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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 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 India Digest: 23 Tax Tribunal Members Under CBI Scanner for ‘Fixing’ Verdicts
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 A 'Kahaani' of Indian bureaucracy, corruption
May 15, 2012 With Flexibility, Africa Surpasses India
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 'Our Duty To Dissent': "'We think that the short, heated and not very well informed debate in the Parliament did not do justice to the responsibility that a democratic society has towards its future generations' "
May 15, 2012 'क्यों बच्ची को जिंदा दफनाने की कोशिश की': "दिल्ली के नजदीक पिलखुआ में एक दो महीने की बच्ची के माता-पिता ने तांत्रिक के कहने पर उसे जिंदा दफनाने की कोशिश की."
May 15, 2012 Is India heading towards fascism?: "surveys have pointed out 50 per cent of Indians are corrupt. "
May 15, 2012 वो बेचती दारू.....: "ऐसी ही एक हॉकी खिलाड़ी हैं नोरी मुंडू जो आज घर में शराब चुलाई कर अपना और अपने घर वालों का पेट पालने पर मजबूर हैं."
May 15, 2012 No arrest in murder of teen who witnessed mother's rape: "All the nine accused roamed free Monday, a day after they shockingly burnt alive a teenager who was the main witness in his mother's rape in 2006", "They also told me time and again to shell out Rs.1 crore to police and officials, including the judge."
May 15, 2012 Dangers of deletion: "The Ambedkar cartoon has been misread. And this could just be the beginning"
May 15, 2012 Paternity row: HC asks Tiwari to give consent for DNA test in 2 days: "Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari was on Monday asked by the Delhi High Court to inform it within two days as to whether he wants to voluntarily give his blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit or police force be used for obtaining it."
May 15, 2012 7-year-old who saw his mother raped burnt alive: "The victim's mother was allegedly gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village. He was being threatened to withdraw the case and not appear as a witness in the court"
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 13, 2012 Girls abandoned by 'protectors'?: "What happens when those entrusted with caring for these children turn into monsters who abuse them? What happens when young girls are exploited for money by the very people who are supposed to provide for them? This is Apna Ghar, a shelter home in Haryana which is no less than a house of horrors. The children and women in this facility allegedly assaulted by the woman who runs the place, beaten up, forced to work, and sometimes even pushed into flesh trade."
May 13, 2012 Dark clouds hover as Indian parliament turns 60: "Winston Churchill who predicted that the natives were not fit to govern themselves and would soon “fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages”."
May 13, 2012 Centralisation of power root cause of corruption: Anna Hazare
May 13, 2012 Anna invites Gen Singh to join anti-graft movement
May 13, 2012 विचारों का गला घोंटना आधुनिक रोग: योगेंद्र यादव: "ऐसे व्यक्ति पर कुछ अनपढ़ लोग अंबेडकर के नाम पर हमला करें, इससे ज्यादा दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण और विडंबना की बात और क्या हो सकती है."
May 13, 2012 Senior officer in cabinet secretariat leaked Army chief General VK Singh's letter to Prime Minister: PTI report: "Army Chief letter leak: Top female officer found guilty?"
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 Kejriwal threatens nationwide movement if Lokpal Bill not passed by May 22
May 12, 2012 क्‍या निर्मल बाबा हैं 420, केस हुआ दर्ज: "कृपा बांटने का दावा करने वाले निर्मल बाबा को क्या अब खुद कृपा की जरुरत पड़ने वाली है."
May 12, 2012 लोकतंत्र है या तानाशाहियों का जमघट?: "हमारे देश में अभिव्यक्ति के लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार का हाल उसी टिटवाल के कुत्ते जैसा है."
May 11, 2012 Sabarmati Central Jail: Inmates become fathers despite no bail or parole: "Police escorts not only allowed the couple privacy, they even bolted the van's door from outside."
May 10, 2012 Girls sexually abused, paraded naked, forced to work at kids’ shelter: ""We were molested by various people. If any girl protested, she would be paraded naked and beaten. Jaswanti forced us to work as labourers and snatched our wages,""
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 Supreme Court asks Centre to examine complaints against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan: "In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court on Thursday "requested" the Centre to examine the allegations of serious corruption and misconduct against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan and take suitable action, including his removal as the chief of National Human Rights Commission, if they were found correct."
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 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 Excl: UP DIG tries to do a U-turn: "Mathur landed in a controversy when he told a man who had come to lodge a missing complaint about his sister that had he been in his place, he would have shot her."
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 9, 2012 DVAC searches houses, offices of TNAU V-C
May 9, 2012 Centre waives Meira Kumar's pending rent payment: "An RTI query filed reveals that the bill of Rs 1.98 crore issued against the Lok Sabha speaker stands withdrawn."
May 9, 2012 25% of Central schemes named after Rajiv Gandhi: "At least 25% of Central schemes are named after late PM Rajiv Gandhi."
May 9, 2012 On missing wives’ trail - Rai, Ekka better halves keep CBI officers on toes : "“Though we had a picture of Sushila, we were confused. Since the accused happens to be a woman we could not arrest her amid all the other ghunghat-clad women of the family who had gathered there,”"
May 9, 2012 अब भक्‍तों की कृपा मांगते निर्मल बाबा: "कई सवालों और कई आरोपों से घिरे निर्मल बाबा के समागम बदस्तूर जारी हैं, फर्क सिर्फ इतना है कि जहां निर्मल बाबा पहले अपने भक्तों पर अनोखे उपोयों से कृपा बरसाते थे, अब वहां वो भक्तों से कृपा मांगते दिख रहे हैं."
May 9, 2012 निर्मल बाबा को नटवरलाल का अवॉर्ड: "साल 2011-12 के लिए निर्मल बाबा को नटवरलाल का अवॉर्ड दिया गया."
May 9, 2012 निर्मल बाबा के खिलाफ केस दर्ज करने का आदेश: "दिव्य शक्ति का दावा करने वाले निर्मल बाबा को अब खुद कृपा की जरूरत पड़ सकती है. क्योंकि उनके खिलाफ कोर्ट ने एफआईआर दर्ज करने का आदेश दे दिया है. बाबा पर इल्जाम है कि वो अपने अटपटे नुस्खों से धोखाधड़ी और ठगी कर रहे हैं."
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 Top cop says 'kill daughter'- NCW seeks suspension of UP DIG: "The National Commission for Women (NCW) today (May 9) has sought for the suspension of Satish Kumar Mathur, DIG of Saharanpur range, for allegedly endorsing honour killing, telling the family of abducted girl to shoot her if caught eloping."
May 9, 2012 A suitable president: "By choosing pliant heads of state, Congress has diminished the office", "President S. Radhakrishnan worked quietly behind the scenes to ensure that Indira Gandhi became prime minister"
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

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