
Dec 10, 2011 Call The Pathologist - The torture of Soni Sori is worse than what the Raj ever inflicted : "Pebbles were shoved up her private parts.", the independent Indian state feels so much more insecure from its own people as to exceed the British in torture and repression", Sahoo was arrested on November 25 in independent India by a morally challenged system for alleged crimes not in line with his political activism."
Dec 10, 2011 Status Update? Bad: "Assailed from all sides, does the UPA really hope to recover its ‘image’ by muzzling online dissent?", "Hum India Loot Chuke Sanam, Cast: Manmohan Singh, Soniya Gandhi, 2011 Winner of 100s Inflation & Corruption Awards"
Dec 10, 2011 Anna targets Govt over Lokpal draft report: "Anti corruption crusader Anna Hazare is back in Delhi to launch the third chapter of his agitation."
Dec 10, 2011 CJs in Rural Bihar Expose Corruption: "CJs in Rural Bihar Expose Corruption CNN-IBN | Dec 10, 2011 at 08:21pm CJ Jaganath exposes corruption in NREGA scheme while CJ Dhanrajia Devi uncovers corruption in the PDS mechanism."
Dec 10, 2011 CJ Follow Up: Justice for Kapali Patne: "Kapali Patne's alleged medical negligence case remains caught in red-tapeism at the MCI. CJ Parikshit battles on."
Dec 10, 2011 How safe are Indian hospitals?: "The AMRI fire tragedy raises serious questions about the safety of other hospitals across the metros cities."
Dec 10, 2011 Woman accuses trainee IPS officer of cheating: "a trainee IPS officer who promised to marry her and then cheated. She alleged that his family demanded Rs 50 lakh, two kg of gold and a BMW car as dowry."
Dec 10, 2011 Anna Hazare says govt has cheated entire country, Congress lashes out at him: ""They have cheated the whole country. The Prime Minister had given in writing that these three issues would be brought under the Lokpal Bill...The Prime Minister's letter was thrown into the dustbin."
Dec 9, 2011 Probe jail warden for corruption, robbery: Court: "allegation that the officer had first taken a Rs 5 lakh-bribe from a person to get his family members a job in the prison."
Dec 9, 2011 Posing as AIIMS doctor, cheat makes lakhs: "arrested a man from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh for posing as a doctor and cheating many of lakhs of rupees on pretext of providing them jobs or getting them admitted to prestigious hospitals"
Dec 9, 2011 NGO names Sreeramulu, Reddy brothers in alleged land scam: "The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), an NGO, today claimed to have unearthed a land scam involving the Reddy brothers and former minister B Sreeramulu illegally acquiring about 251 acres of agricultural land in and around Bellary town."
Dec 9, 2011 AMRI hospital fire in Kolkata: It was mass murder, say grieving kin: ""It was just murder. Mass murder. They killed her and the others brutally. No serious effort was made to save the helpless patients."
Dec 9, 2011 What makes Kolkata a tinderbox?: "Kolkata has been a city of fires. Are more such disasters waiting to happen?"
Dec 9, 2011 Software glitch inflated India's exports by $9bn, admits govt: "exports growing by only 4.2% to $22.3 billion in November. With imports growing at 29% to $35.9 billion"
Dec 9, 2011 AMRI fire: Is patients' safety the last priority?: "There was no one to help the patients, admitted in critical care units, escape the fumes that engulfed the hospital."
Dec 9, 2011 73 die of suffocation in Kolkata hospital fire: "At least 73 patients died due to suffocation from smoke when a massive fire broke out in the centrally-airconditioned seven-storey private hospital at Dhakuria in Kolkata"
Dec 9, 2011 Why didn't help reach on time?: "One of the fire stations was not evern three minutes away from the hospital. The other one was about 1.5 km away. This should not have taken long since the incident happened in the morning. But, the fire tenders actually reached 90 minutes after the first call was made."
Dec 9, 2011 Negligence and indifference: The horror story of ‘Free India’: "It’s about people dying — dying painfully in places where they should be getting a fresh lease of life: hospitals. Such deaths don’t shame us anymore."
Dec 9, 2011 BBC: India hospital fire in Calcutta kills dozens: "Relatives of patients complained that her convoy had blocked the passage of ambulances in the hospital complex. Police resorted to a baton charge as the crowds moved forward to Ms Banerjee's car."
Dec 9, 2011 Why security for those who don't deserve: Supreme Court: "The Supreme Court Friday expressed concern over the taxpayers' money spent on providing security to people who don't deserve it."
Dec 9, 2011 Don't block Internet to prevent critisism: Ban Ki Moon: "Amidst a raging controversy over the Indian government's proposal to monitor content in cyber space, U N Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today said access to the Internet and various social media must not be blocked as a way to prevent criticism and public debate."
Dec 9, 2011 What should be the yardstick for the ministers to resign?: "A special CBI court on Thursday admitted Subramanian Swamy's petition against P Chidambaram in the 2G scam case."
Dec 9, 2011 'More Kolkata like fires waiting to happen': "The fire in the Kolkata hospital that killed at least 60 people was ''absolutely preventable'', Neelam Krishnamurthy, who lost two children in the 1997 Delhi Uphaar cinema blaze, said Friday, while blaming the ''lackadaisical'' government and judiciary."
Dec 9, 2011 Basement meant for car parking used as inflammable goods store
Dec 9, 2011 Kolkata: 6 AMRI directors arrested after 88 die: "The six who have been arrested are SK Todi, RS Goenka, Ravi Todi, Manish Goenka, Prasanta Goenka and Dayananda Agarwal."
Dec 9, 2011 AMRI hospital tragedy in Kolkata: Toll rises to 89, owners arrested: ""What's the use of coming now? He is already dead. All are dead. The administration is hopeless, useless,", "Chief minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the spot, but only stoked the rage of the people, leading to a near-stampede and police resorting to batons."
Dec 8, 2011 Kolkata: Major fire at AMRI hospital, 20 dead: "Nearly 25 fire tenders were working hard to evacuate all patients and staff and there was still no clarity on the cause of the fire."
Dec 8, 2011 India’s darkest hour: "In the aftermath of humungous scams in which politicians and bureaucrats bled the nation leaving it with a dangerously low count of red blood corpuscles, the rupee fell alarmingly, inflation rose frighteningly, economic growth slowed down and inequality in earning between the rich and the poor doubled, albeit in 20 years."
Dec 8, 2011 Trouble for Air India: "The Central service tax authority on Thursday (December 8) froze 11 of Air India's accounts. Service tax officials say AI has to pay 110 crore towards the service tax dues to the government. They have collected the tax from the passengers but not paid to the government."
Dec 8, 2011 15000 salary, 13 crore assets: "the Lokayukta team found over Rupees 12 crore stashed in the house of a clerk working with Ujjain Municipal Corporation during a surprise raid at his residence."
Dec 8, 2011 'Protect freedom of expression': "The United States called for freedom of expression on the Internet after India said it planned to find ways to ban offensive content before it is posted."
Dec 8, 2011 'बुंदेलखंड पैकेज में हो रहा है भ्रष्टाचार': "दशकों से सूखे की मार की वजह से बुंदेलखंड में इसी साल के शुरुआती पांच महीनों में 519 किसानों ने आत्महत्या की, जबकि 2010 में ये सालाना आंकड़ा 583 था."

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