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Jul 6, 2012 Another life lost, no lessons learnt?: "It's been barely 10 days since the tragic death of Baby Mahi in Haryana but clearly no lessons have been learnt. A 6-year-old boy fell into an open drain carrying toxic industrial waste."
Jul 6, 2012 Another Manesar shocker: 5-year-old falls into sewer, dies: "The incident comes barely ten days after the tragic death of five-year-old Mahi who died after falling into a 70-feet borewell."
Jul 6, 2012 'Untested drugs being sold freely in markets': "According to a Parliamentary committee report, 33 new drugs were approved between 2008-10 without mandatory trials."
Jul 6, 2012 Toilets are being used for storing food grain: Jairam Ramesh
Jul 5, 2012 Powai land case: FIR filed against Hiranandani: "Niranjan Hiranandani allegedly built luxury apartments on government land meant for EWS and sold them at a premium."
Jul 5, 2012 17 teachers used fake certificates to get government jobs: "Seventeen government school teachers have been found to have allegedly got their jobs using fake documents at Chilkhana in Saharanpur district."
Jul 5, 2012 Rajasthan: Grain rot continues amidst govt apathy: "Nearly Rs 2 crore worth of wheat has been found to be rotting in the open in the state."
Jul 5, 2012 ‘Govt removing history from textbooks not just cartoons: "Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar, feels that the Thorat committee, which recommended the removal of 43 political cartoons, is being used by the government to delete all historical background."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmir moral police against tourists: "The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has asked tourists visiting the Valley to desist from wearing skimpy clothes and warned them of an angry reaction if they failed to do so."
Jul 5, 2012 Police lathicharge in Ranchi: "Police lathicarged in the Nagadi area of Ranchi on people who were protesting against the aquistion of a 271-acre land by the Jharkhand government for an educational institution."
Jul 5, 2012 Convicted MLAs attend UP CM's lunch for Pranab: "Two convicted politicians - Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra - were spotted during the lunch hosted by the UP CM for Pranab Mukherjee."
Jul 5, 2012 पचास से अधिक जिलों में फैला ‘डायन’ वायरस: "देश के पचास से साठ के बीच ऐसे जिले है जहाँ इस कुप्रथा का बड़ा जोर है. कही महिला को डायन, कही डाकन, तेनी या टोनी, पनव्ती ,मनहूस और ऐसे ही नामों से लांछित कर उसे बहिस्कृत किया जाता है""
Jul 5, 2012 Is Akhilesh Yadav guilty of wasting taxpayer's money?: "The UP Chief Minister allowed MLAs to spend Rs 20 lakh each from their fund to buy personal cars."
Jul 5, 2012 Why is India powerless this summer?: "Several parts of India are reeling under a severe power crisis. Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP are the worst hit."
Jul 5, 2012 Cartoon row: Panel to remove 43 caricatures: "The committee noted that there are too many caricatures of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in NCERT text books, some of them politically sensitive."
Jul 5, 2012 Naxal killings: Tribal Affairs Minister blames CRPF: "KC Deo openly questioned the CRPF operation, alleging that half of those killed were teenagers."
Jul 5, 2012 'Govt used panel to delete historical background': "The HRD appointed committiee to look into all cartoons in the text books has submitted it's report to the NCERT."
Jul 5, 2012 Sarpanch booked for 'stripping’ villager, beating his relatives: "he was paraded naked while the clothes of his wife, mother and a female relative were allegedly torn off in public."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmiri religious group issues dress code for tourists: "A Kashmiri religious group Jamaat-e-Islami has asked tourists visiting the valley to follow a "proper dress code" and told the tourism department to enforce it."
Jul 5, 2012 Differently abled denied Govt aid: "Differently abled people from a village in Tamil Nadu claim that they have been denied the government aid that they are entitled to under the government's maintenance guarantee scheme. The district level officers of the disability commission are allegedly pocketing the funds meant for the disabled."
Jul 5, 2012 Power crisis: India faces a shortage of 17,000 MW: "As summer hits a peak in most parts of India, the demand for power has gone up. It has hit a staggering level of 2,17,000 MW."
Jul 5, 2012 Probe on in Harayana shelter home abuse case: "Police have arrested the warden and the authorities have decided to examine the other inmates of the home to check for cases of abuse."
Jul 5, 2012 Tackling the killer: "The alliance has identified Rajasthan, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh as the ground zero of its fight against malnutrition."
Jul 5, 2012 Girl's leg chopped off to appease deity: "In a macabre incident, a 13-year-old girl was drugged and one of her legs chopped off to propitiate a deity with her blood in Purnia district."
Jul 5, 2012 Were innocent villagers killed in the name of Naxals?: "While activists claim innocents were killed, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and the Home Ministry blame the Naxals."
Jul 4, 2012 UP CM invites 'goons' to Pranab's lunch: "Both Mukhtar and Vijay Misra are at present languishing in jail in connection with separate cases of heinous crime pending against them."
Jul 4, 2012 Can’t afford a car? 67% of UP MLAs are crorepatis: "Among the main parties, the average assets per candidate for SP is Rs 2.52 crore; for BSP it's Rs 4.44 crore; for BJP it's Rs 4.01 crore; and for Congress Rs 4.61 crore."
Jul 2, 2012 As crops rot, millions go hungry in India: "Lack of storage facilities and inefficient, corrupt public distribution system fails millions of impoverished people."
Jul 2, 2012 नक्सली नहीं आम आदिवासी मारे गए: ग्रामीण: "ग्रामीणों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं का दावा है कि 28 जून की रात को छत्तीसगढ़ में हुए कथित मुठभेड़ों में मारे गए ज्यादातर लोग आम आदिवासी थे माओवादी नहीं"
Jul 2, 2012 Chhattisgarh anti-Naxal ops: Major botch-up by CRPF?: "A magisterial enquiry and police investigations into the encounter has been ordered."
Jul 2, 2012 NDA recruitment scam: another serving Army Colonel arrested: "the CBI claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore cash and a list of candidates' names and interview letters and also a list of those who had paid bribe."
Jul 1, 2012 ‘Corruption Is Rampant In The Lower Courts’: "Former chief justice of India on corruption in judiciary "
Jul 1, 2012 Cong MP, activists claim CRPF killed civilians in Chhattisgarh: "Activists and Union Minister of State for Agriculture Charandas Mahant have alleged that CRPF killed civilians and not Naxals in an encounter on Friday."
Jun 30, 2012 Activists slam CRPF anti-Naxal operation, PC praises: "Activists allege that the CRPF team involved in the reported encounter killed innocent civilians and not Naxals."
Jun 29, 2012 4-year-old raped; rapist's mother offers Rs 3,000: "A four-year-old girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour in south-east Delhi a fortnight ago and is still in pain as her family cannot afford her treatment"
Jun 29, 2012 Intimidated for seeking justice: "The mother of the 4-year-old has now alleged character assassination by the investigating officer. The victim's mother has alleged that the investigating officer tried to intimidate her during questioning and has also complained to the Bangalore Police Commissioner."
Jun 29, 2012 Railway acts after Tatkal ticket scam expose: "An expose by IBN7 had showed how touts cornered bulk of the tickets meant for emergency travel and then sold them at a premium."
Jun 29, 2012 'Harassed for speaking out': "It's a distressed woman's cry for help- Suja Jones, married to the man who allegedly raped their own daughter has spoken to TIMES NOW. Her tale is one of harassment at many levels as Suja now takes on the Bangalore police, accusing them of casting aspersions on her character."
Jun 29, 2012 Watch: ACP Vasant Dhoble detains German women: "The video shows the constables including Vasant Dhoble attempting to herd four German girls into a police van."
Jun 29, 2012 Open bribery in land registration offices: "our reporter visited some land registration offices in Chennai and what he found was shocking- touts are running amok in these government offices, helping customers to bend laws and evade tax and funneling bribe for government officials. A thriving real estate industry in Chennai is supporting the greed of these officers in the dark corridors of government departments."
Jun 29, 2012 Chhattisgarh: 16 Naxals killed in encounter: "The 6-hour Naxal-CRPF encounter ended on Friday morning at the Basuguda police station in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh."
Jun 29, 2012 Just 23 working ambulances for 1.7 crore Delhiite: "And the Delhi government believes critical emergency needs can occur only between 8 am and 4 pm."
Jun 29, 2012 Teacher strips girl in co-ed classroom
Jun 27, 2012 Will Jayamma finally get her due?: "The Tehsildar officer had claimed that the staff was too busy with data entry work to disburse pensions, shouted at her, made her run to other departments for her pension. Jayamma has been making rounds of the government office for the last 10 months. 75 year old Jayamma is being denied her old age pension of Rs 400 a month. She has not received her pension for the last 10 months."
Jun 27, 2012 Godman Kumar Swami denies curing patients with the help of 'beej' mantras: "Earlier on TV shows, the self-styled godman had claimed to perform miracles and cured patients with the help of 'beej' mantras but he claimed that the mantras were helpful in determining the career of the unborn babies.", "Among the devotee politicians, BJP MP from Amritsar ex-cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu once promised to spend Rs 50 lakhs from his MP Local Area Development Fund on baba's beej mantra research."
Jun 27, 2012 FTN: what makes India the world's suicide capital?: "According to a new Lancet study, India has the highest suicide rate in the world with maximum number of young people on the brink."
Jun 27, 2012 HIV infection: CBI probe against Gujarat hospital: "Advocate Girish Das had filed a PIL last year demanding a probe into the compensation."
Jun 27, 2012 Are our borewells and open drains death traps?: "Norms are blatantly flouted, and the borewells and open drains are becoming constant death traps for children."
Jun 27, 2012 Borewells: All norms flouted in Haryana: "CNN-IBN travelled to villages adjoining Delhi to find rampant flouting of norms to extract ground water."
Jun 27, 2012 Exposed: The big Railway Tatkal ticket scam: "An IBN7 expose has revealed how touts corner tickets meant for emergency travel and sell them at a huge premium."
Jun 27, 2012 CPM leader threatens rebel leader: "an old video footage has surfaced purportedly showing a local functionary warning murdered rebel party leader T P Chandrasekharan of dire consequences if he continued to challenge it."
Jun 27, 2012 Murderous call by yet another CPM leader in Kerala: "MM Mani, rose to global fame last month by admitting in public that his party had plotted and killed its opponents.", "the local secretary of CPM in a north Kerala town is heard threatening a dissident leader, TP Chandrasekharan, that he would be beheaded if he didn’t mend his ways."
Jun 27, 2012 Indifference towards lesser privileged: "26 year old Bharath who is hearing impaired has been denied pension for over a year. Karnataka Government authorities have been giving false assurances to Bharath denying him his right to a Rs 1500 pension ever month. Bharath along with his brother has been visiting government offices for over a year, but his struggle has led to no positive result yet."
Jun 27, 2012 British travel advisory on theft, drugs in Goa: "A British travel advisory has identified the Goan beach villages of Calangute and Candolim as hubs of theft and bag-snatching gangs.", "It also advised British nationals to "avoid beaches after dark, because of the risk of being attacked by packs of stray dogs, robbed or sexually assaulted."
Jun 25, 2012 Tamil Nadu: Marks scandal rocks Anna University: "A thriving exam marks racket involving some faculty members and officials has come to light in the premier Anna University in Chennai. The racket has helped children of influential parents who failed in semester examinations to pass with flying colours in two of the university’s four renowned campuses — the College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) and the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chromepet."
Jun 25, 2012 Mayawati spent Rs 5000 crore on dalit memorials: "While Rs 377.8 crore was sanctioned between January and March 2008, an allocation of Rs 1435.64 crore was made in the financial year 2008-09, he said. Further, an allocation of Rs 1067.83 crore was made in 2009-10, Rs 1264.48 crore in 2010-11 and 628.38 crore in 2011-12."
Jun 25, 2012 Bollywood songs turn vulgar: "Replete with double meanings, this song has brought back to focus the obsession of the Hindi movie industry with songs that have catchy music and extremely vulgar lyrics. But the larger issue here is that most of these songs pass the test of the censor board and become the anthem of the nation. But what kind of an impact do these songs have on the younger generation."
Jun 25, 2012 Another life lost, no lessons learnt?: "Hours after Mahi died, the very same story played out like a rerun of a bad movie. Halfway across the country in West Bengal, 17-year-old Roshan lost his life after falling into an abandoned well. The question that begs asking, how many more children's lives will be lost before authorities finally wake up?"
Jun 25, 2012 Cost of lost childhood is merely Rs.100: "A penalty not exceeding Rs.100 has been the only ‘punishment’ imposed on nearly 12,000 employers of child labour across Andhra Pradesh over the past 16 years."
Jun 25, 2012 Audience in India does not endorse good cinema: Anurag Kashyap: "maverick director Anurag Kashyap has said good cinema in India is suffering only because the audience here does not endorse them."
Jun 24, 2012 Mahi: A victim of difference?: "Could the tragedy have been averted? Could baby Mahi have been saved had authorities not been callous & indifferent? The nation that prayed for baby Mahi's recovery is now outraged, demanding answers from the government and the administration."
Jun 24, 2012 Burdwan: 16 farmer suicides despite bumper crop: "Farmers blame the low procurement prices fixed by the government for paddy crop for much of their continuing misery."
Jun 24, 2012 Sex determination on in J&K despite crackdown: "In 2011, the state government came down heavily on the diagnostic centres suspected of conducting sex determination."
Jun 23, 2012 Ayurveda doc turned billionaire godman Kumar Swami challenged by devotee for fake mantra: "This is the amazing story of a small-time ayurveda medicine seller from Delhi's downmarket Nirankari Colony metmorphosing into a global hi-flying godman named Brahmrishi Kumar Swami, feted by New York State Senate."
Jun 23, 2012 Nithyananda accused of mixing drugs in holy water: "He has been accused of mixing drugs in "holy" water in the oldest religious centre in South India - Madurai Adheenam in Tamil Nadu."
Jun 23, 2012 sedition law: misuse A Stick Called 124(A): "The State finds a handy tool in a colonial law to quell dissent "
Jun 23, 2012 Suicide rate among the youth highest in India: "The suicide cases among the young, wealthy and educated are the highest."
Jun 23, 2012 Army colonel arrested in NDA recruitment ‘scam’: "The CBI on Saturday arrested Col Kulwinder Singh, staff officer (SO) to Lt Gen Jatinder Singh, National Defence Academy commandant, in connection with complaints of graft over the appointment of 40 lower-division clerks"
Jun 23, 2012 Kerala is country’s most crime-prone state, NCRB statistics show: "Of the 2,41,986 incidents of violent crime in the country, Kerala accounted for 11,756, more than much larger states like Rajasthan (10, 577) and comparable to its bigger neighbours such as Tamil Nadu (12,333) and Andhra Pradesh (12,491). UP accounts for highest number of violent crimes, recording 27,225 incidents."
Jun 22, 2012 2-week judicial custody for IPS officer, 'accomplice': "Ajay was arrested in Kanota village in Jaipur on Thursday evening and Prem Singh was caught red-handed in Ramganj police station in Ajmer for taking a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh.", "ASI Prem Singh, last year, was removed from Alwergate police station on charges of harassing and abusing a person forcing him to accept a murder charge."
Jun 22, 2012 Wassup Wasseypur? Gangland past haunts coal pocket: "“There’s no coal mafia in Wasseypur, but (iron) scrap mafia.” The names of rival dons Sabir Alam and Fahim Khan, lords of two mafia families that have had their own history of bloodletting, crop up."
Jun 22, 2012 भारत: आत्महत्या युवाओं की मौत का दूसरा बड़ा कारण: "विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन के अनुसार वर्ष 2010 में भारत में एक लाख 90 हज़ार लोगों ने आत्महत्याएं की थीं."
Jun 22, 2012 Ministers, industrialists among top LPG consumers in Delhi: "Vice President Hamid Ansari’s official residence in New Delhi consumed 171 subsidised LPG cylinders in the year to May 31", "The portal showed that industrialist Naveen Jindal’s 6, Prithvi Raj Road residence in the national capital received 369 refills, or more than one cylinder a day, through two LPG connections"
Jun 22, 2012 President Pratibha Patil goes on mercy overdrive: "Were these pardons diluting the legal provision through the backdoor?"
Jun 21, 2012 ACB detains Rajasthan IPS officer for bribery: "According to the ACB, Ajay Singh was investigating a chit fund fraud case in Ajmer in which Prem Singh threatened to ‘fix’ the agent unless he paid Rs 1 lakh."
Jun 21, 2012 Alarming trend, newborn girls being starved to death in Jaisalmer: "In an alarming trend, authorities here have found a series of suspected cases of newborn girls being starved to death and deprived of medicines by parents.", "According to Census 2011, Rajasthan has 883 girls between the age of 0-6 for every 1,000 boys."
Jun 21, 2012 BBC: Unrest at India's water shortage: "The Indian capital, Delhi, is suffering a severe water shortage, raising fears of widespread unrest."
Jun 21, 2012 Half of North gets dirty water, finds civic agency: "To assess the water quality in its area, the North corporation collected 258 water samples from its six zones. Of these, 129 were found unfit for consumption."
Jun 21, 2012 Married at 13, Khap says live with it: "Santra now an educated adult has rejected her child marriage but a Khap Panchayat is forcing her to accept the medieval practise she has disowned. "
Jun 20, 2012 Water crisis: Delhi pins hopes on Haryana: "While some residents complain of irregular and insufficient water supply, there are others who are totally dependent on water tankers."
Jun 20, 2012 FTN: Is child abuse India's worst kept secret?: "The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has received the highest number of complaints related to child abuse in schools from Tamil Nadu."
Jun 20, 2012 Jaundice claims 21 lives in Maharashtra town: "The health department suspects the epidemic was caused by the contaminated water supplied by water department."
Jun 20, 2012 India condemning millions to stay poor, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal says: "Joining the likes of NR Narayana Murthy and Azim Premji to blame the Indian government for policy inaction, UK-based NRI billionaire LN Mittal has said the country is potentially condemning millions to remain in poverty by not helping industrialization."
Jun 19, 2012 Maharashtra politicians rack up Rs 1 cr power bill: "The Maharashtra Public Works Department (PWD) owes the BEST over a crore of rupees in unpaid electricity bills and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Rs 30 lakh in unpaid water bills for power and water used in the official residences of the governor and around 20 ministers."
Jun 19, 2012 AIIMS entrance test fraud: Court convicts Bihar native: "A Bihar native has been held guilty of committing cheating, forgery and impersonation for writing the entrance test for another person for a paramedical course at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 2001."
Jun 19, 2012 AP govt suspends DGP-rank officer in forgery case: "A 1977 batch Indian Police Service officer, Umesh Kumar is currently chairman of Godavari Valley Development Authority and has been facing a criminal case of forgery."
Jun 19, 2012 Parents adopt new methods to kill baby girls: "members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'. The baby girls are either not fed enough or denied treatment."
Jun 19, 2012 Hackers turn all India PG medical seats allotment upside down, candidates bewildered: "hackers who have succeeded in turning the merit list in prestigious 50% all India quota post-graduate medical courses upside down to allot low-ranked candidates premium seats in prestigious colleges."
Jun 19, 2012 Shelter shocker-II: UP govt homes under scrutiny: "Two govt-run homes, in Allahabad and Ghaziabad, are under police scrutiny after reports of sexual abuse of minors emerged."
Jun 18, 2012 Foreign dreams hit wall at passport office: ""However, columnist Ashok Malik was not convinced by this logic. He had a harrowing time at the ITO PSK when seeking renewal of his five-year-old son's passport. The child almost fainted after waiting for several hours without enough air and water.""
Jun 18, 2012 Retail inflation inches up to 10.36% in May: "Vegetable prices recorded the maximum spurt in prices, up 26.59 per cent, followed by edible oils - 18.21 per cent and milk products - 13.74 per cent in May, year-on-year basis."
Jun 18, 2012 Activist shot at point blank range: "A social activist has been shot dead allegedly by an inspector in Madhya Pradesh. 40-year-old social worker Ambika Prasad Dubey was allegedly shot in the chest and stomach at point-blank range when he tried to draw the attention of the cops to the rampant corruption in the Public Distribution System (PDS)."
Jun 18, 2012 A Rs 5 lakh cheque that can't be encashed!: ""She needs a medical certificate declaring her mentally fit. Under our laws we cannot let her operate the account till then,"."
Jun 17, 2012 Lack of Manpower Hits CVC's Anti-Corruption Helpline: "Believe it or not, the country's premier anti-corruption watchdog is grappling with increasing complaints of "no-response" from the anti-corruption call centre set up to register corruption complaints in central government departments."
Jun 17, 2012 UP govt orders closing down of all shops, malls by 7 pm, restaurants by 10 pm: "In an order which could be of far-reaching consequences, the Uttar Pradesh government today ordered all shopping malls to be kept open from 11 am till 7 pm in view of the prevailing power crisis."
Jun 17, 2012 Man beheads daughter in gory Rajasthan honour killing: "In a brutal honour killing, a man beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district"
Jun 17, 2012 Security agencies suspect 4 Jammu and Kashmir cops of gun-running: "The arrest of four Jammu and Kashmir policemen for alleged links with militants has caused serious concern to central security agencies which suspect that they may have been involved in gun-running and extortion in connivance with some senior officers of the force."
Jun 17, 2012 Tihar undertrial alleges sexual abuse by inmates: "He alleged that an inmate and the official demanded money from him and when he refused, he was threatened. The victim was taken to a barrack, undressed and beaten up."
Jun 16, 2012 Rajat Gupta is no criminal, he’s just an Indian: "A man goes to jail because he shared information with a friend? By that yardstick, half of India would be in jail. Knowing people in power and to benefit from the knowledge and contacts that they possess is the ladder to success that Indians have recognised centuries ago. It’s an ethos and a culture – and it’s deep-rooted.", "In India, what he seems to have done would have increased his popularity, wealth, appeal and power. In the US, the same act causes him to lose his reputation, his popularity, some wealth – and his freedom."
Jun 16, 2012 It Doesn’t Pay To Work At Home: "The NRI’s India Dream fades. ‘Jobs don’t match up, life just don’t match up.’", "The rampant unprofessionalism and nepotism at the workplace quickly got to her. An American woman raised to speak her mind, Shikha found that her Indian colleagues did not appreciate her bluntness or her opinions. The “yes people” in the office were promoted while she was sidelined.", "Raghu Mamadgi tried home Hyderabad out in 2008. He was back in the US by 2011. “Living is cheaper in the US,” he feels.", "“Everyone’s trying to hoodwink one another in Delhi...I got tired of bribing just to get a simple paper pushed,” says Sumit Ghoshal."
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Jul 6, 2012 Another life lost, no lessons learnt?: "It's been barely 10 days since the tragic death of Baby Mahi in Haryana but clearly no lessons have been learnt. A 6-year-old boy fell into an open drain carrying toxic industrial waste."
Jul 6, 2012 Another Manesar shocker: 5-year-old falls into sewer, dies: "The incident comes barely ten days after the tragic death of five-year-old Mahi who died after falling into a 70-feet borewell."
Jul 6, 2012 'Untested drugs being sold freely in markets': "According to a Parliamentary committee report, 33 new drugs were approved between 2008-10 without mandatory trials."
Jul 6, 2012 Toilets are being used for storing food grain: Jairam Ramesh
Jul 5, 2012 Powai land case: FIR filed against Hiranandani: "Niranjan Hiranandani allegedly built luxury apartments on government land meant for EWS and sold them at a premium."
Jul 5, 2012 17 teachers used fake certificates to get government jobs: "Seventeen government school teachers have been found to have allegedly got their jobs using fake documents at Chilkhana in Saharanpur district."
Jul 5, 2012 Rajasthan: Grain rot continues amidst govt apathy: "Nearly Rs 2 crore worth of wheat has been found to be rotting in the open in the state."
Jul 5, 2012 ‘Govt removing history from textbooks not just cartoons: "Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar, feels that the Thorat committee, which recommended the removal of 43 political cartoons, is being used by the government to delete all historical background."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmir moral police against tourists: "The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has asked tourists visiting the Valley to desist from wearing skimpy clothes and warned them of an angry reaction if they failed to do so."
Jul 5, 2012 Police lathicharge in Ranchi: "Police lathicarged in the Nagadi area of Ranchi on people who were protesting against the aquistion of a 271-acre land by the Jharkhand government for an educational institution."
Jul 5, 2012 Convicted MLAs attend UP CM's lunch for Pranab: "Two convicted politicians - Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra - were spotted during the lunch hosted by the UP CM for Pranab Mukherjee."
Jul 5, 2012 पचास से अधिक जिलों में फैला ‘डायन’ वायरस: "देश के पचास से साठ के बीच ऐसे जिले है जहाँ इस कुप्रथा का बड़ा जोर है. कही महिला को डायन, कही डाकन, तेनी या टोनी, पनव्ती ,मनहूस और ऐसे ही नामों से लांछित कर उसे बहिस्कृत किया जाता है""
Jul 5, 2012 Is Akhilesh Yadav guilty of wasting taxpayer's money?: "The UP Chief Minister allowed MLAs to spend Rs 20 lakh each from their fund to buy personal cars."
Jul 5, 2012 Why is India powerless this summer?: "Several parts of India are reeling under a severe power crisis. Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP are the worst hit."
Jul 5, 2012 Cartoon row: Panel to remove 43 caricatures: "The committee noted that there are too many caricatures of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in NCERT text books, some of them politically sensitive."
Jul 5, 2012 Naxal killings: Tribal Affairs Minister blames CRPF: "KC Deo openly questioned the CRPF operation, alleging that half of those killed were teenagers."
Jul 5, 2012 'Govt used panel to delete historical background': "The HRD appointed committiee to look into all cartoons in the text books has submitted it's report to the NCERT."
Jul 5, 2012 Sarpanch booked for 'stripping’ villager, beating his relatives: "he was paraded naked while the clothes of his wife, mother and a female relative were allegedly torn off in public."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmiri religious group issues dress code for tourists: "A Kashmiri religious group Jamaat-e-Islami has asked tourists visiting the valley to follow a "proper dress code" and told the tourism department to enforce it."
Jul 5, 2012 Differently abled denied Govt aid: "Differently abled people from a village in Tamil Nadu claim that they have been denied the government aid that they are entitled to under the government's maintenance guarantee scheme. The district level officers of the disability commission are allegedly pocketing the funds meant for the disabled."
Jul 5, 2012 Power crisis: India faces a shortage of 17,000 MW: "As summer hits a peak in most parts of India, the demand for power has gone up. It has hit a staggering level of 2,17,000 MW."
Jul 5, 2012 Probe on in Harayana shelter home abuse case: "Police have arrested the warden and the authorities have decided to examine the other inmates of the home to check for cases of abuse."
Jul 5, 2012 Tackling the killer: "The alliance has identified Rajasthan, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh as the ground zero of its fight against malnutrition."
Jul 5, 2012 Girl's leg chopped off to appease deity: "In a macabre incident, a 13-year-old girl was drugged and one of her legs chopped off to propitiate a deity with her blood in Purnia district."
Jul 5, 2012 Were innocent villagers killed in the name of Naxals?: "While activists claim innocents were killed, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and the Home Ministry blame the Naxals."
Jul 4, 2012 UP CM invites 'goons' to Pranab's lunch: "Both Mukhtar and Vijay Misra are at present languishing in jail in connection with separate cases of heinous crime pending against them."
Jul 4, 2012 Can’t afford a car? 67% of UP MLAs are crorepatis: "Among the main parties, the average assets per candidate for SP is Rs 2.52 crore; for BSP it's Rs 4.44 crore; for BJP it's Rs 4.01 crore; and for Congress Rs 4.61 crore."
Jul 2, 2012 As crops rot, millions go hungry in India: "Lack of storage facilities and inefficient, corrupt public distribution system fails millions of impoverished people."
Jul 2, 2012 नक्सली नहीं आम आदिवासी मारे गए: ग्रामीण: "ग्रामीणों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं का दावा है कि 28 जून की रात को छत्तीसगढ़ में हुए कथित मुठभेड़ों में मारे गए ज्यादातर लोग आम आदिवासी थे माओवादी नहीं"
Jul 2, 2012 Chhattisgarh anti-Naxal ops: Major botch-up by CRPF?: "A magisterial enquiry and police investigations into the encounter has been ordered."
Jul 2, 2012 NDA recruitment scam: another serving Army Colonel arrested: "the CBI claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore cash and a list of candidates' names and interview letters and also a list of those who had paid bribe."
Jul 1, 2012 ‘Corruption Is Rampant In The Lower Courts’: "Former chief justice of India on corruption in judiciary "
Jul 1, 2012 Cong MP, activists claim CRPF killed civilians in Chhattisgarh: "Activists and Union Minister of State for Agriculture Charandas Mahant have alleged that CRPF killed civilians and not Naxals in an encounter on Friday."
Jun 30, 2012 Activists slam CRPF anti-Naxal operation, PC praises: "Activists allege that the CRPF team involved in the reported encounter killed innocent civilians and not Naxals."
Jun 29, 2012 4-year-old raped; rapist's mother offers Rs 3,000: "A four-year-old girl was raped allegedly by her neighbour in south-east Delhi a fortnight ago and is still in pain as her family cannot afford her treatment"
Jun 29, 2012 Intimidated for seeking justice: "The mother of the 4-year-old has now alleged character assassination by the investigating officer. The victim's mother has alleged that the investigating officer tried to intimidate her during questioning and has also complained to the Bangalore Police Commissioner."
Jun 29, 2012 Railway acts after Tatkal ticket scam expose: "An expose by IBN7 had showed how touts cornered bulk of the tickets meant for emergency travel and then sold them at a premium."
Jun 29, 2012 'Harassed for speaking out': "It's a distressed woman's cry for help- Suja Jones, married to the man who allegedly raped their own daughter has spoken to TIMES NOW. Her tale is one of harassment at many levels as Suja now takes on the Bangalore police, accusing them of casting aspersions on her character."
Jun 29, 2012 Watch: ACP Vasant Dhoble detains German women: "The video shows the constables including Vasant Dhoble attempting to herd four German girls into a police van."
Jun 29, 2012 Open bribery in land registration offices: "our reporter visited some land registration offices in Chennai and what he found was shocking- touts are running amok in these government offices, helping customers to bend laws and evade tax and funneling bribe for government officials. A thriving real estate industry in Chennai is supporting the greed of these officers in the dark corridors of government departments."
Jun 29, 2012 Chhattisgarh: 16 Naxals killed in encounter: "The 6-hour Naxal-CRPF encounter ended on Friday morning at the Basuguda police station in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh."
Jun 29, 2012 Just 23 working ambulances for 1.7 crore Delhiite: "And the Delhi government believes critical emergency needs can occur only between 8 am and 4 pm."
Jun 29, 2012 Teacher strips girl in co-ed classroom
Jun 27, 2012 Will Jayamma finally get her due?: "The Tehsildar officer had claimed that the staff was too busy with data entry work to disburse pensions, shouted at her, made her run to other departments for her pension. Jayamma has been making rounds of the government office for the last 10 months. 75 year old Jayamma is being denied her old age pension of Rs 400 a month. She has not received her pension for the last 10 months."
Jun 27, 2012 Godman Kumar Swami denies curing patients with the help of 'beej' mantras: "Earlier on TV shows, the self-styled godman had claimed to perform miracles and cured patients with the help of 'beej' mantras but he claimed that the mantras were helpful in determining the career of the unborn babies.", "Among the devotee politicians, BJP MP from Amritsar ex-cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu once promised to spend Rs 50 lakhs from his MP Local Area Development Fund on baba's beej mantra research."
Jun 27, 2012 FTN: what makes India the world's suicide capital?: "According to a new Lancet study, India has the highest suicide rate in the world with maximum number of young people on the brink."
Jun 27, 2012 HIV infection: CBI probe against Gujarat hospital: "Advocate Girish Das had filed a PIL last year demanding a probe into the compensation."
Jun 27, 2012 Are our borewells and open drains death traps?: "Norms are blatantly flouted, and the borewells and open drains are becoming constant death traps for children."
Jun 27, 2012 Borewells: All norms flouted in Haryana: "CNN-IBN travelled to villages adjoining Delhi to find rampant flouting of norms to extract ground water."
Jun 27, 2012 Exposed: The big Railway Tatkal ticket scam: "An IBN7 expose has revealed how touts corner tickets meant for emergency travel and sell them at a huge premium."
Jun 27, 2012 CPM leader threatens rebel leader: "an old video footage has surfaced purportedly showing a local functionary warning murdered rebel party leader T P Chandrasekharan of dire consequences if he continued to challenge it."
Jun 27, 2012 Murderous call by yet another CPM leader in Kerala: "MM Mani, rose to global fame last month by admitting in public that his party had plotted and killed its opponents.", "the local secretary of CPM in a north Kerala town is heard threatening a dissident leader, TP Chandrasekharan, that he would be beheaded if he didn’t mend his ways."
Jun 27, 2012 Indifference towards lesser privileged: "26 year old Bharath who is hearing impaired has been denied pension for over a year. Karnataka Government authorities have been giving false assurances to Bharath denying him his right to a Rs 1500 pension ever month. Bharath along with his brother has been visiting government offices for over a year, but his struggle has led to no positive result yet."
Jun 27, 2012 British travel advisory on theft, drugs in Goa: "A British travel advisory has identified the Goan beach villages of Calangute and Candolim as hubs of theft and bag-snatching gangs.", "It also advised British nationals to "avoid beaches after dark, because of the risk of being attacked by packs of stray dogs, robbed or sexually assaulted."
Jun 25, 2012 Tamil Nadu: Marks scandal rocks Anna University: "A thriving exam marks racket involving some faculty members and officials has come to light in the premier Anna University in Chennai. The racket has helped children of influential parents who failed in semester examinations to pass with flying colours in two of the university’s four renowned campuses — the College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) and the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chromepet."
Jun 25, 2012 Mayawati spent Rs 5000 crore on dalit memorials: "While Rs 377.8 crore was sanctioned between January and March 2008, an allocation of Rs 1435.64 crore was made in the financial year 2008-09, he said. Further, an allocation of Rs 1067.83 crore was made in 2009-10, Rs 1264.48 crore in 2010-11 and 628.38 crore in 2011-12."
Jun 25, 2012 Bollywood songs turn vulgar: "Replete with double meanings, this song has brought back to focus the obsession of the Hindi movie industry with songs that have catchy music and extremely vulgar lyrics. But the larger issue here is that most of these songs pass the test of the censor board and become the anthem of the nation. But what kind of an impact do these songs have on the younger generation."
Jun 25, 2012 Another life lost, no lessons learnt?: "Hours after Mahi died, the very same story played out like a rerun of a bad movie. Halfway across the country in West Bengal, 17-year-old Roshan lost his life after falling into an abandoned well. The question that begs asking, how many more children's lives will be lost before authorities finally wake up?"
Jun 25, 2012 Cost of lost childhood is merely Rs.100: "A penalty not exceeding Rs.100 has been the only ‘punishment’ imposed on nearly 12,000 employers of child labour across Andhra Pradesh over the past 16 years."
Jun 25, 2012 Audience in India does not endorse good cinema: Anurag Kashyap: "maverick director Anurag Kashyap has said good cinema in India is suffering only because the audience here does not endorse them."
Jun 24, 2012 Mahi: A victim of difference?: "Could the tragedy have been averted? Could baby Mahi have been saved had authorities not been callous & indifferent? The nation that prayed for baby Mahi's recovery is now outraged, demanding answers from the government and the administration."
Jun 24, 2012 Burdwan: 16 farmer suicides despite bumper crop: "Farmers blame the low procurement prices fixed by the government for paddy crop for much of their continuing misery."
Jun 24, 2012 Sex determination on in J&K despite crackdown: "In 2011, the state government came down heavily on the diagnostic centres suspected of conducting sex determination."
Jun 23, 2012 Ayurveda doc turned billionaire godman Kumar Swami challenged by devotee for fake mantra: "This is the amazing story of a small-time ayurveda medicine seller from Delhi's downmarket Nirankari Colony metmorphosing into a global hi-flying godman named Brahmrishi Kumar Swami, feted by New York State Senate."
Jun 23, 2012 Nithyananda accused of mixing drugs in holy water: "He has been accused of mixing drugs in "holy" water in the oldest religious centre in South India - Madurai Adheenam in Tamil Nadu."
Jun 23, 2012 sedition law: misuse A Stick Called 124(A): "The State finds a handy tool in a colonial law to quell dissent "
Jun 23, 2012 Suicide rate among the youth highest in India: "The suicide cases among the young, wealthy and educated are the highest."
Jun 23, 2012 Army colonel arrested in NDA recruitment ‘scam’: "The CBI on Saturday arrested Col Kulwinder Singh, staff officer (SO) to Lt Gen Jatinder Singh, National Defence Academy commandant, in connection with complaints of graft over the appointment of 40 lower-division clerks"
Jun 23, 2012 Kerala is country’s most crime-prone state, NCRB statistics show: "Of the 2,41,986 incidents of violent crime in the country, Kerala accounted for 11,756, more than much larger states like Rajasthan (10, 577) and comparable to its bigger neighbours such as Tamil Nadu (12,333) and Andhra Pradesh (12,491). UP accounts for highest number of violent crimes, recording 27,225 incidents."
Jun 22, 2012 2-week judicial custody for IPS officer, 'accomplice': "Ajay was arrested in Kanota village in Jaipur on Thursday evening and Prem Singh was caught red-handed in Ramganj police station in Ajmer for taking a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh.", "ASI Prem Singh, last year, was removed from Alwergate police station on charges of harassing and abusing a person forcing him to accept a murder charge."
Jun 22, 2012 Wassup Wasseypur? Gangland past haunts coal pocket: "“There’s no coal mafia in Wasseypur, but (iron) scrap mafia.” The names of rival dons Sabir Alam and Fahim Khan, lords of two mafia families that have had their own history of bloodletting, crop up."
Jun 22, 2012 भारत: आत्महत्या युवाओं की मौत का दूसरा बड़ा कारण: "विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन के अनुसार वर्ष 2010 में भारत में एक लाख 90 हज़ार लोगों ने आत्महत्याएं की थीं."
Jun 22, 2012 Ministers, industrialists among top LPG consumers in Delhi: "Vice President Hamid Ansari’s official residence in New Delhi consumed 171 subsidised LPG cylinders in the year to May 31", "The portal showed that industrialist Naveen Jindal’s 6, Prithvi Raj Road residence in the national capital received 369 refills, or more than one cylinder a day, through two LPG connections"
Jun 22, 2012 President Pratibha Patil goes on mercy overdrive: "Were these pardons diluting the legal provision through the backdoor?"
Jun 21, 2012 ACB detains Rajasthan IPS officer for bribery: "According to the ACB, Ajay Singh was investigating a chit fund fraud case in Ajmer in which Prem Singh threatened to ‘fix’ the agent unless he paid Rs 1 lakh."
Jun 21, 2012 Alarming trend, newborn girls being starved to death in Jaisalmer: "In an alarming trend, authorities here have found a series of suspected cases of newborn girls being starved to death and deprived of medicines by parents.", "According to Census 2011, Rajasthan has 883 girls between the age of 0-6 for every 1,000 boys."
Jun 21, 2012 BBC: Unrest at India's water shortage: "The Indian capital, Delhi, is suffering a severe water shortage, raising fears of widespread unrest."
Jun 21, 2012 Half of North gets dirty water, finds civic agency: "To assess the water quality in its area, the North corporation collected 258 water samples from its six zones. Of these, 129 were found unfit for consumption."
Jun 21, 2012 Married at 13, Khap says live with it: "Santra now an educated adult has rejected her child marriage but a Khap Panchayat is forcing her to accept the medieval practise she has disowned. "
Jun 20, 2012 Water crisis: Delhi pins hopes on Haryana: "While some residents complain of irregular and insufficient water supply, there are others who are totally dependent on water tankers."
Jun 20, 2012 FTN: Is child abuse India's worst kept secret?: "The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has received the highest number of complaints related to child abuse in schools from Tamil Nadu."
Jun 20, 2012 Jaundice claims 21 lives in Maharashtra town: "The health department suspects the epidemic was caused by the contaminated water supplied by water department."
Jun 20, 2012 India condemning millions to stay poor, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal says: "Joining the likes of NR Narayana Murthy and Azim Premji to blame the Indian government for policy inaction, UK-based NRI billionaire LN Mittal has said the country is potentially condemning millions to remain in poverty by not helping industrialization."
Jun 19, 2012 Maharashtra politicians rack up Rs 1 cr power bill: "The Maharashtra Public Works Department (PWD) owes the BEST over a crore of rupees in unpaid electricity bills and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Rs 30 lakh in unpaid water bills for power and water used in the official residences of the governor and around 20 ministers."
Jun 19, 2012 AIIMS entrance test fraud: Court convicts Bihar native: "A Bihar native has been held guilty of committing cheating, forgery and impersonation for writing the entrance test for another person for a paramedical course at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 2001."
Jun 19, 2012 AP govt suspends DGP-rank officer in forgery case: "A 1977 batch Indian Police Service officer, Umesh Kumar is currently chairman of Godavari Valley Development Authority and has been facing a criminal case of forgery."
Jun 19, 2012 Parents adopt new methods to kill baby girls: "members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'. The baby girls are either not fed enough or denied treatment."
Jun 19, 2012 Hackers turn all India PG medical seats allotment upside down, candidates bewildered: "hackers who have succeeded in turning the merit list in prestigious 50% all India quota post-graduate medical courses upside down to allot low-ranked candidates premium seats in prestigious colleges."
Jun 19, 2012 Shelter shocker-II: UP govt homes under scrutiny: "Two govt-run homes, in Allahabad and Ghaziabad, are under police scrutiny after reports of sexual abuse of minors emerged."
Jun 18, 2012 Foreign dreams hit wall at passport office: ""However, columnist Ashok Malik was not convinced by this logic. He had a harrowing time at the ITO PSK when seeking renewal of his five-year-old son's passport. The child almost fainted after waiting for several hours without enough air and water.""
Jun 18, 2012 Retail inflation inches up to 10.36% in May: "Vegetable prices recorded the maximum spurt in prices, up 26.59 per cent, followed by edible oils - 18.21 per cent and milk products - 13.74 per cent in May, year-on-year basis."
Jun 18, 2012 Activist shot at point blank range: "A social activist has been shot dead allegedly by an inspector in Madhya Pradesh. 40-year-old social worker Ambika Prasad Dubey was allegedly shot in the chest and stomach at point-blank range when he tried to draw the attention of the cops to the rampant corruption in the Public Distribution System (PDS)."
Jun 18, 2012 A Rs 5 lakh cheque that can't be encashed!: ""She needs a medical certificate declaring her mentally fit. Under our laws we cannot let her operate the account till then,"."
Jun 17, 2012 Lack of Manpower Hits CVC's Anti-Corruption Helpline: "Believe it or not, the country's premier anti-corruption watchdog is grappling with increasing complaints of "no-response" from the anti-corruption call centre set up to register corruption complaints in central government departments."
Jun 17, 2012 UP govt orders closing down of all shops, malls by 7 pm, restaurants by 10 pm: "In an order which could be of far-reaching consequences, the Uttar Pradesh government today ordered all shopping malls to be kept open from 11 am till 7 pm in view of the prevailing power crisis."
Jun 17, 2012 Man beheads daughter in gory Rajasthan honour killing: "In a brutal honour killing, a man beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district"
Jun 17, 2012 Security agencies suspect 4 Jammu and Kashmir cops of gun-running: "The arrest of four Jammu and Kashmir policemen for alleged links with militants has caused serious concern to central security agencies which suspect that they may have been involved in gun-running and extortion in connivance with some senior officers of the force."
Jun 17, 2012 Tihar undertrial alleges sexual abuse by inmates: "He alleged that an inmate and the official demanded money from him and when he refused, he was threatened. The victim was taken to a barrack, undressed and beaten up."
Jun 16, 2012 Rajat Gupta is no criminal, he’s just an Indian: "A man goes to jail because he shared information with a friend? By that yardstick, half of India would be in jail. Knowing people in power and to benefit from the knowledge and contacts that they possess is the ladder to success that Indians have recognised centuries ago. It’s an ethos and a culture – and it’s deep-rooted.", "In India, what he seems to have done would have increased his popularity, wealth, appeal and power. In the US, the same act causes him to lose his reputation, his popularity, some wealth – and his freedom."
Jun 16, 2012 It Doesn’t Pay To Work At Home: "The NRI’s India Dream fades. ‘Jobs don’t match up, life just don’t match up.’", "The rampant unprofessionalism and nepotism at the workplace quickly got to her. An American woman raised to speak her mind, Shikha found that her Indian colleagues did not appreciate her bluntness or her opinions. The “yes people” in the office were promoted while she was sidelined.", "Raghu Mamadgi tried home Hyderabad out in 2008. He was back in the US by 2011. “Living is cheaper in the US,” he feels.", "“Everyone’s trying to hoodwink one another in Delhi...I got tired of bribing just to get a simple paper pushed,” says Sumit Ghoshal."
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