|
|
| |
| |
|
|
RSS |
Latest News of Indian Politicians, Governments,
Political Parties:
For old news of indian politicians, please click in the sub-menu navigation bar above
For old news of indian politicians, please click in the sub-menu navigation bar above
Dec 30, 2011 Team Anna blames Ansari for Lokpal fiasco in Rajya Sabha: "Team Anna today faulted Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for abruptly adjourning the Upper House sine die without a vote on the Lokpal Bill."
Dec 30, 2011 Who orchestrated chaos in Rajya Sabha?: "The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night.", alleged fixing in parliament"
Dec 29, 2011 UPA has egg on its face, Bill in deep freeze after RS midnight farce
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill put to sleep at midnight: "Faced with a certain defeat in the Rajya Sabha over the Lokpal Bill, the government on Thursday ducked the vote, leaving the fate of the landmark anti-corruption legislation in limbo and prompting many parties to term it a sad day for India's parliamentary democracy."
Dec 29, 2011 The Telegraph: Corrupt elites are being named and shamed – by the people: "Around the world, tyrants and thieving officials are running out of places to hide.", "In India, Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old activist, has used civil disobedience and hunger strikes to force the Indian parliament to pass anti-corruption legislation this year."
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption in India: "The bill, which would set-up independent ombudsmen to keep a check on government corruption"
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption concerns likely to dominate civic polls: "civic representatives are now gearing up to face the electorate in a new avatar - preparing to face some direct questions during their door-to-door campaign and answering some hard questions on corruption."
Dec 29, 2011 Jethmalani's remarks create flutter in RS during Lokpal debate: "Noted advocate and BJP member Ram Jethmalani today created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha when he made certain remarks against persons having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 29, 2011 Live: No Lokpal once again, Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die
Dec 29, 2011 Military ‘exam’ for Koda, others: "A court appointed medical board of a military hospital today examined Madhu Koda and three others, but did not reveal its findings to ascertain whether the former chief minister and his cabinet colleagues facing corruption charges were feigning illness to remain in hospital and avoid jail."
Dec 29, 2011 'एक धेले का क़ानून नहीं': "पिछले 30 सालों में सीबीआई के पास करीब 10,000 मामले लंबित हैं."
Dec 29, 2011 No point in passing this 'useless' Bill: Team Anna
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill complicated, absurd: Arun Jaitley: "While speaking in the RS, he said that the sense of the nation should be taken into consideration."
Dec 29, 2011 Congress started corruption in India: Jethmalani: "he made remarks against a former PM having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 28, 2011 Anna Hazare makes into CIA's Factbook: "Anna Hazare is currently on fast in Mumbai and has asked people to be ready for an 'aar paar ki ladai' (fight to finish) to stamp out corruption and ensure that "goondas" do not enter Parliament."
Dec 28, 2011 Was that thing in the Lok Sabha really a debate? Naah…: "The debate in parliament on the Lokpal bill suffered from one major deficiency: the fact that it was called a debate."
Dec 28, 2011 5 MLAs face quiz: "All five MLAs named in the cash-for-vote scam and accused of criminal conspiracy by agreeing to accept bribes to vote for a particular candidate during the June 2010 Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand will be summoned by the state vigilance department "
Dec 28, 2011 UPA Govt has betrayed the people of India: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal said if Congress is able to pass the Lokpal Bill then they don't have any problems with the party."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill won't fight corruption: Bhushan: "Team Anna made it clear that they were not satisfied with the Lokpal Bill that has been passed in the Lok Sabha."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption and the South Asian: "political parties and police as the most corrupt institutions—something which most of us are already aware or agree."
Dec 27, 2011 'Pulse import by Pawar ministry led to Rs 1k cr loss': "companies were given the imported consignments through a skewed tender process. These private companies, the report says, are also major players in the pulses market. They took a long time to lift the imported consignments, which ensured that prices of pulses in the domestic market remained high."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's motive on Lokpal highly suspicious: BJP: "Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday said that the government's Lokpal Bill is very weak."
Dec 27, 2011 We oppose the concept of Lokpal: Shiv Sena: "We should not take wrong step in the name of curbing the corruption, Shiv Sena leader Anant Geete said."
Dec 27, 2011 भ्रष्टाचार – मुद्दे का सरकारीकरण और एक राजनैतिक साजिश: "यह एक व्यस्था सुधार का विचार है, इसे अब व्यक्ति से दूर रखकर भी सोचो तो भी कटघरे में बेशर्मो तुम ही नज़र आओगे| मगर तुम दुस्साहसी भ्रष्ट लोग ऐसा नहीं करोगे, तुम तो बस बयानबाजी करोगे| भ्रष्टाचार निवारण की ठोस कारवाही करने में हीलाहवाली……. निर्लज्ज सत्ताधारियो… तुम्हारे नंगे तेवर दिखाती है|"
Dec 27, 2011 Govt has weakened the CBI further: Bedi: "Kiran Bedi says the government will have to explain as to why it has kept the CBI out of the Lokpal."
Dec 27, 2011 Anna challenges Sonia to debate on Lokpal: "Hazare said the Lokpal Bill draft has no power and alleges that the Government is not listening to the people."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI files chargesheet against ex Jharkhand minister in DA case: "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda's close aide and his ex-ministerial colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi was chargesheeted today by CBI for allegedly acquiring disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs seven crore.", "The chargesheet had accused Koda of misusing his position to allegedly benefit Sinha and Choudhary in taking "bribes" from various companies in the allotment of lease of iron mines in the State."
Dec 27, 2011 FIR filed against BJP MLA C T Ravi: "An FIR was filed against ruling BJP MLA C T Ravi by Lokayukta police in connection with alleged irregularities in securing government land in Chikmagalur."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI estimates illegal mining by OMC led to loss of Rs 5,100 crore: "The CBI today told a local court that illegal mining allegedly involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy had resulted in a loss of Rs 5,100 crore to the state exchequer."
Dec 27, 2011 Lokpal: Lalu mocks Team Anna, mass agitation: "RJD Chief Lalu Yadav also questioned bringing the Prime Minister and MPs under Lokpal's ambit."
Dec 27, 2011 Sukhram's conviction upheld by HC: "In a setback to former Telecom Minister Sukhram, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (December 21) upheld his conviction and three year jail term in the 1996 telecom scam."
Dec 27, 2011 Court denies bail to Koda in money laundering case: "former chief minister Madhu Koda. Koda, who has been in jail since November 2009, is charged of laundering over Rs. 1,340 crore."
Dec 27, 2011 People will teach this Govt a lesson: Anna: "Anna Hazare said his team will go to the people and tell them how this Government has cheated the people of India."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt Lokpal Bill is like a post office: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal also says the Citizens' Charter Bill will collapse within 10 days of enactment."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill totally unacceptable: Hegde: "Justice Santosh Hegde has asked if FDI in retail is more important than fighting against corruption."
Dec 27, 2011 Chidambaram would be in jail if CBI comes under Lokpal: Anna Hazare: "Anna Hazare on Wednesday accused it of cheating the people by bringing a weak Bill to save corrupt politicians."
Dec 27, 2011 1996 Telecom scam: HC orders ex-minister Sukhram to serve sentence: "also upheld the conviction of ex-deputy Director-General of the Department of Telecom (DoT) Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Managing Director P Rama Rao."
Dec 27, 2011 Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due towards Air India: "In 2011-12, foreign travel bill of cabinet ministers was a staggering Rs 460.78 crore till December 16, 2011"
Dec 27, 2011 Yogita Thakre case: Court rejects closure report: "The 7-year-old girl was found dead in the boot of a car near BJP President Nitin Gadkari's home on May 19, 2009."
Dec 27, 2011 Calgary Herald: Jain: Prosperity hasn't cured all that ails India: "rich have grown richer and the poor have become poorer", "Rahul Gandhi - son of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Rajiv's Italian wife Sonya - who now indirectly runs the government, preached that the only way to eliminate corruption was to modify the democratic system"
Dec 27, 2011 The Sydney Morning Herald: Time is running out for a respectable leader trapped in a bad government: "In the most dramatic scene in Shakespeare's play, an aged and humiliated King Lear - betrayed by the corruption and avarice of those around him - staggers into a storm railing against his own folly in trusting "thou wretch that hast within thee undivulged crimes, unwhipped of justice". In the colourful land of Indian politics, Manmohan Singh is perhaps the least demonstrative Prime Minister the country has known.", "His telecom minister was also jailed this year, charged with robbing the country of $40 billion and taking massive kickbacks.", "Singh, once venerated, is now mocked by opponents as a puppet of Gandhi, and beholden to vested backroom interests."
Dec 27, 2011 The C in Congress: "Perhaps the Congress is in love with the “C” in its name. Corruption was not enough. It had to become corrupt, casteist, communal and cynical. India’s tragedy is that there is no national level challenger to this party that is diminishing us all."
Dec 26, 2011 Govt against corruption-free India: Anna
Dec 26, 2011 Reuters: Gandhi clan blamed for keeping India in poverty: ""Who has exercised corruption? The party in power, and the party in power for the majority of the years has been the Congress party and in the Congress party, the Gandhi family.""
Dec 26, 2011 Kiran Bedi blames Congress, Gandhi family for corruption in India: "The Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for most of the 64 years since independence has kept the world's largest democracy in poverty"
Dec 26, 2011 Team Anna says linking Hazare with RSS is govt propaganda
Dec 26, 2011 Our self-serving public servants: "Members of Parliament want red beacons on their cars as that will set them apart from the masses whom they claim to represent!"
Dec 26, 2011 Bhanwari killed on Maderna's order: CBI sources: "Sahi Ram Bishnoi, was allegedly paid money by Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh to kill the nurse."
Dec 25, 2011 Al Jazeera: India's Hazare versus government corruption: "I've seen scores of ordinary Indians coming out on the streets in his support, the numbers increasingly swelling in his favour and rattling the government"
Dec 25, 2011 UP minister for small-scale industries draws salary as principal, teacher: "the assignment is making him richer by approximately 4,50,000 a month as salaries of all 17 teachers in the staff, was found to be credited to his account regularly. It was discovered that the list of teachers was fictitious."
Dec 25, 2011 Mayawati's 'operation clean' on election eve, sacks four ministers: "All the ministers were facing Lokayukta inquiry for corruption. "
Dec 24, 2011 Guess who’s the real ‘dictator’: Not Team Anna, but Sonia: "you have a Rajmata who has her regal way by trampling legitimate criticism from within her own government and gets a fiscally ruinous bill rammed through – and won’t even appear in public to address the concerns relating to the bill."
Dec 24, 2011 Maderna's judicial custody extended: "The CBI chargesheet says Sahi Ram plotted to kill Bhanwari at former minister Mahipal Maderna's behest."
Dec 24, 2011 Sex, lies, blackmail: "The Bhanwari Devi sex scandal involving two senior leaders of the Congress has come as a major embarrassment to the party’s three-year-old government in Rajasthan."
Dec 24, 2011 Minority quota a poll gimmick: Sachar Committee: "Sachar Committee member Abu Saleh Shariff claims the Muslim community's condition has worsened under the UPA."
Dec 24, 2011 Bijli, sadak, jaati: "It remains unclear whether the party believes that minorities can be ‘fooled’ by any other kind (read: its own) of rhetoric."
Dec 24, 2011 National Interest: The caste of corruption: "do Muslims tend to be more criminal than Hindus", "Mera Neta Chor Hai""
Dec 23, 2011 State govt aided Adarsh scam: CAG: "The state government has been blamed for actively aiding and abetting the Adarsh housing society scam, in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India"
Dec 23, 2011 CBI counsel draws parallel between OMC, Satyam scams: "urged the court to reject the bail applications of the accused - Gali Janardhan Reddy and BV Srinivas Reddy of OMC."
Dec 23, 2011 Transparency International: South Asia: Corruption plagues daily life - Political parties and police seen as most corrupt : "more than one in three people who deal with public services said they pay bribes. In previous surveys of this nature, only Sub-Saharan Africa had a higher rate of bribe-paying."
Dec 23, 2011 Why Abdullahs are critics of Anna Hazaare…?: "Jammu and Kashmir was last year declared and ranked as second corrupt state in the country. In such circumstances, the state of Jammu and Kashmir needed to take lead in making any such anti corruption law at its own which will have provision of even investigating and prosecuting the chief minister in chair."
Dec 23, 2011 The New York Times: Anticorruption Bill Provokes an Outcry in India: "India’s national government, led by the Congress Party, has spent the past year mired in ugly corruption scandals or stumbling from self-inflicted political miscues."
Dec 23, 2011 Politicians, cops most corrupt: Survey
Dec 23, 2011 After corruption at Dharamshala, Cong to highlight ‘dynasty rule’ in Dhumal dist: "Harmirpur, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s home district, was affected by dynasty rule"
Dec 23, 2011 Netas, cops most corrupt: Survey: "The survey, released by Transparency International, found that 64% Indians bribed police for one reason or the other while 55% felt that the government was ineffective in the fight against corruption."
Dec 23, 2011 Wall Strret Journal: Corruption Rampant In South Asia, Study Says: "More than one in three people who deal with public services in South Asia pay bribes", "Political parties and the police are the most corrupt institutions in each of the six countries, followed closely by legislatures and public officials"
Dec 23, 2011 One step forward, two steps back: "Hopelessly ineffectual and constitutionally suspect, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 is nothing less than a betrayal of national trust."
Dec 23, 2011 ‘Investors’ are realty’s mafia; that’s why prices can’t come down: "these investors are not generally you and me buying a second flat for investment, but non-resident Indians or even politicians channelising their black money into the sector."
Dec 23, 2011 Chargesheet Against Bhanu Filed: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet against former health minister of Jharkhand, Bhanu Pratap Shahi"
Dec 23, 2011 36 MLA lips sealed on property - Even ministers flout Speaker’s Dec. 21 deadline to furnish information : "“Till yesterday, only 20 legislators have submitted their property details before the Assembly secretariat,” said Speaker"
Dec 23, 2011 corruption - political conspiracy
Dec 22, 2011 Gunmen chase, kill realtor in bustling Howrah locality: "A promoter was chased down a busy road by 8-10 gunmen in Howrah on Thursday morning, cornered in a residential locality and shot and hacked to death in front of horrified women and children."
Dec 21, 2011 FTN: Are politicians scared of an independent CBI?: "Team Anna on Wednesday attacked the government for keeping CBI out of Lokpal's ambit."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 Over 1,500 died in custody: NHRC: "As many as 1,574 people were killed in custody in the past year, according to the data released by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 331 deaths being reported in both police and judicial custody."
Dec 20, 2011 Team Anna prays for ‘sane govt’: "In the morning, hundreds went to Mahim church and, in the evening, to Haji Ali Dargah."
Dec 20, 2011 BJP targets Chidambaram: "accusing him of showing "disrespect" to Parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier."
Dec 20, 2011 Declare property in 2 days: Speaker - Warning for MLAs reluctant to furnish details: "corruption cases are pending against several public figures, including former chief minister Madhu Koda and four of his cabinet colleagues."
Dec 20, 2011 Lokpal: Anna to fast for 3 days, calls govt a cheat: "Anna Hazare rejected the Lokpal draft and Citizens' Charter Bill, and threatened to resume his agitation."
Dec 20, 2011 HC notice to ailing Koda and Co.: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda and his cabinet colleagues Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Shahi today invited the ire of Jharkhand High Court, which hauled them up for allegedly faking illness to avoid being incarcerated in Birsa Munda Central Jail.", "He also questioned the role of the jail authorities and doctors of RIMS who have allegedly connived to ensure that high-profile prisoners stay in RIMS and do not have to go to jail.""
Dec 20, 2011 Raid on Yelahanka MLA’s houses yield 2.6 kg gold: "The raid, headed by Bangalore Urban Superintendent of Police P K Shivashankar and DySP Girish S, led to a haul of 2.6 kg of gold articles, Rs 14.5 lakh in cash, 11 kg of silver articles and currency of $3,500."
Dec 20, 2011 Uproar in Parliament over Chidambaram, Gita: "The BJP moved a privilege motion against Chidambaram for speaking on the SP Gupta issue outside Parliament."
Dec 20, 2011 Andhra minister attacked with eggs: "The war between two cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh came into the open on Tuesday when followers of one attacked the other with stones, eggs and tomatoes.", "people who were raising slogans terming him a "land grabber"."
Dec 19, 2011 22 months after Bellary dy mayor killed, CID probes links with a Reddy: "Padmavathi Yadav, 36, was known to be a close confidante of Bellary City MLA G Somashekhar Reddy, one of the Bellary Reddy brothers."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja hatched 2G conspiracy: Former aide: "Jailed former communications minister A. Raja's former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary Monday told a special court here that the DMK leader hatched the conspiracy on 2G spectrum licences much before he headed the ministry."
Dec 19, 2011 2G accused corporate honchos visited Raja since 2004: Ex-aide: "the former minister was in touch with Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra even during his stint with the ministry of environment and forests between 2004-07."
Dec 19, 2011 CAG challenges Government: "CAG puts out detailed mathematical logic, methodology and figure estimating the loss. The CAG has challenged government and is sticking to the estimated 1.76 lakh crore loss figure on 2G scam."
Dec 19, 2011 True cost of Dynasty: Sonia sends us a Rs 5,45,000 cr bill : "The Sonia-Rahul re-election bill so far thus amounts to Rs 3,05,000 crore."
Dec 19, 2011 Hooch, politics and India’s reality show: "There’s something grotesquely obscene about lifeless human bodies, piled one upon another in a wobbly pyramid, being carted on a trolley. Some of the dead are middle-aged men, others are young; the body at the top of the human pyramid is that of a youth, barely in his twenties"
Dec 19, 2011 Govt wants to whitewash criminal cases, alleges Bharadwaj: "Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today accused the government of adopting delaying tactics in appointment of a new Lokayukta to ''whitewash'' criminal cases and questioned the consultation process in recommending the name of S R Bannurmath to head the anti-corruption watchdog."
Dec 19, 2011 PC must clarify on conflict of interest: Jaitley
Dec 19, 2011 Corruption mars Goa's 50th liberation anniversary: "The big mining scam has taken the sheen off the celebrations of 50 years of liberation of Goa."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja, Kani involved in 2G scam: Raja's ex-aide: "He also said Sanjay Chandra, Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka were known to Raja from his days as environment minister.", "A Raja allocated spectrum by Tamil Nadu's Ration shop mechanism"
Dec 19, 2011 Rs 7.25 crore spent on advertisements on birth anniversaries of Rajiv, Indira Gandhi: "Government had spent Rs 4.79 crore and Rs 2.46 crore on print media advertisements on the occasion of birth anniversaries of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi respectively."
Dec 18, 2011 People punished Left Front for corruption: Buddha: ""Some people associated with the party used this as a platform to mint money. The people have punished us for that and we were thrown out."
Dec 18, 2011 Meghalaya assembly to quiz cop for booking MLA: "A traffic constable in Shillong will have to answer before the Meghalaya assembly for the "offence" of booking an MLA who had allegedly violated road rules.", "Lyngdoh had told the traffic policeman who he was, but the latter said he had no option but to go by the law."
Dec 18, 2011 Why politicians want to control the internet?: "Politicians want to control the internet because they are worried about internet scams taking over their games."
Dec 18, 2011 Congess Scams - A list: "who was responsible for money being paid to Congress? Obviously its president – Sonia Gandhi"
Dec 18, 2011 Subramanian Swamy finds Sonia Gandhi 'root cause of corruption' in India: ""The root cause of corruption, which is spreading in India is Sonia Gandhi. Till the time Sonia Gandhi would not get punished, it is impossible to remove corruption from the country,""
Dec 18, 2011 PM is honest but remote controlled, moans Anna Hazare
| First Prev 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Next Last |
Dec 30, 2011 Team Anna blames Ansari for Lokpal fiasco in Rajya Sabha: "Team Anna today faulted Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for abruptly adjourning the Upper House sine die without a vote on the Lokpal Bill."
Dec 30, 2011 Who orchestrated chaos in Rajya Sabha?: "The Lokpal Bill has failed to get Parliament's approval yet again when the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die abruptly on Thursday night.", alleged fixing in parliament"
Dec 29, 2011 UPA has egg on its face, Bill in deep freeze after RS midnight farce
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill put to sleep at midnight: "Faced with a certain defeat in the Rajya Sabha over the Lokpal Bill, the government on Thursday ducked the vote, leaving the fate of the landmark anti-corruption legislation in limbo and prompting many parties to term it a sad day for India's parliamentary democracy."
Dec 29, 2011 The Telegraph: Corrupt elites are being named and shamed – by the people: "Around the world, tyrants and thieving officials are running out of places to hide.", "In India, Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old activist, has used civil disobedience and hunger strikes to force the Indian parliament to pass anti-corruption legislation this year."
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption in India: "The bill, which would set-up independent ombudsmen to keep a check on government corruption"
Dec 29, 2011 Corruption concerns likely to dominate civic polls: "civic representatives are now gearing up to face the electorate in a new avatar - preparing to face some direct questions during their door-to-door campaign and answering some hard questions on corruption."
Dec 29, 2011 Jethmalani's remarks create flutter in RS during Lokpal debate: "Noted advocate and BJP member Ram Jethmalani today created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha when he made certain remarks against persons having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 29, 2011 Live: No Lokpal once again, Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die
Dec 29, 2011 Military ‘exam’ for Koda, others: "A court appointed medical board of a military hospital today examined Madhu Koda and three others, but did not reveal its findings to ascertain whether the former chief minister and his cabinet colleagues facing corruption charges were feigning illness to remain in hospital and avoid jail."
Dec 29, 2011 'एक धेले का क़ानून नहीं': "पिछले 30 सालों में सीबीआई के पास करीब 10,000 मामले लंबित हैं."
Dec 29, 2011 No point in passing this 'useless' Bill: Team Anna
Dec 29, 2011 Lokpal Bill complicated, absurd: Arun Jaitley: "While speaking in the RS, he said that the sense of the nation should be taken into consideration."
Dec 29, 2011 Congress started corruption in India: Jethmalani: "he made remarks against a former PM having money stashed away in Swiss banks."
Dec 28, 2011 Anna Hazare makes into CIA's Factbook: "Anna Hazare is currently on fast in Mumbai and has asked people to be ready for an 'aar paar ki ladai' (fight to finish) to stamp out corruption and ensure that "goondas" do not enter Parliament."
Dec 28, 2011 Was that thing in the Lok Sabha really a debate? Naah…: "The debate in parliament on the Lokpal bill suffered from one major deficiency: the fact that it was called a debate."
Dec 28, 2011 5 MLAs face quiz: "All five MLAs named in the cash-for-vote scam and accused of criminal conspiracy by agreeing to accept bribes to vote for a particular candidate during the June 2010 Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand will be summoned by the state vigilance department "
Dec 28, 2011 UPA Govt has betrayed the people of India: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal said if Congress is able to pass the Lokpal Bill then they don't have any problems with the party."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill won't fight corruption: Bhushan: "Team Anna made it clear that they were not satisfied with the Lokpal Bill that has been passed in the Lok Sabha."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption and the South Asian: "political parties and police as the most corrupt institutions—something which most of us are already aware or agree."
Dec 27, 2011 'Pulse import by Pawar ministry led to Rs 1k cr loss': "companies were given the imported consignments through a skewed tender process. These private companies, the report says, are also major players in the pulses market. They took a long time to lift the imported consignments, which ensured that prices of pulses in the domestic market remained high."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's motive on Lokpal highly suspicious: BJP: "Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday said that the government's Lokpal Bill is very weak."
Dec 27, 2011 We oppose the concept of Lokpal: Shiv Sena: "We should not take wrong step in the name of curbing the corruption, Shiv Sena leader Anant Geete said."
Dec 27, 2011 भ्रष्टाचार – मुद्दे का सरकारीकरण और एक राजनैतिक साजिश: "यह एक व्यस्था सुधार का विचार है, इसे अब व्यक्ति से दूर रखकर भी सोचो तो भी कटघरे में बेशर्मो तुम ही नज़र आओगे| मगर तुम दुस्साहसी भ्रष्ट लोग ऐसा नहीं करोगे, तुम तो बस बयानबाजी करोगे| भ्रष्टाचार निवारण की ठोस कारवाही करने में हीलाहवाली……. निर्लज्ज सत्ताधारियो… तुम्हारे नंगे तेवर दिखाती है|"
Dec 27, 2011 Govt has weakened the CBI further: Bedi: "Kiran Bedi says the government will have to explain as to why it has kept the CBI out of the Lokpal."
Dec 27, 2011 Anna challenges Sonia to debate on Lokpal: "Hazare said the Lokpal Bill draft has no power and alleges that the Government is not listening to the people."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI files chargesheet against ex Jharkhand minister in DA case: "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda's close aide and his ex-ministerial colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi was chargesheeted today by CBI for allegedly acquiring disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs seven crore.", "The chargesheet had accused Koda of misusing his position to allegedly benefit Sinha and Choudhary in taking "bribes" from various companies in the allotment of lease of iron mines in the State."
Dec 27, 2011 FIR filed against BJP MLA C T Ravi: "An FIR was filed against ruling BJP MLA C T Ravi by Lokayukta police in connection with alleged irregularities in securing government land in Chikmagalur."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI estimates illegal mining by OMC led to loss of Rs 5,100 crore: "The CBI today told a local court that illegal mining allegedly involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy had resulted in a loss of Rs 5,100 crore to the state exchequer."
Dec 27, 2011 Lokpal: Lalu mocks Team Anna, mass agitation: "RJD Chief Lalu Yadav also questioned bringing the Prime Minister and MPs under Lokpal's ambit."
Dec 27, 2011 Sukhram's conviction upheld by HC: "In a setback to former Telecom Minister Sukhram, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (December 21) upheld his conviction and three year jail term in the 1996 telecom scam."
Dec 27, 2011 Court denies bail to Koda in money laundering case: "former chief minister Madhu Koda. Koda, who has been in jail since November 2009, is charged of laundering over Rs. 1,340 crore."
Dec 27, 2011 People will teach this Govt a lesson: Anna: "Anna Hazare said his team will go to the people and tell them how this Government has cheated the people of India."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt Lokpal Bill is like a post office: Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal also says the Citizens' Charter Bill will collapse within 10 days of enactment."
Dec 27, 2011 Govt's Lokpal Bill totally unacceptable: Hegde: "Justice Santosh Hegde has asked if FDI in retail is more important than fighting against corruption."
Dec 27, 2011 Chidambaram would be in jail if CBI comes under Lokpal: Anna Hazare: "Anna Hazare on Wednesday accused it of cheating the people by bringing a weak Bill to save corrupt politicians."
Dec 27, 2011 1996 Telecom scam: HC orders ex-minister Sukhram to serve sentence: "also upheld the conviction of ex-deputy Director-General of the Department of Telecom (DoT) Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Managing Director P Rama Rao."
Dec 27, 2011 Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due towards Air India: "In 2011-12, foreign travel bill of cabinet ministers was a staggering Rs 460.78 crore till December 16, 2011"
Dec 27, 2011 Yogita Thakre case: Court rejects closure report: "The 7-year-old girl was found dead in the boot of a car near BJP President Nitin Gadkari's home on May 19, 2009."
Dec 27, 2011 Calgary Herald: Jain: Prosperity hasn't cured all that ails India: "rich have grown richer and the poor have become poorer", "Rahul Gandhi - son of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Rajiv's Italian wife Sonya - who now indirectly runs the government, preached that the only way to eliminate corruption was to modify the democratic system"
Dec 27, 2011 The Sydney Morning Herald: Time is running out for a respectable leader trapped in a bad government: "In the most dramatic scene in Shakespeare's play, an aged and humiliated King Lear - betrayed by the corruption and avarice of those around him - staggers into a storm railing against his own folly in trusting "thou wretch that hast within thee undivulged crimes, unwhipped of justice". In the colourful land of Indian politics, Manmohan Singh is perhaps the least demonstrative Prime Minister the country has known.", "His telecom minister was also jailed this year, charged with robbing the country of $40 billion and taking massive kickbacks.", "Singh, once venerated, is now mocked by opponents as a puppet of Gandhi, and beholden to vested backroom interests."
Dec 27, 2011 The C in Congress: "Perhaps the Congress is in love with the “C” in its name. Corruption was not enough. It had to become corrupt, casteist, communal and cynical. India’s tragedy is that there is no national level challenger to this party that is diminishing us all."
Dec 26, 2011 Govt against corruption-free India: Anna
Dec 26, 2011 Reuters: Gandhi clan blamed for keeping India in poverty: ""Who has exercised corruption? The party in power, and the party in power for the majority of the years has been the Congress party and in the Congress party, the Gandhi family.""
Dec 26, 2011 Kiran Bedi blames Congress, Gandhi family for corruption in India: "The Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for most of the 64 years since independence has kept the world's largest democracy in poverty"
Dec 26, 2011 Team Anna says linking Hazare with RSS is govt propaganda
Dec 26, 2011 Our self-serving public servants: "Members of Parliament want red beacons on their cars as that will set them apart from the masses whom they claim to represent!"
Dec 26, 2011 Bhanwari killed on Maderna's order: CBI sources: "Sahi Ram Bishnoi, was allegedly paid money by Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh to kill the nurse."
Dec 25, 2011 Al Jazeera: India's Hazare versus government corruption: "I've seen scores of ordinary Indians coming out on the streets in his support, the numbers increasingly swelling in his favour and rattling the government"
Dec 25, 2011 UP minister for small-scale industries draws salary as principal, teacher: "the assignment is making him richer by approximately 4,50,000 a month as salaries of all 17 teachers in the staff, was found to be credited to his account regularly. It was discovered that the list of teachers was fictitious."
Dec 25, 2011 Mayawati's 'operation clean' on election eve, sacks four ministers: "All the ministers were facing Lokayukta inquiry for corruption. "
Dec 24, 2011 Guess who’s the real ‘dictator’: Not Team Anna, but Sonia: "you have a Rajmata who has her regal way by trampling legitimate criticism from within her own government and gets a fiscally ruinous bill rammed through – and won’t even appear in public to address the concerns relating to the bill."
Dec 24, 2011 Maderna's judicial custody extended: "The CBI chargesheet says Sahi Ram plotted to kill Bhanwari at former minister Mahipal Maderna's behest."
Dec 24, 2011 Sex, lies, blackmail: "The Bhanwari Devi sex scandal involving two senior leaders of the Congress has come as a major embarrassment to the party’s three-year-old government in Rajasthan."
Dec 24, 2011 Minority quota a poll gimmick: Sachar Committee: "Sachar Committee member Abu Saleh Shariff claims the Muslim community's condition has worsened under the UPA."
Dec 24, 2011 Bijli, sadak, jaati: "It remains unclear whether the party believes that minorities can be ‘fooled’ by any other kind (read: its own) of rhetoric."
Dec 24, 2011 National Interest: The caste of corruption: "do Muslims tend to be more criminal than Hindus", "Mera Neta Chor Hai""
Dec 23, 2011 State govt aided Adarsh scam: CAG: "The state government has been blamed for actively aiding and abetting the Adarsh housing society scam, in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India"
Dec 23, 2011 CBI counsel draws parallel between OMC, Satyam scams: "urged the court to reject the bail applications of the accused - Gali Janardhan Reddy and BV Srinivas Reddy of OMC."
Dec 23, 2011 Transparency International: South Asia: Corruption plagues daily life - Political parties and police seen as most corrupt : "more than one in three people who deal with public services said they pay bribes. In previous surveys of this nature, only Sub-Saharan Africa had a higher rate of bribe-paying."
Dec 23, 2011 Why Abdullahs are critics of Anna Hazaare…?: "Jammu and Kashmir was last year declared and ranked as second corrupt state in the country. In such circumstances, the state of Jammu and Kashmir needed to take lead in making any such anti corruption law at its own which will have provision of even investigating and prosecuting the chief minister in chair."
Dec 23, 2011 The New York Times: Anticorruption Bill Provokes an Outcry in India: "India’s national government, led by the Congress Party, has spent the past year mired in ugly corruption scandals or stumbling from self-inflicted political miscues."
Dec 23, 2011 Politicians, cops most corrupt: Survey
Dec 23, 2011 After corruption at Dharamshala, Cong to highlight ‘dynasty rule’ in Dhumal dist: "Harmirpur, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s home district, was affected by dynasty rule"
Dec 23, 2011 Netas, cops most corrupt: Survey: "The survey, released by Transparency International, found that 64% Indians bribed police for one reason or the other while 55% felt that the government was ineffective in the fight against corruption."
Dec 23, 2011 Wall Strret Journal: Corruption Rampant In South Asia, Study Says: "More than one in three people who deal with public services in South Asia pay bribes", "Political parties and the police are the most corrupt institutions in each of the six countries, followed closely by legislatures and public officials"
Dec 23, 2011 One step forward, two steps back: "Hopelessly ineffectual and constitutionally suspect, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 is nothing less than a betrayal of national trust."
Dec 23, 2011 ‘Investors’ are realty’s mafia; that’s why prices can’t come down: "these investors are not generally you and me buying a second flat for investment, but non-resident Indians or even politicians channelising their black money into the sector."
Dec 23, 2011 Chargesheet Against Bhanu Filed: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet against former health minister of Jharkhand, Bhanu Pratap Shahi"
Dec 23, 2011 36 MLA lips sealed on property - Even ministers flout Speaker’s Dec. 21 deadline to furnish information : "“Till yesterday, only 20 legislators have submitted their property details before the Assembly secretariat,” said Speaker"
Dec 23, 2011 corruption - political conspiracy
Dec 22, 2011 Gunmen chase, kill realtor in bustling Howrah locality: "A promoter was chased down a busy road by 8-10 gunmen in Howrah on Thursday morning, cornered in a residential locality and shot and hacked to death in front of horrified women and children."
Dec 21, 2011 FTN: Are politicians scared of an independent CBI?: "Team Anna on Wednesday attacked the government for keeping CBI out of Lokpal's ambit."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 Over 1,500 died in custody: NHRC: "As many as 1,574 people were killed in custody in the past year, according to the data released by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 331 deaths being reported in both police and judicial custody."
Dec 20, 2011 Team Anna prays for ‘sane govt’: "In the morning, hundreds went to Mahim church and, in the evening, to Haji Ali Dargah."
Dec 20, 2011 BJP targets Chidambaram: "accusing him of showing "disrespect" to Parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier."
Dec 20, 2011 Declare property in 2 days: Speaker - Warning for MLAs reluctant to furnish details: "corruption cases are pending against several public figures, including former chief minister Madhu Koda and four of his cabinet colleagues."
Dec 20, 2011 Lokpal: Anna to fast for 3 days, calls govt a cheat: "Anna Hazare rejected the Lokpal draft and Citizens' Charter Bill, and threatened to resume his agitation."
Dec 20, 2011 HC notice to ailing Koda and Co.: "Former chief minister Madhu Koda and his cabinet colleagues Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Shahi today invited the ire of Jharkhand High Court, which hauled them up for allegedly faking illness to avoid being incarcerated in Birsa Munda Central Jail.", "He also questioned the role of the jail authorities and doctors of RIMS who have allegedly connived to ensure that high-profile prisoners stay in RIMS and do not have to go to jail.""
Dec 20, 2011 Raid on Yelahanka MLA’s houses yield 2.6 kg gold: "The raid, headed by Bangalore Urban Superintendent of Police P K Shivashankar and DySP Girish S, led to a haul of 2.6 kg of gold articles, Rs 14.5 lakh in cash, 11 kg of silver articles and currency of $3,500."
Dec 20, 2011 Uproar in Parliament over Chidambaram, Gita: "The BJP moved a privilege motion against Chidambaram for speaking on the SP Gupta issue outside Parliament."
Dec 20, 2011 Andhra minister attacked with eggs: "The war between two cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh came into the open on Tuesday when followers of one attacked the other with stones, eggs and tomatoes.", "people who were raising slogans terming him a "land grabber"."
Dec 19, 2011 22 months after Bellary dy mayor killed, CID probes links with a Reddy: "Padmavathi Yadav, 36, was known to be a close confidante of Bellary City MLA G Somashekhar Reddy, one of the Bellary Reddy brothers."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja hatched 2G conspiracy: Former aide: "Jailed former communications minister A. Raja's former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary Monday told a special court here that the DMK leader hatched the conspiracy on 2G spectrum licences much before he headed the ministry."
Dec 19, 2011 2G accused corporate honchos visited Raja since 2004: Ex-aide: "the former minister was in touch with Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra even during his stint with the ministry of environment and forests between 2004-07."
Dec 19, 2011 CAG challenges Government: "CAG puts out detailed mathematical logic, methodology and figure estimating the loss. The CAG has challenged government and is sticking to the estimated 1.76 lakh crore loss figure on 2G scam."
Dec 19, 2011 True cost of Dynasty: Sonia sends us a Rs 5,45,000 cr bill : "The Sonia-Rahul re-election bill so far thus amounts to Rs 3,05,000 crore."
Dec 19, 2011 Hooch, politics and India’s reality show: "There’s something grotesquely obscene about lifeless human bodies, piled one upon another in a wobbly pyramid, being carted on a trolley. Some of the dead are middle-aged men, others are young; the body at the top of the human pyramid is that of a youth, barely in his twenties"
Dec 19, 2011 Govt wants to whitewash criminal cases, alleges Bharadwaj: "Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today accused the government of adopting delaying tactics in appointment of a new Lokayukta to ''whitewash'' criminal cases and questioned the consultation process in recommending the name of S R Bannurmath to head the anti-corruption watchdog."
Dec 19, 2011 PC must clarify on conflict of interest: Jaitley
Dec 19, 2011 Corruption mars Goa's 50th liberation anniversary: "The big mining scam has taken the sheen off the celebrations of 50 years of liberation of Goa."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja, Kani involved in 2G scam: Raja's ex-aide: "He also said Sanjay Chandra, Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka were known to Raja from his days as environment minister.", "A Raja allocated spectrum by Tamil Nadu's Ration shop mechanism"
Dec 19, 2011 Rs 7.25 crore spent on advertisements on birth anniversaries of Rajiv, Indira Gandhi: "Government had spent Rs 4.79 crore and Rs 2.46 crore on print media advertisements on the occasion of birth anniversaries of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi respectively."
Dec 18, 2011 People punished Left Front for corruption: Buddha: ""Some people associated with the party used this as a platform to mint money. The people have punished us for that and we were thrown out."
Dec 18, 2011 Meghalaya assembly to quiz cop for booking MLA: "A traffic constable in Shillong will have to answer before the Meghalaya assembly for the "offence" of booking an MLA who had allegedly violated road rules.", "Lyngdoh had told the traffic policeman who he was, but the latter said he had no option but to go by the law."
Dec 18, 2011 Why politicians want to control the internet?: "Politicians want to control the internet because they are worried about internet scams taking over their games."
Dec 18, 2011 Congess Scams - A list: "who was responsible for money being paid to Congress? Obviously its president – Sonia Gandhi"
Dec 18, 2011 Subramanian Swamy finds Sonia Gandhi 'root cause of corruption' in India: ""The root cause of corruption, which is spreading in India is Sonia Gandhi. Till the time Sonia Gandhi would not get punished, it is impossible to remove corruption from the country,""
Dec 18, 2011 PM is honest but remote controlled, moans Anna Hazare
| First Prev 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Next Last |