Indian Bureaucrats:

Vigilance to probe irregularities in appointments of lecturers
HC seeks report on irregularities prevailing in working of JPSC
bureaucracy: corruption - Law On The Run - A cadre change has helped an IAS officer avoid arrest for graft: "Bihar wants to jail Singh while Jharkhand has promoted him and made him chief secretary", "While Singh’s case is markedly different, given the cadre change, there have been cases in which IAS officers with dubious records were made chief secretaries. In Uttar Pradesh, Neera Yadav and A.P. Singh were both made chief secretaries despite there being several allegations and cases of corruption against them. In fact, there are hundreds of IAS and IPS officers who have been promoted despite clear guidelines from the Centre’s department of personnel & training (DoPT) that their promotions must be kept in abeyance.", "However, with the law taking a circuitous route to the accused when they happen to hold important positions, most bureaucrats continue to prosper within the system."
Vigilance to probe irregularities in appointments of lecturers
Vigilance summons eight members of JPSC’s Interview Board
HC seeks report on irregularities prevailing in working of JPSC
'Bureaucrats, with blessings of some leaders, run govt': "Justice Hegde said the sorry state of affairs in matters of governance was because the administration was being run by bureaucrats who enjoyed the blessings and protection of a section of (ruling party) leaders. “ They don’t give a damn”."Declaring candidly that he “has lost the battle against corruption”, Justice Hegde said “it is institutionalised” and is spreading faster than one could imagine.", "Pegging the iron ore scam at Rs 2,000 crore,", "As for the deputy conservator of forest R Gokul, who was instrumental in seizing the unaccounted for iron ore, Justice Hegde said: “He came to me a few days back when he was served with the suspension order. At that time, I told him I can do nothing for him, though later I felt very guilty. “It was then that I decided on quitting. If I could not protect an officer, what am I doing as Lokayukta,” Justice Hegde asked." 
Professional Colleges - Under The Table And Dreaming -MCI, AICTE, the level of corruption at our accreditation agencies is scary
RRB scam: Mumbai RRB chief, Raipur official arrested
Vigilance conduct raids on residences of JPSC ex-Chairman, member: "Arrest warrants have also been issued against all former JPSC members, former JPSC secretary and 27 others."
Notices will be pasted at the residences of ex-JPSC officials: "The Vigilance Bureau will pasted notices at the residences of ex- Jharkhand Public Commission (JPSC) officials involved in irregular appointments and are avoiding arrest"
Majority of govt officials are corrupt: HC: ""Most of the staff in various departments are corrupt. Whether you take DDA, police or MCD, 90 per cent of their staff are corrupt," Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra said adding "the only field in which India excels is corruption."", "The bank officer was arrested by CBI following a complaint from a girl that she had applied for a loan of Rs two lakhs under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme but the deputy manager of the bank had demanded Rs 20,000 from her to issue the cheque."
AP Lok Ayukta takes suo moto cognisance against IAS officer
Education fund for ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ spent on babus’ cars, luxury: "The inquiry initiated following reports in the British media about “millions of pounds of aid for education and the ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’, that has disappeared into the depths of corruption without any benefit to the poor children”. ", " ”We discovered that officials throughout the country had used it to buy new cars and in one instance aid cash was spent on four luxury beds costing a total of £17,754 as well as a £3,803 computer,"
Bihar cadre IAS officer booked under Dowry Act
BBC: India's bureaucracy is 'the most stifling in the world': "with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.41", "There is a strong link, the report says, between bureaucracy and corruption - and a widely held belief that bureaucrats are selfish and highly insensitive to the needs of the people they are supposed to help."

You bring chaprasis to us, don’t have guts to take on babus: SC to Centre
2 top babus differed, delayed Afzal Guru hanging file: Sheila
CBI registers DA case against Ketan Desai
MCI factory for producing fake doctors
MCI boss’ conduit lived life king size: "When the CBI sleuths laid their hands on Jitender Pal Singh, the alleged conduit of Medical Council of India Chairman Ketan Desai, little did they know they were on the course of making some mind-boggling recoveries — something which would force them to draw a parallel with the likes of former First Lady of Philippines Imelda Marcos (remembered as the symbol of the corrupt extravagance of her husband’s political reign). Sample this: 1,000 premium quality shirts, 200 designer coats, 15 Vertu brand mobile phone handsets (a piece costs Rs 10 lakh), 100 pairs of Louis Vuitton shoes (a pair costs between Rs 70,000 and Rs 2.5 lakh) and several bottles of costly wine worth Rs 25,000 a bottle. As wide-eyed CBI officials stared at the “astounding” recovery from Singh’s posh D 6/13, Vasant Kunj residence, it was clear the middleman lived life king size. Interestingly, Singh claims himself to be a property dealer. But the seizure of a whopping sum of Rs 2 crore in cash from his residence is beyond comprehension. For, it was delivered to him by another accused in the case, Dr Kawaljit Singh, alleged to be an intermediary of the Chairman of Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital of Patiala, Surender Singh.  Desai, through Singh, is alleged to have demanded a bribe of Rs 2 crore for granting recognition to the Gian Sagar Medical College, Patiala, for conducting MBBS course for the academic session 2010-11."

Gujarat govt suspends MCI chief Ketan Desai: "Subsequent searches at various premises of Desai are alleged to have revealed huge amounts of cash, investments and gold running into crores of rupees."

retired bureaucrats - Ruling Class: "This reminder of the core values of civil service is an index of how corruption has seeped into government. Worse, as corporate lobbyists—actually, an army of retired officials—foray into government departments, many serving bureaucrats are used to settle scores with individual industries. “I actually prefer the old-style corruption to the present lobbying,” says Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment. The numbers are revealing: the annual report of the Central Vigilance Commission for 2008 listed as many as 1,091 valid cases of corruption against officers of various government organisations, including PSUs. Of these, the highest related to banks, insurance and coal. Overall, 138 cases of prosecution (across all categories of employees) were ordered out of 14,322 cases of corruption disposed of during the year. The recent corruption case involving a senior IAS officer in the home ministry is but one example of how the system works. Much as the political heavyweights perform as the primary actors in swinging deals through accommodative policy changes, the bureaucrats and policy-framers manning various ministries/departments are no less powerful. The booming economy, with rise in incomes and expectations, seems to have raised the bar on corruption in the bureaucracy, ", "In this kind of scenario, bureaucratic interventions count and lobbying helps swing decisions. The rewards for “obliging” the corporates come not necessarily in cash, but often after retirement, as seen in the case of one state power major’s CMD who joined the private sector right after retirement. That is not to say that the plum posts offered after retirement to PSU chiefs are just a favour being returned by the corporates. In many cases, their domain knowledge is a prize catch. “The bureaucrats understand the system a lot more.... Also they know the people (in the corridors of power) so they become the preferred lot to hire,” says Samir Kale of CMCG India, a communications firm that doubles as lobbyists. In a system that is mutually rewarding, the task of the corporate lobbying firms and even think-tanks becomes easier once they have former bureaucrats on board. Approached for his views on the issue, Pradip Baijal, former TRAI chairman and currently a director in Niira Radia’s Noesis Strategic Consulting Services, declined to talk to Outlook saying that “the position the media has taken is very perverse”."

Seven govt officials found with assets worth over Rs 7.89 Cr: ""
IAS officer arrested after ACB raid: "The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer after it claimed to have unearthed assets worth over Rs 20 crore ", "The IAS officer is also said to have owned two houses in Hyderabad city, six flats in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam and eight house sites in Ranga Reddy district. "
More MCI officials under CBI scanner
CBI cracks down on India's corrupt babudom
‘Spy’ turns tables on quizzers: "One of the first questions Madhuri Gupta is believed to have asked her interrogators is “What took you so long to catch me?”"
Is this the tipping point?
Desai could not have been alone
Woman spy case: Senior Army, RAW official under scanner
Senior IAS officer in Home Ministry booked on corruption charges: "accepting a bribe of Rs 25 lakh from six distilleries in Daman.", "He is alleged to have caused a loss of Rs 340 crore to the Union Territory by allowing liquor manufacturers report under-production and sell surplus to three states."

CBI registers corruption case against IAS officer
Pak spy Madhuri was looking for military info
Two bureaucrats arrested on bribery charges
Mole in our mission
Woman diplomat accused of passing secrets to Pakistan, arrested: "simultaneously, the station head of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Islamabad R K Sharma has also come under the scanner"
BBC: India arrests diplomat for 'spying for Pakistan'
CBI: Desai owns 10 houses: "The Rs 2 crore recovered from MCI Chairman Ketan Desai as bribe for granting recognition to a medical college was only the first instalment of the illegal payment, the CBI has said. A CBI source said Desai had demanded Rs 8 crore for granting recognition to Gian Sagar College and Dr Sukhvinder, the Vice Chairman of the college had reportedly agreed. ", "The probe into the bribery case has led to the discovery of a number of palatial houses, benami properties and jewellery owned by Desai. "

Corruption at the top -Who will guard education’s guards?: "The arrest of Medical Council of India president Ketan Desai and three others on charges of bribery once again exposes the rot that exists in higher education in this country."

Checks, unchecked: "The arrest of the Medical Council of India’s president, Ketan Desai, on charges of bribery, raises larger questions about accreditation procedures. ", "The scale of corruption and irregularity in granting government approvals for private colleges is based on two factors. One is that the demand for college and university admissions in India has sky-rocketed, giving rise to huge private investment in the sector. Unfortunately, the state regulatory framework hasn’t changed with the times, meaning opaque “recognition” and “accreditation” requirements by disparate bodies before an engineering or medical college is allowed to take off."

MCI President Ketan Desai arrested on graft charges: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai for allegedly accepting Rs 2 crore as a bribe to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab."

IAS officer booked for graft: "Notably, the IAS officer was under VB scanner ever since a tehsildar, one of the revenue officials of Ludhiana district, Arvind Parkash Verma, was arrested by the VB in a corruption case. He had reportedly told the Ludhiana VB during his interrogation that he was pocketing almost Rs 7.5 lakh daily through registration of land deeds and was giving commissions up the channel, right up to the DC, whose share was Rs 2 lakh per day. He had named a SDM and the then ADC, Kanwalpreet Kaur Brar, as other beneficiaries. ", "It was also alleged that the officer had nexus with property dealers from whom he had earned huge benefits. "