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Jan 31, 2012 Trail of Goa kickbacks could lead to Dubai: "Over Rs 26.5 crore channelised through Suryanarayana were kickbacks paid to Congress Minister Atanasio Monserrate"
Jan 30, 2012 Goa minister Monserrate got Rs 26.5 crore payoffs for land conversion: "Investigations into tax evasion by a former government official has unravelled that a minister in the Cabinet of Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat received huge payoffs from a complex nexus of land sharks who set up a web of fictitious transactions to give their kickbacks."
Jan 29, 2012 Illegal mining: CBI officials to visit Mauritius in February: "Janardhana and Srinivasa entered into a criminal conspiracy with Rajagopal and late R Linga Reddy, the then Assistant Director (Mines and Geology in Anantapur district), Y Srilakshmi and others and got mining leases allotted to OMC Limited and indulged in illegal mining activities amounting to lakhs of tonnes iron ore."
Jan 29, 2012 EC wants ‘cooling off’ time for babus in poll fray: "EC took this step after it found that many senior officials 'misused' their positions."
Jan 28, 2012 IIT in Bengal suspends official: "IIT Kharagpur has suspended registrar D. Gunasekaran for allegedly approving payments for a course “in violation of his financial powers”"
Jan 24, 2012 Slap 'only option' when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: "Gandhian Anna Hazare has said a person is left with no option but to slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out."
Jan 24, 2012 No option but to slap when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: ""When a man's power of tolerance runs out, then whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, then the brain is put back in place. That is the only road open now""
Jan 21, 2012 AIIMS lets blood go down drain: "All India Institute of Medical Sciences discarded 140 units of packed red blood cells because it had passed its use-by date."
Jan 21, 2012 UP NRHM scam: CAG report reveals shocking details: "In the 6-year period from 2005 to 2011, purchases were made in violation of CVC norms and guidelines set by the SC."
Jan 21, 2012 Press TV: India: Country of corrupts: "the world's 8th largest corrupt nation in terms of politics, bureaucrats, corporate and also the individual corruption is a major concern. "
Jan 21, 2012 ‘Red tape is rampant’: "It is to be noted that 95% of the tax revenues come from compliant citizens who pay their taxes on a voluntary basis and the entire income tax department is responsible only for collecting 5% of the tax collected."
Jan 21, 2012 20 sentenced in fodder scam case
Jan 21, 2012 Mumbai: Rampant mismanagement in BMC schools: "An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers and rampant mismanagement."
Jan 21, 2012 Teacher fired after son filed RTI: "Rukminibhai, a school teacher for the past 23 years, now dismissed by the same school she worked at for two decades. This after her son Saikumar filed an RTI questioning the school funds."
Jan 20, 2012 CJ Manglaram exposes corruption in Government schemes: "Forced to use crutches after he was beaten up, this farm labourer from Bamnor in Rajasthan filed RTIs in his crusade against corruption."
Jan 20, 2012 Caught in web of corruption: "It is fine for India to be proud of its high GDP growth rate, but that does not serve to shift attention at home and abroad from the growing corruption at all levels of governance."
Jan 18, 2012 Sorry state of affairs in PSUs exposed: "CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a note that shows that a contender for the post of NMDC chairman is being probed in a corruption case."
Jan 16, 2012 CNN: Red tape chokes India’s economic rise: "India is hamstrung by its bureaucracy."
Jan 16, 2012 ‘India needs long-term strategy to fight graft’: "the visiting Mayor of Germany's Stuttgart city, Wolfgang Schuster, said here on Monday."
Jan 16, 2012 SC declines interim bail to senior woman IAS officer: "The Supreme Court today declined to grant interim bail to Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, one of the accused in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case involving Karnataka's Reddy brothers"
Jan 15, 2012 The anatomy of corruption: "typically, for a plan involving costs of over Rs 5 crore in Jharkhand, a file goes through 240 stages. Laws created ostensibly to protect the common man are used to extract higher bribes instead."
Jan 15, 2012 The Great Bangalore Robbery: "That sums up the Rs 25,000-crore fake bills scam in the Palike. The sadder part is the BBMP head honchos asserting there is no scam at all."
Jan 14, 2012 Guardian - UK: Social audits in India – a slow but sure way to fight corruption: "more than 38,000 disciplinary cases brought against officials involved with the jobs scheme. Hundreds have been suspended or punished."
Jan 14, 2012 Worst corrupt bureaucracy
Jan 14, 2012 Departmental Enquiries Against Many: "Issuing of false certificates, wrongful appointment of some anganwari workers, payment on fake bills are some of the irregularities which have come to light against these officials."
Jan 13, 2012 Karunanidhi’s daughter accused of fraud: "complaint against M Karunanidhi's daughter Selvi and a few others for cheating him of Rs 69 lakh after promising him a member's post in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)."
Jan 13, 2012 The NR EYE: For NRI cash, govt must deal with red tape, corruption: "In 2011 India was ranked 95th out of 178 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. As for bureaucratic hurdles, India occupies the 132nd spot among 183 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index for 2012."
Jan 13, 2012 Wall Street Journal: India’s Bureaucracy a ‘Nightmare’: "The report, which was based on over 2,000 surveys of employed residents and expatriates across Asia, blamed India’s poor infrastructure, widespread corruption and “fickle” regulations for making business a “frustrating and expensive” affair."
Jan 13, 2012 CBI registers graft case against 2 AI officials: "for alleged financial irregularities in purchase of portable entertainment appliances."
Jan 13, 2012 CBI arrests Central Excise Commissioner in Delhi: "Srivastava was arrested by the agency soon after the private hospital, where he had got himself addmitted for treatment, discharged him.", "named as an accused for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 40 lakh from two businessmen."
Jan 13, 2012 Is babus’ performance a national secret? Court to decide soon: "The Delhi High Court on Friday heard a plea seeking all performance appraisal of all government officials (popularly known as ACRs) be made public under RTI Act."
Jan 13, 2012 Petty babus as our rulers : "I sent three e-mails to the Ministry of External Affairs, both to its general address and to the particular office, asking for contact details for two Indian missions abroad. My messages explained that the information was needed as I would soon be visiting those countries. There was no response."
Jan 13, 2012 Turned away by hospitals woman delivers twins on Kolkata road, dies: "a woman died giving birth to twins on the pavement after being denied admission by two state-run hospitals despite possessing health cards."
Jan 12, 2012 Mining scam: Reddy to remain in jail as court extends remand: "court today extended till January 25 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and three others accused in the mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC)."
Jan 12, 2012 Anti-corruption raids on MP officials yields crores: "While Lokayukta raid on Kailash Sangte, a lower division clerk of Ujjain Municipal Corporation unearthed assets of worth Rs.8 crores."
Jan 12, 2012 BBC: India's bureaucracy is 'worst in Asia': "Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy ranks bureaucracies across Asia on a scale from one to 10, with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.21"
Jan 12, 2012 मध्यप्रदेश में कलयुगी 'धनकुबेरों' की जमात | करप्शन: "मध्य प्रदेश में अधिकारी औऱ कर्मचारियों समेत तीन लोगों के घर छापे पड़े थे. इन छापों में अबतक 15 करोड़ रुपए से ज्यादा की संपत्ति का पता चल चुका है."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 11, 2012 Shocker at Govt hospital in Jodhpur: "A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Jodhpur was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept."
Jan 11, 2012 India’s babus need a mental makeover: "Insensitive, indifferent, unresponsive, corrupt, slothful, arrogant and unintelligent — the typical Indian bureaucrat has been accused of being all this and even more. The fact that bureaucracy, the`steel frame of India’ has rusted beyond repair and has lost the purpose of its existence, needs no overstating."
Jan 11, 2012 CBI Raid on 3 DVC Officials: "The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) raided the premises of three officials of the Damodar Valley Corporations (DVC)"
Jan 11, 2012 Rats nibble at paralysed patient in govt hospital: "An elderly paralysed man, who was on ventilator support, has been seriously injured after allegedly being nibbled at by rats"
Jan 11, 2012 Sonia Gandhi's family residing at Ulhasnagar?: "A social activist has found a ration card on the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) premises that was issued in the names of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka, bearing their Delhi address. The family's annual income was shown as Rs 30,000."
Jan 11, 2012 Indian bureaucrats have 'terrific powers', rated worst in Asia: "The bureaucrats were rarely held accountable for wrong decisions and it would be extremely difficult to challenge them when there were disagreements"
Jan 11, 2012 ICU patient dies after rodents feast on him: "The incident reaffirms the sorry state of affairs at the government hospitals in Jodhpur."
Jan 10, 2012 MEA officials in gift scam: How babus bypassed minister: "MEA's protocol division purchasing inferior quality gifts at inflated prices. More than the cost, bending of rules has embarrassed the country as these inferior quality goods were taken as gifts by Krishna for foreign dignitaries during his visits."
Jan 10, 2012 Vice-Chancellor of VTU failed in 7 semesters: "The head of Karnataka’s premier technical education umbrella institution, Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU), failed in seven of the ten semesters of his undergraduate degree course in mechanical engineering.", "He finally managed to pass the course, but only after many attempts, adding up to a total of 25 marks sheets. He now heads a university which has 200 engineering colleges functioning under it. And the High Court is looking at his claims that he passed in first class.", "he has just a second class degree, and contrary to his claim did not guide any PhD student.""
Jan 10, 2012 Food Ministry plans overhaul of corrupt FCI: "The food ministry is trying to tame its own "white elephant" - the Food Corporation of India (FCI)."
Jan 9, 2012 Firm fixed income tax tribunal to secure over 60 favourable orders for its clients: CBI: "the CBI is said to have identified at least 69 judgments where the firm, S K Tulsiyan & Co., not only had prior knowledge of these orders but in many cases is suspected to have written them as well. The most glaring case is that of the tribunal’s Kolkata bench — as many as 12 of its orders were recovered from Tulsiyan’s hard discs before these were delivered"
Jan 8, 2012 CBI prises open coal scam file: "The CBI, armed with a Supreme Court order, has reopened an 11-year-old case file and is readying a chargesheet to nail eight high-profile persons, including former Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) CMD B. Akla and coal merchant Ramesh Gandhi, in a Rs 90-lakh scam."
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption, bureaucracy keep NRI investors away: "Payment of bribes at all levels and an unresponsive bureaucracy emerged as the most common complaints from overseas Indian investors waiting to invest in the country.", "“Most government offices don’t reply to emails or take calls. Due to this, we usually come in contact with people with wrong intentions.”"
Jan 5, 2012 NRHM scam: Former Uttar Pradesh babu arrested: "The former general manager of Construction and Design Services (C and DS), was called to the CBI headquarters this morning and was placed under arrest this afternoon."
Jan 5, 2012 CBI summons former UP bureaucrats; some arrests likely: "CBI today summoned some officials of Uttar Pradesh for questioning in connection with alleged irregularities in utilising Rs 10,000 crore funds allocated under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)"
Jan 5, 2012 President Patil’s cook demands VIP treatment: "After listening to the woes of her cook, President Patil called up Governor E S L Narasimhan and complained, who turned the fire on the Health ministry. The command chain from the Health minister to Health Secretary, Director, Medical Education and then to the hospital superintendent finally led to his admission in a super speciality care hospital in the city."
Jan 5, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI issues notices to 11 officers, politicians: "In some other instances, some woman who had died 10 years ago, were issued financial help."
Jan 4, 2012 Washington Times: India: Is the world's largest democracy floundering?: "Indians may finally have figured out that their country, long enslaved in the grip of corrupt politicians, bureaucracy, judiciary, armed forces, police, criminals and a fractured society, cannot be liberated unless they change the system.", ""We the People...” not “We the Parliamentarians...." in the preamble of India’s Constitution. The big difference between ‘We the People,’ and ‘We the elected representatives of the people,’ is that the latter are basically servants – not rulers"
Jan 3, 2012 CVC fails to get finance ministry nod on action against official: "The efforts by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to have an official it believes is corrupt transferred from his current important post to a less critical one is being scotched by the finance ministry, highlighting the agency’s lack of teeth in addressing corruption in government departments"
Jan 3, 2012 TIMES NOW impact: Shame prompts action: "It's apathy at its worst in Uttar Pradesh as a father was made to run from pillar to post with his son’s body in a wooden box."
Jan 3, 2012 Karnataka government in a fix over illegal mining report: "Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, in his report in July last year, indicted over 600 officials from police, revenue, transport, forest and mining departments."
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Meant for ‘distressed’, Orissa plot quota goes to babus, judges, journalists: "Assembly records show, among those to have benefited over the past 26 years from the quota — meant to help persons “in distress” — have been senior officers, high court judges, politicians as well as more than 30 senior journalists."
Jan 2, 2012 Allopathic doctors conduct ayurvedic drug trials in Indore: "Allopathic doctors in Indore and eight other cities in India have conducted clinical drug trials for ayurvedic and herbal remedies on patients ignoring the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) ethical guidelines."
Jan 2, 2012 24 foetuses in garbage dump: "24 foetuses were found dumped in a garbage spot in Shimoga, 15 of which were female foetuses."
Jan 2, 2012 Son's body wrapped in red tape?: "Munawar Khan has been carrying his son's body wrapped in a gunny bag in a wooden box. He has been sent from Jaunpur to Lucknow and back only to be told he now has to go to Benaras to get an autopsy. In all of this, not one authority from the hospital, police or Government have come forward to help this man."
Jan 2, 2012 Nobody noticed Election Commission’s duplicity: "When the EC becomes party to a Government’s election strategy, it not only loses its credibility but it also demeans democracy.", "The example of former CEC MS Gill, who is part of the present cabinet after demitting office, and the reasoned argument that it should be necessary for persons in such posts to give an undertaking to not take up any offer from Government is back at centre stage."
Jan 2, 2012 HC cancels Srilakshmi’s bail in OMC case: "The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday cancelled the bail of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Y Srilakshmi in the OMC illegal mining case."
Jan 2, 2012 CBI arrests senior railway official, tout in job racket: "demanding bribes of Rs five lakh each from two complainants for allegedly arranging them the job of Ticket Collector in the Railways from VIP quota through some senior Railway officers/politician at New Delhi."
Jan 1, 2012 Topnotch bureaucracy kept outside the ken of Lokpal and Lokayukta: "it has no power at all to enquire, investigate or prosecute the Officers of All India Services like IAS, IPS and IFS?"
Jan 1, 2012 Many Assam cops, officials into land grabbing: Gogoi: "many policemen and other officials in the state were into land grabbing, which had assumed alarming proportions.", "ministers, legislators and former rebels have also been accused of grabbing land in urban and semi-urban areas"
Dec 30, 2011 Koda & Co. back in jail: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda, his cabinet colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi and businessman Vijay Joshi found themselves back in Birsa Munda Central Jail this evening after a medical board comprising army doctors ruled that they did not require hospitalisation for ailments imagined or real at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)."
Dec 30, 2011 CBI Trouble for Lalbabu Singh: "After the biggest recovery of cash of 130 crore Rupees by the Income Tax department the CBI has also tightened its noose on Lalbabu Singh, the infamous coal contractor of Dhanbad."
Dec 30, 2011 FIR against 26 for sale of govt land: "The Delhi Police has registered a case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against 26 persons, including eight government officials, for allegedly conniving with property dealers and builder mafia to sell government land"
Dec 27, 2011 Students lament Bihar’s dysfunctional schools: "School authority does not take any care while preparing food. The 'daal' they serve us is very diluted and mostly boiled water. When we protest, they ask ‘are we your servants’? “Teachers take no interest in teaching. After we finish our lunch, they forcibly send us home.""
Dec 27, 2011 No RTE effect; primary schools in a sorry state: "Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some schools."
Dec 27, 2011 24 of 31 Doctors Found Absent: "When Aradhana Patnaik, the state director of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) gave a surprise visit to Sadar Hospital on Monday evening she was surprised to find 24 of the 31 doctors missing from duty."
Dec 27, 2011 Lokayukta raids on ex-BBMP commissioner, 2 other officers: "Karnatka Lokayukta police today raided 14 premises of three IAS officers, including former city corporation commissioner Siddaiah who unearthed an alleged multi-crore scam in the civic body, and another official and found 'unaccounted' wealth to the tune of Rs 5.88 crore. Siddaiah, shunted out of the civic body post days after he handed over the probe into the Rs 1,539 crore scam to police last month, was found to be having Rs 1.90 crore unaccounted assets"
Dec 27, 2011 Bribe of Rs 300 lands DDA official in jail: "demand of Rs 300 bribe for allowing him to reside in a pump house in DDA Park, Mayur Vihar, Phase II."
Dec 27, 2011 VIP's son roams free after thrashing cops: "Double standards of Chandigarh Police while dealing with VIP brats was evident when two local youths were arrested immediately after pushing and thrashing two traffic cops"
Dec 26, 2011 Anna effect: Prison guard exposes corruption: "Singh alleged money was being taken from jail guards for allotting them favourable duty and also from prisoners to provide them better facilities."
Dec 26, 2011 They scrutinise assets of others, but yet to post own returns online: "Among the 3,200 IRS officers who handle direct taxes including income-tax, at least 700 are also yet to put their assets in the public domain."
Dec 25, 2011 Action Against Many Officials
Dec 25, 2011 BBMP tall claims raise a stink: "it had laid concrete roads and sewerage lines at Bangarappa Nagar in the Rajarajeshwari Nagar zone eight times in the last four years. But a reality check by Deccan Herald has exposed this claim, so tall that residents are shocked by its audacity."
Dec 24, 2011 One-man panel to probe incidents at B’lore varsity: "The varsity first hogged the limelight for alleged irregularities in the construction of its postgraduate centre in Kolar."
Dec 23, 2011 Telecom official, accomplice charged with corruption: "there was enough evidence on record to charge Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) official Ashok Kumar Sharma and his accomplice Sanjay Bhalla for criminal conspiracy to commit cheating, forgery for purpose of cheating, and using as genuine a forged document"
Dec 23, 2011 Transparency International: South Asia: Corruption plagues daily life - Political parties and police seen as most corrupt : "more than one in three people who deal with public services said they pay bribes. In previous surveys of this nature, only Sub-Saharan Africa had a higher rate of bribe-paying."
Dec 23, 2011 Wall Strret Journal: Corruption Rampant In South Asia, Study Says: "More than one in three people who deal with public services in South Asia pay bribes", "Political parties and the police are the most corrupt institutions in each of the six countries, followed closely by legislatures and public officials"
Dec 21, 2011 JD(S) ‘unearths’ Rs 169-crore BBMP scam: "Another alleged financial irregularity to the tune of Rs 169 crore in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come to light."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 HC notice to ailing Koda and Co.: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda and his cabinet colleagues Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Shahi today invited the ire of Jharkhand High Court, which hauled them up for allegedly faking illness to avoid being incarcerated in Birsa Munda Central Jail.", "He also questioned the role of the jail authorities and doctors of RIMS who have allegedly connived to ensure that high-profile prisoners stay in RIMS and do not have to go to jail.""
Dec 19, 2011 Anger over Bangalore University's apathy: "TIMES NOW's special investigation exposes the shoddy state of affairs at Bangalore University. Nearly 200 students who have enrolled for a special integrated science course are made to sit in guest house, which includes empty labs, a library filled with beds and mattresses and more importantly a frustrated bunch of students who are at the mercy of the university officials."
Dec 19, 2011 Corruption mars Goa's 50th liberation anniversary: "The big mining scam has taken the sheen off the celebrations of 50 years of liberation of Goa."
Dec 18, 2011 MP clerk has assets worth Rs 40 cr, held: "Ramesh Dhuldhoye, a clerk with RTO, Indore, was nailed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Madhya Pradesh Police at his residence"
Dec 18, 2011 Reuters: Insight: Hardly "Incredible India": "Frustrated executives while away time in five-star hotels waiting for deals that never come, and civil servants play video games in their offices - growing signs of the reform limbo and crisis of confidence behind India's economic malaise."
Dec 17, 2011 Ruchika case: Rathore's pension restored: "In a move that has shocked the friends of molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra, the Central Administrative Tribunal has restored the pension of former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore who was convicted in the 1990 case."
Dec 17, 2011 3 officials booked in Games graft case: "the crime branch of the Delhi police has booked three senior officials of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Fire Services for fraudulently issuing clearance certificates for “monetary benefits” to Eros Group for its “non-existent” multi-facility complex"
Dec 17, 2011 Court slams anti-graft wing for ‘protecting’ DJB officials: "Noting the reluctance of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) to file an FIR against Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officials in a Rs 170-crore corruption case, a city court on Friday said the investigating agency seemed to have lost its objective and was now trying to protect the accused."
Dec 16, 2011 WB hooch tragedy: Govt suspends excise officer: "The death toll in the hooch tragedy has touched 155 and over 300 others have been admitted to various hospitals."
Dec 16, 2011 CVC penalises 130 officials for alleged graft: "29 were Syndicate Bank officials, nine each were from Canara Bank and Punjab National Bank, eight from State Bank of India, seven from Bharat Coking Coal Limited and six each from State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur and Life insurance Corporation of India Limited."
Dec 16, 2011 MCD Junior engineer, wife jailed in DA case: "An MCD junior engineer has been jailed for four years for possessing disproportionate assets, with the court also convicting his wife for abetting the crime and ordering confiscation of their ill-gotten property."

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