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Jun 16, 2012 Retired AP judge arrested in cash-for-bail scam: "A retired district judge TV Chalapathi Rao and son of the suspended CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the cash-for-bail case"
Jun 15, 2012 Panchayat samiti official in anti-corruption bureau net: "A junior engineer of the panchayat samiti, Daund, was arrested by the state anti-corruption bureau, Pune, for allegedly accepting Rs 1 lakh as bribe from a contractor."
Jun 15, 2012 Govt nod must to prosecute Corrupt corporators: "Soon, your local civic corporator or councillor will be declared a public servant but can be prosecuted under the criminal procedure act and anti-corruption law only if the government approves it. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s urban development department has put this in place despite the law and judiciary department’s opinion that no such previous sanction of the state government is necessary. The move is seen as a major deterrent because government approvals to prosecute influential elected representatives could be hard to come by for political reasons."
Jun 15, 2012 Southern India political corruption hits Sonia Gandhi and Congress: "Jagan’s breakaway YSR Congress Party has won 14 of the assembly seats, and the Lok Sabha seat – albeit after voters were bribed with massive amounts of cash, jewellery and other gifts that helped swell the turnout to an astonishingly high total of around 80%"
Jun 15, 2012 Government sanction now must to prosecute corporators: "The state cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday decided to amend municipal laws in order to make it mandatory to obtain the government permission for prosecution of municipal corporators and councillors for offences under CrPC and anti-corruption cases."
Jun 15, 2012 SA among Walmart’s five countries posing high risk of corruption: "the employee must first say that they are prepared to pay “an official a recorded fine” if the law has been broken and ask for a ticket or receipt. However: “If the police officer becomes angry, aggressive or you feel threatened by the police officer’s behaviour, as your health and safety is our priority, you may make the payment.”, "possibly be a reference to South Africa and maybe China, Brazil, Mexico and India, the code notes: “Police in certain countries stop our colleagues, mainly when driving, and ask for personal payments. In some circumstances our colleagues have been threatened with being locked in a cell if a payment is not made.”"
Jun 15, 2012 शौचालय के बहाने: "जहाँ तक 35 लाख रुपए लगाकर शौचालय की मरम्मत की बात है यक़ीन मानिए सरकारी भवनों में इस तरह का ख़र्च कोई असामान्य बात नहीं है."
Jun 15, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: CRPF security for inmates: "The Punjab and Haryana HC probe panel made the recommendations after its report found more shocking details of sexual exploitation."
Jun 14, 2012 CNN: India is killing its girls: "The U.N. says India is the most dangerous place to be born a girl. CNN's Sara Sidner reports."
Jun 14, 2012 Conditional bail for Nithyananda: "Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda, arrested in an assault case, was today granted bail by a Ramanagara court."
Jun 14, 2012 ‘India is drowning in its own excreta’: "Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million."
Jun 14, 2012 Water shortage cripples Delhi, DJB sets up helpline number: "With millions of people facing water crisis for the fourth consecutive day running, the Delhi Jal Board today set up a helpline number for residents to send SMSes in case they do not get water tankers. The helpline number is 96502-90707."
Jun 14, 2012 भारत में महिलाओं की स्थिति सबसे बुरीः सर्वे: "महिलाओं के बारे में हुए एक शोध में भारत आख़िरी नंबर पर आया है. 19 संपन्न देशों के बारे में हुए सर्वे में भारत में महिलाओं की स्थिति सउदी अरब से भी बुरी बताई गई है."
Jun 14, 2012 Bihar NGO director arrested for Rs.150 crore fraud: "The director of a Patna-based NGO was arrested here Wednesday for allegedly being part of a racket that collected over Rs.150 crore from farmers and students in Bihar on the promise of giving them jobs"
Jun 14, 2012 Nityananda surrenders in Ramanagaram district court, sent to one-day judicial custody: "Godman Swami Paramahamsa Nityananda, facing arrest on criminal charges, on Wednesday surrendered in Ramanagaram district court in Karnataka"
Jun 14, 2012 Karnataka: Nithyananda remains on the run: "The police may arrest those named in an FIR filed after an altercation between the media and his followers."
Jun 14, 2012 After 3 decades, DDA allots flats under its Rohini housing scheme: "“The draw has been one of the biggest in the history of the DDA, and plots of varying dimensions have been allotted,”"
Jun 14, 2012 Mumbai's harasser ACP: Crusader or vigilante?: "ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters and sometimes, even the unsuspecting customers."
Jun 14, 2012 Illegal mining: Yeddyurappa arrest imminent as court rejects anticipatory bail plea: "Rs 20 crore was transferred by Jindal Steel Works (JSW) to Prerana Educational and Social Trust, run by Yeddyurappa's sons, and subsequently by Prerana to Vivekananda Trust, of which Yeddyurappa is a trustee. CBI, he pointed out, was probing charges of conspiracy cheating, corruption and violation of Karnataka Land (Restriction on Transfer) Act, 1991, registered against Yeddyurappa, his sons, son-in-law, JSW and others. According to CBI, the donations were a "quid pro quo for Jindal"."
Jun 13, 2012 '5-yr-olds made to perform oral sex, naked yoga': ""Some children between five and 10 years complained of sexual abuse, including oral sex, by Jaswanti's son-in-law Jai Bhagwan and driver Satish," said the report. Satish filmed inmates as they performed yoga "naked", it said. Jaswanti sold a speech- and hearing-impaired girl thrice and another girl was reportedly found pregnant."
Jun 12, 2012 Pvt ayurvedic colleges allege corruption in CCIM: "He said the Forum, led by Jalandhar-based Dayanand Ayurvedic College, had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, highlighting "rampant bribery and corruption" in the sector and urged the government to order a CBI probe."
Jun 12, 2012 Mumbai ACP targets restaurants, assaults owners: "ACP Vasant Dhoble has been suspended in the past for serious offences. However, his atrocities continue."
Jun 12, 2012 Night of terror at New Market: Girl molested in bar, chased, pulled out of bus and thrashed: "a young girl ran for her life from a group of molesters, chased by a band of locals who had joined in for fun. Bleeding from deep cuts, breathless and panic-stricken, she saw a bus moving towards Esplanade and made a desperate leap for it. To her horror, the gang stopped the bus, pulled her out and started beating her. No one in the bus raised a finger in protest. The assault continued until the 21-year-old girl collapsed on the road, wailing and pleading for mercy."
Jun 12, 2012 Uttar Pradesh crime stats: 699 murders in 45 days of Akhilesh Yadav's rule: "Samajwadi Party (SP) government released crime stats in the state assembly claiming that between March 1 to April 15, only 699 cases of murder, 263 rape cases and 249 incidents of loot have taken place in the state.", "The government also informed that between April 1, 2011, and November 30, 2011, around 3161 murders, 1164 rapes and 1831 incidents of loot took place in the state.", "after SP came to power, between March 15 and May 24, 800 murders, 270 rapes, 256 kidnappings and 720 loots have taken place in the state. According to the figures quoted by Mayawati, average murders per day come out to be 11, 4 cases of rape and 10 cases of robbery."
Jun 12, 2012 Nirmal Baba's show discontinued on 17 TV channels: "Following a strong stand taken by Indian Broadcasting Federation asking its member channels to stop telecast of Nirmal Baba's show Nirmal Darbar"
Jun 12, 2012 Indians to face trial for trafficking Hyderabadi woman for sex
Jun 12, 2012 Was key witness' testimony diluted?: "Her story outraged the nation, 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra a budding tennis player allegedly raped and molested and her family tortured and humiliated till the trauma became too much to bear forcing her to commit suicide. But 19 years later unable to deal with the ordeal her family has given up the fight for justice, tired of the red-tapism in the system."
Jun 12, 2012 Kerala MLA booked for murder: "Kerala Assembly on Tuesday (June 12) has been adjourned after permission was denied for an adjournment motion over twin murders for which Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) MLA PK Basheer has been booked. The MLA has been named as the 6th accused in the murders that took place on Sunday night. Two brothers were allegedly hacked to death."
Jun 12, 2012 News 360: Maha to adopt 4 girls after Beed's abortion horror: "The Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Ministry will adopt the four daughters of a woman labourer from Beed district who died during an illegal abortion last month."
Jun 12, 2012 Haryana: Abuse may have left victims mentally ill: "Investigators want shelter home manager Jaswanti Devi, who is in police custody, to undergo narco-analysis test.", "The shameless honourable politicians of India"
Jun 12, 2012 Haryana's shelter shame: Are mere investigations enough?: "Days after the woman in-charge of Haryana's Apna Ghar shelter was arrested, investigations have revealed that prolonged sexual abuse may have left some of the inmates mentally ill."
Jun 12, 2012 Are politicians protecting the butchers of Beed?: "The doctor couple exposed on CNN-IBN for allegedly abetting mass female foeticide were well connected with top Maharashtra politicians."
Jun 11, 2012 At Rs 20 crore a seat, it's a close contest in Andhra bypolls: "analysts claim it could be over Rs 300 crore: roughly Rs 20 crore or more per seat. Some have even said the total expense could go up to Rs 500 crore. Community leaders who can swing votes have been paid extensively, as also individual voters. In some seats, each vote is priced at Rs 2,000."
Jun 11, 2012 Blog: Does a crowd reflect popularity?: "I have always felt that if Steven Spielberg were to make a film on India's scams, he could jolly well call it 'Swindlers List'! And if a crowd is construed as a barometer of popularity, then the most infamous personalities would be darlings of the masses."
Jun 11, 2012 K'taka launches hunt for 'on tour' Nithyananda: "The self-styled godman managed to get a bail in a previous sexual abuse case and has no fresh FIRs filed against him presently."
Jun 11, 2012 Six policemen chargesheeted for lathicharge on Ramdev supporters at Ramlila Maidan: "Delhi Police has chargesheeted six policemen, a sub-inspector, a head constable and three constables, for using force of Swami Ramdev's supporters at Ramlila Maidan on June 4-5 midnight last year.", "Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta and other senior officers were themselves present at Ramlila Maidan on that fateful night, and it was under their orders that the police swung into action to remove Ramdev's supporters."
Jun 11, 2012 Shocking, MP children feeding themselves on seeds picked from cowdung: "In a shocking revelation, India TV aired a story on Sunday night showing Madhya Pradesh children feeding themselves on seeds found in cowdung in at least ten tribal-dominated districts. They just wash the cow dung and collect the seeds out of it. The children, who are mostly malnourished, can't find these seeds fresh in the forest."
Jun 11, 2012 Thane girl loses leg, father's knee fractured while chasing robbers on running train near Ambala: "The heartless attitude of Northern Railway officials came to the fore last week when a girl lost her leg and her father suffered a knee fracture while chasing robbers on the Mumbai-bound Golden Temple Express near Ambala.", "Bhavika screamed and ran after the robber who in turn held her hand and jumped from the running train. Bhavika's left leg came under the train's wheels and was dismembered.", "Both father and sister lay near the rail tracks for nearly an hour, but no railway staff came to assist them. The next day, Rahul managed to hire an ambulance to take both of them all the way to Thane"
Jun 11, 2012 Shocking, MP children feeding themselves on seeds picked from cowdung: "In a shocking revelation, India TV aired a story on Sunday night showing Madhya Pradesh children feeding themselves on seeds found in cowdung in at least ten tribal-dominated districts. They just wash the cow dung and collect the seeds out of it. The children, who are mostly malnourished, can't find these seeds fresh in the forest."
Jun 11, 2012 Slowdown: Layoffs and work-from-home begin: "If you don’t believe what experts say about the slowing economy, just wait for your company to take away your benefits."
Jun 11, 2012 Wages not even minimum, exploitation maximum: "Construction workers in J&K are still not under the umbrella of laws that are supposed to safeguard their rights", "The destitute lot engaged in the Government sector as ad hoc or contract employees are earning monthly wages equivalent to `1,500 or so. Does the amount qualify under the Minimum Wages Act?”"
Jun 11, 2012 India is not a global power: "Instead of chasing such titles, let us work harder to improve the lives of the poor"
Jun 11, 2012 Search warrant against Nithyananda for his arrest: "Police today issued a search warrant for the arrest of controversial godman Nithyananda, who is reportedly absconding from his ashram at Bidadi in Ramanagara distict.", "Nithyananda is facing criminal charges, including rape, on complaints from some former disciples last year."
Jun 11, 2012 Karnataka govt orders probe against Nithyananda: "The police will also issue a manhunt for Nithyananda after complaints of rape and sexual abuse by some devotees."
Jun 10, 2012 More sexual abuse cases in Haryana shelter homes: "The Haryana government is now investigating at least four shelters for alleged abuse and torture of inmates."
Jun 10, 2012 For traffic police, it's challans first, regulations next: "In a move that is leading to severe harassment of motorists in Hyderabad, senior officers in the traffic police wing have been instructing their subordinates to issue more challans to motorists every day."
Jun 10, 2012 Sleeping rough, living tough: "It was 12.03 am and the pavements under either side of the flyover in City Market were slowly warming up to shelter the homeless after taking the load from vendors through the day."
Jun 10, 2012 Govt withdraws award from Rohtak shelter owner: "The state health department has been ordered to carry out medical examination of inmates of all shelter home across Haryana."
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana: Woman, Children raped in govt shelter: "HC panel report reveals that government and police officials are involved in the gangrape and abuse of the women and children."
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: Victims narrate the horrific tale: "Here's the horrific tale of the Haryana shelter home where women and children were raped in the victims' own words."
Jun 9, 2012 Cast Of Killers: "An ex-caste warlord’s murder singes Bihar’s flammable social fabric"
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana shelter shocker: govt to rehabilitate victims: "The State government has promised to rehabilitate the girls who were raped, forced into prostitution and to book all the culprits."
Jun 9, 2012 Married woman kidnapped, sold for Rs 1 lakh in Rajasthan
Jun 9, 2012 Official, peon get 2 years’ jail for Rs 150 bribe: "Murthe, who had gone to register a property sale deed at the office of the sub-registrar in Jalgaon on April 6, 1998, was asked to cough up Rs 150 to get the job done even after paying the registration charges and getting the documents stamped."
Jun 9, 2012 Sexual exploitation at shelter home?
Jun 9, 2012 Rohtak: Minors allegedly abused at shelter home
Jun 9, 2012 3 Maharashtra CMs used their quota to give houses to kin, aides and journalists: "BETWEEN 2003 and 2010, three Maharashtra chief ministers — Sushil Kumar Shinde, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan — gave away 221 apartments built in Mumbai by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) under the chief minister’s discretionary quota. More than half — 118 — of these highly coveted houses were allotted by Chavan during his 23-month tenure from December 2008, many of them to relatives, aides and acquaintances of politicians"
Jun 8, 2012 Armyman's wife raped by cabbie in Kolkata: "a 26-year-old homemaker was kidnapped and raped in a moving car in the wee hours of Friday, triggering fears that the city may indeed be turning unsafe for women."
Jun 8, 2012 Shocking: Cops brutally thrash a man in police station
Jun 8, 2012 Are govt officers involved in exam scams in Delhi?: "the crime branch and the outer Delhi police nabbed 11 men for trying to leak major national entrance examinations across the country"
Jun 8, 2012 India’s Failed Food System
Jun 8, 2012 Is rape, Kolkata’s new bandh?
Jun 8, 2012 Beed's rampant foeticide practice to end?: "The Maharashtra government is expected to order the closure of sonography centres after the recovery of several foetuses."
Jun 8, 2012 Rot in our medical system: "Some doctors have even sought an apology from the actor for projecting the profession in bad light. They may protest, but they can’t deny the grim reality "
Jun 8, 2012 Sexual abuse in govt-aided shelter in Haryana: "CNN-IBN has accessed the High Court Committee's report which points to the involvement of policemen as well."
Jun 8, 2012 Female foeticide: Maha govt to meet medical council: "The Maharashtra government will propose shutting down all stand-alone sonography centres and ban some abortion drugs."
Jun 8, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: Victims narrate the horrific tale: "Here's the horrific tale of the Haryana shelter home where women and children were raped in the victims' own words."
Jun 8, 2012 A Raja gets a hero's welcome in Chennai: "Key 2G scam accused DMK MP A Raja landed in Chennai on Friday evening, his first visit home in over 15 months."
Jun 8, 2012 VIP 'thirst' leaving Hyderabad parched: "why the state government is sleeping over the acute water shortage haunting the city for weeks now, might find an answer in this startling revelation: most water board tankers are on 'VIP duty', ensuring round-the-clock service to ministers and senior bureaucrats."
Jun 7, 2012 Why the corrupt get away in India
Jun 7, 2012 Shaming the hippocratic oath: "Crass commercialisation and corruption are eroding the vitals of India's healthcare system"
Jun 7, 2012 Health rot is much deeper: "Corruption in medical councils, 'cut' system in drugs and diagnostics, overpricing of medical services, growing incidence of medical negligence, sex selection services for profit, unnecessary surgical procedures in gullible people. The list of ills afflicting the Indian health system can be much longer."
Jun 7, 2012 Man burns two wives, daughters alive in Odisha village: "a man allegedly burnt his two wives and two daughters alive over some petty family issues in Odisha's Keonjhar district"
Jun 7, 2012 Karnataka whistleblower murder: four arrested: "Police said the accountant had conspired with three of his associates to attack 48-year old Mahantesh, a Karnataka Administrative Service officer with the audit wing of the cooperative department, as he feared alleged misappropriation of funds by him in the society would be exposed."
Jun 7, 2012 गोरेपन के विज्ञापन: बात दूर तक पहुँची: "बाजार में अब महिलाओं को गोरा बनाने का सामान ही नहीं है, बल्कि उनके प्राइवेट पार्ट्स को भी गोरा करने का विज्ञापन दिखाया जा रहा है"
Jun 7, 2012 Mysterious Radhey Ma is the current rage in Bollywood: "Several actors in Bollywood, including Dolly Bindra, are devotees of Radhe Ma. They claim that Radhe Ma has magical powers."
Jun 7, 2012 Like Air India, MPs want special privileges on Delhi Metro: "The House Committee of Lok Sabha has asked Delhi Metro to devise a protocol for MPs, wherein staff would be appointed to receive them at stations, facilitate their movement, and assist them in boarding the trains", "The “courtesies” may even include a separate ticket counter for MPs"
Jun 7, 2012 Samajwadi Party goons preventing our candidate from filing nomination in Kannauj bypoll: Peace Party: "Dr Ayub claimed that about 40 people, led by local Samajwadi Party leaders, abducted seven national and state-level office-bearers of the Peace Party at gun point"
Jun 7, 2012 Not flush with ideas: "To ensure that lesser mortals don’t use these VIP toilets, access cards have been given to senior officers and janitors have been posted outside these toilets.", "It is another matter that probably the foreign dignitaries will find it odd that in a country where thousands have no access to proper toilets, here is an office of the Government of India where you need access cards to enter the toilets.", "the junior babus at Yojana Bhavan must not take this sanitation apartheid lightly."
Jun 6, 2012 Doctor, heal thyself!
Jun 6, 2012 Minor girl stripped and beaten mercilessly in Haryana
Jun 6, 2012 Three UP cops jailed for 10 years: "A CBI court here Friday sentenced three Uttar Pradesh police personnel to 10 years jail term on charges of torturing a group of boys, one of whom died in custody."
Jun 6, 2012 Paper setters' nexus behind varsity leaks?: ""In return for this favour, the faculty member who has set the paper trades the questions with the other two,""
Jun 6, 2012 Andhra HC orders prosecution of CBI judge: "The CBI claims that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between G Janardhan Reddy and the judge for the former's bail."
Jun 6, 2012 Utter lawlessness in Bihar: "The chief of Ranvir Sena, the dreaded private militia of 'upper caste' landowners, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen today while he was on a morning walk triggering violence during which the Bihar DGP was roughed up. Five private and government vehicles were set on fire inthe violence that broke out in the district headquarter town of Ara in Bhojpur district after the killing of Brahmeshwar Singh alias 'Mukhiya ji', police said. Singh was in his early 70s."
Jun 6, 2012 Bihar: Ranvir Sena chief killed, curfew in Arrah: "Angry supporters chased away police personnel who were trying to take Brahmeshwar Singh's body for an autopsy."
Jun 6, 2012 कौन थे ब्रह्मेश्वर मुखिया?: "सबसे बड़ा लक्ष्मणपुर बाथे नरसंहार एक दिसंबर 1997 को हुआ था जिसमें 58 दलित मारे गए थे. इस घटना ने राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर बिहार की जातिगत समस्या को उजागर कर दिया था. इस घटना में भी मुखिया को मुख्य अभियुक्त माना गया था. ये नरसंहार 37 ऊंची जातियों की हत्या से जुड़ा था जिसे बाड़ा नरसंहार कहा जाता है. बाड़ा में नक्सली संगठनों ने ऊंची जाति के 37 लोगों को मारा था जिसके जवाब में बाथे नरसंहार को अंजाम दिया गया."
Jun 6, 2012 रणवीर सेना के जनक: "रणवीर सेना ने एक जमाने में कई हत्याएं की, कई नरसंहार किये. लक्ष्मणपुर बाथे उनमें से एक है जिसमें लोगों को अंधाधुंध तरीके से मारा गया था."
Jun 6, 2012 Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh shot dead, Bihar put on high alert: "the chief of Ranvir Sena, the dreaded private militia of 'upper caste' landowners, was shot dead in Ara town", "As per the police record the list of crimes against Brahmeshwar is quite long as his private militia Ranvir Sena was the mastermind of several caste carnages including Bathe, the worst ever carnage in Bihar history and Bathani tola."
Jun 6, 2012 Suspended CBI judge faces arrest for taking bribe: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to arrest a First Additional CBI Judge Pattabhi Ramarao on charges of accepting a huge bribe to grant bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case. The agency has found that Rs.10 crore -- and not Rs.5 crore as suspected earlier -- changed hands. It may also book the judge's son and others involved", "a retired judge and a man with a criminal past acted as mediators"
Jun 6, 2012 CBI judge who granted bail to Janardhan Reddy suspended: "First Additional CBI Judge T. Pattabhi Ramarao allegedly received Rs.5 crore for granting bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the key accused in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) illegal mining case.", "The CBI reportedly found that the bribe money was stashed in bank lockers of the judge's kin."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat bandh: Protestors block roads, squat on rail tracks: "The state government had also issued a circular warning government employees against any leave on the bandh day."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat Bandh hits normal life in several states: "Several NDA-ruled states witnessed total shutdown with markets wearing a deserted look and major disruptions in train and road traffic."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat bandh turns violent, buses set on fire in Karnataka: "BJP and Left leaders were detained at several places amid reports of buses and commercial establishments refusing to down their shutters being targeted by their activists."
Jun 6, 2012 BBC: Has skin whitening in India gone too far?: "But - she wasn't using any ordinary shower gel. No, she was using a skin lightening wash, which, as the graphic which then popped up on screen informed the viewer, would lighten her genitals.", "You only have to look at posters and ads in India to see glamorous Bollywood stars who, thanks to a bit of graphics software, have dramatically lighter skin tones - with others going the whole hog and endorsing the products.""
Jun 6, 2012 Planning Commission spent Rs 35 lakhs on hi-tech toilets, issued 60 smart cards to selective users: "At a time when the Planning Commission has redefined poverty level as one where a man can spend less than Rs 32 a day, the Commission itself has spent Rs 35 lakhs on two hi-tech toilets in Yojana Bhavan here."
Jun 6, 2012 politics: cpi(m) killings Blood There Will Be: "For a Kerala CPI(M) leader, past murders justify a recent one"
Jun 6, 2012 Planning Commission spent Rs 35 lakhs on hi-tech toilets: "At a time when the Planning Commission has redefined poverty level as one where a man can spend less than Rs 32 a day, the Commission itself has spent Rs 35 lakhs on two hi-tech toilets in Yojana Bhavan here."
Jun 6, 2012 Babas like Ramdev, Sri Sri, Asaram emerging as big consumer product manufacturers: "Says Acharya Balkrishna, promoter of Patanjali Ayurved Products and Ramdev's trusted aide: "With entry into modern retail, we plan to quadruple our sales from Rs 455 crore in 2011-12 to nearly Rs 2,000 crore this fiscal."", "Sri Sri Ayurveda Trust, the FMCG arm of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living, makes creams, shampoos, body care lotion, scrubs, cleansing milk, soaps, ayurvedic energisers and juices.""
Jun 6, 2012 Fake KAS officer took people for a ride promising them sites: "arrested a man who had allegedly posed as a KAS officer working in the Bangalore Development Authority and cheated the public by promising them sites in BDA'a Arkavathy Layout."
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Jun 16, 2012 Retired AP judge arrested in cash-for-bail scam: "A retired district judge TV Chalapathi Rao and son of the suspended CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the cash-for-bail case"
Jun 15, 2012 Panchayat samiti official in anti-corruption bureau net: "A junior engineer of the panchayat samiti, Daund, was arrested by the state anti-corruption bureau, Pune, for allegedly accepting Rs 1 lakh as bribe from a contractor."
Jun 15, 2012 Govt nod must to prosecute Corrupt corporators: "Soon, your local civic corporator or councillor will be declared a public servant but can be prosecuted under the criminal procedure act and anti-corruption law only if the government approves it. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s urban development department has put this in place despite the law and judiciary department’s opinion that no such previous sanction of the state government is necessary. The move is seen as a major deterrent because government approvals to prosecute influential elected representatives could be hard to come by for political reasons."
Jun 15, 2012 Southern India political corruption hits Sonia Gandhi and Congress: "Jagan’s breakaway YSR Congress Party has won 14 of the assembly seats, and the Lok Sabha seat – albeit after voters were bribed with massive amounts of cash, jewellery and other gifts that helped swell the turnout to an astonishingly high total of around 80%"
Jun 15, 2012 Government sanction now must to prosecute corporators: "The state cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday decided to amend municipal laws in order to make it mandatory to obtain the government permission for prosecution of municipal corporators and councillors for offences under CrPC and anti-corruption cases."
Jun 15, 2012 SA among Walmart’s five countries posing high risk of corruption: "the employee must first say that they are prepared to pay “an official a recorded fine” if the law has been broken and ask for a ticket or receipt. However: “If the police officer becomes angry, aggressive or you feel threatened by the police officer’s behaviour, as your health and safety is our priority, you may make the payment.”, "possibly be a reference to South Africa and maybe China, Brazil, Mexico and India, the code notes: “Police in certain countries stop our colleagues, mainly when driving, and ask for personal payments. In some circumstances our colleagues have been threatened with being locked in a cell if a payment is not made.”"
Jun 15, 2012 शौचालय के बहाने: "जहाँ तक 35 लाख रुपए लगाकर शौचालय की मरम्मत की बात है यक़ीन मानिए सरकारी भवनों में इस तरह का ख़र्च कोई असामान्य बात नहीं है."
Jun 15, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: CRPF security for inmates: "The Punjab and Haryana HC probe panel made the recommendations after its report found more shocking details of sexual exploitation."
Jun 14, 2012 CNN: India is killing its girls: "The U.N. says India is the most dangerous place to be born a girl. CNN's Sara Sidner reports."
Jun 14, 2012 Conditional bail for Nithyananda: "Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda, arrested in an assault case, was today granted bail by a Ramanagara court."
Jun 14, 2012 ‘India is drowning in its own excreta’: "Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million."
Jun 14, 2012 Water shortage cripples Delhi, DJB sets up helpline number: "With millions of people facing water crisis for the fourth consecutive day running, the Delhi Jal Board today set up a helpline number for residents to send SMSes in case they do not get water tankers. The helpline number is 96502-90707."
Jun 14, 2012 भारत में महिलाओं की स्थिति सबसे बुरीः सर्वे: "महिलाओं के बारे में हुए एक शोध में भारत आख़िरी नंबर पर आया है. 19 संपन्न देशों के बारे में हुए सर्वे में भारत में महिलाओं की स्थिति सउदी अरब से भी बुरी बताई गई है."
Jun 14, 2012 Bihar NGO director arrested for Rs.150 crore fraud: "The director of a Patna-based NGO was arrested here Wednesday for allegedly being part of a racket that collected over Rs.150 crore from farmers and students in Bihar on the promise of giving them jobs"
Jun 14, 2012 Nityananda surrenders in Ramanagaram district court, sent to one-day judicial custody: "Godman Swami Paramahamsa Nityananda, facing arrest on criminal charges, on Wednesday surrendered in Ramanagaram district court in Karnataka"
Jun 14, 2012 Karnataka: Nithyananda remains on the run: "The police may arrest those named in an FIR filed after an altercation between the media and his followers."
Jun 14, 2012 After 3 decades, DDA allots flats under its Rohini housing scheme: "“The draw has been one of the biggest in the history of the DDA, and plots of varying dimensions have been allotted,”"
Jun 14, 2012 Mumbai's harasser ACP: Crusader or vigilante?: "ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters and sometimes, even the unsuspecting customers."
Jun 14, 2012 Illegal mining: Yeddyurappa arrest imminent as court rejects anticipatory bail plea: "Rs 20 crore was transferred by Jindal Steel Works (JSW) to Prerana Educational and Social Trust, run by Yeddyurappa's sons, and subsequently by Prerana to Vivekananda Trust, of which Yeddyurappa is a trustee. CBI, he pointed out, was probing charges of conspiracy cheating, corruption and violation of Karnataka Land (Restriction on Transfer) Act, 1991, registered against Yeddyurappa, his sons, son-in-law, JSW and others. According to CBI, the donations were a "quid pro quo for Jindal"."
Jun 13, 2012 '5-yr-olds made to perform oral sex, naked yoga': ""Some children between five and 10 years complained of sexual abuse, including oral sex, by Jaswanti's son-in-law Jai Bhagwan and driver Satish," said the report. Satish filmed inmates as they performed yoga "naked", it said. Jaswanti sold a speech- and hearing-impaired girl thrice and another girl was reportedly found pregnant."
Jun 12, 2012 Pvt ayurvedic colleges allege corruption in CCIM: "He said the Forum, led by Jalandhar-based Dayanand Ayurvedic College, had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, highlighting "rampant bribery and corruption" in the sector and urged the government to order a CBI probe."
Jun 12, 2012 Mumbai ACP targets restaurants, assaults owners: "ACP Vasant Dhoble has been suspended in the past for serious offences. However, his atrocities continue."
Jun 12, 2012 Night of terror at New Market: Girl molested in bar, chased, pulled out of bus and thrashed: "a young girl ran for her life from a group of molesters, chased by a band of locals who had joined in for fun. Bleeding from deep cuts, breathless and panic-stricken, she saw a bus moving towards Esplanade and made a desperate leap for it. To her horror, the gang stopped the bus, pulled her out and started beating her. No one in the bus raised a finger in protest. The assault continued until the 21-year-old girl collapsed on the road, wailing and pleading for mercy."
Jun 12, 2012 Uttar Pradesh crime stats: 699 murders in 45 days of Akhilesh Yadav's rule: "Samajwadi Party (SP) government released crime stats in the state assembly claiming that between March 1 to April 15, only 699 cases of murder, 263 rape cases and 249 incidents of loot have taken place in the state.", "The government also informed that between April 1, 2011, and November 30, 2011, around 3161 murders, 1164 rapes and 1831 incidents of loot took place in the state.", "after SP came to power, between March 15 and May 24, 800 murders, 270 rapes, 256 kidnappings and 720 loots have taken place in the state. According to the figures quoted by Mayawati, average murders per day come out to be 11, 4 cases of rape and 10 cases of robbery."
Jun 12, 2012 Nirmal Baba's show discontinued on 17 TV channels: "Following a strong stand taken by Indian Broadcasting Federation asking its member channels to stop telecast of Nirmal Baba's show Nirmal Darbar"
Jun 12, 2012 Indians to face trial for trafficking Hyderabadi woman for sex
Jun 12, 2012 Was key witness' testimony diluted?: "Her story outraged the nation, 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra a budding tennis player allegedly raped and molested and her family tortured and humiliated till the trauma became too much to bear forcing her to commit suicide. But 19 years later unable to deal with the ordeal her family has given up the fight for justice, tired of the red-tapism in the system."
Jun 12, 2012 Kerala MLA booked for murder: "Kerala Assembly on Tuesday (June 12) has been adjourned after permission was denied for an adjournment motion over twin murders for which Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) MLA PK Basheer has been booked. The MLA has been named as the 6th accused in the murders that took place on Sunday night. Two brothers were allegedly hacked to death."
Jun 12, 2012 News 360: Maha to adopt 4 girls after Beed's abortion horror: "The Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Ministry will adopt the four daughters of a woman labourer from Beed district who died during an illegal abortion last month."
Jun 12, 2012 Haryana: Abuse may have left victims mentally ill: "Investigators want shelter home manager Jaswanti Devi, who is in police custody, to undergo narco-analysis test.", "The shameless honourable politicians of India"
Jun 12, 2012 Haryana's shelter shame: Are mere investigations enough?: "Days after the woman in-charge of Haryana's Apna Ghar shelter was arrested, investigations have revealed that prolonged sexual abuse may have left some of the inmates mentally ill."
Jun 12, 2012 Are politicians protecting the butchers of Beed?: "The doctor couple exposed on CNN-IBN for allegedly abetting mass female foeticide were well connected with top Maharashtra politicians."
Jun 11, 2012 At Rs 20 crore a seat, it's a close contest in Andhra bypolls: "analysts claim it could be over Rs 300 crore: roughly Rs 20 crore or more per seat. Some have even said the total expense could go up to Rs 500 crore. Community leaders who can swing votes have been paid extensively, as also individual voters. In some seats, each vote is priced at Rs 2,000."
Jun 11, 2012 Blog: Does a crowd reflect popularity?: "I have always felt that if Steven Spielberg were to make a film on India's scams, he could jolly well call it 'Swindlers List'! And if a crowd is construed as a barometer of popularity, then the most infamous personalities would be darlings of the masses."
Jun 11, 2012 K'taka launches hunt for 'on tour' Nithyananda: "The self-styled godman managed to get a bail in a previous sexual abuse case and has no fresh FIRs filed against him presently."
Jun 11, 2012 Six policemen chargesheeted for lathicharge on Ramdev supporters at Ramlila Maidan: "Delhi Police has chargesheeted six policemen, a sub-inspector, a head constable and three constables, for using force of Swami Ramdev's supporters at Ramlila Maidan on June 4-5 midnight last year.", "Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta and other senior officers were themselves present at Ramlila Maidan on that fateful night, and it was under their orders that the police swung into action to remove Ramdev's supporters."
Jun 11, 2012 Shocking, MP children feeding themselves on seeds picked from cowdung: "In a shocking revelation, India TV aired a story on Sunday night showing Madhya Pradesh children feeding themselves on seeds found in cowdung in at least ten tribal-dominated districts. They just wash the cow dung and collect the seeds out of it. The children, who are mostly malnourished, can't find these seeds fresh in the forest."
Jun 11, 2012 Thane girl loses leg, father's knee fractured while chasing robbers on running train near Ambala: "The heartless attitude of Northern Railway officials came to the fore last week when a girl lost her leg and her father suffered a knee fracture while chasing robbers on the Mumbai-bound Golden Temple Express near Ambala.", "Bhavika screamed and ran after the robber who in turn held her hand and jumped from the running train. Bhavika's left leg came under the train's wheels and was dismembered.", "Both father and sister lay near the rail tracks for nearly an hour, but no railway staff came to assist them. The next day, Rahul managed to hire an ambulance to take both of them all the way to Thane"
Jun 11, 2012 Shocking, MP children feeding themselves on seeds picked from cowdung: "In a shocking revelation, India TV aired a story on Sunday night showing Madhya Pradesh children feeding themselves on seeds found in cowdung in at least ten tribal-dominated districts. They just wash the cow dung and collect the seeds out of it. The children, who are mostly malnourished, can't find these seeds fresh in the forest."
Jun 11, 2012 Slowdown: Layoffs and work-from-home begin: "If you don’t believe what experts say about the slowing economy, just wait for your company to take away your benefits."
Jun 11, 2012 Wages not even minimum, exploitation maximum: "Construction workers in J&K are still not under the umbrella of laws that are supposed to safeguard their rights", "The destitute lot engaged in the Government sector as ad hoc or contract employees are earning monthly wages equivalent to `1,500 or so. Does the amount qualify under the Minimum Wages Act?”"
Jun 11, 2012 India is not a global power: "Instead of chasing such titles, let us work harder to improve the lives of the poor"
Jun 11, 2012 Search warrant against Nithyananda for his arrest: "Police today issued a search warrant for the arrest of controversial godman Nithyananda, who is reportedly absconding from his ashram at Bidadi in Ramanagara distict.", "Nithyananda is facing criminal charges, including rape, on complaints from some former disciples last year."
Jun 11, 2012 Karnataka govt orders probe against Nithyananda: "The police will also issue a manhunt for Nithyananda after complaints of rape and sexual abuse by some devotees."
Jun 10, 2012 More sexual abuse cases in Haryana shelter homes: "The Haryana government is now investigating at least four shelters for alleged abuse and torture of inmates."
Jun 10, 2012 For traffic police, it's challans first, regulations next: "In a move that is leading to severe harassment of motorists in Hyderabad, senior officers in the traffic police wing have been instructing their subordinates to issue more challans to motorists every day."
Jun 10, 2012 Sleeping rough, living tough: "It was 12.03 am and the pavements under either side of the flyover in City Market were slowly warming up to shelter the homeless after taking the load from vendors through the day."
Jun 10, 2012 Govt withdraws award from Rohtak shelter owner: "The state health department has been ordered to carry out medical examination of inmates of all shelter home across Haryana."
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana: Woman, Children raped in govt shelter: "HC panel report reveals that government and police officials are involved in the gangrape and abuse of the women and children."
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: Victims narrate the horrific tale: "Here's the horrific tale of the Haryana shelter home where women and children were raped in the victims' own words."
Jun 9, 2012 Cast Of Killers: "An ex-caste warlord’s murder singes Bihar’s flammable social fabric"
Jun 9, 2012 Haryana shelter shocker: govt to rehabilitate victims: "The State government has promised to rehabilitate the girls who were raped, forced into prostitution and to book all the culprits."
Jun 9, 2012 Married woman kidnapped, sold for Rs 1 lakh in Rajasthan
Jun 9, 2012 Official, peon get 2 years’ jail for Rs 150 bribe: "Murthe, who had gone to register a property sale deed at the office of the sub-registrar in Jalgaon on April 6, 1998, was asked to cough up Rs 150 to get the job done even after paying the registration charges and getting the documents stamped."
Jun 9, 2012 Sexual exploitation at shelter home?
Jun 9, 2012 Rohtak: Minors allegedly abused at shelter home
Jun 9, 2012 3 Maharashtra CMs used their quota to give houses to kin, aides and journalists: "BETWEEN 2003 and 2010, three Maharashtra chief ministers — Sushil Kumar Shinde, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan — gave away 221 apartments built in Mumbai by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) under the chief minister’s discretionary quota. More than half — 118 — of these highly coveted houses were allotted by Chavan during his 23-month tenure from December 2008, many of them to relatives, aides and acquaintances of politicians"
Jun 8, 2012 Armyman's wife raped by cabbie in Kolkata: "a 26-year-old homemaker was kidnapped and raped in a moving car in the wee hours of Friday, triggering fears that the city may indeed be turning unsafe for women."
Jun 8, 2012 Shocking: Cops brutally thrash a man in police station
Jun 8, 2012 Are govt officers involved in exam scams in Delhi?: "the crime branch and the outer Delhi police nabbed 11 men for trying to leak major national entrance examinations across the country"
Jun 8, 2012 India’s Failed Food System
Jun 8, 2012 Is rape, Kolkata’s new bandh?
Jun 8, 2012 Beed's rampant foeticide practice to end?: "The Maharashtra government is expected to order the closure of sonography centres after the recovery of several foetuses."
Jun 8, 2012 Rot in our medical system: "Some doctors have even sought an apology from the actor for projecting the profession in bad light. They may protest, but they can’t deny the grim reality "
Jun 8, 2012 Sexual abuse in govt-aided shelter in Haryana: "CNN-IBN has accessed the High Court Committee's report which points to the involvement of policemen as well."
Jun 8, 2012 Female foeticide: Maha govt to meet medical council: "The Maharashtra government will propose shutting down all stand-alone sonography centres and ban some abortion drugs."
Jun 8, 2012 Haryana shelter abuse: Victims narrate the horrific tale: "Here's the horrific tale of the Haryana shelter home where women and children were raped in the victims' own words."
Jun 8, 2012 A Raja gets a hero's welcome in Chennai: "Key 2G scam accused DMK MP A Raja landed in Chennai on Friday evening, his first visit home in over 15 months."
Jun 8, 2012 VIP 'thirst' leaving Hyderabad parched: "why the state government is sleeping over the acute water shortage haunting the city for weeks now, might find an answer in this startling revelation: most water board tankers are on 'VIP duty', ensuring round-the-clock service to ministers and senior bureaucrats."
Jun 7, 2012 Why the corrupt get away in India
Jun 7, 2012 Shaming the hippocratic oath: "Crass commercialisation and corruption are eroding the vitals of India's healthcare system"
Jun 7, 2012 Health rot is much deeper: "Corruption in medical councils, 'cut' system in drugs and diagnostics, overpricing of medical services, growing incidence of medical negligence, sex selection services for profit, unnecessary surgical procedures in gullible people. The list of ills afflicting the Indian health system can be much longer."
Jun 7, 2012 Man burns two wives, daughters alive in Odisha village: "a man allegedly burnt his two wives and two daughters alive over some petty family issues in Odisha's Keonjhar district"
Jun 7, 2012 Karnataka whistleblower murder: four arrested: "Police said the accountant had conspired with three of his associates to attack 48-year old Mahantesh, a Karnataka Administrative Service officer with the audit wing of the cooperative department, as he feared alleged misappropriation of funds by him in the society would be exposed."
Jun 7, 2012 गोरेपन के विज्ञापन: बात दूर तक पहुँची: "बाजार में अब महिलाओं को गोरा बनाने का सामान ही नहीं है, बल्कि उनके प्राइवेट पार्ट्स को भी गोरा करने का विज्ञापन दिखाया जा रहा है"
Jun 7, 2012 Mysterious Radhey Ma is the current rage in Bollywood: "Several actors in Bollywood, including Dolly Bindra, are devotees of Radhe Ma. They claim that Radhe Ma has magical powers."
Jun 7, 2012 Like Air India, MPs want special privileges on Delhi Metro: "The House Committee of Lok Sabha has asked Delhi Metro to devise a protocol for MPs, wherein staff would be appointed to receive them at stations, facilitate their movement, and assist them in boarding the trains", "The “courtesies” may even include a separate ticket counter for MPs"
Jun 7, 2012 Samajwadi Party goons preventing our candidate from filing nomination in Kannauj bypoll: Peace Party: "Dr Ayub claimed that about 40 people, led by local Samajwadi Party leaders, abducted seven national and state-level office-bearers of the Peace Party at gun point"
Jun 7, 2012 Not flush with ideas: "To ensure that lesser mortals don’t use these VIP toilets, access cards have been given to senior officers and janitors have been posted outside these toilets.", "It is another matter that probably the foreign dignitaries will find it odd that in a country where thousands have no access to proper toilets, here is an office of the Government of India where you need access cards to enter the toilets.", "the junior babus at Yojana Bhavan must not take this sanitation apartheid lightly."
Jun 6, 2012 Doctor, heal thyself!
Jun 6, 2012 Minor girl stripped and beaten mercilessly in Haryana
Jun 6, 2012 Three UP cops jailed for 10 years: "A CBI court here Friday sentenced three Uttar Pradesh police personnel to 10 years jail term on charges of torturing a group of boys, one of whom died in custody."
Jun 6, 2012 Paper setters' nexus behind varsity leaks?: ""In return for this favour, the faculty member who has set the paper trades the questions with the other two,""
Jun 6, 2012 Andhra HC orders prosecution of CBI judge: "The CBI claims that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between G Janardhan Reddy and the judge for the former's bail."
Jun 6, 2012 Utter lawlessness in Bihar: "The chief of Ranvir Sena, the dreaded private militia of 'upper caste' landowners, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen today while he was on a morning walk triggering violence during which the Bihar DGP was roughed up. Five private and government vehicles were set on fire inthe violence that broke out in the district headquarter town of Ara in Bhojpur district after the killing of Brahmeshwar Singh alias 'Mukhiya ji', police said. Singh was in his early 70s."
Jun 6, 2012 Bihar: Ranvir Sena chief killed, curfew in Arrah: "Angry supporters chased away police personnel who were trying to take Brahmeshwar Singh's body for an autopsy."
Jun 6, 2012 कौन थे ब्रह्मेश्वर मुखिया?: "सबसे बड़ा लक्ष्मणपुर बाथे नरसंहार एक दिसंबर 1997 को हुआ था जिसमें 58 दलित मारे गए थे. इस घटना ने राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर बिहार की जातिगत समस्या को उजागर कर दिया था. इस घटना में भी मुखिया को मुख्य अभियुक्त माना गया था. ये नरसंहार 37 ऊंची जातियों की हत्या से जुड़ा था जिसे बाड़ा नरसंहार कहा जाता है. बाड़ा में नक्सली संगठनों ने ऊंची जाति के 37 लोगों को मारा था जिसके जवाब में बाथे नरसंहार को अंजाम दिया गया."
Jun 6, 2012 रणवीर सेना के जनक: "रणवीर सेना ने एक जमाने में कई हत्याएं की, कई नरसंहार किये. लक्ष्मणपुर बाथे उनमें से एक है जिसमें लोगों को अंधाधुंध तरीके से मारा गया था."
Jun 6, 2012 Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh shot dead, Bihar put on high alert: "the chief of Ranvir Sena, the dreaded private militia of 'upper caste' landowners, was shot dead in Ara town", "As per the police record the list of crimes against Brahmeshwar is quite long as his private militia Ranvir Sena was the mastermind of several caste carnages including Bathe, the worst ever carnage in Bihar history and Bathani tola."
Jun 6, 2012 Suspended CBI judge faces arrest for taking bribe: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to arrest a First Additional CBI Judge Pattabhi Ramarao on charges of accepting a huge bribe to grant bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case. The agency has found that Rs.10 crore -- and not Rs.5 crore as suspected earlier -- changed hands. It may also book the judge's son and others involved", "a retired judge and a man with a criminal past acted as mediators"
Jun 6, 2012 CBI judge who granted bail to Janardhan Reddy suspended: "First Additional CBI Judge T. Pattabhi Ramarao allegedly received Rs.5 crore for granting bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the key accused in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) illegal mining case.", "The CBI reportedly found that the bribe money was stashed in bank lockers of the judge's kin."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat bandh: Protestors block roads, squat on rail tracks: "The state government had also issued a circular warning government employees against any leave on the bandh day."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat Bandh hits normal life in several states: "Several NDA-ruled states witnessed total shutdown with markets wearing a deserted look and major disruptions in train and road traffic."
Jun 6, 2012 Bharat bandh turns violent, buses set on fire in Karnataka: "BJP and Left leaders were detained at several places amid reports of buses and commercial establishments refusing to down their shutters being targeted by their activists."
Jun 6, 2012 BBC: Has skin whitening in India gone too far?: "But - she wasn't using any ordinary shower gel. No, she was using a skin lightening wash, which, as the graphic which then popped up on screen informed the viewer, would lighten her genitals.", "You only have to look at posters and ads in India to see glamorous Bollywood stars who, thanks to a bit of graphics software, have dramatically lighter skin tones - with others going the whole hog and endorsing the products.""
Jun 6, 2012 Planning Commission spent Rs 35 lakhs on hi-tech toilets, issued 60 smart cards to selective users: "At a time when the Planning Commission has redefined poverty level as one where a man can spend less than Rs 32 a day, the Commission itself has spent Rs 35 lakhs on two hi-tech toilets in Yojana Bhavan here."
Jun 6, 2012 politics: cpi(m) killings Blood There Will Be: "For a Kerala CPI(M) leader, past murders justify a recent one"
Jun 6, 2012 Planning Commission spent Rs 35 lakhs on hi-tech toilets: "At a time when the Planning Commission has redefined poverty level as one where a man can spend less than Rs 32 a day, the Commission itself has spent Rs 35 lakhs on two hi-tech toilets in Yojana Bhavan here."
Jun 6, 2012 Babas like Ramdev, Sri Sri, Asaram emerging as big consumer product manufacturers: "Says Acharya Balkrishna, promoter of Patanjali Ayurved Products and Ramdev's trusted aide: "With entry into modern retail, we plan to quadruple our sales from Rs 455 crore in 2011-12 to nearly Rs 2,000 crore this fiscal."", "Sri Sri Ayurveda Trust, the FMCG arm of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living, makes creams, shampoos, body care lotion, scrubs, cleansing milk, soaps, ayurvedic energisers and juices.""
Jun 6, 2012 Fake KAS officer took people for a ride promising them sites: "arrested a man who had allegedly posed as a KAS officer working in the Bangalore Development Authority and cheated the public by promising them sites in BDA'a Arkavathy Layout."
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