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Dec 4, 2011 The chaos India has become
Dec 4, 2011 Book Indians with black money in foreign banks: Swamy
Dec 4, 2011 India's Courage Deficit: "Many in the West may not realize it, but India is in the middle of what is shaping up to be a severe economic crisis."
Dec 4, 2011 Diluted Bill sets stage for Govt-Team Anna showdown
Dec 4, 2011 Supporters begin countdown to Anna's December 11 dharna
Dec 4, 2011 Anna Hazare as Time Person of the Year?
Dec 4, 2011 India’s Political Amnesia and The Nehru – Gandhi Clan’s Incompetence: "Chacha Nehru my foot! Chacha Blunder is more befitting"
Dec 4, 2011 Govt using courts to bully activists: Team Anna
Dec 4, 2011 Lokpal draft report a disappointment: Kiran Bedi
Dec 4, 2011 AMU organized “Vigilance Awareness week” against corruption
Dec 4, 2011 Graft hurting India's growth story
Dec 4, 2011 Corruption hurting India's growth: Poll
Dec 4, 2011 FDI in India: Government preferring American interest over its own people, says Team Anna
Dec 4, 2011 Is corruption hurting growth of India?
Dec 4, 2011 India Sinks Lower in Corruption Index
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Response to the Ministry of Truth and Propaganda: "The government's claims cannot be taken seriously as it comes from the Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This bureau is really the division of disinformation and has a sordid past. As for the Ministry itself, Orwellian ministries should have Orwellian names and it ought to be called the Ministry of Truth and Propaganda."
Dec 4, 2011 Killing Rebels Alone Won’t Stop India’s Violent Uprisings: View: "The government and news media heralded the death of the rebel leader as the decisive blow to a 45-year conflict that has cost 10,000 lives."
Dec 4, 2011 Dress code for litigants? Bombay high court believes so: "a man dressed in black shorts and vest and a woman in a short skirt and sleeveless top - because the guards wanted them to wrap their "improper" dresses under shawls before their appearance before the Lords who dispense justice."
Dec 4, 2011 Corrupt and Petty: "The public debate about the Jan Lokpal Bill has focused on what I would call the “large” corruption in society."
Dec 4, 2011 Bastar Roads: More Corrupt than Violent
Dec 4, 2011 Business Standard: Corruption in India pains me: Dalai Lama
Dec 4, 2011 Corruption in India pains me: Dalai Lama: "Describing himself as a “messenger of India”, the Dalai Lama today said it caused him “great pain” to witness corruption in the country and expressed hope that graft cases would be dealt with deftly."
Dec 4, 2011 Krishna lands in illegal mining dock: "during his tenure (1999 to 2004) as chief minister, Krishna had not only sanctioned mining lease on old rates but also de-reserved forest land, despite severe opposition from the department of forest and environment."
Dec 4, 2011 Corruption in India pains me, says Dalai Lama
Dec 4, 2011 BBC: India's vibrant anti-corruption activists: "Mock funerals, "skeleton rallies" and barricading bureaucrats in their offices - India's anti-corruption campaigners are finding new ways to express their discontent."
Dec 4, 2011 Hundreds gather for Team Anna's show of strength: "The rally in Delhi could well mark the beginning of the third chapter for the demand of the Lokpal Bill."
Dec 3, 2011 Punished by snakes: "Two farmers in northern India come up with an unusual way to protest corruption."
Dec 3, 2011 Anna may be right to suspect Rahul hand in Lokpal U-turn: "Anna Hazare’s “guess”, that it was Rahul Gandhi’s hidden hand that changed the parliamentary standing committee’s views on bringing Class C government employees under the proposed Lokpal, is probably right."
Dec 3, 2011 After FDI fiasco, Manmohan’s lame-duck govt just got lamer: "the Manmohan Singh government had been paralysed into inaction."
Dec 3, 2011 Scam with a top ‘billing’: "the fake bills scam, the size of which could hit stratospheric levels at Rs 20,000 crore and beyond! Shell-shocked by the scale, by the astounding audacity of the racket, you seethe in rage, demand answers, and scream for the heads to start rolling. Surely, the Palike’s chest now has more scams than funds. But the sheer size of the latest scam could rival even the infamous Commonwealth Games (CWG) embezzlement"
Dec 3, 2011 Sukna scam: Lt Gen Prakash found guilty, sacked: "The Army officer is the first Lt General to be dismissed from service."
Dec 3, 2011 China is sucking out CBI's secrets, reveals Assange: ""Bulk surveillance of entire nations is on," Assange said,"
Dec 3, 2011 Sukna land scandal: Army court orders dismissal of Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash: "He was found guilty of colluding with a private real estate developer for the transfer of 70 acres of land"
Dec 3, 2011 S M Krishna, two ex-chief ministers face probe in mining scam: "Besides Krishna, two other former CMs Dharam Singh and Kumaraswamy, both are MPs now, and 11 senior officials have been accused of conspiracy and corruption. The complainant stated that Singh ordered issuance of temporary transport permits for the movement of iron and manganese ore from agricultural patta lands, resulting in a loss of Rs 23.22 crore to the government. He stated that Kumaraswamy had illegally approved a mining lease in 550 acres of land in favour of Shree Sai Venkateshwara Minerals and committed illegalities with Jantkal Mining Company."
Dec 2, 2011 It's Season Of Scams In Jaipur In Connivance With Police: "the state police chief is now saying that he suspects the complicity of some senior police officials in the Gold Sukh and Eve Dreams scams."
Dec 2, 2011 Graft stains India's image abroad: "India has scored 3.1 on a scale from zero to 10, where anything below five is "unacceptable"."
Dec 2, 2011 Corruption up in India...Integrity score falls, Rank down
Dec 2, 2011 India Sinks Lower in Corruption Index: "In the South Asian region, India did worse than both Sri Lanka (No. 86) and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan (No. 38)."
Dec 2, 2011 Indian skies safe despite 'fake' pilots, says regulator: "A total of 16 'fake' pilots employed by major domestic airlines, including state-owned national carrier Air India, as well as leading private airlines Jet Airways, SpiceJet and IndiGo were uncovered by investigators"
Dec 2, 2011 dailymail: How India squanders British aid: "the chief salesman is pleased with his latest sale of a £600,000 Phantom to a billionaire Delhi businessman. Thirty-five Phantoms, the biggest and most expensive Rolls-Royce, have been bought in India already in 2011. By the end of the year, another 35 will be sold to Indian tycoons and Bollywood film stars."
Dec 2, 2011 The Guardian: India corruption protesters dump snakes in busy tax office: "Protests against seemingly endemic corruption in India are common. Scams have hit the headlines and badly damaged the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his ailing administration. But it is the daily payment of small bribes to petty officials, policemen or even to medical staff that causes widespread resentment."
Dec 2, 2011 ‘Prayers not enough for a better world’: "in India, people pray and make offerings to God in the morning and then step out and indulge in corruption."
Dec 2, 2011 Now, a helpline to take on corruption in public bodies: "The phone helpline is part of an initiative by anti-graft watchdog Transparency International's advocacy wing, the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC), which is making three full-time centres operational in India."
Dec 2, 2011 Celebrate India’s ‘poor’ corruption perception index: "Reporting on the corruption perception index, The Wall Street Journal reports, India scored 3.1 on a scale from zero to 10, where anything below five is bad news."
Dec 2, 2011 CORRUPTION-INDIA 2 LAST: ""There continues to be decline in India's Integrity Score "There continues to be decline in India's Integrity Score to 3.1 in 2011 from 3.5 in 2007, 3.4 in 2008 and 2009, 3.3 in 2010... indicating a serious corruption problem,""
Dec 2, 2011 Transparency International corruption index: India drops to 95th position: "The list includes the 2G spectrum allocation scam, Commonwealth Games scandal, the Adarsh Housing Society case, aircraft purchase and illegal mining. Investigations in these cases have seen several politicians, bureaucrats and corporates landing behind bars in the last 12 months."
Dec 2, 2011 YAC launches 72-hour dharna demanding a strong anti-corruption law: "The college students under the aegis of Youth Against Corruption (YAC) launched a 72-hour ‘maha dharna', a massive demonstration"
Dec 2, 2011 How corrupt is India? It's getting worse, index says: "India’s score fell from 3.3 last year to 3.1 this year, bringing its international ranking down from 87th least corrupt to 95th"
Dec 2, 2011 BBC: India telecoms trial bail blocked for RK Chandolia: "Fourteen people are on trial for the alleged mis-selling of telecoms licences which auditors say cost the country about $40bn (£24.5bn)."
Dec 2, 2011 Dalai Lama supports Anna's anti-graft movement: "Calling Tibetans 'chelas' (followers) of 'Guru' (master) India, he said issues like corruption make the 'chela' feel ashamed."
Dec 2, 2011 Uttar Pradesh MPs in the dock for taking parliament allowance: ""It was against an RTI query that we were told about suspension of all parliament proceedings for as many as 22 days between Nov 10 and Dec 13 (2010). However, on further inquiry we learnt that barring 143 MPs, all others had taken the special allowance for those days at the rate of Rs.2,000 per day.""
Dec 2, 2011 Mad rush for gun licences in UP: "“The district officials have been flooded with such applications and finding it extremely difficult to cope as they are being pressurised by the politicians, mainly those from the ruling party", "the number of firearms license holders in the state to 11.53 lakh""
Dec 2, 2011 Tainted IAS officer Srilakshmi out on conditional bail: "conditional bail to senior IAS officer Yerra Srilakshmi who was arrested on the charge of favouring mining firms owned by former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy."
Dec 2, 2011 Bhanwari case: Conspiracy hatched at the behest of Maderna, alleges CBI: "Maderna roped in Sahiram to settle the matter, the agency said. Sahiram held a meeting with Sohan Lal and Shahabuddin and planned to obtain the CD from her for Rs 50 Lakh."
Dec 2, 2011 UP is back to playing the communal card again: "As elections to the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly get closer, all parties are rushing back to the old and overused success formula: wooing the minorities."
Dec 2, 2011 IAS topper arrives in jail: "Srilakshmi was put up in an anteroom in one of the suites after she requested not to be sent to a police station lock-up. She was allowed food from her home — a 12-room bungalow with a garden and a tennis court — a courtesy extended because she is an IAS officer and the wife of an IPS officer"
Dec 2, 2011 FIR against Stalin, son and four others: "An FIR was registered against DMK leader M K Stalin, his son Udhayanidhi and four others for allegedly threatening a person to sell his property at a prime locality at a lesser price."
Dec 2, 2011 IAS officer gets bail in illegal mining case in Karnataka: "A local court today granted bail to senior IAS officer Yerra Srilakshmi who was arrested on charges of abusing her official position and granting favours to a mining company owned by former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy."
Dec 2, 2011 Kanimozhi was one of the most obedient inmates, say Tihar Jail authorities: "She has been one of the most obedient high-profile inmates"
Dec 2, 2011 Anna Hazre blames Rahul Gandhi, says FDI row a ploy to block Lokpal Bill
Dec 1, 2011 IAS officer Srilakshmi suspended: "The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday suspended Y Srilakshmi, a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer arrested recently in connection with the illegal mining case."
Dec 1, 2011 Lower bureaucracy major source of corruption: Bhushan: "Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan on Thursday said that Lokpal Bill should cover all the government employees."
Nov 30, 2011 Not working, yet MPs demand lal batti, more privileges
Nov 30, 2011 Is corruption hurting growth of India?
Nov 30, 2011 Put MPs on par with CJs: House panel: "The Parliamentary Committee on Privileges has suggested that the status of Members of Parliament should be on par with Chief Justices of the High Courts in the Warrant of Precedence."
Nov 30, 2011 Corporators humiliate whistleblower: "Ironically enough, the MLAs and corporators expressed their sympathy for Gandhi Nagar division executive engineer Idaya Vendon, who was arrested in connection with the scam, and demanded his release and revocation of his suspension."
Nov 30, 2011 Labourer ‘buys' Chhattisgarh land worth Rs3cr: "He was simply roped in to act as a front by a power company that wanted to buy tribal land but did not want to compensate the tribals with a fair price and jobs,""
Nov 30, 2011 Ghaziabad SO suspended for harassing couples: "the officer has not behaved in an appropriate manner. Hence, we decided to suspend her"
Nov 29, 2011 Maharashtra tops fake note haul with 85% of total seizure: "Government on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and state police had recovered fake Indian currency notes (FICN) worth over Rs 81 crore in Maharashtra"
Nov 29, 2011 Lokayukta gets teeth: "the rules were blatantly misused to protect corrupt officials. There were instances wherein corrupt officials facing serious charges were reinstated to the same post within two months after suspension. In some cases, the suspended have been promoted and posted to more lucrative positions."
Nov 29, 2011 Love under siege: Cops harass couples in parks in Ghaziabad: "Led by Pandey, for the past three days, cops have been picking up young couples at parks and malls. The "offenders" are being asked to "explain their conduct" and then handed on-the-spot "punishment", without a care for their dignity and rights."
Nov 29, 2011 Behind biggest I-T seizure, a case of multiplying crores: "Having dropped out after matriculation, Lal Babu’s rise to riches, officials say, began with his association with two BCCL general managers, D C Jha and S P Singh, as well as BJP Jharia MLA Kunti Singh. The latter is the widow of the late coal mafia don Surya Dev Singh."
Nov 28, 2011 Rs 50 enough to make a CBI case, Rs 42 cr not too big to close one: "The RTI reply reveals details of cases closed by the CBI between 2005 and 2010. And it shows that chargesheets are routinely filed by the agency in cases where the fraud amount is very small while a disproportionate number of high-value cases are closed by it citing lack of evidence."
Nov 27, 2011 India Inc looks to invest overseas: "buzz in corporate boardrooms is gathering momentum as India Inc, seized of policy and operational bottlenecks in setting up projects in India, is now looking to invest abroad"
Nov 27, 2011 At a crossroads once again: "It was in 1980 that the former Maharashtra Chief Minister A.R. Antulay realised to his misfortune that it was not alright for his Government to allot cement to those who desperately needed it, just days after they made a donation to one of the innumerable trusts floated by him."
Nov 27, 2011 Fraud in Purchase of Book in SKM University Coming to Light: "The Lokayukta Court has issued notices to the former and the present Vice Chancellor. The allegations of fraud are to the tune of 1.3 crore on Victor Tigga and 50 lacs on Bashir Ahmed."
Nov 26, 2011 Jaipur - 300 Crore MLM scam Gold Sukh Trade India Limited
Nov 26, 2011 Greatest Scams Of india: "watch and make other know"
Nov 26, 2011 CBI raids properties of S M Krishna's ex-secretary: "The CBI on Friday searched the four premises belonging to a woman IAS officer, Dhanalakshmi Gowda, in Delhi and Bangalore in a disproportionate assets case."
Nov 26, 2011 The Daily Noose Executive, legislature, judiciary...even sullen corporates lay siege to the messenger: "Times Now directed by the Bombay HC to furnish Rs 100 crore in a defamation case in which the channel had not deliberately maligned Justice P.B. Sawant."
Nov 26, 2011 the bohras female circumcision, The Yin, Wounded : "for women the procedure is to curb sexual desire and prevent wives from straying from their husbands”"
Nov 26, 2011 The Last Word: Anger against politicians: "A man slapped NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the NDMC Centre while shouting slogans against price rise, corruption cases."
Nov 26, 2011 Anna Hazare may make it to 'Time' cover soon
Nov 25, 2011 BBMP engineer held in fake bill scam: "works worth at least Rs 600 crore were shown as executed in Gandhinagar, although in fact only very few of them were actually implemented. But money was paid in full to the contractors on the basis of fake bills."
Nov 25, 2011 Most people in India are of 'very low intellectual level': Katju: "Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas"."
Nov 25, 2011 Kishanji was tortured and brutally killed, say Maoists; CRPF says 'young cops have done a good job': "that its leader Kishanji was "tortured and brutally killed" after his arrest in West Bengal. "This murder looks much similar to that of (CPI-Maoist spokesman) Azad's in July 2010"
Nov 25, 2011 Has the Govt forgotten the horror of 26/11?: "Many critical coastal security measures are languishing in government files as mere proposals."
Nov 25, 2011 Another UP govt official raises banner of revolt, accuses minister of harassment and graft: "Requesting the Governor to relieve him, from services, Pandey has alleged that Rs 200 crore scam in purchases and supplies to farmers has taken place in his department in last few years. He has also alleged that a commission of 30-50% is charged to provide subsidy to farmers."
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar joins slapgate club: "Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was on Thursday slapped by a 35-year-old man who claimed he was agitated over rising prices and corruption"
Nov 24, 2011 Corruption and India's 1 percent - Freeland: ""Corruption is endemic,""
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar assault: Can we prevent TV channels from making the assailant a hero?
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, Anna smirked
Nov 24, 2011 AI faces whopping debt of Rs 43,777 crore: "The total debt of cash-strapped Air India, consisting of aircraft and working capital loans, is Rs 43,777 crore and the government has infused Rs 3,200 crore equity to help the airline,"
Nov 24, 2011 शरद पवार को युवक ने जड़ा चांटा
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop claims harassment by UP govt: "Another IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Amitabh Thakur, has slapped harassment charges on the senior bureaucrats of Mayawati government. Amitabh Thakur has filed the petition in the Allahabad High Court claiming harassment by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, Principal secretary, Home and Vijay Singh, Secretary to the Chief Minister."
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar slapped by youth in New Delhi: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today (November 24) slapped by a youth at a public function claiming he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Slapstick On Twitter: "Some reactions to the assault on Mr Sharad Pawar"
Nov 24, 2011 Jharkhand: Rs 70 cr seized from coal contractor: "The Income Tax officials have called it the largest ever cash haul in a single operation."

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