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May 20, 2012 Companies abetting bribery need to be severely punished, says CVC: "Private companies indulging in bribery get away with less or no punishment because of the lacunae in India's anti-corruption law, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar said."
May 20, 2012 India Is a Risky Ballgame: "The string of controversies also underscores the opaque nexus between business and politics in India, and the scope for unethical practice therein."
May 20, 2012 India's soap opera on corruption: "Raja walked free from jail on bail, after the judge ruled against the slow progress of the trial and the fact that almost all the other accused had been released thus making it pointless to detain Raja."
May 20, 2012 Roads to disaster: "In the last decade alone, road accidents have claimed more than 8,500 lives. Since 2000, the City has recorded over 66,327 accidents."
May 20, 2012 Narayana Murthy joins debate on policy paralysis at Centre: "Software industry leader N R Narayana Murthy today appeared to have joined the debate on policy paralysis at the Centre when he said the government has not been able to provide clarity on definition of software exports for over a year now causing inconvenience to the industry."
May 20, 2012 Int'l federation to ban Air India: "The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Association has written to its member unions to boycott Air India."
May 20, 2012 India Inc slams Land Acquisition Bill report: "The bill insists that land acquisition by the government can only be done for social projects and not for profit."
May 20, 2012 K'taka officer pays with life for exposing land scam: "The Karnataka Administrative Officer was attacked with iron rods by some unidentified persons on Tuesday."
May 19, 2012 BJP demands probe into allegations against Gujarat Governor: "BJP MPs created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding a probe against Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal."
May 19, 2012 As Air India struggled for cash and occupancy, its employees milked it dry: "a flight purser who was dismissed from service after he was apprehended with 372 mini-liquor bottles by customs at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Similarly, a catering officer was found with Rs. 20,200 worth of caviar tins that were missing from a special charter flight."
May 18, 2012 CBI gets nod to attach Jagan property: "Andhra Pradesh government on Friday evening issued government orders allowing the CBI to prohibit sale, pledge and transfer of ownership of properties belonging to Jagan and his associates."
May 17, 2012 Among those whom AI sacked, an Emirates pilot and one in the air: "Critics complain that among the several problems of Air India’s management style is the fact that the right hand frequently does not know what the left is up to.", "Among the 71 striking pilots sacked by the mandarins who run India’s national carrier is one who isn’t even an Air India employee, and another who was literally mid-air over Europe when he was fired for not showing up at work."
May 17, 2012 Ramalinga Raju too routed funds via industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad into Jagan’s firm: "Satyam's Ramalinga Raju had invested Rs 20 crore in Jagati publications belonging to Jaganmohan Reddy through industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad. Raju made this investment through Maytas Infra -- as a quid pro quo for the YSR regime having allotted a Rs 121-crore road-widening project in Kadapa district to the infrastructure company on a nomination basis."
May 15, 2012 World Bank gives evidence of corruption in highway projects: "The Bank's report has an annexure of "collateral" evidence showing how contractors produced fake invoices and certificates to get advance from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)."
May 15, 2012 As funds flee, India's pain is Southeast Asia's gain
May 15, 2012 India Court Grants Bail to Former Telecom Minister
May 15, 2012 With Flexibility, Africa Surpasses India
May 15, 2012 Ex-Indian Minister Receives Bail in Corruption Case: "The scandal is believed to have cost the Indian government up to $40 billion in lost revenue."
May 15, 2012 CBI arrests two in Jagan corruption case: "The CBI today arrested former special secretary to Andhra Pradesh government KV Bramhananda Reddy and chairman of MAA TV Nimmagadda Prasad in connection with an alleged corruption case involving Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy."
May 15, 2012 India’s growth threatened by old abuses: "“This country is close to becoming the Greece of Asia.” "
May 15, 2012 CAG report on Antrix deal in LS: "The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down heavily on the Department of Space, particularly on its former Secretary G Madhavan Nair, in the controversial Antrix-Devas deal alleging numerous rules and policies were violated and facts concealed to favour a private company. "The Antrix-Devas deal is a classic instance of failure of the governance structure in which selected individuals, some serving and some retired public servants, were able to successfully propel the agenda of a private entity by arrogating unto themselves, powers which they were not legitimately authorised to exercise," the CAG report said."
May 15, 2012 Rampant illegal mining in Tamil Nadu: "It's a shocking admission on camera by a cop. After a gang of sand mafia brutally attacked and also tried to bury a government employee, the ASP of Thirupattur has accepted that illegal sand mining is rampant in Tamil Nadu. But the question here is whether this admission is enough or will the government finally act against those involved in such illegal activities."
May 15, 2012 More trouble for Yeddyurappa: "CBI has filed an FIR against former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa. This came just days after the SC's nod to CBI investigation against Yeddy in cases of alleged kickbacks received by the former CM's family from illegal mining in the state."
May 15, 2012 A Raja, the last accused in 2G scam to get bail: "Former telecom minister A Raja got bail on Tuesday after spending 15 months in Tihar Jail."
May 15, 2012 UP CM orders probe into Maya's farmhouse project: "Mayawati's Noida Farmhouse allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer."
May 15, 2012 Air India pilots send medical certificate to Govt: "The pilots' strike entered the eighth day on Tuesday and 24 flights were suspended "
May 15, 2012 Antrix-Devas deal: CAG flays Department of Space: "The report says Department of Space in its eagerness concealed facts from the Cabinet and violated rules."
May 15, 2012 A Raja walks out of Tihar jail, Karunanidhi 'happy': "Over 15 months after his arrest, former telecom minister A Raja walked out of Tihar jail on Tuesday evening."
May 15, 2012 Drug safety norms being severely compromised: "The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials.", Doctor-drug company nexus?"
May 15, 2012 Top J&K official flouts green norms: "A farmhouse of Farooq Renzu, a senior bureaucrat close to the Omar government, is right next to a sanctuary."
May 15, 2012 चिरंजीवी की बेटी के घर छापा, 35 करोड़ मिले: "अधिकारियों ने कोई 35 करोड़ रुपए की नकद राशि और चार करोड़ रुपए की संपत्ति के कागजात जब्त किए हैं."
May 15, 2012 Moody's downgrades ratings of ICICI, HDFC, Axis bank: "on growing concerns over the country's sovereign debt ratings."
May 15, 2012 Ponty Chadha reports Rs 175 crore 'undisclosed' income to I-T: "The IT department has begun the process of collecting tax on the concealed income after it recently got the challans (receipts) deposited after the raids from the business entities of Chadha"
May 14, 2012 27% of India’s doctors exist only on paper: "Union health ministry's scrutiny has found that two lakh of the registered doctors aren't working anymore. Of the 10.7 lakh nurses registered, six lakh don't exist."
May 13, 2012 23 tax tribunal members under CBI scanner for ‘fixing’ verdicts: "Jugal Kishore, an ITAT member from Kolkata, for allegedly receiving a bribe from the bosses of S K Tulsiyan and Co., for delivering “pre-decided’’ judgments. The CBI recovered Rs 28 lakh from Kishore’s residence."
May 12, 2012 More Enrons in sight in India?: "Casting aside the need for transparency and competition, the politicians and civil servants of both coal and environment ministries made hay while the sun was shining and merrily allotted around 200 coal blocks without auctions. Soon, the coal-power bubble will burst. A Coalgate and a multitude of Enrons will unfold, followed by unmanageable NPAs with the banks. After all, the people of India are always there to bear the burden of the sins of their political leaders "
May 12, 2012 Author convicted in 20-yr-old corruption case: "sentenced KG Sharma to three-year imprisonment after the author sought leniency on the ground that he was a “renowned scholar” and a “social scientist” who has written 42 books."
May 12, 2012 Deepak Lal: Corruption and dynasties: "a very confused Indian political discourse: corruption and the role of political and business dynasties."
May 12, 2012 Delhi HC sniffs scam in farm ministry, orders FIR: "The court said there was evidence to suggest a nexus between the counsel and ministry officials to cause loss to “public exchequer” through “fraud” and “misappropriation of funds”."
May 12, 2012 India drugs inquiry could prompt new U.S. scrutiny: "Global drugmakers could face new U.S. scrutiny after a report from lawmakers in India alleged abuses in that country's drug approval process"
May 11, 2012 2G scam: CBI opposes Raja bail, cites fresh bribe allegation: "This accused (Raja) and other public servants are also involved in another tranche of Rs 200 crore which they have received as bribe and this was not known earlier and has come up during the investigation", "Agency says Rs 200-cr fresh bribe claim under probe"
May 11, 2012 Adarsh Scam: Army rebuts Adarsh Panel's report: "The Army says that the state government-appointed judicial commission's report was factually wrong."
May 11, 2012 Blow to Yeddy, SC orders CBI probe in 3 cases: "The apex court observed that prima facie there was proof against the former Karnataka chief minister in the cases."
May 11, 2012 Kanpur's leather industry a bane for the Ganga: "What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain."
May 11, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: 'Chidambaram violated House rules': "P Chidambaram read a statement by his son on the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Thursday, which the Opposition said was a violation of House rules."
May 10, 2012 Haryana: Grain rots while poor starve: "CNN-IBN revisited a storage yard only to discover that the condition has worsened."
May 10, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: P Chidambaram rebuts charges against son Karti as BJP screams scam: "senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha alleged a "big scam" and said Karti picked up a 5% stake in Maxis, a Malaysian company, ahead of a controversial takeover by Indian telecom firm Aircel."
May 10, 2012 BBC: India official Pradeep Shukla quizzed in health scandal: "A former top civil servant in India's Uttar Pradesh state has been detained for questioning in connection with an estimated $2bn rural health scandal.", "Former state health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha is also in jail for his alleged role in the scandal."
May 10, 2012 Traders must get cracking against graft
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Indian Drug Regulator Accused of Corruption and Collusion: "India’s top drug regulatory agency violated laws and colluded with pharmaceutical companies to approve medicines without clinical trials"
May 10, 2012 Is the Punjab grain problem man made?: "Investigations by CNN-IBN reveal that space to store seven lakh tonnes of wheat grain has already been created."
May 10, 2012 Why is grain rotting in the open yet again?: "The country is on the verge of record harvest, and yet for a third consecutive year, there is simply no space for storage."
May 10, 2012 Vodafone threatens legal action against Govt: "Vodafone's External Affairs Director Matthew Kirk said that India was not a no-tax economy."
May 10, 2012 Is the CBI probe on Jagan a political tactic?: "A Hyderabad court will on Thursday hear the Sakshi TV's appeal against freezing of its accounts."
May 10, 2012 NRHM Scam: CBI grills, arrests ex-health secretary: "Former Principal Secretary of health Pradeep Shukla has been named in four out of 12 FIRs in the scam."
May 10, 2012 NRHM scam: Pradeep arrested: "Senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla was today detained in Lucknow and questioned by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam."
May 10, 2012 BJP + Swamy vs Chidambaram: "Opposition on Thursday (May 10) targeted P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha over the Aircel-Maxis deal, dubbing it as a "big scam" allegedly involving his son", "Chidambaram quoted from a statement of his son Karthi, hours after a BJP leader had accused him of having 5 per cent stake in either of the companies."
May 10, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI arrests senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla: "The arrest came after the CBI was pulled up by Allahabad high court for not touching big names in the FIR lodged in connection with the NRHM scam."
May 10, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: Pranab loses his cool in Parliament: "Pranab Mukherjee lost his cool in Parliament after Yashwant Sinha alleged that Chidambaram's son had a role in the Aircel-Maxis deal."
May 9, 2012 DVAC searches houses, offices of TNAU V-C
May 9, 2012 Vodafone threatens legal action as govt plans Rs 20,000 crore tax demand
May 9, 2012 U.S. hits Air India with $80K fine: "Citing Air India’s failure to post customer service and tarmac delay contingency plans on its website as well as failing to adequately inform passengers about its optional fees, the U.S. DOT made an example out of India’s struggling national airline. Air India is the first entity facing a penalty assessed for a violation of the DOT’s new airline consumer rules"
May 9, 2012 Ajay Singh files FIR against MP BJP president Prabhat Jha: "Jha had on April 12 lodged a complaint with the Commission against Ajay, saying that the latter grabbed land owned by tribals in his native place Churhat."
May 9, 2012 1996 Housing scam:"No way out" for 98-yr-old ex-Union minister: "Observing that "there is no way out" for 98-year-old former Union minister Shiela Kaul, facing prosecution in a 1996 government accommodation allotment scam", "Kaul, the erstwhile Union urban development minister in Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet, is accused of conspiring with her then additional private secretary Rajan Lala and private assistant R K Sharma for making out-of-turn allotment of government accommodation for making pecuniary gains from alottees between 1992 and 1995."
May 9, 2012 Colossal waste, criminal misuse: "rotting grains in Punjab being sold to distilleries at a throw away price to manufacture liqour. Punjab Government that buys wheat at 18 Rs a kilo is selling rotten grains for Rs 4-6 a kilo. However, on record it denies selling rotten food grains to liquor makers. What about the 231 million mouths that go hungry?"
May 9, 2012 Jagan Reddy's arrest imminent?: "the CBI inquiry against Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, prime accused in the disproportionate assets (DA) case."
May 9, 2012 Drugs scam: Pharmaceutical companies wrote letters signed by doctors?: "The House panel found that several scientific recommendations submitted to the CDSCO to push a drug were actually written by invisible hands of drug companies themselves and experts merely obliged by putting their signatures."
May 9, 2012 Akali Dal slams Centre over rotting foodgrain: "The opposition has attacked the government for lack of storage of foodgrain."
May 9, 2012 Catch them with hands in the till; CAG reports are post-mortems
May 9, 2012 4 AU professors, ex-AICTE official chargesheeted : "seven private individuals, four pharmacy professors of Andhra University and one former senior official of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for conspiring to get approvals to run pharmacy colleges by submitting fake, forged documents without proper infrastructure to offer courses."
May 9, 2012 Long View: India’s Very First Corruption Scandal
May 9, 2012 The politics of corruption in India: public goods for private gain: "The alleged beneficiaries include some 100 private companies,"
May 9, 2012 India Court Grants Bail to Former Telecom Secretary: "Investigators charged Mr. Behura with conspiracy, cheating, criminal misconduct and abusing an official position, in what was one of India's biggest corruption cases. "
May 9, 2012 Corruption at Indian drug authority: "Staff have been accused of plotting with pharmaceutical firms"
May 8, 2012 Is Kalki the only hope?: "Schweizer Illustrierte, a popular Swiss magazine, unrelated to politics in India, had reported in 1991 that Rajiv Gandhi had $2.5 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts."
May 8, 2012 Fears of a Rs.200 crore seed scam in UP: "these officers looted all the money by showing fictitious names of beneficiaries on paper. They also mentioned agricultural land that never existed. "Further, more than two lakh quintal of seeds of wheat, which were supposed to be given to the farmers free of cost, were sold to black marketers. This loot continued for about eight years."
May 8, 2012 Telenor shuns India after troubles hit profits: "State-controlled Telenor posted a quarterly net loss of 390 million crown including minority interests after writing off the remaining 3.9 billion crown ($672.45 million) value of its Indian unit Uninor."
May 8, 2012 CBI intensifies probe on Tatra deal: "The CBI has intensified its probe to unearth alleged irregularities in procurement and supply of all-terrain Tatra trucks to the army and has called some former defence ministry officials and executives of a private firm involved in the deal for questioning."
May 8, 2012 Majority of Indians see corruption as widespread: Gallup: "Perceptions of widespread corruption within the business community are particularly high among current business owners (72 per cent) and those who plan to start a business within the next 12 months (80 per cent)."
May 8, 2012 We continue to face difficulties in India: Lakshmi Mittal: ""We continue to experience difficulties in India. My belief is that the Indian projects may not see the light for five to 10 years,""
May 8, 2012 UP ex-CMO held for two murders: "The CBI, late on Sunday night, finally arrested former Lucknow CMO A.K. Shukla in connection with the murder cases of his predecessors — Dr Vinod Arya and Dr B.P. Singh — both of whom were shot dead while on morning walk.", "Dr Shukla, who had high connections in the Mayawati government, was earlier arrested by the CBI last year in connection with the NRHM scam, but was granted bail by the Allahabad high court."
May 8, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: BJP vs Chidambaram: "Proceedings in Parliament were disrupted today as Opposition demanded resignation of Home Minister P Chidambaram for his alleged role in Aircel-Maxis deal while Congress sought dismissal of BJP government in Madhya Pradesh over the killing of a farmer in police firing."
May 8, 2012 Sleaze, drugs & fixing: "members of the ICC's Anti-Corruption unit have sounded off the Delhi Police about bookies using 'honeytraps' to lure cricketers during the tournament."
May 7, 2012 Maneka, Azad spur over alleged scams in medical college licences: "Maneka Gandhi having heated exchanges with Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad alleging massive corruption in granting licences to medical colleges"
May 7, 2012 'Mishap averted at Mumbai Airport': "a three way collision was averted at the Mumbai International Airport on Sunday (May 6). According to sources, Air India, Jet Airways and SpiceJet aircrafts were at the airport runway at the same time causing a scare."
May 7, 2012 One more chargesheet filed against Jaganmohan Reddy: "Ramky had invested Rs 10 crore in Jagati Publications as a quid pro quo for the benefits it secured from the then government headed by Jagan's father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. "
May 6, 2012 Corruption galore in Maharashtra irrigation dept: Anna Hazare: "Anna Hazare on Saturday said he could give evidences against the corrupt officials, provided the government acts on them. "There are umpteen evidences of corruption in the irrigation department"
May 5, 2012 Two Delhi policemen jailed for extortion: "Two policemen have been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for extorting money from a scrap dealer by threatening to implicate him in a theft case."
May 5, 2012 Fearing jail, Lalu the father in hurry: "What's exceptional, however, is the frenetic manner in which he has gone about getting three of his daughters married in the last few months at his sprawling Tughlaq Road residence."
May 5, 2012 gag on media Shootout On Fleet Street: "“Indira imposed Emergency, Rajiv tried to move a defamation bill. The same mindset is at work again now.”"
May 5, 2012 After Eleven Years, It Stings To Say This... : "All of them told us that no defence deal could be clinched without wine, women and cash.", "To hide my nervousness, I asked whether he wanted the remaining cash in Indian currency or in US dollars. He asked for dollar bills."
May 5, 2012 Jail, fines for 34 in fodder scam: "Among those awarded the maximum punishment — rigorous imprisonment of six years and a fine of Rs 3 lakh — K.N. Jha, the regional director of the animal husbandry department. The court handed the same sentence to one other government official, K.M. Prasad, who was an assistant director in the same department."
May 5, 2012 Question on special favour to Quattrocchi
May 4, 2012 India IRB chairman investigated in murder case: "Chairman investigated in anti-corruption activist murder case", "Mhaiskar, who ranked 78th on Forbes’ 2011 list of the richest Indians, denied any connection to the murder."
May 4, 2012 Road Building Still Tarred With Corruption: "the Central Bureau of Investigation, on Thursday received permission from a local court to subject Virendra Mhaiskar, chairman IRB Infrastructure Ltd. – one of India’s largest road-building firms – to a lie-detector test in connection with the murder of an anti-corruption activist in 2010."
May 4, 2012 A corrupt elite is slowing India: "A petty official can be a nuisance but may not retard the economy much, but those at the top slow down the economy inexorably."
May 4, 2012 Italy set to ask India help in Finmeccanica probe-sources: "The probe is looking into allegations that payments were made to secure a 560 million-euro ($737 million) deal with India's Air Force."
May 4, 2012 Revisiting Bofors and Laxman: "The Congress and the BJP during their rule used the Indian government machinery and intelligence agencies to serve their selfish purposes"
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May 20, 2012 Companies abetting bribery need to be severely punished, says CVC: "Private companies indulging in bribery get away with less or no punishment because of the lacunae in India's anti-corruption law, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar said."
May 20, 2012 India Is a Risky Ballgame: "The string of controversies also underscores the opaque nexus between business and politics in India, and the scope for unethical practice therein."
May 20, 2012 India's soap opera on corruption: "Raja walked free from jail on bail, after the judge ruled against the slow progress of the trial and the fact that almost all the other accused had been released thus making it pointless to detain Raja."
May 20, 2012 Roads to disaster: "In the last decade alone, road accidents have claimed more than 8,500 lives. Since 2000, the City has recorded over 66,327 accidents."
May 20, 2012 Narayana Murthy joins debate on policy paralysis at Centre: "Software industry leader N R Narayana Murthy today appeared to have joined the debate on policy paralysis at the Centre when he said the government has not been able to provide clarity on definition of software exports for over a year now causing inconvenience to the industry."
May 20, 2012 Int'l federation to ban Air India: "The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Association has written to its member unions to boycott Air India."
May 20, 2012 India Inc slams Land Acquisition Bill report: "The bill insists that land acquisition by the government can only be done for social projects and not for profit."
May 20, 2012 K'taka officer pays with life for exposing land scam: "The Karnataka Administrative Officer was attacked with iron rods by some unidentified persons on Tuesday."
May 19, 2012 BJP demands probe into allegations against Gujarat Governor: "BJP MPs created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding a probe against Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal."
May 19, 2012 As Air India struggled for cash and occupancy, its employees milked it dry: "a flight purser who was dismissed from service after he was apprehended with 372 mini-liquor bottles by customs at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Similarly, a catering officer was found with Rs. 20,200 worth of caviar tins that were missing from a special charter flight."
May 18, 2012 CBI gets nod to attach Jagan property: "Andhra Pradesh government on Friday evening issued government orders allowing the CBI to prohibit sale, pledge and transfer of ownership of properties belonging to Jagan and his associates."
May 17, 2012 Among those whom AI sacked, an Emirates pilot and one in the air: "Critics complain that among the several problems of Air India’s management style is the fact that the right hand frequently does not know what the left is up to.", "Among the 71 striking pilots sacked by the mandarins who run India’s national carrier is one who isn’t even an Air India employee, and another who was literally mid-air over Europe when he was fired for not showing up at work."
May 17, 2012 Ramalinga Raju too routed funds via industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad into Jagan’s firm: "Satyam's Ramalinga Raju had invested Rs 20 crore in Jagati publications belonging to Jaganmohan Reddy through industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad. Raju made this investment through Maytas Infra -- as a quid pro quo for the YSR regime having allotted a Rs 121-crore road-widening project in Kadapa district to the infrastructure company on a nomination basis."
May 15, 2012 World Bank gives evidence of corruption in highway projects: "The Bank's report has an annexure of "collateral" evidence showing how contractors produced fake invoices and certificates to get advance from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)."
May 15, 2012 As funds flee, India's pain is Southeast Asia's gain
May 15, 2012 India Court Grants Bail to Former Telecom Minister
May 15, 2012 With Flexibility, Africa Surpasses India
May 15, 2012 Ex-Indian Minister Receives Bail in Corruption Case: "The scandal is believed to have cost the Indian government up to $40 billion in lost revenue."
May 15, 2012 CBI arrests two in Jagan corruption case: "The CBI today arrested former special secretary to Andhra Pradesh government KV Bramhananda Reddy and chairman of MAA TV Nimmagadda Prasad in connection with an alleged corruption case involving Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy."
May 15, 2012 India’s growth threatened by old abuses: "“This country is close to becoming the Greece of Asia.” "
May 15, 2012 CAG report on Antrix deal in LS: "The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down heavily on the Department of Space, particularly on its former Secretary G Madhavan Nair, in the controversial Antrix-Devas deal alleging numerous rules and policies were violated and facts concealed to favour a private company. "The Antrix-Devas deal is a classic instance of failure of the governance structure in which selected individuals, some serving and some retired public servants, were able to successfully propel the agenda of a private entity by arrogating unto themselves, powers which they were not legitimately authorised to exercise," the CAG report said."
May 15, 2012 Rampant illegal mining in Tamil Nadu: "It's a shocking admission on camera by a cop. After a gang of sand mafia brutally attacked and also tried to bury a government employee, the ASP of Thirupattur has accepted that illegal sand mining is rampant in Tamil Nadu. But the question here is whether this admission is enough or will the government finally act against those involved in such illegal activities."
May 15, 2012 More trouble for Yeddyurappa: "CBI has filed an FIR against former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa. This came just days after the SC's nod to CBI investigation against Yeddy in cases of alleged kickbacks received by the former CM's family from illegal mining in the state."
May 15, 2012 A Raja, the last accused in 2G scam to get bail: "Former telecom minister A Raja got bail on Tuesday after spending 15 months in Tihar Jail."
May 15, 2012 UP CM orders probe into Maya's farmhouse project: "Mayawati's Noida Farmhouse allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer."
May 15, 2012 Air India pilots send medical certificate to Govt: "The pilots' strike entered the eighth day on Tuesday and 24 flights were suspended "
May 15, 2012 Antrix-Devas deal: CAG flays Department of Space: "The report says Department of Space in its eagerness concealed facts from the Cabinet and violated rules."
May 15, 2012 A Raja walks out of Tihar jail, Karunanidhi 'happy': "Over 15 months after his arrest, former telecom minister A Raja walked out of Tihar jail on Tuesday evening."
May 15, 2012 Drug safety norms being severely compromised: "The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials.", Doctor-drug company nexus?"
May 15, 2012 Top J&K official flouts green norms: "A farmhouse of Farooq Renzu, a senior bureaucrat close to the Omar government, is right next to a sanctuary."
May 15, 2012 चिरंजीवी की बेटी के घर छापा, 35 करोड़ मिले: "अधिकारियों ने कोई 35 करोड़ रुपए की नकद राशि और चार करोड़ रुपए की संपत्ति के कागजात जब्त किए हैं."
May 15, 2012 Moody's downgrades ratings of ICICI, HDFC, Axis bank: "on growing concerns over the country's sovereign debt ratings."
May 15, 2012 Ponty Chadha reports Rs 175 crore 'undisclosed' income to I-T: "The IT department has begun the process of collecting tax on the concealed income after it recently got the challans (receipts) deposited after the raids from the business entities of Chadha"
May 14, 2012 27% of India’s doctors exist only on paper: "Union health ministry's scrutiny has found that two lakh of the registered doctors aren't working anymore. Of the 10.7 lakh nurses registered, six lakh don't exist."
May 13, 2012 23 tax tribunal members under CBI scanner for ‘fixing’ verdicts: "Jugal Kishore, an ITAT member from Kolkata, for allegedly receiving a bribe from the bosses of S K Tulsiyan and Co., for delivering “pre-decided’’ judgments. The CBI recovered Rs 28 lakh from Kishore’s residence."
May 12, 2012 More Enrons in sight in India?: "Casting aside the need for transparency and competition, the politicians and civil servants of both coal and environment ministries made hay while the sun was shining and merrily allotted around 200 coal blocks without auctions. Soon, the coal-power bubble will burst. A Coalgate and a multitude of Enrons will unfold, followed by unmanageable NPAs with the banks. After all, the people of India are always there to bear the burden of the sins of their political leaders "
May 12, 2012 Author convicted in 20-yr-old corruption case: "sentenced KG Sharma to three-year imprisonment after the author sought leniency on the ground that he was a “renowned scholar” and a “social scientist” who has written 42 books."
May 12, 2012 Deepak Lal: Corruption and dynasties: "a very confused Indian political discourse: corruption and the role of political and business dynasties."
May 12, 2012 Delhi HC sniffs scam in farm ministry, orders FIR: "The court said there was evidence to suggest a nexus between the counsel and ministry officials to cause loss to “public exchequer” through “fraud” and “misappropriation of funds”."
May 12, 2012 India drugs inquiry could prompt new U.S. scrutiny: "Global drugmakers could face new U.S. scrutiny after a report from lawmakers in India alleged abuses in that country's drug approval process"
May 11, 2012 2G scam: CBI opposes Raja bail, cites fresh bribe allegation: "This accused (Raja) and other public servants are also involved in another tranche of Rs 200 crore which they have received as bribe and this was not known earlier and has come up during the investigation", "Agency says Rs 200-cr fresh bribe claim under probe"
May 11, 2012 Adarsh Scam: Army rebuts Adarsh Panel's report: "The Army says that the state government-appointed judicial commission's report was factually wrong."
May 11, 2012 Blow to Yeddy, SC orders CBI probe in 3 cases: "The apex court observed that prima facie there was proof against the former Karnataka chief minister in the cases."
May 11, 2012 Kanpur's leather industry a bane for the Ganga: "What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain."
May 11, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: 'Chidambaram violated House rules': "P Chidambaram read a statement by his son on the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Thursday, which the Opposition said was a violation of House rules."
May 10, 2012 Haryana: Grain rots while poor starve: "CNN-IBN revisited a storage yard only to discover that the condition has worsened."
May 10, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: P Chidambaram rebuts charges against son Karti as BJP screams scam: "senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha alleged a "big scam" and said Karti picked up a 5% stake in Maxis, a Malaysian company, ahead of a controversial takeover by Indian telecom firm Aircel."
May 10, 2012 BBC: India official Pradeep Shukla quizzed in health scandal: "A former top civil servant in India's Uttar Pradesh state has been detained for questioning in connection with an estimated $2bn rural health scandal.", "Former state health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha is also in jail for his alleged role in the scandal."
May 10, 2012 Traders must get cracking against graft
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Indian Drug Regulator Accused of Corruption and Collusion: "India’s top drug regulatory agency violated laws and colluded with pharmaceutical companies to approve medicines without clinical trials"
May 10, 2012 Is the Punjab grain problem man made?: "Investigations by CNN-IBN reveal that space to store seven lakh tonnes of wheat grain has already been created."
May 10, 2012 Why is grain rotting in the open yet again?: "The country is on the verge of record harvest, and yet for a third consecutive year, there is simply no space for storage."
May 10, 2012 Vodafone threatens legal action against Govt: "Vodafone's External Affairs Director Matthew Kirk said that India was not a no-tax economy."
May 10, 2012 Is the CBI probe on Jagan a political tactic?: "A Hyderabad court will on Thursday hear the Sakshi TV's appeal against freezing of its accounts."
May 10, 2012 NRHM Scam: CBI grills, arrests ex-health secretary: "Former Principal Secretary of health Pradeep Shukla has been named in four out of 12 FIRs in the scam."
May 10, 2012 NRHM scam: Pradeep arrested: "Senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla was today detained in Lucknow and questioned by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam."
May 10, 2012 BJP + Swamy vs Chidambaram: "Opposition on Thursday (May 10) targeted P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha over the Aircel-Maxis deal, dubbing it as a "big scam" allegedly involving his son", "Chidambaram quoted from a statement of his son Karthi, hours after a BJP leader had accused him of having 5 per cent stake in either of the companies."
May 10, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI arrests senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla: "The arrest came after the CBI was pulled up by Allahabad high court for not touching big names in the FIR lodged in connection with the NRHM scam."
May 10, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: Pranab loses his cool in Parliament: "Pranab Mukherjee lost his cool in Parliament after Yashwant Sinha alleged that Chidambaram's son had a role in the Aircel-Maxis deal."
May 9, 2012 DVAC searches houses, offices of TNAU V-C
May 9, 2012 Vodafone threatens legal action as govt plans Rs 20,000 crore tax demand
May 9, 2012 U.S. hits Air India with $80K fine: "Citing Air India’s failure to post customer service and tarmac delay contingency plans on its website as well as failing to adequately inform passengers about its optional fees, the U.S. DOT made an example out of India’s struggling national airline. Air India is the first entity facing a penalty assessed for a violation of the DOT’s new airline consumer rules"
May 9, 2012 Ajay Singh files FIR against MP BJP president Prabhat Jha: "Jha had on April 12 lodged a complaint with the Commission against Ajay, saying that the latter grabbed land owned by tribals in his native place Churhat."
May 9, 2012 1996 Housing scam:"No way out" for 98-yr-old ex-Union minister: "Observing that "there is no way out" for 98-year-old former Union minister Shiela Kaul, facing prosecution in a 1996 government accommodation allotment scam", "Kaul, the erstwhile Union urban development minister in Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet, is accused of conspiring with her then additional private secretary Rajan Lala and private assistant R K Sharma for making out-of-turn allotment of government accommodation for making pecuniary gains from alottees between 1992 and 1995."
May 9, 2012 Colossal waste, criminal misuse: "rotting grains in Punjab being sold to distilleries at a throw away price to manufacture liqour. Punjab Government that buys wheat at 18 Rs a kilo is selling rotten grains for Rs 4-6 a kilo. However, on record it denies selling rotten food grains to liquor makers. What about the 231 million mouths that go hungry?"
May 9, 2012 Jagan Reddy's arrest imminent?: "the CBI inquiry against Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, prime accused in the disproportionate assets (DA) case."
May 9, 2012 Drugs scam: Pharmaceutical companies wrote letters signed by doctors?: "The House panel found that several scientific recommendations submitted to the CDSCO to push a drug were actually written by invisible hands of drug companies themselves and experts merely obliged by putting their signatures."
May 9, 2012 Akali Dal slams Centre over rotting foodgrain: "The opposition has attacked the government for lack of storage of foodgrain."
May 9, 2012 Catch them with hands in the till; CAG reports are post-mortems
May 9, 2012 4 AU professors, ex-AICTE official chargesheeted : "seven private individuals, four pharmacy professors of Andhra University and one former senior official of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for conspiring to get approvals to run pharmacy colleges by submitting fake, forged documents without proper infrastructure to offer courses."
May 9, 2012 Long View: India’s Very First Corruption Scandal
May 9, 2012 The politics of corruption in India: public goods for private gain: "The alleged beneficiaries include some 100 private companies,"
May 9, 2012 India Court Grants Bail to Former Telecom Secretary: "Investigators charged Mr. Behura with conspiracy, cheating, criminal misconduct and abusing an official position, in what was one of India's biggest corruption cases. "
May 9, 2012 Corruption at Indian drug authority: "Staff have been accused of plotting with pharmaceutical firms"
May 8, 2012 Is Kalki the only hope?: "Schweizer Illustrierte, a popular Swiss magazine, unrelated to politics in India, had reported in 1991 that Rajiv Gandhi had $2.5 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts."
May 8, 2012 Fears of a Rs.200 crore seed scam in UP: "these officers looted all the money by showing fictitious names of beneficiaries on paper. They also mentioned agricultural land that never existed. "Further, more than two lakh quintal of seeds of wheat, which were supposed to be given to the farmers free of cost, were sold to black marketers. This loot continued for about eight years."
May 8, 2012 Telenor shuns India after troubles hit profits: "State-controlled Telenor posted a quarterly net loss of 390 million crown including minority interests after writing off the remaining 3.9 billion crown ($672.45 million) value of its Indian unit Uninor."
May 8, 2012 CBI intensifies probe on Tatra deal: "The CBI has intensified its probe to unearth alleged irregularities in procurement and supply of all-terrain Tatra trucks to the army and has called some former defence ministry officials and executives of a private firm involved in the deal for questioning."
May 8, 2012 Majority of Indians see corruption as widespread: Gallup: "Perceptions of widespread corruption within the business community are particularly high among current business owners (72 per cent) and those who plan to start a business within the next 12 months (80 per cent)."
May 8, 2012 We continue to face difficulties in India: Lakshmi Mittal: ""We continue to experience difficulties in India. My belief is that the Indian projects may not see the light for five to 10 years,""
May 8, 2012 UP ex-CMO held for two murders: "The CBI, late on Sunday night, finally arrested former Lucknow CMO A.K. Shukla in connection with the murder cases of his predecessors — Dr Vinod Arya and Dr B.P. Singh — both of whom were shot dead while on morning walk.", "Dr Shukla, who had high connections in the Mayawati government, was earlier arrested by the CBI last year in connection with the NRHM scam, but was granted bail by the Allahabad high court."
May 8, 2012 Aircel-Maxis deal: BJP vs Chidambaram: "Proceedings in Parliament were disrupted today as Opposition demanded resignation of Home Minister P Chidambaram for his alleged role in Aircel-Maxis deal while Congress sought dismissal of BJP government in Madhya Pradesh over the killing of a farmer in police firing."
May 8, 2012 Sleaze, drugs & fixing: "members of the ICC's Anti-Corruption unit have sounded off the Delhi Police about bookies using 'honeytraps' to lure cricketers during the tournament."
May 7, 2012 Maneka, Azad spur over alleged scams in medical college licences: "Maneka Gandhi having heated exchanges with Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad alleging massive corruption in granting licences to medical colleges"
May 7, 2012 'Mishap averted at Mumbai Airport': "a three way collision was averted at the Mumbai International Airport on Sunday (May 6). According to sources, Air India, Jet Airways and SpiceJet aircrafts were at the airport runway at the same time causing a scare."
May 7, 2012 One more chargesheet filed against Jaganmohan Reddy: "Ramky had invested Rs 10 crore in Jagati Publications as a quid pro quo for the benefits it secured from the then government headed by Jagan's father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. "
May 6, 2012 Corruption galore in Maharashtra irrigation dept: Anna Hazare: "Anna Hazare on Saturday said he could give evidences against the corrupt officials, provided the government acts on them. "There are umpteen evidences of corruption in the irrigation department"
May 5, 2012 Two Delhi policemen jailed for extortion: "Two policemen have been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for extorting money from a scrap dealer by threatening to implicate him in a theft case."
May 5, 2012 Fearing jail, Lalu the father in hurry: "What's exceptional, however, is the frenetic manner in which he has gone about getting three of his daughters married in the last few months at his sprawling Tughlaq Road residence."
May 5, 2012 gag on media Shootout On Fleet Street: "“Indira imposed Emergency, Rajiv tried to move a defamation bill. The same mindset is at work again now.”"
May 5, 2012 After Eleven Years, It Stings To Say This... : "All of them told us that no defence deal could be clinched without wine, women and cash.", "To hide my nervousness, I asked whether he wanted the remaining cash in Indian currency or in US dollars. He asked for dollar bills."
May 5, 2012 Jail, fines for 34 in fodder scam: "Among those awarded the maximum punishment — rigorous imprisonment of six years and a fine of Rs 3 lakh — K.N. Jha, the regional director of the animal husbandry department. The court handed the same sentence to one other government official, K.M. Prasad, who was an assistant director in the same department."
May 5, 2012 Question on special favour to Quattrocchi
May 4, 2012 India IRB chairman investigated in murder case: "Chairman investigated in anti-corruption activist murder case", "Mhaiskar, who ranked 78th on Forbes’ 2011 list of the richest Indians, denied any connection to the murder."
May 4, 2012 Road Building Still Tarred With Corruption: "the Central Bureau of Investigation, on Thursday received permission from a local court to subject Virendra Mhaiskar, chairman IRB Infrastructure Ltd. – one of India’s largest road-building firms – to a lie-detector test in connection with the murder of an anti-corruption activist in 2010."
May 4, 2012 A corrupt elite is slowing India: "A petty official can be a nuisance but may not retard the economy much, but those at the top slow down the economy inexorably."
May 4, 2012 Italy set to ask India help in Finmeccanica probe-sources: "The probe is looking into allegations that payments were made to secure a 560 million-euro ($737 million) deal with India's Air Force."
May 4, 2012 Revisiting Bofors and Laxman: "The Congress and the BJP during their rule used the Indian government machinery and intelligence agencies to serve their selfish purposes"
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