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Mar 30, 2012 Priests at the service of the rich and famous at Tirumala: "Rules forbid priests of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) from officiating at any private functions."
Mar 30, 2012 Delhi: Teenaged help found locked up with bruises: "The 13-year-old was rescued on Thursday evening after she managed to unlock a window and shout for help."
Mar 29, 2012 MLA discovers ‘cure’ for AIDS: "Squeeze your private parts tightly and urinate forcefully after intercourse to keep AIDS at bay, is Rajasthan MLA Devi Singh Bhatti’s prescription for people."
Mar 29, 2012 Minor help locked up, starved as couple holidays: "In a shocking tale of abuse and torture, a 13-year-old girl, working as domestic help, was rescued on Thursday evening from a flat in Dwarka where she was locked up for six days by a doctor couple who went on a holiday to Thailand."
Mar 29, 2012 16 cops get life terms for fake encounter in UP: "Twenty years after a case of staged shootout, a CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday held 17 policemen guilty and sentenced 16 of them to life imprisonment, making it perhaps the largest number of cops convicted for life at one go in the country.", "The Ghaziabad CBI court order, a rarity, only underscores UP's dubious distinction of recording the largest number of fake encounters in the country"
Mar 29, 2012 Rajoana clemency row: 1 killed in Punjab: "Curfew was clamped on Thursday in Gurdaspur city following communal tension between Shiv Sena activists and Sikhs."
Mar 29, 2012 Don't harass people from Northeast, Ladakh: HC to Delhi police: "The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the Delhi Police not to harass people from the Northeast and Ladakh because of their facial similarity with Tibetans"
Mar 29, 2012 6 lakh Indians died of cancer in 2010: report: "According to the study, 70 per cent of cancer deaths occurred within the age group of 30 to 69 years."
Mar 29, 2012 When corruption is a TV show: "If you watched the ETV interview, the army chief is asked a question about being offered a bribe, easy as pie and out of the blue. He then drops the bombshell as if it’s peanuts. Just like that, as though this was yet another routine question and answer."
Mar 29, 2012 The seal of corruption: "motorists in Bangalore as paying the maximum bribe among all top Indian cities, to escape being fined for illegal parking and other offences."
Mar 29, 2012 BBC: Is bad politics ruining India?: "Most are also seen as greedy, corrupt and disinterested in serious reform. The increasing number of politicians with criminal records and the brazen use of money to buy party tickets and bribe voters erodes India's ailing democratic process."
Mar 29, 2012 Tirupati: Money, property, land scams hit Tirumala
Mar 28, 2012 Maximum Mumbai: When a priest goes to jail: "a series of reports about allegations of massive land scams in the Church of North India and other Anglican denominations."
Mar 28, 2012 A band-aid for Brand India: "What is Brand India all about today? It is about misgovernance; the politics of vendetta; endemic corruption; the dissatisfaction of the average citizen with those who rule him;"
Mar 28, 2012 Man gets job after 31 years, retires in 20 days: "Ram Kishore Singh cannot even draw a pension as he has not completed a one-year service.", "31-year fight for 20-day job"
Mar 28, 2012 Red terror returns to Gadchiroli, kills 17: "17 jawans were martyred and many others injured in the attack."
Mar 28, 2012 Is this how we teach our children?: "Enraged by his daughter's performance in Class VII exams, a father forced the girl to beg in her school uniform in front of a temple in Mysore. The father was arrested and a case registered against him under the Juvenile Justice Act. The father said that his intention was to teach his daughter the hardships of life."
Mar 28, 2012 Corruption is a way of life in Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams: ""It's a mini state in itself, giving rise to corruption at every level ,"", ""Thousands of books are printed at the TTD printing press. Corruption in this wing alone runs into Rs 150 crore,""
Mar 27, 2012 HC crackdown on Katara killers: "The army doctors will examine medical records of Vikas and Vishal Yadav. The doctors will also examine how many of Katara murder case convicts' visits from Tihar to hospitals were justified."
Mar 27, 2012 Naxal attack: 16 CRPF jawans killed: "12 CRPF personnel were today killed and 28 others injured when the ultras triggered a landmine blast in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra."
Mar 27, 2012 UP: Psychiatric ward for honest officer?: "A Provincial Civil Services officer, who was on a fast-unto-death in Lucknow against "corruption" in the social welfare department, was allegedly forcibly evicted from the protest site by the police who tried to admit him to the psychiatric department of a hospital."
Mar 27, 2012 Naxals blow up CRPF bus in Gadchiroli, 12 killed: "The death toll is likely to rise as the landmine blast in Gadchiroli targeted a bus full of CRPF personnel."
Mar 27, 2012 Over 100 IPS officers transferred in UP: "In yet another reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred more than 100 IPS officers including DGs and police chiefs of several districts."
Mar 27, 2012 Is Lord Balaji temple at Tirumala only for VIPs?: "rule is always flouted to pander to VIPs,""
Mar 27, 2012 Nitish killers don't need hospitalisation: panel: "The duo convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara in 2008 has been regularly coming out of the jail on the pretext of visiting hospitals.", "151 medical outings in 3 years"
Mar 27, 2012 Trafficking mafia killed rape victim's mother: "was fighting a war for her daughter's dignity against a well-organized gang of human traffickers while the police and district administration turned a deaf ear to her repeated calls for help."
Mar 26, 2012 Corruption from cradle to pyre: "Most Indian’s tryst with corruption is lifelong. It’s a sordid experience that starts from the cradle and ends, if you allow me, at the cremation pyre."
Mar 26, 2012 School teacher held for PU paper leak: "Shashikala, one of the three persons being pursued by the CCB, is suspected to have used a fake identity of being a lecturer at a PU college in a Kolar."
Mar 26, 2012 Killed for reporting rape: "In a shocking case of ruthlessness and insensitivity an innocent tribal woman was shot dead by the alleged rapist of her 15-year-old daughter. Her only fault was that she was brave enough to fight for justice for her daughter. Whats worse is that 24 hours after the incident, no arrests have been made by the police yet."
Mar 26, 2012 No democracy here, only dictatorship: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal remained defiant over hitting out against politicians who have been accused of indulging in corruption."
Mar 25, 2012 PU leaks turn into a flood: "As the State Pre-University Department grapples with the fallout of the leak of the Maths and Physics papers, it is now emerging that even the Biology, Chemistry, English and Geography question papers were leaked, leaving the entire PU examination system in a shambles."
Mar 25, 2012 Refusal to pay bribe costs farmer livelihood: "Corruption is a disease that plagues India from the inside. There is a widespread belief that nobody is serious enough to completely weed out corruption in India."
Mar 25, 2012 “Have peace within to propagate world peace”: "Corruption here in India has become institutionalised, criminal justice system is slow, and they say ‘justice delayed is justice denied' but still, justice in most cases are delayed"
Mar 25, 2012 Corruption: 'It will take a hundred Hazares to even make a dent': "Dr Vijaypat Singhania, noted industrialist and Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, has said India will need hundreds of Hazares to even make a dent in deep-rooted corruption."
Mar 25, 2012 Ten-year-old gang raped in Meerut
Mar 25, 2012 Promise down in the dumps: Will Akhilesh answer?: "3000 forms for unemployment dole were found in a garbage dump in Amroha District."
Mar 25, 2012 CJ Parul: Why isn't My City Safe for Women?: "the rage over the rape in Gurgaon and the 8 pm deadline that the police suggested for working women."
Mar 25, 2012 Gurgaon Expressway: A Virtual Deathtrap: "She reports on how the Expressway is a death trap with 208 accidents in a year."
Mar 25, 2012 Crime against women on rise in trains: "a total of 712 cases including rape, murder, robbery and eve-teasing were reported against women and children in railway premises in 2011"
Mar 25, 2012 Woman burnt to death for 'giving birth to girls': "A young woman was burnt to death, apparently for giving birth to baby girls consecutively"
Mar 24, 2012 Speak up and be killed?
Mar 24, 2012 The Rs 28 Diet Plan Trying—and failing—to live on the govt’s definition of ‘not poor’: "Those earning Rs 100 per day, such as masons, plumbers, construction workers, are too rich to be counted as poor."
Mar 24, 2012 Manipur: 2 soldiers arrested for gangrape: "Four people, including two soldiers of India Reserve Battalion (IRB), were arrested on Saturday."
Mar 24, 2012 MP: 2 dalit girls stripped in examination hall
Mar 24, 2012 J&K minister's son arrested for assaulting shopkeeper
Mar 23, 2012 25 yr old mowed down by jeep in Lucknow: "The trio later beat up Arjun and then ran him over in their jeep."
Mar 23, 2012 Shock & horror on Delhi's streets: "A cold blooded murder in the heart of the national capital, a 14-year-old resident of Dwarka area of south-west Delhi was abducted and strangled to death allegedly by his own friends. Ashish Kumar allegedly lured on the pretext of a movie before being kidnapped and then being brutally stabbed", "stop this goondaraj"
Mar 23, 2012 Road rage claims two lives in Delhi, Lucknow: "An autorickshaw driver was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi and in Lucknow, a man was run over by a jeep."
Mar 23, 2012 The new Indian politician: "Ask anyone about the qualities required to be a successful Indian politician. Chances are you will get a cynical response. Craftiness, ability to fool people and lust for power is what many people will say."
Mar 23, 2012 Call for protection of whistleblowers: "At least 15 who tried to expose corruption have been killed since 2010"
Mar 23, 2012 India's Hunger Games: "India has its own version of the "hunger games" playing out that is turning out to be every bit as dramatic as the movie."
Mar 23, 2012 Two dalit girls in Madhya Pradesh stripped in examination hall: "When the girls refused, the examiners allegedly stripped them while male classmates sniggered and cracked jokes."
Mar 22, 2012 चरमपंथ खतरनाक या सड़क दुर्घटनाएँ?: "''भारत में हर साल सड़क दुर्घटना में एक लाख 38 हजार लोग मारे जाते हैं, जबकि चरमपंथी हमलों में हर साल लगभग दो हज़ार लोग मारे जाते हैं."
Mar 22, 2012 Physics exam postponed following leak of paper: "Lakhs of students of second year Pre-University science course in Karnataka were affected today as their examination for Physics paper was postponed following leak of the question paper"
Mar 22, 2012 Knee-jerk nation: "Now that Norway issue has backfired, will MEA learn to act out of principle rather than reflex?"
Mar 22, 2012 FTN: Has poverty declined in India?: "Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10.", "They are not poor people, they are starving people"
Mar 22, 2012 New panel to be set up to reassess poverty figures: "This comes after the Planning Commission said poverty in India has come down during the 2009-2010 period."
Mar 21, 2012 Addnl chargesheet against Nityananda filed in another case: ""We have filed an additional chargesheet against Nithyananda in connection with a case pertaining to his having unnatural sex with a youth", DGP CID Roopak Kumar Dutta told"
Mar 21, 2012 Persecution of Hindus in Kashmir Valley: "History tells us that Kashmir’s Hindus have been persecuted and killed by Muslim rulers through the ages."
Mar 21, 2012 Govt schools breeding ground for Naxals: Sri Sri: "'It's often seen that boys from Government schools are into Naxalism and violence,' Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said."
Mar 21, 2012 Are political parties selling RS seats to the highest bidder?: "Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday criticised the party for nominating businessman Anshuman Mishra for a RS seat.", "it is a well organised business"
Mar 20, 2012 Now, Samajwadi Party worker beats auto driver to death in Kanpur for Rs 300: "beat the tempo driver to death in a fit of anger after he refused to cough up "parking fees""
Mar 20, 2012 Planning Commn faces criticism for poverty figures: "Manmohan Singh administration appeared to be setting a "starvation line"."
Mar 20, 2012 India's infant mortality worse than neighbours: Azad: ""In India, the infant mortality rate (IMR) is 47 per thousand live births which translates into 12.5 lakh infant deaths per year,""
Mar 20, 2012 Montek defends Govt's Rs 28-a-day poverty line: "Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday defended the government's new reduced poverty line, drawn at Rs 28 a day."
Mar 20, 2012 BBC: 'Sharp drop' in India poverty due to welfare programmes: "Officially, 37% of India's 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line. But one estimate suggests the figure could be as high as 77%. Last year a recommendation by the Indian Planning Commission to set the poverty line at 32 rupees ($0.65; £0.40) a day stirred a major debate across the country."
Mar 19, 2012 TMC MP's guard urinates on passenger, pulls out gun: "A bodyguard of Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar allegedly urinated on two passengers on the Rajdhani Express early on Monday. He then pulled out his service revolver and threatened them into silence."
Mar 19, 2012 Gun culture back in UP?: "In a bizarre move, notorious Uttar Pradesh MLA Raja Bhaiya, who has a number of criminal cases pending against him has been made the Prison Minister of Uttar Pradesh.", "more supporters joined the celebration by firing in the air. Interestingly, Mehboob Ali has 15 criminal cases against him."
Mar 19, 2012 BIT student dies under mysterious circumstances: "after he was allegedly administered wrong medicine at the health centre of the institute"
Mar 19, 2012 SP workers brandish guns at a victory rally: "Samajwadi Party workers were on Sunday seen brandishing guns at MLA Mehboob Ali's victory rally on the Lucknow-Delhi road."
Mar 19, 2012 Intense lobbying for seat on Shirdi Trust: "Lobbying for membership of the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which manages affairs of the Shirdi-based Saibaba temple, has begun in the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)."
Mar 19, 2012 Rapist tuition teacher arrested in Ghaziabad: "the tutor mixed some narcotic substance in a soft drink which he then gave to a 14-year-old Class 9th student who used to attend his academy."
Mar 19, 2012 Married woman raped twice in Odisha: "The driver agreed and drove away to Aruha and raped her before dropping her off near Chhatia bazaar on National Highway (NH) no-5 late last night. The agony of the woman did not end there as two other motorcycle borne middle aged men took her on their bike on the pretext of taking her to Cuttack. They also allegedly gangraped and threw her at Nelia on the NH-5"
Mar 19, 2012 Poverty declined to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, Planning Commission says: "Going by the controversial daily consumption number of Rs 28.65 per day, one out of every three Indian is poor as per the new Planning Commission's estimates.", "An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban cities and Rs 672.8 in rural areas (at per 2009-10 prices) is not considered poor, says the Planning Commission's estimate based on the controversial Tendulkar Committee methodology."
Mar 17, 2012 IGP takes family on human safari: "a senior police officer, Sanjay Beniwal, has been transferred from Andaman following reports in 'Andaman Chronicle' of his taking his family and guests on a special "human safari" to meet the Jarawas"
Mar 17, 2012 People are tired of rampant corruption: Sri Sri
Mar 17, 2012 9 Given Life Imprisonment: "Four days later his body was recovered and it was found that he was sacrificed in the ‘devi mandap’"
Mar 17, 2012 Let’s support SC in tracking India’s 60,000 missing children: "The Supreme Court this week issued notices to the government on a petition filed by NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan on the callousness of the police in tracking missing children."
Mar 17, 2012 SP workers create ruckus in Ghaziabad: "Samajwadi Party workers went on a rampage at an employment exchange office in Ghaziabad on Friday."
Mar 17, 2012 Delhi: Mutilated body of woman found: "The body was found in a jute bag from inside a drain near the Inderlok metro station."
Mar 16, 2012 Homing in on hot property for black deals: "Real estate is the best black money parking scheme in India. Across the country about 50% to 80% of the value of real estate transactions is not declared."
Mar 15, 2012 New York Times: Sports Tales Cast India as the Villain: "“Indian athletes who are not cricket stars usually have to endure corrupt officials, humiliation and poverty. Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention. Some have had to sell their gold medals,”"
Mar 15, 2012 Akhilesh takes charge of UP, SP workers create ruckus: "It was high drama as the Samajwadi Party workers created a ruckus after Akhilesh Yadav's oath-taking ceremony.". "Given its Goonda image the Samajwadi party did itself no favour by swearing in four tainted ministers"
Mar 15, 2012 Rape-effect: ‘Need policing, not ban on work’: "“Near every roadside liquor shop, one finds an eatery where people eat and drink. This is a problem area."
Mar 14, 2012 Team Anna to fast, demand protection for whistleblowers: "At least 15 people, who tried to blow the lid off scams, have been killed since 2010."
Mar 14, 2012 The Globe and Mail: Despite cellphone boom in India, toilet access still lags: "UNICEF says that 640 million Indians are still “open defecators” – people who relieve themselves in fields or next to railway tracks – a figure that remains high despite hikes in government spending on sanitation projects. Local governments have tangled those projects in corruption and bureaucracy"
Mar 14, 2012 Honour killing: Brother turns murderer: "Smurthi, a Government college lecturer was strangled to death by her brother all because she decided to marry out of her caste."
Mar 14, 2012 Minister and MLA Should Abide the laws- Speaker: "missing number plates on vehicles of some members."
Mar 14, 2012 City has more than 9,600 beggars: Survey: "many senior citizens got into beggary due to delay in availing their monthly allowances from the government."
Mar 14, 2012 Action against cops involved in Ramlila ground crackdown: "5,000 police personnel, in presence of police commissioner, cane charged 10,000 protestors who were sleeping."
Mar 13, 2012 Job scammers sell package of lies: ""Such scams are mostly aimed at final year students. The fraudsters pose as campus recruiters and ask for personal details and a large amount of procedure fees"
Mar 13, 2012 Another rape in Gurgaon in less than 48 hours!: "a 24-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and raped when she was waiting for a bus with her child"
Mar 13, 2012 मध्य प्रदेश में 'जबरन' नसबंदी: "ऐसे आरोप लग रहे हैं कि अधिकारियों ने कहीं-कहीं पर प्रलोभन का सहारा लिया तो कहीं लोगों को डराने धमकाने का काम किया.", "सरपंच और पटवारी ने धमकाया भी कि अगर वह नसबंदी नहीं करवाती है तो उसके परिवार का राशन कार्ड निरस्त हो जाएगा."
Mar 13, 2012 SUV driver mows down labourer in B'lore: "Eyewitnesses claim the driver was in an intoxicated state. Meanwhile, the lady driver is on the run."
Mar 13, 2012 India reports over 50 pc leprosy cases globally: ""Out of 228,474 new leprosy cases detected worldwide in 2010, India contributed 126,800 cases, which is about 55.5 percent of global disease burden.""
Mar 13, 2012 Half of Indians defecate in open, but more own a mobile phone: "Jharkhand tops the list with 77 per dent of households having no toilet facilities, followed by 76.6 per cent people in Odisha and 75.8 per cent population in Bihar."
Mar 13, 2012 Census 2011: Half of India have mobile phones, but no toilet at home: "49.8 per cent Indian households defecate in the open"
Mar 13, 2012 Pulitzer winner Boo unmasks Mumbai poverty in new book: "The corruption that permeates every level of the government and legal system is captured when a teenager called Abdul is falsely accused of murdering a neighbor named Fatima, while Fatima in turn dies in a hospital devoid of adequate medicine to treat her burns."
Mar 13, 2012 Woman succumbs to honour killing in Mysore: "A 27-year-old woman was killed, reportedly by her brother, in the Nazarbad area of the city on Tuesday for marrying outside her caste."
Mar 13, 2012 200 million Indians have no TV, phone or radio: "One-sixth of the country, or 200 million Indians, don't possess any of the most basic assets like a transistor or TV, phone, vehicle of any kind or a computer."
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Mar 30, 2012 Priests at the service of the rich and famous at Tirumala: "Rules forbid priests of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) from officiating at any private functions."
Mar 30, 2012 Delhi: Teenaged help found locked up with bruises: "The 13-year-old was rescued on Thursday evening after she managed to unlock a window and shout for help."
Mar 29, 2012 MLA discovers ‘cure’ for AIDS: "Squeeze your private parts tightly and urinate forcefully after intercourse to keep AIDS at bay, is Rajasthan MLA Devi Singh Bhatti’s prescription for people."
Mar 29, 2012 Minor help locked up, starved as couple holidays: "In a shocking tale of abuse and torture, a 13-year-old girl, working as domestic help, was rescued on Thursday evening from a flat in Dwarka where she was locked up for six days by a doctor couple who went on a holiday to Thailand."
Mar 29, 2012 16 cops get life terms for fake encounter in UP: "Twenty years after a case of staged shootout, a CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday held 17 policemen guilty and sentenced 16 of them to life imprisonment, making it perhaps the largest number of cops convicted for life at one go in the country.", "The Ghaziabad CBI court order, a rarity, only underscores UP's dubious distinction of recording the largest number of fake encounters in the country"
Mar 29, 2012 Rajoana clemency row: 1 killed in Punjab: "Curfew was clamped on Thursday in Gurdaspur city following communal tension between Shiv Sena activists and Sikhs."
Mar 29, 2012 Don't harass people from Northeast, Ladakh: HC to Delhi police: "The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the Delhi Police not to harass people from the Northeast and Ladakh because of their facial similarity with Tibetans"
Mar 29, 2012 6 lakh Indians died of cancer in 2010: report: "According to the study, 70 per cent of cancer deaths occurred within the age group of 30 to 69 years."
Mar 29, 2012 When corruption is a TV show: "If you watched the ETV interview, the army chief is asked a question about being offered a bribe, easy as pie and out of the blue. He then drops the bombshell as if it’s peanuts. Just like that, as though this was yet another routine question and answer."
Mar 29, 2012 The seal of corruption: "motorists in Bangalore as paying the maximum bribe among all top Indian cities, to escape being fined for illegal parking and other offences."
Mar 29, 2012 BBC: Is bad politics ruining India?: "Most are also seen as greedy, corrupt and disinterested in serious reform. The increasing number of politicians with criminal records and the brazen use of money to buy party tickets and bribe voters erodes India's ailing democratic process."
Mar 29, 2012 Tirupati: Money, property, land scams hit Tirumala
Mar 28, 2012 Maximum Mumbai: When a priest goes to jail: "a series of reports about allegations of massive land scams in the Church of North India and other Anglican denominations."
Mar 28, 2012 A band-aid for Brand India: "What is Brand India all about today? It is about misgovernance; the politics of vendetta; endemic corruption; the dissatisfaction of the average citizen with those who rule him;"
Mar 28, 2012 Man gets job after 31 years, retires in 20 days: "Ram Kishore Singh cannot even draw a pension as he has not completed a one-year service.", "31-year fight for 20-day job"
Mar 28, 2012 Red terror returns to Gadchiroli, kills 17: "17 jawans were martyred and many others injured in the attack."
Mar 28, 2012 Is this how we teach our children?: "Enraged by his daughter's performance in Class VII exams, a father forced the girl to beg in her school uniform in front of a temple in Mysore. The father was arrested and a case registered against him under the Juvenile Justice Act. The father said that his intention was to teach his daughter the hardships of life."
Mar 28, 2012 Corruption is a way of life in Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams: ""It's a mini state in itself, giving rise to corruption at every level ,"", ""Thousands of books are printed at the TTD printing press. Corruption in this wing alone runs into Rs 150 crore,""
Mar 27, 2012 HC crackdown on Katara killers: "The army doctors will examine medical records of Vikas and Vishal Yadav. The doctors will also examine how many of Katara murder case convicts' visits from Tihar to hospitals were justified."
Mar 27, 2012 Naxal attack: 16 CRPF jawans killed: "12 CRPF personnel were today killed and 28 others injured when the ultras triggered a landmine blast in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra."
Mar 27, 2012 UP: Psychiatric ward for honest officer?: "A Provincial Civil Services officer, who was on a fast-unto-death in Lucknow against "corruption" in the social welfare department, was allegedly forcibly evicted from the protest site by the police who tried to admit him to the psychiatric department of a hospital."
Mar 27, 2012 Naxals blow up CRPF bus in Gadchiroli, 12 killed: "The death toll is likely to rise as the landmine blast in Gadchiroli targeted a bus full of CRPF personnel."
Mar 27, 2012 Over 100 IPS officers transferred in UP: "In yet another reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred more than 100 IPS officers including DGs and police chiefs of several districts."
Mar 27, 2012 Is Lord Balaji temple at Tirumala only for VIPs?: "rule is always flouted to pander to VIPs,""
Mar 27, 2012 Nitish killers don't need hospitalisation: panel: "The duo convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara in 2008 has been regularly coming out of the jail on the pretext of visiting hospitals.", "151 medical outings in 3 years"
Mar 27, 2012 Trafficking mafia killed rape victim's mother: "was fighting a war for her daughter's dignity against a well-organized gang of human traffickers while the police and district administration turned a deaf ear to her repeated calls for help."
Mar 26, 2012 Corruption from cradle to pyre: "Most Indian’s tryst with corruption is lifelong. It’s a sordid experience that starts from the cradle and ends, if you allow me, at the cremation pyre."
Mar 26, 2012 School teacher held for PU paper leak: "Shashikala, one of the three persons being pursued by the CCB, is suspected to have used a fake identity of being a lecturer at a PU college in a Kolar."
Mar 26, 2012 Killed for reporting rape: "In a shocking case of ruthlessness and insensitivity an innocent tribal woman was shot dead by the alleged rapist of her 15-year-old daughter. Her only fault was that she was brave enough to fight for justice for her daughter. Whats worse is that 24 hours after the incident, no arrests have been made by the police yet."
Mar 26, 2012 No democracy here, only dictatorship: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal remained defiant over hitting out against politicians who have been accused of indulging in corruption."
Mar 25, 2012 PU leaks turn into a flood: "As the State Pre-University Department grapples with the fallout of the leak of the Maths and Physics papers, it is now emerging that even the Biology, Chemistry, English and Geography question papers were leaked, leaving the entire PU examination system in a shambles."
Mar 25, 2012 Refusal to pay bribe costs farmer livelihood: "Corruption is a disease that plagues India from the inside. There is a widespread belief that nobody is serious enough to completely weed out corruption in India."
Mar 25, 2012 “Have peace within to propagate world peace”: "Corruption here in India has become institutionalised, criminal justice system is slow, and they say ‘justice delayed is justice denied' but still, justice in most cases are delayed"
Mar 25, 2012 Corruption: 'It will take a hundred Hazares to even make a dent': "Dr Vijaypat Singhania, noted industrialist and Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, has said India will need hundreds of Hazares to even make a dent in deep-rooted corruption."
Mar 25, 2012 Ten-year-old gang raped in Meerut
Mar 25, 2012 Promise down in the dumps: Will Akhilesh answer?: "3000 forms for unemployment dole were found in a garbage dump in Amroha District."
Mar 25, 2012 CJ Parul: Why isn't My City Safe for Women?: "the rage over the rape in Gurgaon and the 8 pm deadline that the police suggested for working women."
Mar 25, 2012 Gurgaon Expressway: A Virtual Deathtrap: "She reports on how the Expressway is a death trap with 208 accidents in a year."
Mar 25, 2012 Crime against women on rise in trains: "a total of 712 cases including rape, murder, robbery and eve-teasing were reported against women and children in railway premises in 2011"
Mar 25, 2012 Woman burnt to death for 'giving birth to girls': "A young woman was burnt to death, apparently for giving birth to baby girls consecutively"
Mar 24, 2012 Speak up and be killed?
Mar 24, 2012 The Rs 28 Diet Plan Trying—and failing—to live on the govt’s definition of ‘not poor’: "Those earning Rs 100 per day, such as masons, plumbers, construction workers, are too rich to be counted as poor."
Mar 24, 2012 Manipur: 2 soldiers arrested for gangrape: "Four people, including two soldiers of India Reserve Battalion (IRB), were arrested on Saturday."
Mar 24, 2012 MP: 2 dalit girls stripped in examination hall
Mar 24, 2012 J&K minister's son arrested for assaulting shopkeeper
Mar 23, 2012 25 yr old mowed down by jeep in Lucknow: "The trio later beat up Arjun and then ran him over in their jeep."
Mar 23, 2012 Shock & horror on Delhi's streets: "A cold blooded murder in the heart of the national capital, a 14-year-old resident of Dwarka area of south-west Delhi was abducted and strangled to death allegedly by his own friends. Ashish Kumar allegedly lured on the pretext of a movie before being kidnapped and then being brutally stabbed", "stop this goondaraj"
Mar 23, 2012 Road rage claims two lives in Delhi, Lucknow: "An autorickshaw driver was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi and in Lucknow, a man was run over by a jeep."
Mar 23, 2012 The new Indian politician: "Ask anyone about the qualities required to be a successful Indian politician. Chances are you will get a cynical response. Craftiness, ability to fool people and lust for power is what many people will say."
Mar 23, 2012 Call for protection of whistleblowers: "At least 15 who tried to expose corruption have been killed since 2010"
Mar 23, 2012 India's Hunger Games: "India has its own version of the "hunger games" playing out that is turning out to be every bit as dramatic as the movie."
Mar 23, 2012 Two dalit girls in Madhya Pradesh stripped in examination hall: "When the girls refused, the examiners allegedly stripped them while male classmates sniggered and cracked jokes."
Mar 22, 2012 चरमपंथ खतरनाक या सड़क दुर्घटनाएँ?: "''भारत में हर साल सड़क दुर्घटना में एक लाख 38 हजार लोग मारे जाते हैं, जबकि चरमपंथी हमलों में हर साल लगभग दो हज़ार लोग मारे जाते हैं."
Mar 22, 2012 Physics exam postponed following leak of paper: "Lakhs of students of second year Pre-University science course in Karnataka were affected today as their examination for Physics paper was postponed following leak of the question paper"
Mar 22, 2012 Knee-jerk nation: "Now that Norway issue has backfired, will MEA learn to act out of principle rather than reflex?"
Mar 22, 2012 FTN: Has poverty declined in India?: "Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10.", "They are not poor people, they are starving people"
Mar 22, 2012 New panel to be set up to reassess poverty figures: "This comes after the Planning Commission said poverty in India has come down during the 2009-2010 period."
Mar 21, 2012 Addnl chargesheet against Nityananda filed in another case: ""We have filed an additional chargesheet against Nithyananda in connection with a case pertaining to his having unnatural sex with a youth", DGP CID Roopak Kumar Dutta told"
Mar 21, 2012 Persecution of Hindus in Kashmir Valley: "History tells us that Kashmir’s Hindus have been persecuted and killed by Muslim rulers through the ages."
Mar 21, 2012 Govt schools breeding ground for Naxals: Sri Sri: "'It's often seen that boys from Government schools are into Naxalism and violence,' Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said."
Mar 21, 2012 Are political parties selling RS seats to the highest bidder?: "Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday criticised the party for nominating businessman Anshuman Mishra for a RS seat.", "it is a well organised business"
Mar 20, 2012 Now, Samajwadi Party worker beats auto driver to death in Kanpur for Rs 300: "beat the tempo driver to death in a fit of anger after he refused to cough up "parking fees""
Mar 20, 2012 Planning Commn faces criticism for poverty figures: "Manmohan Singh administration appeared to be setting a "starvation line"."
Mar 20, 2012 India's infant mortality worse than neighbours: Azad: ""In India, the infant mortality rate (IMR) is 47 per thousand live births which translates into 12.5 lakh infant deaths per year,""
Mar 20, 2012 Montek defends Govt's Rs 28-a-day poverty line: "Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday defended the government's new reduced poverty line, drawn at Rs 28 a day."
Mar 20, 2012 BBC: 'Sharp drop' in India poverty due to welfare programmes: "Officially, 37% of India's 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line. But one estimate suggests the figure could be as high as 77%. Last year a recommendation by the Indian Planning Commission to set the poverty line at 32 rupees ($0.65; £0.40) a day stirred a major debate across the country."
Mar 19, 2012 TMC MP's guard urinates on passenger, pulls out gun: "A bodyguard of Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar allegedly urinated on two passengers on the Rajdhani Express early on Monday. He then pulled out his service revolver and threatened them into silence."
Mar 19, 2012 Gun culture back in UP?: "In a bizarre move, notorious Uttar Pradesh MLA Raja Bhaiya, who has a number of criminal cases pending against him has been made the Prison Minister of Uttar Pradesh.", "more supporters joined the celebration by firing in the air. Interestingly, Mehboob Ali has 15 criminal cases against him."
Mar 19, 2012 BIT student dies under mysterious circumstances: "after he was allegedly administered wrong medicine at the health centre of the institute"
Mar 19, 2012 SP workers brandish guns at a victory rally: "Samajwadi Party workers were on Sunday seen brandishing guns at MLA Mehboob Ali's victory rally on the Lucknow-Delhi road."
Mar 19, 2012 Intense lobbying for seat on Shirdi Trust: "Lobbying for membership of the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which manages affairs of the Shirdi-based Saibaba temple, has begun in the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)."
Mar 19, 2012 Rapist tuition teacher arrested in Ghaziabad: "the tutor mixed some narcotic substance in a soft drink which he then gave to a 14-year-old Class 9th student who used to attend his academy."
Mar 19, 2012 Married woman raped twice in Odisha: "The driver agreed and drove away to Aruha and raped her before dropping her off near Chhatia bazaar on National Highway (NH) no-5 late last night. The agony of the woman did not end there as two other motorcycle borne middle aged men took her on their bike on the pretext of taking her to Cuttack. They also allegedly gangraped and threw her at Nelia on the NH-5"
Mar 19, 2012 Poverty declined to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, Planning Commission says: "Going by the controversial daily consumption number of Rs 28.65 per day, one out of every three Indian is poor as per the new Planning Commission's estimates.", "An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban cities and Rs 672.8 in rural areas (at per 2009-10 prices) is not considered poor, says the Planning Commission's estimate based on the controversial Tendulkar Committee methodology."
Mar 17, 2012 IGP takes family on human safari: "a senior police officer, Sanjay Beniwal, has been transferred from Andaman following reports in 'Andaman Chronicle' of his taking his family and guests on a special "human safari" to meet the Jarawas"
Mar 17, 2012 People are tired of rampant corruption: Sri Sri
Mar 17, 2012 9 Given Life Imprisonment: "Four days later his body was recovered and it was found that he was sacrificed in the ‘devi mandap’"
Mar 17, 2012 Let’s support SC in tracking India’s 60,000 missing children: "The Supreme Court this week issued notices to the government on a petition filed by NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan on the callousness of the police in tracking missing children."
Mar 17, 2012 SP workers create ruckus in Ghaziabad: "Samajwadi Party workers went on a rampage at an employment exchange office in Ghaziabad on Friday."
Mar 17, 2012 Delhi: Mutilated body of woman found: "The body was found in a jute bag from inside a drain near the Inderlok metro station."
Mar 16, 2012 Homing in on hot property for black deals: "Real estate is the best black money parking scheme in India. Across the country about 50% to 80% of the value of real estate transactions is not declared."
Mar 15, 2012 New York Times: Sports Tales Cast India as the Villain: "“Indian athletes who are not cricket stars usually have to endure corrupt officials, humiliation and poverty. Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention. Some have had to sell their gold medals,”"
Mar 15, 2012 Akhilesh takes charge of UP, SP workers create ruckus: "It was high drama as the Samajwadi Party workers created a ruckus after Akhilesh Yadav's oath-taking ceremony.". "Given its Goonda image the Samajwadi party did itself no favour by swearing in four tainted ministers"
Mar 15, 2012 Rape-effect: ‘Need policing, not ban on work’: "“Near every roadside liquor shop, one finds an eatery where people eat and drink. This is a problem area."
Mar 14, 2012 Team Anna to fast, demand protection for whistleblowers: "At least 15 people, who tried to blow the lid off scams, have been killed since 2010."
Mar 14, 2012 The Globe and Mail: Despite cellphone boom in India, toilet access still lags: "UNICEF says that 640 million Indians are still “open defecators” – people who relieve themselves in fields or next to railway tracks – a figure that remains high despite hikes in government spending on sanitation projects. Local governments have tangled those projects in corruption and bureaucracy"
Mar 14, 2012 Honour killing: Brother turns murderer: "Smurthi, a Government college lecturer was strangled to death by her brother all because she decided to marry out of her caste."
Mar 14, 2012 Minister and MLA Should Abide the laws- Speaker: "missing number plates on vehicles of some members."
Mar 14, 2012 City has more than 9,600 beggars: Survey: "many senior citizens got into beggary due to delay in availing their monthly allowances from the government."
Mar 14, 2012 Action against cops involved in Ramlila ground crackdown: "5,000 police personnel, in presence of police commissioner, cane charged 10,000 protestors who were sleeping."
Mar 13, 2012 Job scammers sell package of lies: ""Such scams are mostly aimed at final year students. The fraudsters pose as campus recruiters and ask for personal details and a large amount of procedure fees"
Mar 13, 2012 Another rape in Gurgaon in less than 48 hours!: "a 24-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and raped when she was waiting for a bus with her child"
Mar 13, 2012 मध्य प्रदेश में 'जबरन' नसबंदी: "ऐसे आरोप लग रहे हैं कि अधिकारियों ने कहीं-कहीं पर प्रलोभन का सहारा लिया तो कहीं लोगों को डराने धमकाने का काम किया.", "सरपंच और पटवारी ने धमकाया भी कि अगर वह नसबंदी नहीं करवाती है तो उसके परिवार का राशन कार्ड निरस्त हो जाएगा."
Mar 13, 2012 SUV driver mows down labourer in B'lore: "Eyewitnesses claim the driver was in an intoxicated state. Meanwhile, the lady driver is on the run."
Mar 13, 2012 India reports over 50 pc leprosy cases globally: ""Out of 228,474 new leprosy cases detected worldwide in 2010, India contributed 126,800 cases, which is about 55.5 percent of global disease burden.""
Mar 13, 2012 Half of Indians defecate in open, but more own a mobile phone: "Jharkhand tops the list with 77 per dent of households having no toilet facilities, followed by 76.6 per cent people in Odisha and 75.8 per cent population in Bihar."
Mar 13, 2012 Census 2011: Half of India have mobile phones, but no toilet at home: "49.8 per cent Indian households defecate in the open"
Mar 13, 2012 Pulitzer winner Boo unmasks Mumbai poverty in new book: "The corruption that permeates every level of the government and legal system is captured when a teenager called Abdul is falsely accused of murdering a neighbor named Fatima, while Fatima in turn dies in a hospital devoid of adequate medicine to treat her burns."
Mar 13, 2012 Woman succumbs to honour killing in Mysore: "A 27-year-old woman was killed, reportedly by her brother, in the Nazarbad area of the city on Tuesday for marrying outside her caste."
Mar 13, 2012 200 million Indians have no TV, phone or radio: "One-sixth of the country, or 200 million Indians, don't possess any of the most basic assets like a transistor or TV, phone, vehicle of any kind or a computer."
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