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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 Rs.200 crore invested by Koda in Sweden traced, court told: "A Rs.200 crore investment of jailed former chief minister Madhu Koda and his associates in Sweden has been located, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the Jharkhand High Court Tuesday."
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 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral gains: "I find an India in which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with those groups."
Jan 24, 2012 Rushdie controversy about politics and not free speech?: "Rushdie was given permission to address the Jaipur Lit fest through video link but was forced to cancel the appearance after protests.", " Rushdie Fiasco: National Shame?"
Jan 24, 2012 Do we need to redefine democracy, people at JLF question: "People at the festival, who had come for Salman Rushdie's video conference were angry over its cancellation."
Jan 24, 2012 Manipur: A state with polls but no democracy: "Virtually under army rule due to the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act for decades together, Manipur has witnessed bloodied streets, naked protests, self-immolation and militancy"
Jan 24, 2012 Jaipur’s shame: Ashok Gehlot: "the world knows it has a government that bends with every passing ill-wind, with every hawa ka jhonka."
Jan 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie video-link to India festival cancelled: "More than anything else, this points to a weak state and a ruling party that does not have the courage to stand up to pressures from fringe troublemakers for fear of losing votes. Sir Salman's unfortunate blackout is really an indictment of India's feeble politicians."
Jan 24, 2012 Bihar ministers' wives richer than husbands
Jan 22, 2012 MP min Bisen apologises over his deplorable act: "Madhya Pradesh minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has apologised over his deplorable act for making a child tie his shoelaces."
Jan 22, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi to be suspended?: "The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Ethics Committee has suspended and served a show cause notice to Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot."
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 Manipur: The angry state: "The AFSPA and the Naga problem are just some of the issues Manipur is grappling with, as it nears elections."
Jan 21, 2012 Scam-tainted Kalmadi offered Ind Olympic Asso Prez post!: "Scam tainted Common Wealth Organizing Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was released on bail from Tihar Jail after spending close to 10 months in confinement. But it looks like the matter has not caused any dent to his image after it was reported that he has been offered the post of President, Indian Olympic Association (IOA)."
Jan 21, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Delhi Journal: The Expat Experience: "Foreign tourists seem to know Delhi primarily as India’s scam capital."
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 Google tells India that it can't protect its politicians: "The Indian government is planning to drag the key internet players into court on a charge of failing to protect its corrupt politicians from being slagged off online."
Jan 21, 2012 Reuters: Unravelling India, Part 2: Corruption: "Corruption finds its way into pretty much every nook and cranny of public life. There’s high-level corruption, such as the telecoms scam that cost the government an estimated $39 billion in revenue when mobile licences were awarded to companies too cheaply"
Jan 21, 2012 Top 10 facts about Kalmadi's Commonwealth Games scandal: "The Games spawned a maze of corrupt deals, most of them involving inflated contracts."
Jan 21, 2012 CNN: India grants bail to Commonwealth Games' chief: "Kalmadi, 68, is also a lawmaker in the Indian parliament, where he represents the ruling Congress party."
Jan 21, 2012 Clean Sports India opposes Kalmadi heading IOA
Jan 21, 2012 Victimised for their courage: "The main accused in the Pipli rape case Prashant Pradhan was produced in court"
Jan 21, 2012 AM Films owner to reveal all?: "CBI will soon file a charge sheet in the Queen's Baton relay case related to the Commonwealth Games scam as a key London-based suspect has recorded his statement before the British authorities."
Jan 21, 2012 Silencing Rushdie: The slimy cowardice of the soft state: "The balloon of the Indian liberal state is sinking into the abyss", The Mumbai-based Raza Academy, which claims to have a following among Sunni Muslims, offered a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone who would hurl a slipper on Rushdie’s face during his Jaipur visit.", "Pandering to regressive mullah-maulvi sensibilities, the soft state that is India and all the political parties that joined in the campaign to disallow him to come to Jaipur have effectively voted to throw Rushdie out of the balloon."
Jan 21, 2012 20 sentenced in fodder scam case
Jan 21, 2012 Rajasthan CM finds excuse to scuttle Rushdie visit
Jan 21, 2012 Minister denies link with alleged rapist of dalit teenager
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi inflated CWG contracts: AM Films owner: "Ashish Patel's statement is crucial for the CBI to prove its case in the Queen's Baton Relay scam."
Jan 21, 2012 Nearly 11000 people go missing during the Badal regime: NGO: "10869 persons went missing during the last five years of the Parkash Singh Badal regime."
Jan 21, 2012 UP polls: Rs 1.54 crore worth cash seized in Kanpur: "The EC has been on a high alert checking for money and liquor and its possible misuse during the elections."
Jan 21, 2012 Sukhbir Badal wanted Rs 1 cr bribe: IAS officer: "The officer claims he was implicated in a false corruption case after he allegedly refused to pay Badal the bribe."
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi, Kanimozhi as heroes: Is a jail stint pilgrimage for politicians?: "a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man."
Jan 21, 2012 No place for freedom of speech?: "perhaps, a strong message could have perhaps been sent to the hardliners"
Jan 21, 2012 Time to send state governors packing: We don’t need them: "We need to abolish the position of state governors. The minor jobs they have to do can be done by either the president – who anyway is not overloaded with work – or another ceremonial functionary."
Jan 21, 2012 CAG confirms NRHM fund misuse: "The CAG probing the NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh has found anomalies in spending of around Rs 5,000 crore under the scheme in about two dozen districts of the state"
Jan 21, 2012 MP Minister lands in controversy: "Madhya Pradesh Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has landed in a controversy after he was caught by TV cameras allegedly getting his shoe laces tied by a minor tribal student "
Jan 21, 2012 State govts have plundered UP's wealth for 22 year: Rahul
Jan 21, 2012 UP's wealth plundered for 22 yrs: Rahul: "thousands of crores of rupees which came to UP for MNREGA project, waiver of farmers loan and special package for Bundelkhand region have been embezzled by those in power."
Jan 21, 2012 NRHM scam: Anomalies in spending of Rs 5,000 cr: "The state health department failed to give proper details of spendings worth around Rs 5,000 crore of the Rs 8,657 crore given to the state"
Jan 21, 2012 Congress using 'Rushdie dish' to woo Muslims: Uma Bharati
Jan 20, 2012 What a Shame, no Salman Rushdie at literature festival: "“paid assassins” were being sent by the Mumbai underworld to “eliminate” him,"
Jan 20, 2012 सपा और बसपा हैं 'उगाही पार्टियां': उमा भारती
Jan 20, 2012 Kalmadi faces heat to resign as IOA President: "A day after being released from jail on bail, tainted Suresh Kalmadi today (January 20) found himself under intense pressure to resign as IOA President"
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi not to resign as IOA president: "Shunned by his political masters, the IOA position is Kalmadi's only hope of staying in the limelight."
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 20, 2012 Illegal mining: Court allows probe of Krishna, Kumaraswamy's role: "In a jolt to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister"
Jan 20, 2012 Should Kalmadi remain the President of IOA?: "Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the CWG scam, walked out of Tihar jail on bail after nine months."
Jan 20, 2012 Modi criticises PM on malnutrition issue: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it."
Jan 20, 2012 Why can't IOA move a resolution for sacking Kalmadi?: "Are Kalmadi's henchmen ensuring his survival in IOA?"
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi in no mood to quit as IOA president: "Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi, who was freed on bail on Thursday after nine months in jail, is in no mood either to resign"
Jan 16, 2012 Paid News: How corruption in the Indian media undermines democracy: "Sections of the media in India have willy-nilly become participants and players in practices that contribute to the growing use of money power in politics"
Jan 16, 2012 कांग्रेस दिल्ली लूट रही है तो मायावती लखनऊ: गडकरी
Jan 16, 2012 Army Chief moves SC on age issue: "Army Chief Gen V K Singh today took the unprecedented step of dragging the government to the Supreme Court before which he has challenged its decision over his date of birth that will mean that he retires in May next."
Jan 16, 2012 Man beaten up for blackening Sonia Gandhi's poster: "Congress workers on Monday ganged up on a man and beat him up for throwing ink on Sonia Gandhi's poster in New Delhi."
Jan 16, 2012 Cash is king in Punjab polls: "Unaccounted cash totalling about Rs 24 croreRs 24 crore and drugs valued at over Rs 33 crore in the international market have been seized in poll-bound Punjab since the election schedule was announced"
Jan 16, 2012 India cannot supress fundamental rights: Google India to HC: ""The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China,""
Jan 15, 2012 Shanta dares Sonia: Come clean on foreign accounts: "Daring Congress president Sonia Gandhi to give an affidavit that she or her family members never had an account in any bank abroad"
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 Irregularities in Promotion List of SIs: "Some SIs were given promotion last year and now it has been found that because of this irregularity these SIs overtook some of their colleagues."
Jan 15, 2012 ‘Madhu Koda Loot Raj’ Book to be Released
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 15, 2012 EC teams seize Rs 19 crore cash, 36 lakh ML liquor in Punjab: "Surveillance and Income Tax department teams, deployed for checking black money and narcotics in poll—bound Punjab, have seized close to Rs 18.84 crore cash and confiscated over 36 lakh ML of foreign liquor"
Jan 15, 2012 Govt owes Rs 110 crore to Air India for VVIP flights: "pending bills of 12 special flights for the President, the Vice-President and the Prime Minister"
Jan 14, 2012 Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily: "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years", "The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."
Jan 14, 2012 Minority quota proposed to shift focus from corruption: BJP
Jan 14, 2012 maharashtra: false arrest - With Wing Clipped - A desperate state is making Maoists out of innocents : "“If I work for downtrodden children or hold a particular opinion, I can be arrested. This cannot go on. In a sense, we have many Binayak Sens.”"
Jan 14, 2012 India isn’t China: "it is deeply worrying how our free courts and democratic government have invoked China as worthy of emulation."
Jan 13, 2012 Now, politics over 19 year old's rape?: "The 19-year-old helpless girl from Arjunagada village under Pipili police station in Odisha is fighting for her life for daring to take on men who molested another girl. This young girl was raped by a group of youths from the locality on November 28, 2011 after she agreed to become a witness in another rape case involving her friend."
Jan 13, 2012 Kolkata shocker: Woman gives birth, dies on road: "Condemning the govt, the CPI(M) demanded that Mamata Banerjee give up her health portfolio to someone else."
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 Half of Goa’s iron ore exports in 2011 were illegal: "More than 43 per cent of the record 54 million tonnes of iron ore shipped out of Goa last year came from unauthorised mining operations. In 2009-2010, over a third of the ore exported — most of which is going to build China — was also illegal."
Jan 13, 2012 अमर सिंह के 'सियासी' बोल, डॉन हैं मुलायम
Jan 13, 2012 Vinay Rai vs Facebook: Govt uses courts to censor the Internet: "The government is back to curbing online portals and social networking sites; this time, via the judiciary."
Jan 13, 2012 Many other ‘national shames': "Malnutrition — and more so among children — is not the only national shame. There is corruption that has spread nationwide which is an equally bigger national shame."
Jan 13, 2012 Raped for raising her voice: "even the police has not helped us", "her family running from pilar to post trying desperately to get help alleging that while she fought for her life, her rapists roaming free, sheletered by those in power"
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 13, 2012 Govt sanctions prosecution of Google, Facebook over objectionable material
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha: SC rules bypassed in land allotment: "Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land to judges from the ministers' discretionary quota."
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 Maderna was in touch with accused in Bhanwari murder: call records
Jan 12, 2012 Vigilance head okays V.S. Achuthanandan probe: "ordered his officials to register a case against the Opposition leader, Mr. V.S. Achuthanandan, and seven others in connection with the allotment of land to his relative in Kasargod."
Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Fellow ministers too given quota flats: "It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa."
Jan 12, 2012 Not sure of date of birth: Parkash Singh Badal: "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be in trouble for allegedly furnishing contradictory information about his date of birth. According to the affidavit filed before the 2007 assembly polls the Punjab Chief Minister's age is 76 years but the one filed earlier this week highlights that he is 84.However the Punjab Chief Minister has played down the issue saying he is in fact not sure about his date of birth."
Jan 12, 2012 FTN: Are night shelters in winter not a priority for the govt?: "How much money has been spent in providing night shelters for the homeless as north India endures a chilly winter?"
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 12, 2012 Politics a family affair in Punjab: "Dynasty politics is a phenomenon that cuts across party lines - Congress, BJP and Akali Dal."
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 Democracy On Anger Street: "It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task"
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 At Rs 87.27cr, Maya is richest chief minister: "She has a commercial centre in Okhla and plots worth Rs 54 crore in the posh Sardar Patel Marg. She also owns jewellery worth Rs 90 lakh."
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 NRHM scam: BSP MLA Jaiswal in CBI custody: "Ram Prasad Jaiswal was under scrutiny for the supply of construction material and labour to areas under NRHM."
Jan 10, 2012 People in search of an Opposition party: "Not so diffrent? The 'party with a difference'"
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 10, 2012 India's dying kids: Govt, systemic apathy to blame: "From the tribal areas in MP to villages in Raichur, children are dying everywhere due to severe malnutrition."
Jan 10, 2012 Crores seized in UP on election eve: "He said Rs 13.1 crore were recovered from a van in Ghaziabad."
Jan 10, 2012 Time limit can’t be fixed to decide mercy plea: Centre to SC: "“The powers of the President are discretionary which cannot be taken away by any statutory provision and cannot be altered, modified or interfered with in any manner whatsoever by any statutory provision or authority,”"
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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 Rs.200 crore invested by Koda in Sweden traced, court told: "A Rs.200 crore investment of jailed former chief minister Madhu Koda and his associates in Sweden has been located, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the Jharkhand High Court Tuesday."
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 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral gains: "I find an India in which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with those groups."
Jan 24, 2012 Rushdie controversy about politics and not free speech?: "Rushdie was given permission to address the Jaipur Lit fest through video link but was forced to cancel the appearance after protests.", " Rushdie Fiasco: National Shame?"
Jan 24, 2012 Do we need to redefine democracy, people at JLF question: "People at the festival, who had come for Salman Rushdie's video conference were angry over its cancellation."
Jan 24, 2012 Manipur: A state with polls but no democracy: "Virtually under army rule due to the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act for decades together, Manipur has witnessed bloodied streets, naked protests, self-immolation and militancy"
Jan 24, 2012 Jaipur’s shame: Ashok Gehlot: "the world knows it has a government that bends with every passing ill-wind, with every hawa ka jhonka."
Jan 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie video-link to India festival cancelled: "More than anything else, this points to a weak state and a ruling party that does not have the courage to stand up to pressures from fringe troublemakers for fear of losing votes. Sir Salman's unfortunate blackout is really an indictment of India's feeble politicians."
Jan 24, 2012 Bihar ministers' wives richer than husbands
Jan 22, 2012 MP min Bisen apologises over his deplorable act: "Madhya Pradesh minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has apologised over his deplorable act for making a child tie his shoelaces."
Jan 22, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi to be suspended?: "The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Ethics Committee has suspended and served a show cause notice to Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot."
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 Manipur: The angry state: "The AFSPA and the Naga problem are just some of the issues Manipur is grappling with, as it nears elections."
Jan 21, 2012 Scam-tainted Kalmadi offered Ind Olympic Asso Prez post!: "Scam tainted Common Wealth Organizing Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was released on bail from Tihar Jail after spending close to 10 months in confinement. But it looks like the matter has not caused any dent to his image after it was reported that he has been offered the post of President, Indian Olympic Association (IOA)."
Jan 21, 2012 The Wall Street Journal: Delhi Journal: The Expat Experience: "Foreign tourists seem to know Delhi primarily as India’s scam capital."
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 Google tells India that it can't protect its politicians: "The Indian government is planning to drag the key internet players into court on a charge of failing to protect its corrupt politicians from being slagged off online."
Jan 21, 2012 Reuters: Unravelling India, Part 2: Corruption: "Corruption finds its way into pretty much every nook and cranny of public life. There’s high-level corruption, such as the telecoms scam that cost the government an estimated $39 billion in revenue when mobile licences were awarded to companies too cheaply"
Jan 21, 2012 Top 10 facts about Kalmadi's Commonwealth Games scandal: "The Games spawned a maze of corrupt deals, most of them involving inflated contracts."
Jan 21, 2012 CNN: India grants bail to Commonwealth Games' chief: "Kalmadi, 68, is also a lawmaker in the Indian parliament, where he represents the ruling Congress party."
Jan 21, 2012 Clean Sports India opposes Kalmadi heading IOA
Jan 21, 2012 Victimised for their courage: "The main accused in the Pipli rape case Prashant Pradhan was produced in court"
Jan 21, 2012 AM Films owner to reveal all?: "CBI will soon file a charge sheet in the Queen's Baton relay case related to the Commonwealth Games scam as a key London-based suspect has recorded his statement before the British authorities."
Jan 21, 2012 Silencing Rushdie: The slimy cowardice of the soft state: "The balloon of the Indian liberal state is sinking into the abyss", The Mumbai-based Raza Academy, which claims to have a following among Sunni Muslims, offered a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone who would hurl a slipper on Rushdie’s face during his Jaipur visit.", "Pandering to regressive mullah-maulvi sensibilities, the soft state that is India and all the political parties that joined in the campaign to disallow him to come to Jaipur have effectively voted to throw Rushdie out of the balloon."
Jan 21, 2012 20 sentenced in fodder scam case
Jan 21, 2012 Rajasthan CM finds excuse to scuttle Rushdie visit
Jan 21, 2012 Minister denies link with alleged rapist of dalit teenager
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi inflated CWG contracts: AM Films owner: "Ashish Patel's statement is crucial for the CBI to prove its case in the Queen's Baton Relay scam."
Jan 21, 2012 Nearly 11000 people go missing during the Badal regime: NGO: "10869 persons went missing during the last five years of the Parkash Singh Badal regime."
Jan 21, 2012 UP polls: Rs 1.54 crore worth cash seized in Kanpur: "The EC has been on a high alert checking for money and liquor and its possible misuse during the elections."
Jan 21, 2012 Sukhbir Badal wanted Rs 1 cr bribe: IAS officer: "The officer claims he was implicated in a false corruption case after he allegedly refused to pay Badal the bribe."
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi, Kanimozhi as heroes: Is a jail stint pilgrimage for politicians?: "a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man."
Jan 21, 2012 No place for freedom of speech?: "perhaps, a strong message could have perhaps been sent to the hardliners"
Jan 21, 2012 Time to send state governors packing: We don’t need them: "We need to abolish the position of state governors. The minor jobs they have to do can be done by either the president – who anyway is not overloaded with work – or another ceremonial functionary."
Jan 21, 2012 CAG confirms NRHM fund misuse: "The CAG probing the NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh has found anomalies in spending of around Rs 5,000 crore under the scheme in about two dozen districts of the state"
Jan 21, 2012 MP Minister lands in controversy: "Madhya Pradesh Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has landed in a controversy after he was caught by TV cameras allegedly getting his shoe laces tied by a minor tribal student "
Jan 21, 2012 State govts have plundered UP's wealth for 22 year: Rahul
Jan 21, 2012 UP's wealth plundered for 22 yrs: Rahul: "thousands of crores of rupees which came to UP for MNREGA project, waiver of farmers loan and special package for Bundelkhand region have been embezzled by those in power."
Jan 21, 2012 NRHM scam: Anomalies in spending of Rs 5,000 cr: "The state health department failed to give proper details of spendings worth around Rs 5,000 crore of the Rs 8,657 crore given to the state"
Jan 21, 2012 Congress using 'Rushdie dish' to woo Muslims: Uma Bharati
Jan 20, 2012 What a Shame, no Salman Rushdie at literature festival: "“paid assassins” were being sent by the Mumbai underworld to “eliminate” him,"
Jan 20, 2012 सपा और बसपा हैं 'उगाही पार्टियां': उमा भारती
Jan 20, 2012 Kalmadi faces heat to resign as IOA President: "A day after being released from jail on bail, tainted Suresh Kalmadi today (January 20) found himself under intense pressure to resign as IOA President"
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi not to resign as IOA president: "Shunned by his political masters, the IOA position is Kalmadi's only hope of staying in the limelight."
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 20, 2012 Illegal mining: Court allows probe of Krishna, Kumaraswamy's role: "In a jolt to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister"
Jan 20, 2012 Should Kalmadi remain the President of IOA?: "Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the CWG scam, walked out of Tihar jail on bail after nine months."
Jan 20, 2012 Modi criticises PM on malnutrition issue: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it."
Jan 20, 2012 Why can't IOA move a resolution for sacking Kalmadi?: "Are Kalmadi's henchmen ensuring his survival in IOA?"
Jan 20, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi in no mood to quit as IOA president: "Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi, who was freed on bail on Thursday after nine months in jail, is in no mood either to resign"
Jan 16, 2012 Paid News: How corruption in the Indian media undermines democracy: "Sections of the media in India have willy-nilly become participants and players in practices that contribute to the growing use of money power in politics"
Jan 16, 2012 कांग्रेस दिल्ली लूट रही है तो मायावती लखनऊ: गडकरी
Jan 16, 2012 Army Chief moves SC on age issue: "Army Chief Gen V K Singh today took the unprecedented step of dragging the government to the Supreme Court before which he has challenged its decision over his date of birth that will mean that he retires in May next."
Jan 16, 2012 Man beaten up for blackening Sonia Gandhi's poster: "Congress workers on Monday ganged up on a man and beat him up for throwing ink on Sonia Gandhi's poster in New Delhi."
Jan 16, 2012 Cash is king in Punjab polls: "Unaccounted cash totalling about Rs 24 croreRs 24 crore and drugs valued at over Rs 33 crore in the international market have been seized in poll-bound Punjab since the election schedule was announced"
Jan 16, 2012 India cannot supress fundamental rights: Google India to HC: ""The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China,""
Jan 15, 2012 Shanta dares Sonia: Come clean on foreign accounts: "Daring Congress president Sonia Gandhi to give an affidavit that she or her family members never had an account in any bank abroad"
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 Irregularities in Promotion List of SIs: "Some SIs were given promotion last year and now it has been found that because of this irregularity these SIs overtook some of their colleagues."
Jan 15, 2012 ‘Madhu Koda Loot Raj’ Book to be Released
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 15, 2012 EC teams seize Rs 19 crore cash, 36 lakh ML liquor in Punjab: "Surveillance and Income Tax department teams, deployed for checking black money and narcotics in poll—bound Punjab, have seized close to Rs 18.84 crore cash and confiscated over 36 lakh ML of foreign liquor"
Jan 15, 2012 Govt owes Rs 110 crore to Air India for VVIP flights: "pending bills of 12 special flights for the President, the Vice-President and the Prime Minister"
Jan 14, 2012 Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily: "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years", "The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."
Jan 14, 2012 Minority quota proposed to shift focus from corruption: BJP
Jan 14, 2012 maharashtra: false arrest - With Wing Clipped - A desperate state is making Maoists out of innocents : "“If I work for downtrodden children or hold a particular opinion, I can be arrested. This cannot go on. In a sense, we have many Binayak Sens.”"
Jan 14, 2012 India isn’t China: "it is deeply worrying how our free courts and democratic government have invoked China as worthy of emulation."
Jan 13, 2012 Now, politics over 19 year old's rape?: "The 19-year-old helpless girl from Arjunagada village under Pipili police station in Odisha is fighting for her life for daring to take on men who molested another girl. This young girl was raped by a group of youths from the locality on November 28, 2011 after she agreed to become a witness in another rape case involving her friend."
Jan 13, 2012 Kolkata shocker: Woman gives birth, dies on road: "Condemning the govt, the CPI(M) demanded that Mamata Banerjee give up her health portfolio to someone else."
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 Half of Goa’s iron ore exports in 2011 were illegal: "More than 43 per cent of the record 54 million tonnes of iron ore shipped out of Goa last year came from unauthorised mining operations. In 2009-2010, over a third of the ore exported — most of which is going to build China — was also illegal."
Jan 13, 2012 अमर सिंह के 'सियासी' बोल, डॉन हैं मुलायम
Jan 13, 2012 Vinay Rai vs Facebook: Govt uses courts to censor the Internet: "The government is back to curbing online portals and social networking sites; this time, via the judiciary."
Jan 13, 2012 Many other ‘national shames': "Malnutrition — and more so among children — is not the only national shame. There is corruption that has spread nationwide which is an equally bigger national shame."
Jan 13, 2012 Raped for raising her voice: "even the police has not helped us", "her family running from pilar to post trying desperately to get help alleging that while she fought for her life, her rapists roaming free, sheletered by those in power"
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 13, 2012 Govt sanctions prosecution of Google, Facebook over objectionable material
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha: SC rules bypassed in land allotment: "Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land to judges from the ministers' discretionary quota."
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 Maderna was in touch with accused in Bhanwari murder: call records
Jan 12, 2012 Vigilance head okays V.S. Achuthanandan probe: "ordered his officials to register a case against the Opposition leader, Mr. V.S. Achuthanandan, and seven others in connection with the allotment of land to his relative in Kasargod."
Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Fellow ministers too given quota flats: "It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa."
Jan 12, 2012 Not sure of date of birth: Parkash Singh Badal: "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be in trouble for allegedly furnishing contradictory information about his date of birth. According to the affidavit filed before the 2007 assembly polls the Punjab Chief Minister's age is 76 years but the one filed earlier this week highlights that he is 84.However the Punjab Chief Minister has played down the issue saying he is in fact not sure about his date of birth."
Jan 12, 2012 FTN: Are night shelters in winter not a priority for the govt?: "How much money has been spent in providing night shelters for the homeless as north India endures a chilly winter?"
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 12, 2012 Politics a family affair in Punjab: "Dynasty politics is a phenomenon that cuts across party lines - Congress, BJP and Akali Dal."
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 Democracy On Anger Street: "It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task"
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 At Rs 87.27cr, Maya is richest chief minister: "She has a commercial centre in Okhla and plots worth Rs 54 crore in the posh Sardar Patel Marg. She also owns jewellery worth Rs 90 lakh."
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 NRHM scam: BSP MLA Jaiswal in CBI custody: "Ram Prasad Jaiswal was under scrutiny for the supply of construction material and labour to areas under NRHM."
Jan 10, 2012 People in search of an Opposition party: "Not so diffrent? The 'party with a difference'"
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 10, 2012 India's dying kids: Govt, systemic apathy to blame: "From the tribal areas in MP to villages in Raichur, children are dying everywhere due to severe malnutrition."
Jan 10, 2012 Crores seized in UP on election eve: "He said Rs 13.1 crore were recovered from a van in Ghaziabad."
Jan 10, 2012 Time limit can’t be fixed to decide mercy plea: Centre to SC: "“The powers of the President are discretionary which cannot be taken away by any statutory provision and cannot be altered, modified or interfered with in any manner whatsoever by any statutory provision or authority,”"
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