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Jan 10, 2012 Cash haul: Black money running Assembly polls?: "So far more than Rs 30 crore cash has been recovered from the poll-bound states Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.", "more than 10,000 crores of black money is likely to be pumped into Uttar Pradesh alone."
Jan 10, 2012 2G scam: ED to attach properties worth Rs 223 crore: "the Enforcement Directorate will attach immovable property worth Rs.223 crore of five companies in connection with the alleged bribe of Rs 200 crore paid to Kalaignar TV after an anti-money laundering court today gave its nod."
Jan 10, 2012 UP: Operation Maya cover-up to cost Rs 1 crore: "The Election Commission wants the drive of covering up of statues of Maya and the BSP symbol to finish by January 11"
Jan 10, 2012 Pink cover for Maya, elephants to cost Rs 1 cr: "The cost to cover the statues is Rs 1 crore and the Election Commission's deadline ends on Wednesday at 5 pm."
Jan 10, 2012 MV Icerberg hostages' parents criticise govt for inaction: "Even as 17 Indian sailors freed by Somali pirates are reunited with their families there are many still held hostage."
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 9, 2012 Not paid for 5 months, 89 AI cabin crew refuse to fly: "If the airline does not make peace, the coming days are likely to see flight cancellations and delays."
Jan 9, 2012 Air India or Patel Aviation? Why Praful Patel needs to be axed: "Should Air India, which was financially ruined during the seven-year overlordship of Praful Patel, still be trying to shield Patel’s family from scrutiny for alleged misuse of his clout when he was civil aviation minister?"
Jan 9, 2012 The disease of scion-itis: Rahul Gandhi vs Akhilesh Yadav: "The so-called battle of the scions highlights a new generation of insubstantial, amorphous, 'apolitical' politicians who stand for nothing, represent no one, seeking power out of familial duty."
Jan 9, 2012 CWG scam: CBI opposes Suresh Kalmadi's bail plea
Jan 9, 2012 Can prove a politician ordered the murder of Bhanwari: CBI: "The case saw a political turmoil in Rajasthan leading to the resignation of Mahipal Maderna as water resources minister. He is at present in jail. Another Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi was also arrested by the CBI."
Jan 9, 2012 Pravasi Divas: Diaspora hums Anna tune: ""Even US president Bill Clinton had to face impeachment; then why is the Indian government afraid of including the prime minister and senior administrative officers under ambit of Lokpal."
Jan 9, 2012 The Japan Times: Collision of political, economic logic condemns India to rudderless rule and chronic corruption: "Singh was handicapped by being a nominated member of the Upper House. Never having been elected by the people, he lacks the core skills of a political leader and the means of engaging with constituents to check the pulse of politics."
Jan 9, 2012 'What Gandhian principles are politicians following?': "a delegate at the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas directed a query at the national politicians asking why India was one of 'the most corrupt' nations and which of the Gandhian principles they followed in personal and public life"
Jan 9, 2012 Gadkari, Modi, and the BJP's gymnastics on corruption: "By inducting Babu Singh Kushwaha, a main suspect along with Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar in the Central Bureau of Investigation's serious inquiry into loot of people's money in the National Rural Health Mission, Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari has proved that his party's support to Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement was political fraud."
Jan 8, 2012 CEC: ‘Money power’ a problem in Punjab, UP: "“And so will Goa, because money plays a big role.”"
Jan 8, 2012 NRHM: Noose tightens around Kushwaha: "Three more people Abhay Kumar Vajpayee, SP Ram and Saurabh Jain, have been arrested. Can Kushwaha be the next?"
Jan 8, 2012 UP polls: Money power rampant; crores recovered: "Weeks ahead of the Assembly polls, cars loaded with cash have been found abandoned by roadsides in the state."
Jan 8, 2012 2G scam: Swamy submits proof against PC: "The documents include memos of the Finance Ministry and copies of letters exchanged between Chidambaram and Raja."
Jan 8, 2012 3 days, 100 statues, 10 parks, and multiplied: "the Election Commission wants “each and every statue of elephant” and “each and every statue of Ms Mayawati”, built in Uttar Pradesh, with public money, in public places, “suitably covered”."
Jan 8, 2012 BJP is running the most corrupt government in Karnataka: Rahul Gandhi: ""We are sending thousands of crores of rupees for you through various schemes, Rs 12,000 per annum for every poor person. But you don't get it because it disappears in Lucknow,""
Jan 8, 2012 BJP running 'most corrupt' governments in states: Rahul: "They took Babu Singh Kushwaha, who is the most corrupt minister. He is amongst the most corrupt ministers,""
Jan 8, 2012 People Vs Politics: "Reality caught up with Team Anna rather unexpectedly when its chief political backer, the BJP, welcomed tainted ex-BSP minister Babu Singh Khushwaha into the party"
Jan 8, 2012 Court jails former Indian telecoms minister: "Ram was sent to the same prison in New Delhi where another disgraced former telecoms minister, A. Raja, has been held since February last year while he awaits trial over a separate corruption case."
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption is why they win: "If 650 million Indians squat in the open because they don't have access to toilets and more than 250 million people are forced to drink filthy water, it's not a coincidence." , "How else would one describe the tainted politicians and mafia dons winning polls - sometimes from jail?"
Jan 8, 2012 Rs 50,000 cr a year: What Food Bill corruption will be like: "How much will systemic corruption increase once the Food Security Bill is introduced? The answer could be around Rs 50,000 crore annually."
Jan 8, 2012 What They Said: BJP’s Anti-graft Image Suffers Blow: "The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to admit two corruption-tainted politicians to its ranks ahead of local elections in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has compromised its tough anti-graft stance and caused a rift within the party."
Jan 5, 2012 CBI inches closer to cracking Bhanwari Devi case: "The incident, which triggered a political turmoil in Rajasthan leading to sacking of minister Mahipal Maderna, posed a challenge for the CBI in the absence of leads and destruction of evidences."
Jan 5, 2012 Kushwaha row: BJP doublespeak on corruption?: "The BJP rejected the demand to reverse the decision of inducting scam-tainted leader Babu Singh Kushwaha."
Jan 5, 2012 Breakthrough in black money case?: "The businessman in question accepts depositing Rs. 60 cr unaccounted money in Zurich, Singapore and the United States. He has a house in posh Sainik farms area of Delhi and office in south extension. The businessman known to have top political connections."
Jan 5, 2012 SC wants Sukh Ram to surrender: "The Supreme Court on Thursday directed former Telecom minister Sukh Ram to surrender in connection with a 1993 graft case. However, the minister failed to comply citing ill health."
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 Complaint filed against Maya in UP Lokayukta: "The complaint states that the CM benefited to the tune of Rs 250 crores from her involvement in liquor trade."
Jan 5, 2012 Still on taint trail, BJP gives ticket to MP booted out of RS: "Shakshi Maharaj, three-time BJP MP from Farrukhabad, who was jailed in Tihar and Etah in two cases of rape and sexual assault, will also contest the Assembly elections from Bhongaon."
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 Congress taunts BJP over Kushwaha: ""L K Advani in his rath yatra was apparently looking for these sort of people. We congratulate him for finding suitable candidates in UP,”"
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 4, 2012 Top manager says ‘weak government’ hurting Indian investment
Jan 4, 2012 Cartoonist Faces Ban on Right to Poke Fun: "Despite its status as the world’s largest democracy, the extent of India’s freedom of expression remains a controversial topic"
Jan 4, 2012 Scam-scarred Goa gears up for polls: "From between the mountainous heaps of illegally mined ore and humungous moral craters of political corruption"
Jan 4, 2012 Kushwaha leaves BJP in an embarrassing position: "An embarrassed BJP claims the raids are a Congress-BSP plot, but is now struggling to explain the induction of the tainted minister."
Jan 4, 2012 Kushwaha, raids and the BJP’s misadventure: "Babusingh Kushwaha, a prime suspect in the multi-crore scam in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission"
Jan 4, 2012 UP: NREGA scam in Sonia Gandhi's constituency?: "In the last 2 years, Rs 280 crore were spent on MNREGS projects in Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli constituency."
Jan 4, 2012 Subba charges framed: "A local court today framed charges against former Congress MP from Assam, Mani Kumar Subba, for allegedly raping a woman in 2010"
Jan 4, 2012 Why didn't CBI act when Kushwaha was in BSP, asks BJP
Jan 4, 2012 CBI raids 60 places, ex-BSP minister under scanner: "The CBI Wednesday raided about 60 places across Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, including the premises of former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and his associates, in an effort to unravel the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam."
Jan 4, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI raids Kushwaha, UP officer: "Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former BSP MLA had joined the BJP on Tuesday ahead of the UP polls."
Jan 4, 2012 Bhanwari Devi murder case solved, says CBI: "CBI sources said Mahipal Maderna, Congress MLA Malkhan Singh and Bhanwari's husband were all part of the conspiracy."
Jan 4, 2012 Look who’s hiring: "there is a hole in the halo. In UP, the BJP has just welcomed into its fold Babu Singh Kushwaha and Badshah Singh, former ministers in the Mayawati government, both sacked on graft charges."
Jan 4, 2012 Molestation charges haunt Beant Singh's kin preparing for poll: ""Bureau of Consular affairs has warned American women not to travel alone in India. And several countries, including the US and UK warn their citizens that women sometimes face physical harassment by local men, euphemistically known in India as eve-teasing,""
Jan 4, 2012 UP BJP suspends leader for criticising Kushwaha's induction: "The suspension order came late on Wednesday evening after central leaders Ananth Kumar and Vinay Katiyar openly defended Kushwaha, who was shown doors by UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati holding him responsible for multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam"
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 Key aide arrested, Jagan next?: "CBI on Monday night (January 2) arrested Vijayasai Reddy, the auditor of companies of Y S R Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, who faces a disproportionate asset case."
Jan 3, 2012 'Save Yeddy plan' in place?: "A Preliminary probe conducted by a top Karnataka cop finds 191police officers innocent. The preliminary report contradicts Justice Santosh Hegde's report on illegal mining."
Jan 3, 2012 Koda Will Have to Pay 1200 Crores Tax: "the former Chief Minister will have to pay 1200 crore as Income Tax within six months, otherwise penalty and other proceedings against him will be taken."
Jan 3, 2012 SC rejects Maudany’s bail plea: "directed the Karnataka government to provide Maudany, founder of People’s Democratic Party in Kerala, treatment"
Jan 3, 2012 CBI arrests Jagan Mohan Reddy's aide: "With the arrest, the CBI is one step closer to arresting Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case."
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 3, 2012 BJP laps up tainted ex-ministers discarded by Mayawati: "Badshah Singh, who was also expelled from the cabinet by Mayawati and has several pending criminal cases against him"
Jan 3, 2012 BJP takes Mayawati's 'tainted discards' into its fold: "In a complete volte face to their high moral ground on the Lokpal bill, the BJP welcomed into its fold the prime suspect of the 10000 crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam and chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati's castoff Babu Singh Kushwaha."
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 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 CPI-M mocks at PM’s initiatives to tackle corruption: "the fact is that two governments under Manmohan Singh have gifted the people with corruption"
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 Probe against HDK handed over to Lokayukta: "The New Year did not bode well for former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy as the Special Lokayukta Court on Monday, handed over the probe into a private complaint involving him and then forest minister C Chennigappa to the Lokayukta police."
Jan 2, 2012 Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister: "Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman"
Jan 1, 2012 New York Times: Political Bickering and Government Inaction Marked the Year in India: "Shouting and bickering like schoolchildren, Indian lawmakers provided the nation with a televised reality show of the political class in action."
Jan 1, 2012 Wall Street Journal: Tihar Jail’s New Year’s Resolution: 100% Literacy: "South Asia’s largest prison, Tihar Jail, is infamous for sheltering notorious inmates, including corrupt Indian bureaucrats and big-ticket politicians.", "Suresh Kalmadi, jailed this year for corruption is not participating in the literacy drive due to “security concerns.”"
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 Gulfnews: India's weakest premier
Jan 1, 2012 Anti-graft law defeat caps year of failure for Indian PM: "The Bill's defeat is further blow to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, capping a year of setbacks."
Jan 1, 2012 The saga of the Lokpal Bill: "The drama in the Rajya Sabha showed that the UPA government was not willing to go even by the will of Parliament. This gives rise to fundamental questions about the functioning of Indian democracy."
Jan 1, 2012 India needs real democracy
Jan 1, 2012 Lokpal fallout: PM faces protest: "About three dozen supporters of social activist Anna Hazare staged protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA government for non enacting Lokpal bill"
Jan 1, 2012 Raja, Kalmadi relish paneer, kheer, halwa in Tihar 2012: "Only well behaved prisoners are allowed to use the phone. The prisoners also got special food to mark New Year: vegetable curry with paneer, kheer, halwa, puri, parathas and pulao."
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 31, 2011 Top cops, bureaucrats, politicians’ kin in fray: "It’s a mad rush for party tickets in Punjab. Among the list of lucky ones so far are Punjab’s top cops, senior bureaucrats who until recently held coveted posts in the incumbent regime, kin of politicians, wives of policemen and even some tainted faces."
Dec 31, 2011 Conspiratorial silence: Advani stings PM again: "LK Advani on Saturday charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with “conspiratorial silence and acquiescence” on the issue, saying he opted for silence at a time when the country expected “honest transparent leadership” from him."
Dec 31, 2011 Book of unparliamentary words guides ‘clean’ debate: "An illiterate MP can’t be called “angootha chhaap”, and it is unparliamentary to suggest that a member should be sent to the “ajayabghar” (museum)."
Dec 31, 2011 UP minister threatens Lokayukta, EC seeks report: "A day after state energy minister Ramveer Upadhyaya lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra for 'daring' to probe corruption charges against him"
Dec 30, 2011 Ahead of polls, Maya sacks 4 more netas: "taking the number of her ministerial colleagues shown the door in the past six days alone to 10. In all, she has sacked 17 ministers in the past six months on charges of corruption and anti-party activities."
Dec 30, 2011 Major Scandals of 2011: "2G Spectrum scam:"
Dec 30, 2011 Anti-corruption bill creates chaos in India’s upper house: "Lawmakers adjourn without agreement on the proposed Lokpal bill"
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: Criticism after India corruption bill vote delayed: "India's opposition parties have bitterly criticised the government for its failure to put the controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill to a vote in the upper house of parliament."
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: A subversion of Indian democracy?: "Are India's politicians serious about cleaning up public life?"
Dec 30, 2011 New York Times: Is Lokpal Jinxed, or Was This a Serial Killing?: "Nine times in the past four decades, a Lokpal bill to create an anti-corruption ombudsman has been introduced in India’s Parliament, and eight times the bill has died. In its most current incarnation, the bill is in intensive care."
Dec 30, 2011 The Canadian: Lokpal in India: Politics around the anti-corruption agency: "Behind the facade of democracy, India, which is among the most corrupt nations on this earth, does everything anti-democratic. The founding leaders of a newly freed India PM Jawaharlal Nehru and police minister Vallabhai Patel, and military minister Menon, by sidelining MK Gandhi who fought for and won freedom from UK, created a system which essentially anti-people; and they are chiefly guilty of creating such a criminally corrupt and state terrorist nation in Asia in the first place."
Dec 30, 2011 The Independent: A fitting end to a disastrous year in Indian politics: "It was a fitting end to a disastrous year for corruption-ridden India’s floundering government, destructive parliamentary opposition, and self-serving politicians."
Dec 30, 2011 Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di: "The Indic tradition allows man to prosper by washing his dirty linen in a muck-flushed river", "the Lok Sabha took to debating the stillborn watchdog bill that was eventually strangulated at yearend by the elders of the upper house of Parliament, my wife bribed the keeper at Delhi Zoo with a crisp hundred-rupee note to walk her and my daughter through the feeding enclosure of the lions."
Dec 30, 2011 India: Acme Of Insincerity, Ineptitude And Infamy – OpEd: "The Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Congress Party headed by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi conducted themselves in a manner that confirmed the suspicions of many — particularly in the younger generation that is the future of this country — that they have been insincere in their professions of wanting to rid this country of the evil of corruption"
Dec 30, 2011 Jaitley coins 'flee-dom' at midnight: "Bringing the Prime Minister in the line of fire, BJP on Friday (December 30) accused him and his ministers for the "choreographed disturbance" in the Rajya Sabha on the Lokpal issue and insisted that since the government wanted a weak ombudsman and lacked numbers, it ran away from a vote."
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 Short of numbers, govt bailed out by clock at midnight - What everybody wanted: nobody’s bill frozen for now : "At midnight — the already extended session had permission from the President to run only till the end of calendar date December 29"
Dec 30, 2011 Koda and his Aides Back to Prison: "Following the investigation by the doctors of Army Hospital, as per the orders of High Court, former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Deepak Joshi have been sent back to the Birsa Munda Central Jail"
Dec 30, 2011 Fraud on Parliament: "Congress is politically bankrupt, morally tainted"
Dec 30, 2011 City Briefs; Lokayukta orders action against councillor: "Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Thursday recommended that a woman councillor from East Delhi be suspended as token punishment for encroaching land to extend her home in Jhilmil Colony."
Dec 30, 2011 Janardhana Reddy’s 2-day escort bail petition quashed: "the CBI opposed the petition saying the programme in Bellary is aimed at intimidating the witnesses. The CBI prosecutor pointed out that Reddy’s supporters arranged a large number of huge cut-outs and hundreds of vehicles in Bellary even before the designated court granting him bail.", "Gali is in possession of several fake passports and could vanish out of the country in no time."
Dec 30, 2011 CIC seeks data on Krishna’s UK visit: "Krishna got his five-day visit in June, 2011 extended to watch a Wimbeldon match."
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Jan 10, 2012 Cash haul: Black money running Assembly polls?: "So far more than Rs 30 crore cash has been recovered from the poll-bound states Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.", "more than 10,000 crores of black money is likely to be pumped into Uttar Pradesh alone."
Jan 10, 2012 2G scam: ED to attach properties worth Rs 223 crore: "the Enforcement Directorate will attach immovable property worth Rs.223 crore of five companies in connection with the alleged bribe of Rs 200 crore paid to Kalaignar TV after an anti-money laundering court today gave its nod."
Jan 10, 2012 UP: Operation Maya cover-up to cost Rs 1 crore: "The Election Commission wants the drive of covering up of statues of Maya and the BSP symbol to finish by January 11"
Jan 10, 2012 Pink cover for Maya, elephants to cost Rs 1 cr: "The cost to cover the statues is Rs 1 crore and the Election Commission's deadline ends on Wednesday at 5 pm."
Jan 10, 2012 MV Icerberg hostages' parents criticise govt for inaction: "Even as 17 Indian sailors freed by Somali pirates are reunited with their families there are many still held hostage."
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 9, 2012 Not paid for 5 months, 89 AI cabin crew refuse to fly: "If the airline does not make peace, the coming days are likely to see flight cancellations and delays."
Jan 9, 2012 Air India or Patel Aviation? Why Praful Patel needs to be axed: "Should Air India, which was financially ruined during the seven-year overlordship of Praful Patel, still be trying to shield Patel’s family from scrutiny for alleged misuse of his clout when he was civil aviation minister?"
Jan 9, 2012 The disease of scion-itis: Rahul Gandhi vs Akhilesh Yadav: "The so-called battle of the scions highlights a new generation of insubstantial, amorphous, 'apolitical' politicians who stand for nothing, represent no one, seeking power out of familial duty."
Jan 9, 2012 CWG scam: CBI opposes Suresh Kalmadi's bail plea
Jan 9, 2012 Can prove a politician ordered the murder of Bhanwari: CBI: "The case saw a political turmoil in Rajasthan leading to the resignation of Mahipal Maderna as water resources minister. He is at present in jail. Another Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi was also arrested by the CBI."
Jan 9, 2012 Pravasi Divas: Diaspora hums Anna tune: ""Even US president Bill Clinton had to face impeachment; then why is the Indian government afraid of including the prime minister and senior administrative officers under ambit of Lokpal."
Jan 9, 2012 The Japan Times: Collision of political, economic logic condemns India to rudderless rule and chronic corruption: "Singh was handicapped by being a nominated member of the Upper House. Never having been elected by the people, he lacks the core skills of a political leader and the means of engaging with constituents to check the pulse of politics."
Jan 9, 2012 'What Gandhian principles are politicians following?': "a delegate at the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas directed a query at the national politicians asking why India was one of 'the most corrupt' nations and which of the Gandhian principles they followed in personal and public life"
Jan 9, 2012 Gadkari, Modi, and the BJP's gymnastics on corruption: "By inducting Babu Singh Kushwaha, a main suspect along with Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar in the Central Bureau of Investigation's serious inquiry into loot of people's money in the National Rural Health Mission, Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari has proved that his party's support to Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement was political fraud."
Jan 8, 2012 CEC: ‘Money power’ a problem in Punjab, UP: "“And so will Goa, because money plays a big role.”"
Jan 8, 2012 NRHM: Noose tightens around Kushwaha: "Three more people Abhay Kumar Vajpayee, SP Ram and Saurabh Jain, have been arrested. Can Kushwaha be the next?"
Jan 8, 2012 UP polls: Money power rampant; crores recovered: "Weeks ahead of the Assembly polls, cars loaded with cash have been found abandoned by roadsides in the state."
Jan 8, 2012 2G scam: Swamy submits proof against PC: "The documents include memos of the Finance Ministry and copies of letters exchanged between Chidambaram and Raja."
Jan 8, 2012 3 days, 100 statues, 10 parks, and multiplied: "the Election Commission wants “each and every statue of elephant” and “each and every statue of Ms Mayawati”, built in Uttar Pradesh, with public money, in public places, “suitably covered”."
Jan 8, 2012 BJP is running the most corrupt government in Karnataka: Rahul Gandhi: ""We are sending thousands of crores of rupees for you through various schemes, Rs 12,000 per annum for every poor person. But you don't get it because it disappears in Lucknow,""
Jan 8, 2012 BJP running 'most corrupt' governments in states: Rahul: "They took Babu Singh Kushwaha, who is the most corrupt minister. He is amongst the most corrupt ministers,""
Jan 8, 2012 People Vs Politics: "Reality caught up with Team Anna rather unexpectedly when its chief political backer, the BJP, welcomed tainted ex-BSP minister Babu Singh Khushwaha into the party"
Jan 8, 2012 Court jails former Indian telecoms minister: "Ram was sent to the same prison in New Delhi where another disgraced former telecoms minister, A. Raja, has been held since February last year while he awaits trial over a separate corruption case."
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption is why they win: "If 650 million Indians squat in the open because they don't have access to toilets and more than 250 million people are forced to drink filthy water, it's not a coincidence." , "How else would one describe the tainted politicians and mafia dons winning polls - sometimes from jail?"
Jan 8, 2012 Rs 50,000 cr a year: What Food Bill corruption will be like: "How much will systemic corruption increase once the Food Security Bill is introduced? The answer could be around Rs 50,000 crore annually."
Jan 8, 2012 What They Said: BJP’s Anti-graft Image Suffers Blow: "The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to admit two corruption-tainted politicians to its ranks ahead of local elections in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has compromised its tough anti-graft stance and caused a rift within the party."
Jan 5, 2012 CBI inches closer to cracking Bhanwari Devi case: "The incident, which triggered a political turmoil in Rajasthan leading to sacking of minister Mahipal Maderna, posed a challenge for the CBI in the absence of leads and destruction of evidences."
Jan 5, 2012 Kushwaha row: BJP doublespeak on corruption?: "The BJP rejected the demand to reverse the decision of inducting scam-tainted leader Babu Singh Kushwaha."
Jan 5, 2012 Breakthrough in black money case?: "The businessman in question accepts depositing Rs. 60 cr unaccounted money in Zurich, Singapore and the United States. He has a house in posh Sainik farms area of Delhi and office in south extension. The businessman known to have top political connections."
Jan 5, 2012 SC wants Sukh Ram to surrender: "The Supreme Court on Thursday directed former Telecom minister Sukh Ram to surrender in connection with a 1993 graft case. However, the minister failed to comply citing ill health."
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 Complaint filed against Maya in UP Lokayukta: "The complaint states that the CM benefited to the tune of Rs 250 crores from her involvement in liquor trade."
Jan 5, 2012 Still on taint trail, BJP gives ticket to MP booted out of RS: "Shakshi Maharaj, three-time BJP MP from Farrukhabad, who was jailed in Tihar and Etah in two cases of rape and sexual assault, will also contest the Assembly elections from Bhongaon."
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 Congress taunts BJP over Kushwaha: ""L K Advani in his rath yatra was apparently looking for these sort of people. We congratulate him for finding suitable candidates in UP,”"
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 4, 2012 Top manager says ‘weak government’ hurting Indian investment
Jan 4, 2012 Cartoonist Faces Ban on Right to Poke Fun: "Despite its status as the world’s largest democracy, the extent of India’s freedom of expression remains a controversial topic"
Jan 4, 2012 Scam-scarred Goa gears up for polls: "From between the mountainous heaps of illegally mined ore and humungous moral craters of political corruption"
Jan 4, 2012 Kushwaha leaves BJP in an embarrassing position: "An embarrassed BJP claims the raids are a Congress-BSP plot, but is now struggling to explain the induction of the tainted minister."
Jan 4, 2012 Kushwaha, raids and the BJP’s misadventure: "Babusingh Kushwaha, a prime suspect in the multi-crore scam in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission"
Jan 4, 2012 UP: NREGA scam in Sonia Gandhi's constituency?: "In the last 2 years, Rs 280 crore were spent on MNREGS projects in Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli constituency."
Jan 4, 2012 Subba charges framed: "A local court today framed charges against former Congress MP from Assam, Mani Kumar Subba, for allegedly raping a woman in 2010"
Jan 4, 2012 Why didn't CBI act when Kushwaha was in BSP, asks BJP
Jan 4, 2012 CBI raids 60 places, ex-BSP minister under scanner: "The CBI Wednesday raided about 60 places across Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, including the premises of former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and his associates, in an effort to unravel the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam."
Jan 4, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI raids Kushwaha, UP officer: "Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former BSP MLA had joined the BJP on Tuesday ahead of the UP polls."
Jan 4, 2012 Bhanwari Devi murder case solved, says CBI: "CBI sources said Mahipal Maderna, Congress MLA Malkhan Singh and Bhanwari's husband were all part of the conspiracy."
Jan 4, 2012 Look who’s hiring: "there is a hole in the halo. In UP, the BJP has just welcomed into its fold Babu Singh Kushwaha and Badshah Singh, former ministers in the Mayawati government, both sacked on graft charges."
Jan 4, 2012 Molestation charges haunt Beant Singh's kin preparing for poll: ""Bureau of Consular affairs has warned American women not to travel alone in India. And several countries, including the US and UK warn their citizens that women sometimes face physical harassment by local men, euphemistically known in India as eve-teasing,""
Jan 4, 2012 UP BJP suspends leader for criticising Kushwaha's induction: "The suspension order came late on Wednesday evening after central leaders Ananth Kumar and Vinay Katiyar openly defended Kushwaha, who was shown doors by UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati holding him responsible for multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam"
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 Key aide arrested, Jagan next?: "CBI on Monday night (January 2) arrested Vijayasai Reddy, the auditor of companies of Y S R Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, who faces a disproportionate asset case."
Jan 3, 2012 'Save Yeddy plan' in place?: "A Preliminary probe conducted by a top Karnataka cop finds 191police officers innocent. The preliminary report contradicts Justice Santosh Hegde's report on illegal mining."
Jan 3, 2012 Koda Will Have to Pay 1200 Crores Tax: "the former Chief Minister will have to pay 1200 crore as Income Tax within six months, otherwise penalty and other proceedings against him will be taken."
Jan 3, 2012 SC rejects Maudany’s bail plea: "directed the Karnataka government to provide Maudany, founder of People’s Democratic Party in Kerala, treatment"
Jan 3, 2012 CBI arrests Jagan Mohan Reddy's aide: "With the arrest, the CBI is one step closer to arresting Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case."
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 3, 2012 BJP laps up tainted ex-ministers discarded by Mayawati: "Badshah Singh, who was also expelled from the cabinet by Mayawati and has several pending criminal cases against him"
Jan 3, 2012 BJP takes Mayawati's 'tainted discards' into its fold: "In a complete volte face to their high moral ground on the Lokpal bill, the BJP welcomed into its fold the prime suspect of the 10000 crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam and chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati's castoff Babu Singh Kushwaha."
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 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 CPI-M mocks at PM’s initiatives to tackle corruption: "the fact is that two governments under Manmohan Singh have gifted the people with corruption"
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 Probe against HDK handed over to Lokayukta: "The New Year did not bode well for former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy as the Special Lokayukta Court on Monday, handed over the probe into a private complaint involving him and then forest minister C Chennigappa to the Lokayukta police."
Jan 2, 2012 Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister: "Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman"
Jan 1, 2012 New York Times: Political Bickering and Government Inaction Marked the Year in India: "Shouting and bickering like schoolchildren, Indian lawmakers provided the nation with a televised reality show of the political class in action."
Jan 1, 2012 Wall Street Journal: Tihar Jail’s New Year’s Resolution: 100% Literacy: "South Asia’s largest prison, Tihar Jail, is infamous for sheltering notorious inmates, including corrupt Indian bureaucrats and big-ticket politicians.", "Suresh Kalmadi, jailed this year for corruption is not participating in the literacy drive due to “security concerns.”"
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 Gulfnews: India's weakest premier
Jan 1, 2012 Anti-graft law defeat caps year of failure for Indian PM: "The Bill's defeat is further blow to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, capping a year of setbacks."
Jan 1, 2012 The saga of the Lokpal Bill: "The drama in the Rajya Sabha showed that the UPA government was not willing to go even by the will of Parliament. This gives rise to fundamental questions about the functioning of Indian democracy."
Jan 1, 2012 India needs real democracy
Jan 1, 2012 Lokpal fallout: PM faces protest: "About three dozen supporters of social activist Anna Hazare staged protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA government for non enacting Lokpal bill"
Jan 1, 2012 Raja, Kalmadi relish paneer, kheer, halwa in Tihar 2012: "Only well behaved prisoners are allowed to use the phone. The prisoners also got special food to mark New Year: vegetable curry with paneer, kheer, halwa, puri, parathas and pulao."
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 31, 2011 Top cops, bureaucrats, politicians’ kin in fray: "It’s a mad rush for party tickets in Punjab. Among the list of lucky ones so far are Punjab’s top cops, senior bureaucrats who until recently held coveted posts in the incumbent regime, kin of politicians, wives of policemen and even some tainted faces."
Dec 31, 2011 Conspiratorial silence: Advani stings PM again: "LK Advani on Saturday charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with “conspiratorial silence and acquiescence” on the issue, saying he opted for silence at a time when the country expected “honest transparent leadership” from him."
Dec 31, 2011 Book of unparliamentary words guides ‘clean’ debate: "An illiterate MP can’t be called “angootha chhaap”, and it is unparliamentary to suggest that a member should be sent to the “ajayabghar” (museum)."
Dec 31, 2011 UP minister threatens Lokayukta, EC seeks report: "A day after state energy minister Ramveer Upadhyaya lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra for 'daring' to probe corruption charges against him"
Dec 30, 2011 Ahead of polls, Maya sacks 4 more netas: "taking the number of her ministerial colleagues shown the door in the past six days alone to 10. In all, she has sacked 17 ministers in the past six months on charges of corruption and anti-party activities."
Dec 30, 2011 Major Scandals of 2011: "2G Spectrum scam:"
Dec 30, 2011 Anti-corruption bill creates chaos in India’s upper house: "Lawmakers adjourn without agreement on the proposed Lokpal bill"
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: Criticism after India corruption bill vote delayed: "India's opposition parties have bitterly criticised the government for its failure to put the controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill to a vote in the upper house of parliament."
Dec 30, 2011 BBC: A subversion of Indian democracy?: "Are India's politicians serious about cleaning up public life?"
Dec 30, 2011 New York Times: Is Lokpal Jinxed, or Was This a Serial Killing?: "Nine times in the past four decades, a Lokpal bill to create an anti-corruption ombudsman has been introduced in India’s Parliament, and eight times the bill has died. In its most current incarnation, the bill is in intensive care."
Dec 30, 2011 The Canadian: Lokpal in India: Politics around the anti-corruption agency: "Behind the facade of democracy, India, which is among the most corrupt nations on this earth, does everything anti-democratic. The founding leaders of a newly freed India PM Jawaharlal Nehru and police minister Vallabhai Patel, and military minister Menon, by sidelining MK Gandhi who fought for and won freedom from UK, created a system which essentially anti-people; and they are chiefly guilty of creating such a criminally corrupt and state terrorist nation in Asia in the first place."
Dec 30, 2011 The Independent: A fitting end to a disastrous year in Indian politics: "It was a fitting end to a disastrous year for corruption-ridden India’s floundering government, destructive parliamentary opposition, and self-serving politicians."
Dec 30, 2011 Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di: "The Indic tradition allows man to prosper by washing his dirty linen in a muck-flushed river", "the Lok Sabha took to debating the stillborn watchdog bill that was eventually strangulated at yearend by the elders of the upper house of Parliament, my wife bribed the keeper at Delhi Zoo with a crisp hundred-rupee note to walk her and my daughter through the feeding enclosure of the lions."
Dec 30, 2011 India: Acme Of Insincerity, Ineptitude And Infamy – OpEd: "The Government of Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Congress Party headed by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi conducted themselves in a manner that confirmed the suspicions of many — particularly in the younger generation that is the future of this country — that they have been insincere in their professions of wanting to rid this country of the evil of corruption"
Dec 30, 2011 Jaitley coins 'flee-dom' at midnight: "Bringing the Prime Minister in the line of fire, BJP on Friday (December 30) accused him and his ministers for the "choreographed disturbance" in the Rajya Sabha on the Lokpal issue and insisted that since the government wanted a weak ombudsman and lacked numbers, it ran away from a vote."
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 Short of numbers, govt bailed out by clock at midnight - What everybody wanted: nobody’s bill frozen for now : "At midnight — the already extended session had permission from the President to run only till the end of calendar date December 29"
Dec 30, 2011 Koda and his Aides Back to Prison: "Following the investigation by the doctors of Army Hospital, as per the orders of High Court, former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Deepak Joshi have been sent back to the Birsa Munda Central Jail"
Dec 30, 2011 Fraud on Parliament: "Congress is politically bankrupt, morally tainted"
Dec 30, 2011 City Briefs; Lokayukta orders action against councillor: "Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Thursday recommended that a woman councillor from East Delhi be suspended as token punishment for encroaching land to extend her home in Jhilmil Colony."
Dec 30, 2011 Janardhana Reddy’s 2-day escort bail petition quashed: "the CBI opposed the petition saying the programme in Bellary is aimed at intimidating the witnesses. The CBI prosecutor pointed out that Reddy’s supporters arranged a large number of huge cut-outs and hundreds of vehicles in Bellary even before the designated court granting him bail.", "Gali is in possession of several fake passports and could vanish out of the country in no time."
Dec 30, 2011 CIC seeks data on Krishna’s UK visit: "Krishna got his five-day visit in June, 2011 extended to watch a Wimbeldon match."
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