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Nov 24, 2011 More can be targeted if Lokpal Bill is not passed: Kiran Bedi
Nov 24, 2011 Man calls Pawar corrupt, slaps him; Anna asks only one slap?: "Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today slapped at a public function by a young man who claimed he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Is anti-neta anger reaching dangerous proportions?: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has been slapped in full glare of TV cameras on Thursday.", "image of netas as far as the country is concerned is all time low"
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, netas targetted, is India angry?
Nov 24, 2011 Politicians attacked: Anti-neta anger rising?: "There have been a slew of incidents over the years where politicians have been assaulted or an attempt has been made."
Nov 24, 2011 Anna condemns attack on Pawar after rubbing it in: "Anna Hazare called the attack undemocratic a few hours after he asking if he (Pawar) was slapped just once."
Nov 24, 2011 Watch: Man who slapped Sharad Pawar
Nov 24, 2011 Anna reacts after Pawar assaulted: 'Was it only one slap?'
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar attacked: 'Was it only one slap?' Anna Hazare reacts: "Asked by reporters about his view on the attack on Pawar, who was slapped by a Sikh man. Hazare said: "Was it only one slap?" As the gathering burst out laughing, Hazare left."
Nov 24, 2011 Doon Exp fire: A journey ends in tragedy for many: "Seven people were killed when a fire broke out on the Howrah-Dehradun Doon Express early Tuesday morning."
Nov 24, 2011 Irresponsible political class tells India to go to hell
Nov 24, 2011 Has the Railways safety been compromised?: "Seven people have died in the Howrah-Dehradun Express train fire which broke out late on Monday night.", "It is 14th this year."
Nov 24, 2011 'Critical Deficiencies': "Response to the Citizens Right to Grievance Redress Bill proposed by the government", "This 5 member Central PublicGrievance Commission would be expected to solve all the grievances against all state andcentral government departments of 120 crore population. Obviously the system is designed tocollapse.2. The penalty clause for non redressal of grievance is vague, weak and fails to provide aneffective deterrence against non performance. There is no penalty provided against the Head of the Department."
Nov 24, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die, Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop accuses Mayawati administration of harassment: "related to his suspension as Suprintendent of Police (SP), Gonda, in which the inquiry was deliberately kept pending for long by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and was closed after Singh was removed by the Election Commission from the post of principal secretary (home) during 2007 assembly elections. Similarly, another inquiry was quashed by CAT, Lucknow. In the fourth case, Amitabh, in the petition, has said that he is also not being promoted to the rank of DIG. Instead, he said, he has been posted to a non-existent "Rules and Manuals" department which has not yet been created by the state government and the post is not permissible as per IPS (Cadre) Rules."
Nov 24, 2011 Bangalore runs to fight female foeticide
Nov 24, 2011 Mumbai legislators' hostel a source for obscene calls: "The reception at Manora, one of the four MLA hostels in Mumbai, receives at least two dozen complaints every day about obscene calls received from the hostel's numbers."
Nov 24, 2011 884 deaths due to encephalitis in the country: Govt
Nov 24, 2011 महंगाई नहीं थमीं तो हिंसा की आशंका: यशवंत सिन्हा
Nov 24, 2011 The problem with Rahul Gandhi: Why the good prince isn’t good enough: "while Rahul has Mommy standing guard to ensure he gets his due deference."
Nov 24, 2011 Rahul, your criticism of the UP govt applies to the UPA too: "his sharp criticism of the Uttar Pradesh government at Barabanki today, applies to the Congress-led UPA government to a great extent at the Centre as well. If the UPA had the answers to all its problems it would not be in the mess it is today."
Nov 24, 2011 Swamy says Chidambaram, Raja discussed 2G pricing: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy today released a set of documents to prove that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram discussed with former Telecom Minister A Raja in may-June 2008 the issue of pricing of the 2G Spectrum at 2001 rates."
Nov 24, 2011 Rupee plunges to all-time low, but rebounds to end at 52.29
Nov 24, 2011 Is the India growth story over?
Nov 24, 2011  BBC: India agriculture minister Sharad Pawar slapped: "The attacker, Harvinder Singh, said he was angered by reports of corruption scandals and high inflation."
Nov 24, 2011 The Daily Star: Indian agri minister slapped for corruption, inflation
Nov 24, 2011 LA Times: Businessman slaps Indian minister over inflation and corruption: "the irate businessman, Harvinder Singh, giving Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar the whack as he attended a literary event. “They are all thieves,” Singh yells. “I will rip them apart.”"
Nov 23, 2011 CBI probing Srinagar land scam, says Antony: "The ministry’s internal probe pointed to collusion among officials of the defence estates department and state government and land sharks who got together to sell more than 200 acres of land"
Nov 23, 2011 Fake bill scam could be bigger: "The Rs 1,539-crore fake bill scam that has hit the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) could be much bigger than what has come to light so far, according to Dr Rajvir Pratap Sharma, Inspector General of Police"
Nov 23, 2011 HC notice to govt on Dharam letoff: "recommendation in 2009 of then Governor Rameshwar Thakur that no action needed to be taken against former Chief Minister N Dharam Singh who was indicted by then Lokayukta for unlawful mining."
Nov 23, 2011 Finance panel chief slams Siddaiah for BMTF inquiry Scam probe brings Palike fight to the fore: "allegations have been flying back and forth over the logic behind handing over the investigation of the estimated Rs 300-400 crore misappropriation in the three divisions of Malleswaram, Rajarajeshwari Nagar and Gandhinagar to the BMTF."
Nov 23, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 23, 2011 Unlawful mining gave the firms super profits, says report by an NGO, Goa ore cos’ profit twice state budget: "While the Goa government earned a paltry Rs. 900 crore from mining royalty, mining companies raked in over Rs. 22,612 crore pulling in profits of nearly Rs. 11,000 crore – almost twice the state’s budget of Rs. 6,000 crore."
Nov 23, 2011 Petrol prices spell windfall for govt: "Indirect taxes on petroleum fetched the exchequer Rs 1 lakh crore in 2010-11"
Nov 22, 2011 Congress supporting politicians dividing the nation: Narendra Modi: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress-led government at the centre for supporting politicians sowing seeds of hatred and castism to divide the nation."
Nov 21, 2011 The Wall Street Journal: Testing Time for India's Government: "Having struggled for more than a year against widespread allegations of corruption and criticism that its policy machine has developed paralysis"
Nov 21, 2011 The Telegraph: Indian officials raid Vodafone in corruption probe: "Indian officials have raided Vodafone’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai as part of a multibillion-pound corruption investigation in one of the telecoms giant’s most important markets."
Nov 21, 2011 Chidambaram targeted: NDA to boycott minister in Parliament: "announced it would boycott home minister P Chidambaram in Parliament for his alleged role in allocation of telecom licences."
Nov 21, 2011 SC pulls up Centre for not taking action in Kargil scam: "government has failed to take action against anyone during the last 12 years after the scam was unearthed."
Nov 21, 2011 So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
Nov 21, 2011 Midnight crackdown at Ramlila: SC seeks explanation from police: "“Explain whether the use of force was justified? What were the circumstance which led to the action and why the police could not wait till the morning to ask the people to leave the venue,”", "He compared the incident with the atrocities during the Nazi era in Germany and accused Home Minister P Chidambaram of being responsible for the crackdown in which a woman died and several others were injured."
Nov 21, 2011 'Ishrat Jahan encounter fake': "the special investigation team probing the 2004 Ishrat Jehan case has concluded that the college girl was killed in a fake encounter, prompting the Gujarat High Court to order a fresh FIR against accused policemen in the case. The SIT in its report said Ishrat and three others were killed prior to the encounter date of June 15, 2004."
Nov 21, 2011 Reliance lobbyist gives fake address in Lutyens Delhi: "TG Nandakumar, a corporate lobbyist with alleged links to some members of the judiciary.", "“there have been allegations that Nandakumar, who claimed he was a paid consultant of Reliance, had facilitated the (data centre) deal, which allowed the private company access to several vital data."
Nov 21, 2011 'Want effective bill, not empty tinbox': "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an “empty tin box with no powers”, Team Anna on Monday (November 21) said they were surprised at the move to exclude Citizen’s Charter and lower bureaucracy from the ambit of the ombudsman, contrary to a Parliament resolution."
Nov 21, 2011 2G: NDA to boycott Chidambaram in Parliament: "demanding that Chidambaram should resign for his alleged complicity in the 2G scam."
Nov 21, 2011 Knew Ishrat encounter was fake: Javed Sheikh's father: "Javed Sheikh's father said Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh and others were tortured in the custody for 4 days.", "they were taken out and shot dead"
Nov 21, 2011 HC orders FIR as SIT says Ishrat encounter fake
Nov 21, 2011 Proposed Lokpal 'empty tin box with no powers': Team Anna: "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an "empty tin box with no powers""
Nov 21, 2011 Target Chidambaram: NDA to boycott him in Parliament: "the opposition has been pressurising the government to declare the names of account holders given to the government by HSBC Bank, Switzerland. There has been speculation that the names of some MPs figure in the list."
Nov 21, 2011 LS Speaker Meira Kumar asked to pay Rs 1.98cr as house rent: "The urban development ministry has asked Speaker Meira Kumar to pay Rs 1.98 crore for occupation of 6, Krishna Menon Marg."
Nov 21, 2011 Govt plans Rs 30,000 crore bailout for Air India: "government will nurse a sick airline only to sell its stake to private players once it is healthy."
Nov 20, 2011 BBC: World Economic Forum: Can India Beat Corruption?: "Will Anna Hazare's new movement be successful, or is India destined to operate with a culture of corruption?"
Nov 20, 2011 Graft costing India 1.5% of GDP growth each year
Nov 20, 2011 Prices have increased due to faulty policies, corruption carried out by UPA: Sushma Swaraj
Nov 20, 2011 Former Telecom Minister Sukhram slapped, kicked by man in court premises: "Former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today slapped and kicked by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a corruption case dating back to 1996."
Nov 20, 2011 Advani ends Yatra, calls UPA the worst Govt
Nov 19, 2011 Ex-min Sukhram gets 5 yrs in jail, assaulted: "The court also imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh on former minister Sukhram in the 1996 telecom scam case."
Nov 19, 2011 ‘देश में कई खानदानी लुटेरे’ । बाबा की जिंदगी: "वो कभी भ्रष्टाचारियों की तुलना गद्दाफी से करते हैं तो कभी पीएम को भ्रष्‍ट लोगों से घिरा मजबूर प्रधानमंत्री बताते हैं. वो राहुल गांधी को मायावती की तुलना में कमजोर नेता बताते हैं तो इशारों-इशारों में नेहरू-गांधी परिवार पर निशाना साधते हैं."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP vs Governor: no Lokayukta for Karnataka yet: "Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda wants Justice Bannurmath for the post but Governor HR Bhardwaj has vetoed the name."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram assaulted by youth, shivered while being sentenced: "former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today assaulted by a Sikh youth who was angry that despite committing 'such a crime' he has been jailed only for five years."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP caught in 2G net, CBI probes NDA tenure: "Sources say that the CBI believes Pramod Mahajan allegedly caused a Rs 565 crore loss over 6 years."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram gets five years in jail, assualted outside court: "the CBI called him a "habitual offender" and sought maximum punishment for him.", "his tenure as telecom minister in P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet in giving a contract worth Rs 30 crore to a private company, Haryana Telecom Limited (HTL), to supply 3.5 Lakh Conductor Kilometers (LCKM) of Polythene Insulated Jelly Filled (PIJF) cables to the telecom department."
Nov 18, 2011 The Last Word: the press and defamation: "Justice Sawant had sued Times Now for wrongly using his photograph in a news item relating to the Ghaziabad PF scam."
Nov 18, 2011 RTI activist alleges foul play in selection of Indian Rupee symbol: "the 3,331 designs were analyzed in only three meetings of the committee. According to him, the jury took approximately 18 seconds to decide on a design in an analysis period of three days.", "Interestingly, the winner D Udaya Kumar is the son of former DMK MLA, N Dharmalingam.", "Singh adds that according to the rules, a participant could send only two entries whereas Udaya Kumar sent four. He alleges that a few members of the jury were absent at the time of selection of the design"
Nov 18, 2011 India’s dynastic politics Must it be a Gandhi?: "Whatever the young heir’s merits, modern India surely needs a broader choice for its effective ruler", "As Indians shift to the cities and become more literate and informed, they will surely want to hold their government to account—over corruption, economic performance, social security and more. They will care ever less about bloodlines. Eventually dynastic rule will have to give way to something more openly contested and democratic."
Nov 18, 2011 For India, Swift Growth and Rapid Rot: "“India has been overwhelmed by corruption scams,”"
Nov 18, 2011 In India, the hunt for information can be deadly: "they won stacks of government documents proving, they say, that their village chief had looted a government pension fund. In return, Sharma was made a cripple, his son a widower, his young grandsons motherless. He is forced to live under 24-hour police guard."
Nov 18, 2011 AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored
Nov 18, 2011 BBC: India minister says rural jobs funds spent on toys: "Funds meant to provide work to India's rural poor have been diverted by corrupt officials", "It is also home to a large number of poor with 56 million people earning less than $1 a day and 300,000 not even managing to get one square meal a day."
Nov 18, 2011 SAI scam: CBI team raids SAI’s Sonepat centre: "Alleged cost of property of SAI officers 1. BK Sinha former Secreatary SAI, New Delhi : Rs 50 crores 2. Shiv Sharma, former deputy director SAI, New Delhi : Rs 50 crores 3. PC Kashyap, executive direcotor SAI at New Delhi : Rs 25.85 crores 4. Satish Sarhadi, deputy director SAI at Kurukshetra : Rs 5.08 crores 5. AK Sharma, former director SAI, Sonepat : Rs 2 crores 6. PK Mattu, assistant director SAI at Patiala : Rs 1.55 crores"
Nov 18, 2011 Corruption and India’s 1 percent: "“It saddened me a lot to see that even Bangladesh has a better social index, in terms of what it was in 1990 to what it is today, compared to India,” Kalyani said. “All this glitz and glamour and everything that we see about business, the high-rises in Mumbai and businesses moving ahead and the stock market and everything, don’t seem to travel too far beyond the urban setting of India.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Ahmed Patel was mastermind behind cash-for-vote scam: Gadkari: "Ahmed Patel, advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was the 'mastermind’ behind the cash-for-vote scam and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi should seek apology from the nation for the 'political conspiracy'."
Nov 18, 2011 Politicians, lawyers, actors: The must-read Rajya Sabha rich list: "Congress MP from Rajasthan Abhishek Manu Singhvi in his professional engagement as a Senior Advocate earns a cool Rs 50,00,00,000 (per annum). Next in line is the lawyer from the opposition party, BJP MP from Gujarat Arun Jaitley, who as senior advocate earns Rs 10,00,00,000."
Nov 18, 2011 Now ads will have to deliver what they promise: "“In view of large number of consumer complaints, the Government is considering setting up an inter-ministerial committee to look at ways and means to check false and misleading advertisements effectively.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Govt asked to act on black money within 15 days: "A total of 782 HSBC bank accounts are being scrutinised currently"
Nov 18, 2011 Nationwide protests if Cong fails to pass Lokpal Bill: Bedi: ""Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi have promised to the nation that the Lokpal Bill will be passed in the upcoming Parliament session...We are watching the situation carefully and, for now, hoping that they would keep their word,""
Nov 18, 2011 Jharkhand: Coal mafia behind nun's death?: "Sister Valsa was murdered in Pakur district of Jharkhand by a group of 40 unidentified men."
Nov 18, 2011 Bhatta-Parsaul rape: Court orders FIR against 30 cops: ""Four-five personnel had entered the house of the victim on May 7 while she was alone and gangraped her on the orders given by their seniors, who were these police officers deployed on duty in the area. After gangraping the woman, they had looted Rs.1 lakh from her house," Sharma said. "The victim, on the next day, approached the Dankaur police station with her complaint but she was turned away. Her FIR was not registered and she was sent back. She then turned up to several senior police officers but no one listened to her,”"
Nov 18, 2011 Jamnagar case: SC asks Bhatt to approach HC: "The suspended IPS officer was charged with torturing a man to death during his stint as Jamnagar ASP."
Nov 18, 2011 Examine JSW, Adani mining illegalities: SC: "examine the alleged illegalities committed by other major companies involved in mining activities in Bellary district of Karnataka and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh"
Nov 18, 2011 Capital Shame: "slipped while trying to board a moving train at the Nizamuddin railway station and was trapped in the gap between the platform and the coach for well over an hour, bled to death after a shoddy rescue operation"
Nov 18, 2011 Sukhram convicted in 1996 telecom case: "Former telecom minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case."
Nov 18, 2011 UP is home to people with dangerously wide gaps in skills, income and caste: "If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's", "more than 95% of the 8.5 crore population in the 25-60 age group would be looking for earning opportunities with neither sufficient education nor skills."
Nov 18, 2011 Activist nun killed in Jharkhand: "Valsa John, who spearheaded an anti-displacement movement against a private company at Pachwara village in Pakur district, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Pakur. "She was beaten with sticks and then axed to death"
Nov 18, 2011 Probe MNREGA in UP: Jairam to Maya: "Intensifying his attack on Mayawati, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter accusing her of protecting those involved in alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in some districts while providing names of corrupt officials."
Nov 18, 2011 Indian railways' shocking callousness: "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday (November 17) responded to the horrific accident that took place at the Nizamuddin station in New Delhi. He said the incident is 'sad' but added that the people themselves are responsible for breaking rules."
Nov 18, 2011 140 Rajya Sabha MPs have no pecuniary interests?: "The top MPs who have declared the highest remuneration -- cumulative of directorship, regular remunerated activity and professional engagement -- include Abhishek Manu Singhvi who leads the chart getting Rs 50 crore per annum followed by Vijay Mallya Rs 41.4 crore, Arun Jaitley Rs 10 crore, Ram Jethmalani Rs 8.41 crore and Naresh Gujral Rs 4.79 crore among others."
Nov 18, 2011 One death every minute in India due to road accident: "With more than one death and four injuries every minute, India has the dubious distinction of reporting highest number of road fatalities in the world and the government says the prime reason is ''drivers' fault''."
Nov 18, 2011 Delhi: Man dies after slipping under moving train: "No medical help for hours"
Nov 17, 2011 Congress wants only central forces for Rahul Gandhi's security: "The inner proximate ring of Rahul is managed by the elite Special Protection Group."
Nov 17, 2011 Four sentenced to life in CBSE question paper leak case: "Rasheed and Vijayan had travelled to Car Nicobar on February 14 and met Raju, who was the principal of the government senior secondary school in Lapathy, to get the question papers photocopied for their children. A Car Nicobar police officer, who aided them in the crime, was later suspended."
Nov 17, 2011 'No Better Way Of Shutting Down Indian Media': "If a former judge is entitled to R100 crore for his photograph being flashed erroneously on account of being mistaken with another phonetically similar name, will this precedent be applied by Indian courts to other ordinary mortals who complain of loss of reputation on account of far more serious allegations? I am not aware of a single case where even 1% of this amount has been awarded to an ordinary citizen or a public person for loss of reputation."
Nov 16, 2011 Politics of yatras and social change: "Sensing that corruption today has become a major poll plank, all political parties have subsequently announced to undertake yatras with an aim to bring greater transparency in governance."
Nov 16, 2011 BBC: Anti-corruption campaigners in India risk their lives: ""In today's India speaking the truth is not easy," Mr Singh, 44, says wistfully, remembering how, on that March day more than 100 people came looking for him.", ""
Nov 16, 2011 Reveal status of Lokayukta Bill: IAC to govt
Nov 16, 2011 Wall Street Journal: Mining Probe Threatens Top Indian Party: "Goa state accounts for nearly half of India's 100 million tons of exports of iron ore last year, most of which went to China.", "a culture of "bribing" of state and federal government officials."
Nov 16, 2011 Reuters: In graft-plagued India, a "crisis of political credibility": "(Reuters) - "The tragedy of India is its political system.""
Nov 16, 2011 Row over housing quota allotments in Odisha
Nov 16, 2011 BBC: India's controversial iron mining boom : "An army of machines claw at the sides, digging out iron ore to feed Goa's mining boom. It is not for India though - despite its huge need for steel - but for export, with most of it going to China."
Nov 16, 2011 High Tide: From An Arab League Suspension To The ‘Soft Corruption’ Of Congress

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