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Nov 25, 2011 Another UP govt official raises banner of revolt, accuses minister of harassment and graft: "Requesting the Governor to relieve him, from services, Pandey has alleged that Rs 200 crore scam in purchases and supplies to farmers has taken place in his department in last few years. He has also alleged that a commission of 30-50% is charged to provide subsidy to farmers."
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar joins slapgate club: "Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was on Thursday slapped by a 35-year-old man who claimed he was agitated over rising prices and corruption"
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar assault: Can we prevent TV channels from making the assailant a hero?
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, Anna smirked
Nov 24, 2011 शरद पवार को युवक ने जड़ा चांटा
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop claims harassment by UP govt: "Another IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Amitabh Thakur, has slapped harassment charges on the senior bureaucrats of Mayawati government. Amitabh Thakur has filed the petition in the Allahabad High Court claiming harassment by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, Principal secretary, Home and Vijay Singh, Secretary to the Chief Minister."
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar slapped by youth in New Delhi: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today (November 24) slapped by a youth at a public function claiming he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Slapstick On Twitter: "Some reactions to the assault on Mr Sharad Pawar"
Nov 24, 2011 TN: Ex-DMK minister Durai Murugan raided: "the vigilance department raided nine of Murugan's properties in Chennai, Vellore and Kancheepuram."
Nov 24, 2011 Man calls Pawar corrupt, slaps him; Anna asks only one slap?: "Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today slapped at a public function by a young man who claimed he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Is anti-neta anger reaching dangerous proportions?: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has been slapped in full glare of TV cameras on Thursday.", "image of netas as far as the country is concerned is all time low"
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, netas targetted, is India angry?
Nov 24, 2011 Politicians attacked: Anti-neta anger rising?: "There have been a slew of incidents over the years where politicians have been assaulted or an attempt has been made."
Nov 24, 2011 Anna condemns attack on Pawar after rubbing it in: "Anna Hazare called the attack undemocratic a few hours after he asking if he (Pawar) was slapped just once."
Nov 24, 2011 Man slaps Sharad Pawar over price rise, graft: "Harvinder Singh, who even attempted to slash his wrists, cited rising prices as the reason for his anger."
Nov 24, 2011 Watch: Man who slapped Sharad Pawar
Nov 24, 2011 Anna reacts after Pawar assaulted: 'Was it only one slap?'
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar attacked: 'Was it only one slap?' Anna Hazare reacts: "Asked by reporters about his view on the attack on Pawar, who was slapped by a Sikh man. Hazare said: "Was it only one slap?" As the gathering burst out laughing, Hazare left."
Nov 24, 2011 Irresponsible political class tells India to go to hell
Nov 24, 2011 Rahul blames Maya for pilfering central funds
Nov 24, 2011 'Critical Deficiencies': "Response to the Citizens Right to Grievance Redress Bill proposed by the government", "This 5 member Central PublicGrievance Commission would be expected to solve all the grievances against all state andcentral government departments of 120 crore population. Obviously the system is designed tocollapse.2. The penalty clause for non redressal of grievance is vague, weak and fails to provide aneffective deterrence against non performance. There is no penalty provided against the Head of the Department."
Nov 24, 2011 Jayalalithaa's questioning in DA case over
Nov 24, 2011 Another Parliament day lost, Rs 4 crore goes down the drain
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop accuses Mayawati administration of harassment: "related to his suspension as Suprintendent of Police (SP), Gonda, in which the inquiry was deliberately kept pending for long by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and was closed after Singh was removed by the Election Commission from the post of principal secretary (home) during 2007 assembly elections. Similarly, another inquiry was quashed by CAT, Lucknow. In the fourth case, Amitabh, in the petition, has said that he is also not being promoted to the rank of DIG. Instead, he said, he has been posted to a non-existent "Rules and Manuals" department which has not yet been created by the state government and the post is not permissible as per IPS (Cadre) Rules."
Nov 24, 2011 Disproportionate assets: Sarees and footwears were mementos, says Jayalalithaa: "Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday defended that more than 10,000 sarees and 750 pairs of footwear that were seized by the anti-corruption wing of Tamil Nadu in 1997 were the "mementos" collected"
Nov 24, 2011 Mumbai legislators' hostel a source for obscene calls: "The reception at Manora, one of the four MLA hostels in Mumbai, receives at least two dozen complaints every day about obscene calls received from the hostel's numbers."
Nov 24, 2011 884 deaths due to encephalitis in the country: Govt
Nov 24, 2011 My foster son's Rs 6cr wedding expense not paid by me: Jayalalithaa: "The case was moved from Chennai to Bangalore in 2003 at the request of the DMK after it alleged that a free and fair trial would not be possible in the chief minister's home state."
Nov 24, 2011 The problem with Rahul Gandhi: Why the good prince isn’t good enough: "while Rahul has Mommy standing guard to ensure he gets his due deference."
Nov 24, 2011 Rahul, your criticism of the UP govt applies to the UPA too: "his sharp criticism of the Uttar Pradesh government at Barabanki today, applies to the Congress-led UPA government to a great extent at the Centre as well. If the UPA had the answers to all its problems it would not be in the mess it is today."
Nov 24, 2011 DA case: Jaya arrives at Bangalore court: "Jayalalithaa is accused of accumulated assets worth 66 crores during her tenure as Chief Minister between 1991-96."
Nov 24, 2011 Lok. court orders probe into complaint against BSY, Somanna: "Spelling fresh trouble for former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Lokayukta Court today ordered a probe into a private complaint against him, Housing Minister V Somanna and two others, alleging irregularities in denotification of land."
Nov 24, 2011 Swamy says Chidambaram, Raja discussed 2G pricing: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy today released a set of documents to prove that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram discussed with former Telecom Minister A Raja in may-June 2008 the issue of pricing of the 2G Spectrum at 2001 rates."
Nov 24, 2011 Chidambaram in eye of parliament storm, houses adjourned: "Parliament got off to a stormy start Tuesday with opposition protests against Home Minister P. Chidambaram forcing adjournment of the Lok Sabha on the first day of the winter session."
Nov 24, 2011 Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi: "The Congress General Secretary claims that the MNREGA funds go to middlemen, ministers and officials."
Nov 24, 2011 Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi: "The Congress General Secretary claims that the MNREGA funds go to middlemen, ministers and officials."
Nov 24, 2011 Apologise to CAG: Joshi to Cong MPs
Nov 24, 2011 2G trial shifted to Tihar; Raja, Kanimozhi unhappy
Nov 24, 2011 MPs owe more than Rs 7 crore to MTNL: "Six sitting MPs owe Rs 19,78,027, while 399 former MPs owe over Rs 7.10 crore to state-owned MTNL."
Nov 24, 2011 Rajasthan: Ex-BJP MP booked in sex scandal: "This comes as quite a setback for the BJP that has been targetting the Ashok Gehlot govt for the Bhanwari case.", "Former MP, 2 police officers also booked"
Nov 24, 2011 BBC: India agriculture minister Sharad Pawar slapped: "The attacker, Harvinder Singh, said he was angered by reports of corruption scandals and high inflation."
Nov 24, 2011 The Daily Star: Indian agri minister slapped for corruption, inflation
Nov 24, 2011 LA Times: Businessman slaps Indian minister over inflation and corruption: "the irate businessman, Harvinder Singh, giving Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar the whack as he attended a literary event. “They are all thieves,” Singh yells. “I will rip them apart.”"
Nov 24, 2011 India’s Business Most Foul: "must watch out the two high profile cases relating to Maran brothers; Kalanithi Maran and Dayanidhi Maran, sons for late Murosoli Maran, leader of the DMK party and nephew of DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi."
Nov 23, 2011 CBI probing Srinagar land scam, says Antony: "The ministry’s internal probe pointed to collusion among officials of the defence estates department and state government and land sharks who got together to sell more than 200 acres of land"
Nov 23, 2011 HC notice to govt on Dharam letoff: "recommendation in 2009 of then Governor Rameshwar Thakur that no action needed to be taken against former Chief Minister N Dharam Singh who was indicted by then Lokayukta for unlawful mining."
Nov 23, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 23, 2011 Unlawful mining gave the firms super profits, says report by an NGO, Goa ore cos’ profit twice state budget: "While the Goa government earned a paltry Rs. 900 crore from mining royalty, mining companies raked in over Rs. 22,612 crore pulling in profits of nearly Rs. 11,000 crore – almost twice the state’s budget of Rs. 6,000 crore."
Nov 23, 2011 Petrol prices spell windfall for govt: "Indirect taxes on petroleum fetched the exchequer Rs 1 lakh crore in 2010-11"
Nov 22, 2011 Congress supporting politicians dividing the nation: Narendra Modi: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress-led government at the centre for supporting politicians sowing seeds of hatred and castism to divide the nation."
Nov 21, 2011 The Wall Street Journal: Testing Time for India's Government: "Having struggled for more than a year against widespread allegations of corruption and criticism that its policy machine has developed paralysis"
Nov 21, 2011 Chidambaram targeted: NDA to boycott minister in Parliament: "announced it would boycott home minister P Chidambaram in Parliament for his alleged role in allocation of telecom licences."
Nov 21, 2011 SC pulls up Centre for not taking action in Kargil scam: "government has failed to take action against anyone during the last 12 years after the scam was unearthed."
Nov 21, 2011 So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
Nov 21, 2011 'Want effective bill, not empty tinbox': "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an “empty tin box with no powersâ€, Team Anna on Monday (November 21) said they were surprised at the move to exclude Citizen’s Charter and lower bureaucracy from the ambit of the ombudsman, contrary to a Parliament resolution."
Nov 21, 2011 Disproportionate assets case: Jaya to appear in court tomorrow: "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will appear before a special court here tomorrow for the third time in the Rs 66-crore disproportionate assets case against her.", "Jayalalithaa will leave for Bangalore tomorrow by a special aircraft."
Nov 21, 2011 2G: NDA to boycott Chidambaram in Parliament: "demanding that Chidambaram should resign for his alleged complicity in the 2G scam."
Nov 21, 2011 Proposed Lokpal 'empty tin box with no powers': Team Anna: "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an "empty tin box with no powers""
Nov 21, 2011 Target Chidambaram: NDA to boycott him in Parliament: "the opposition has been pressurising the government to declare the names of account holders given to the government by HSBC Bank, Switzerland. There has been speculation that the names of some MPs figure in the list."
Nov 21, 2011 LS Speaker Meira Kumar asked to pay Rs 1.98cr as house rent: "The urban development ministry has asked Speaker Meira Kumar to pay Rs 1.98 crore for occupation of 6, Krishna Menon Marg."
Nov 21, 2011 Govt plans Rs 30,000 crore bailout for Air India: "government will nurse a sick airline only to sell its stake to private players once it is healthy."
Nov 20, 2011 Kerala minister's car runs over pedestrians, 2 killed
Nov 20, 2011 Jagan supporters switching loyalties?: "Amid indications that they want to distance themselves from YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the wake of the ongoing CBI probe against him, more supporters of the Kadapa MP are set to leave him"
Nov 20, 2011 Prices have increased due to faulty policies, corruption carried out by UPA: Sushma Swaraj
Nov 20, 2011 Former Telecom Minister Sukhram slapped, kicked by man in court premises: "Former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today slapped and kicked by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a corruption case dating back to 1996."
Nov 20, 2011 Advani ends Yatra, calls UPA the worst Govt
Nov 19, 2011 CBI should probe Chidambaram's role in 2G: BJP
Nov 19, 2011 Ex-min Sukhram gets 5 yrs in jail, assaulted: "The court also imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh on former minister Sukhram in the 1996 telecom scam case."
Nov 19, 2011 ‘देश में कई खानदानी लुटेरे’ । बाबा की जिंदगी: "वो कभी भ्रष्टाचारियों की तुलना गद्दाफी से करते हैं तो कभी पीएम को भ्रष्ट लोगों से घिरा मजबूर प्रधानमंत्री बताते हैं. वो राहुल गांधी को मायावती की तुलना में कमजोर नेता बताते हैं तो इशारों-इशारों में नेहरू-गांधी परिवार पर निशाना साधते हैं."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP vs Governor: no Lokayukta for Karnataka yet: "Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda wants Justice Bannurmath for the post but Governor HR Bhardwaj has vetoed the name."
Nov 19, 2011 Spectrum dirt at BJP doorstep, raids on Airtel, Vodafone: "the CBI filing a FIR for alleged loss of Rs 508 crores in spectrum allocation in 2002 when it was in power and BJP's Pramod Mahajan was the telecom minister."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram assaulted by youth, shivered while being sentenced: "former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today assaulted by a Sikh youth who was angry that despite committing 'such a crime' he has been jailed only for five years."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP caught in 2G net, CBI probes NDA tenure: "Sources say that the CBI believes Pramod Mahajan allegedly caused a Rs 565 crore loss over 6 years."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram gets five years in jail, assualted outside court: "the CBI called him a "habitual offender" and sought maximum punishment for him.", "his tenure as telecom minister in P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet in giving a contract worth Rs 30 crore to a private company, Haryana Telecom Limited (HTL), to supply 3.5 Lakh Conductor Kilometers (LCKM) of Polythene Insulated Jelly Filled (PIJF) cables to the telecom department."
Nov 18, 2011 RTI activist alleges foul play in selection of Indian Rupee symbol: "the 3,331 designs were analyzed in only three meetings of the committee. According to him, the jury took approximately 18 seconds to decide on a design in an analysis period of three days.", "Interestingly, the winner D Udaya Kumar is the son of former DMK MLA, N Dharmalingam.", "Singh adds that according to the rules, a participant could send only two entries whereas Udaya Kumar sent four. He alleges that a few members of the jury were absent at the time of selection of the design"
Nov 18, 2011 India’s dynastic politics Must it be a Gandhi?: "Whatever the young heir’s merits, modern India surely needs a broader choice for its effective ruler", "As Indians shift to the cities and become more literate and informed, they will surely want to hold their government to account—over corruption, economic performance, social security and more. They will care ever less about bloodlines. Eventually dynastic rule will have to give way to something more openly contested and democratic."
Nov 18, 2011 Ahmed Patel was mastermind behind cash-for-vote scam: Gadkari: "Ahmed Patel, advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was the 'mastermind’ behind the cash-for-vote scam and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi should seek apology from the nation for the 'political conspiracy'."
Nov 18, 2011 Politicians, lawyers, actors: The must-read Rajya Sabha rich list: "Congress MP from Rajasthan Abhishek Manu Singhvi in his professional engagement as a Senior Advocate earns a cool Rs 50,00,00,000 (per annum). Next in line is the lawyer from the opposition party, BJP MP from Gujarat Arun Jaitley, who as senior advocate earns Rs 10,00,00,000."
Nov 18, 2011 Cash for votes: Expose beneficiaries, not whistleblowers, says Kulkarni: "“You cannot punish the whistleblowers inside jail and keep culprits scot free.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Capital Shame: "slipped while trying to board a moving train at the Nizamuddin railway station and was trapped in the gap between the platform and the coach for well over an hour, bled to death after a shoddy rescue operation"
Nov 18, 2011 Sukhram convicted in 1996 telecom case: "Former telecom minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case."
Nov 18, 2011 UP is home to people with dangerously wide gaps in skills, income and caste: "If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's", "more than 95% of the 8.5 crore population in the 25-60 age group would be looking for earning opportunities with neither sufficient education nor skills."
Nov 18, 2011 So Near Ranchi, Rendo Village Gets Light For The First Time: "Rendo village, just 15 kms from the state Capital, had light for the first time since Independence", "The naked truth of government work was there for all to see."
Nov 18, 2011 Probe MNREGA in UP: Jairam to Maya: "Intensifying his attack on Mayawati, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter accusing her of protecting those involved in alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in some districts while providing names of corrupt officials."
Nov 18, 2011 Indian railways' shocking callousness: "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday (November 17) responded to the horrific accident that took place at the Nizamuddin station in New Delhi. He said the incident is 'sad' but added that the people themselves are responsible for breaking rules."
Nov 18, 2011 Cash for Votes: Political fight to continue: "After its three former MPs were granted bail in the cash-for-vote case, BJP today accused the Congress of trying to purchase MPs ahead of the 2008 trust vote in Parliament and asked for a deeper probe to trace the source of money exchanged in the scam."
Nov 18, 2011 140 Rajya Sabha MPs have no pecuniary interests?: "The top MPs who have declared the highest remuneration -- cumulative of directorship, regular remunerated activity and professional engagement -- include Abhishek Manu Singhvi who leads the chart getting Rs 50 crore per annum followed by Vijay Mallya Rs 41.4 crore, Arun Jaitley Rs 10 crore, Ram Jethmalani Rs 8.41 crore and Naresh Gujral Rs 4.79 crore among others."
Nov 18, 2011 OBC mining case: Court rejects bail pleas of Reddys: "The bail pleas of mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy were today rejected by a local court; the third time since their arrest in the alleged illegal mining case, involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC)."
Nov 17, 2011 Congress wants only central forces for Rahul Gandhi's security: "The inner proximate ring of Rahul is managed by the elite Special Protection Group."
Nov 16, 2011 Politics of yatras and social change: "Sensing that corruption today has become a major poll plank, all political parties have subsequently announced to undertake yatras with an aim to bring greater transparency in governance."
Nov 16, 2011 Wall Street Journal: Mining Probe Threatens Top Indian Party: "Goa state accounts for nearly half of India's 100 million tons of exports of iron ore last year, most of which went to China.", "a culture of "bribing" of state and federal government officials."
Nov 16, 2011 Is this the moment for political awakening in India's cities?: "While still 68% rural, it seems India is the only exception to Democratic theory. Professor Ashutosh Varshney explains where the country's political and economic strengths lie."
Nov 16, 2011 Reuters: In graft-plagued India, a "crisis of political credibility": "(Reuters) - "The tragedy of India is its political system.""
Nov 16, 2011 Will the Lokayukta office be scrapped in Karnataka?: "The anti-corruption ombudsman is fighting for survival in the state of Karnataka, which ironically has topped the list of corrupt states in India. The Karnataka government may be planning to scrap the Lokayukta in the state."
Nov 16, 2011 India’s jargon tired and jaded: "He expressed his anger against rising corruption in UP and increasing backwardness. But his silence on the corruption at the centre was no less eloquent than his rhetoric."
Nov 16, 2011 Why Advani went wrong in Orissa?: "As the Pandora's Box opened, it is learnt about how the Naveen government allowed mineral smugglers to plunder Orissa to the tune of Rs 3 lakh crores, giving birth to the biggest scam in independent India’s history. Then more skeletons tumbled out of the closet. It was BJD government which illegally allotted as much as 6,000 acre of three-crop agricultural land -- including 1,300 acre belonging to Lord Jagannath Temple -- for the proposed dubious Vedanta university project in Puri-Konark marine drive."
Nov 16, 2011 CAG seeks powers to audit all govt spend: "At present, only 50% of the total Plan expenditure is under CAG review, many of the government's social sector spending skip government audit and are not available for any parliamentary scrutiny."
Nov 16, 2011 DMK MP arrested for land grab charges in TN: "Actor-turned-politician Ritheesh is a Member of Parliament from Ramanathpuram."
Nov 16, 2011 DMK MP held on land grab charges: "Kumar is the first DMK MP to be arrested on land grab charges. The actor-turned-politician, representing Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu"
Nov 16, 2011 Cash-for-votes tapes authentic: Delhi HC
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Nov 25, 2011 Another UP govt official raises banner of revolt, accuses minister of harassment and graft: "Requesting the Governor to relieve him, from services, Pandey has alleged that Rs 200 crore scam in purchases and supplies to farmers has taken place in his department in last few years. He has also alleged that a commission of 30-50% is charged to provide subsidy to farmers."
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar joins slapgate club: "Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was on Thursday slapped by a 35-year-old man who claimed he was agitated over rising prices and corruption"
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar assault: Can we prevent TV channels from making the assailant a hero?
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, Anna smirked
Nov 24, 2011 शरद पवार को युवक ने जड़ा चांटा
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop claims harassment by UP govt: "Another IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Amitabh Thakur, has slapped harassment charges on the senior bureaucrats of Mayawati government. Amitabh Thakur has filed the petition in the Allahabad High Court claiming harassment by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, Principal secretary, Home and Vijay Singh, Secretary to the Chief Minister."
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar slapped by youth in New Delhi: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today (November 24) slapped by a youth at a public function claiming he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Slapstick On Twitter: "Some reactions to the assault on Mr Sharad Pawar"
Nov 24, 2011 TN: Ex-DMK minister Durai Murugan raided: "the vigilance department raided nine of Murugan's properties in Chennai, Vellore and Kancheepuram."
Nov 24, 2011 Man calls Pawar corrupt, slaps him; Anna asks only one slap?: "Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today slapped at a public function by a young man who claimed he was angry with corruption and price rise."
Nov 24, 2011 Is anti-neta anger reaching dangerous proportions?: "Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has been slapped in full glare of TV cameras on Thursday.", "image of netas as far as the country is concerned is all time low"
Nov 24, 2011 Pawar slapped, netas targetted, is India angry?
Nov 24, 2011 Politicians attacked: Anti-neta anger rising?: "There have been a slew of incidents over the years where politicians have been assaulted or an attempt has been made."
Nov 24, 2011 Anna condemns attack on Pawar after rubbing it in: "Anna Hazare called the attack undemocratic a few hours after he asking if he (Pawar) was slapped just once."
Nov 24, 2011 Man slaps Sharad Pawar over price rise, graft: "Harvinder Singh, who even attempted to slash his wrists, cited rising prices as the reason for his anger."
Nov 24, 2011 Watch: Man who slapped Sharad Pawar
Nov 24, 2011 Anna reacts after Pawar assaulted: 'Was it only one slap?'
Nov 24, 2011 Sharad Pawar attacked: 'Was it only one slap?' Anna Hazare reacts: "Asked by reporters about his view on the attack on Pawar, who was slapped by a Sikh man. Hazare said: "Was it only one slap?" As the gathering burst out laughing, Hazare left."
Nov 24, 2011 Irresponsible political class tells India to go to hell
Nov 24, 2011 Rahul blames Maya for pilfering central funds
Nov 24, 2011 'Critical Deficiencies': "Response to the Citizens Right to Grievance Redress Bill proposed by the government", "This 5 member Central PublicGrievance Commission would be expected to solve all the grievances against all state andcentral government departments of 120 crore population. Obviously the system is designed tocollapse.2. The penalty clause for non redressal of grievance is vague, weak and fails to provide aneffective deterrence against non performance. There is no penalty provided against the Head of the Department."
Nov 24, 2011 Jayalalithaa's questioning in DA case over
Nov 24, 2011 Another Parliament day lost, Rs 4 crore goes down the drain
Nov 24, 2011 Another cop accuses Mayawati administration of harassment: "related to his suspension as Suprintendent of Police (SP), Gonda, in which the inquiry was deliberately kept pending for long by Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and was closed after Singh was removed by the Election Commission from the post of principal secretary (home) during 2007 assembly elections. Similarly, another inquiry was quashed by CAT, Lucknow. In the fourth case, Amitabh, in the petition, has said that he is also not being promoted to the rank of DIG. Instead, he said, he has been posted to a non-existent "Rules and Manuals" department which has not yet been created by the state government and the post is not permissible as per IPS (Cadre) Rules."
Nov 24, 2011 Disproportionate assets: Sarees and footwears were mementos, says Jayalalithaa: "Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday defended that more than 10,000 sarees and 750 pairs of footwear that were seized by the anti-corruption wing of Tamil Nadu in 1997 were the "mementos" collected"
Nov 24, 2011 Mumbai legislators' hostel a source for obscene calls: "The reception at Manora, one of the four MLA hostels in Mumbai, receives at least two dozen complaints every day about obscene calls received from the hostel's numbers."
Nov 24, 2011 884 deaths due to encephalitis in the country: Govt
Nov 24, 2011 My foster son's Rs 6cr wedding expense not paid by me: Jayalalithaa: "The case was moved from Chennai to Bangalore in 2003 at the request of the DMK after it alleged that a free and fair trial would not be possible in the chief minister's home state."
Nov 24, 2011 The problem with Rahul Gandhi: Why the good prince isn’t good enough: "while Rahul has Mommy standing guard to ensure he gets his due deference."
Nov 24, 2011 Rahul, your criticism of the UP govt applies to the UPA too: "his sharp criticism of the Uttar Pradesh government at Barabanki today, applies to the Congress-led UPA government to a great extent at the Centre as well. If the UPA had the answers to all its problems it would not be in the mess it is today."
Nov 24, 2011 DA case: Jaya arrives at Bangalore court: "Jayalalithaa is accused of accumulated assets worth 66 crores during her tenure as Chief Minister between 1991-96."
Nov 24, 2011 Lok. court orders probe into complaint against BSY, Somanna: "Spelling fresh trouble for former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Lokayukta Court today ordered a probe into a private complaint against him, Housing Minister V Somanna and two others, alleging irregularities in denotification of land."
Nov 24, 2011 Swamy says Chidambaram, Raja discussed 2G pricing: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy today released a set of documents to prove that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram discussed with former Telecom Minister A Raja in may-June 2008 the issue of pricing of the 2G Spectrum at 2001 rates."
Nov 24, 2011 Chidambaram in eye of parliament storm, houses adjourned: "Parliament got off to a stormy start Tuesday with opposition protests against Home Minister P. Chidambaram forcing adjournment of the Lok Sabha on the first day of the winter session."
Nov 24, 2011 Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi: "The Congress General Secretary claims that the MNREGA funds go to middlemen, ministers and officials."
Nov 24, 2011 Mayawati govt misusing state funds: Rahul Gandhi: "The Congress General Secretary claims that the MNREGA funds go to middlemen, ministers and officials."
Nov 24, 2011 Apologise to CAG: Joshi to Cong MPs
Nov 24, 2011 2G trial shifted to Tihar; Raja, Kanimozhi unhappy
Nov 24, 2011 MPs owe more than Rs 7 crore to MTNL: "Six sitting MPs owe Rs 19,78,027, while 399 former MPs owe over Rs 7.10 crore to state-owned MTNL."
Nov 24, 2011 Rajasthan: Ex-BJP MP booked in sex scandal: "This comes as quite a setback for the BJP that has been targetting the Ashok Gehlot govt for the Bhanwari case.", "Former MP, 2 police officers also booked"
Nov 24, 2011 BBC: India agriculture minister Sharad Pawar slapped: "The attacker, Harvinder Singh, said he was angered by reports of corruption scandals and high inflation."
Nov 24, 2011 The Daily Star: Indian agri minister slapped for corruption, inflation
Nov 24, 2011 LA Times: Businessman slaps Indian minister over inflation and corruption: "the irate businessman, Harvinder Singh, giving Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar the whack as he attended a literary event. “They are all thieves,” Singh yells. “I will rip them apart.”"
Nov 24, 2011 India’s Business Most Foul: "must watch out the two high profile cases relating to Maran brothers; Kalanithi Maran and Dayanidhi Maran, sons for late Murosoli Maran, leader of the DMK party and nephew of DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi."
Nov 23, 2011 CBI probing Srinagar land scam, says Antony: "The ministry’s internal probe pointed to collusion among officials of the defence estates department and state government and land sharks who got together to sell more than 200 acres of land"
Nov 23, 2011 HC notice to govt on Dharam letoff: "recommendation in 2009 of then Governor Rameshwar Thakur that no action needed to be taken against former Chief Minister N Dharam Singh who was indicted by then Lokayukta for unlawful mining."
Nov 23, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 23, 2011 Unlawful mining gave the firms super profits, says report by an NGO, Goa ore cos’ profit twice state budget: "While the Goa government earned a paltry Rs. 900 crore from mining royalty, mining companies raked in over Rs. 22,612 crore pulling in profits of nearly Rs. 11,000 crore – almost twice the state’s budget of Rs. 6,000 crore."
Nov 23, 2011 Petrol prices spell windfall for govt: "Indirect taxes on petroleum fetched the exchequer Rs 1 lakh crore in 2010-11"
Nov 22, 2011 Congress supporting politicians dividing the nation: Narendra Modi: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress-led government at the centre for supporting politicians sowing seeds of hatred and castism to divide the nation."
Nov 21, 2011 The Wall Street Journal: Testing Time for India's Government: "Having struggled for more than a year against widespread allegations of corruption and criticism that its policy machine has developed paralysis"
Nov 21, 2011 Chidambaram targeted: NDA to boycott minister in Parliament: "announced it would boycott home minister P Chidambaram in Parliament for his alleged role in allocation of telecom licences."
Nov 21, 2011 SC pulls up Centre for not taking action in Kargil scam: "government has failed to take action against anyone during the last 12 years after the scam was unearthed."
Nov 21, 2011 So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
Nov 21, 2011 'Want effective bill, not empty tinbox': "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an “empty tin box with no powersâ€, Team Anna on Monday (November 21) said they were surprised at the move to exclude Citizen’s Charter and lower bureaucracy from the ambit of the ombudsman, contrary to a Parliament resolution."
Nov 21, 2011 Disproportionate assets case: Jaya to appear in court tomorrow: "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will appear before a special court here tomorrow for the third time in the Rs 66-crore disproportionate assets case against her.", "Jayalalithaa will leave for Bangalore tomorrow by a special aircraft."
Nov 21, 2011 2G: NDA to boycott Chidambaram in Parliament: "demanding that Chidambaram should resign for his alleged complicity in the 2G scam."
Nov 21, 2011 Proposed Lokpal 'empty tin box with no powers': Team Anna: "Accusing the government of reducing the proposed Lokpal to an "empty tin box with no powers""
Nov 21, 2011 Target Chidambaram: NDA to boycott him in Parliament: "the opposition has been pressurising the government to declare the names of account holders given to the government by HSBC Bank, Switzerland. There has been speculation that the names of some MPs figure in the list."
Nov 21, 2011 LS Speaker Meira Kumar asked to pay Rs 1.98cr as house rent: "The urban development ministry has asked Speaker Meira Kumar to pay Rs 1.98 crore for occupation of 6, Krishna Menon Marg."
Nov 21, 2011 Govt plans Rs 30,000 crore bailout for Air India: "government will nurse a sick airline only to sell its stake to private players once it is healthy."
Nov 20, 2011 Kerala minister's car runs over pedestrians, 2 killed
Nov 20, 2011 Jagan supporters switching loyalties?: "Amid indications that they want to distance themselves from YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the wake of the ongoing CBI probe against him, more supporters of the Kadapa MP are set to leave him"
Nov 20, 2011 Prices have increased due to faulty policies, corruption carried out by UPA: Sushma Swaraj
Nov 20, 2011 Former Telecom Minister Sukhram slapped, kicked by man in court premises: "Former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today slapped and kicked by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a corruption case dating back to 1996."
Nov 20, 2011 Advani ends Yatra, calls UPA the worst Govt
Nov 19, 2011 CBI should probe Chidambaram's role in 2G: BJP
Nov 19, 2011 Ex-min Sukhram gets 5 yrs in jail, assaulted: "The court also imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh on former minister Sukhram in the 1996 telecom scam case."
Nov 19, 2011 ‘देश में कई खानदानी लुटेरे’ । बाबा की जिंदगी: "वो कभी भ्रष्टाचारियों की तुलना गद्दाफी से करते हैं तो कभी पीएम को भ्रष्ट लोगों से घिरा मजबूर प्रधानमंत्री बताते हैं. वो राहुल गांधी को मायावती की तुलना में कमजोर नेता बताते हैं तो इशारों-इशारों में नेहरू-गांधी परिवार पर निशाना साधते हैं."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP vs Governor: no Lokayukta for Karnataka yet: "Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda wants Justice Bannurmath for the post but Governor HR Bhardwaj has vetoed the name."
Nov 19, 2011 Spectrum dirt at BJP doorstep, raids on Airtel, Vodafone: "the CBI filing a FIR for alleged loss of Rs 508 crores in spectrum allocation in 2002 when it was in power and BJP's Pramod Mahajan was the telecom minister."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram assaulted by youth, shivered while being sentenced: "former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today assaulted by a Sikh youth who was angry that despite committing 'such a crime' he has been jailed only for five years."
Nov 19, 2011 BJP caught in 2G net, CBI probes NDA tenure: "Sources say that the CBI believes Pramod Mahajan allegedly caused a Rs 565 crore loss over 6 years."
Nov 19, 2011 Sukhram gets five years in jail, assualted outside court: "the CBI called him a "habitual offender" and sought maximum punishment for him.", "his tenure as telecom minister in P V Narasimha Rao's cabinet in giving a contract worth Rs 30 crore to a private company, Haryana Telecom Limited (HTL), to supply 3.5 Lakh Conductor Kilometers (LCKM) of Polythene Insulated Jelly Filled (PIJF) cables to the telecom department."
Nov 18, 2011 RTI activist alleges foul play in selection of Indian Rupee symbol: "the 3,331 designs were analyzed in only three meetings of the committee. According to him, the jury took approximately 18 seconds to decide on a design in an analysis period of three days.", "Interestingly, the winner D Udaya Kumar is the son of former DMK MLA, N Dharmalingam.", "Singh adds that according to the rules, a participant could send only two entries whereas Udaya Kumar sent four. He alleges that a few members of the jury were absent at the time of selection of the design"
Nov 18, 2011 India’s dynastic politics Must it be a Gandhi?: "Whatever the young heir’s merits, modern India surely needs a broader choice for its effective ruler", "As Indians shift to the cities and become more literate and informed, they will surely want to hold their government to account—over corruption, economic performance, social security and more. They will care ever less about bloodlines. Eventually dynastic rule will have to give way to something more openly contested and democratic."
Nov 18, 2011 Ahmed Patel was mastermind behind cash-for-vote scam: Gadkari: "Ahmed Patel, advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was the 'mastermind’ behind the cash-for-vote scam and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi should seek apology from the nation for the 'political conspiracy'."
Nov 18, 2011 Politicians, lawyers, actors: The must-read Rajya Sabha rich list: "Congress MP from Rajasthan Abhishek Manu Singhvi in his professional engagement as a Senior Advocate earns a cool Rs 50,00,00,000 (per annum). Next in line is the lawyer from the opposition party, BJP MP from Gujarat Arun Jaitley, who as senior advocate earns Rs 10,00,00,000."
Nov 18, 2011 Cash for votes: Expose beneficiaries, not whistleblowers, says Kulkarni: "“You cannot punish the whistleblowers inside jail and keep culprits scot free.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Capital Shame: "slipped while trying to board a moving train at the Nizamuddin railway station and was trapped in the gap between the platform and the coach for well over an hour, bled to death after a shoddy rescue operation"
Nov 18, 2011 Sukhram convicted in 1996 telecom case: "Former telecom minister Sukhram has been held guilty by a Delhi court of misusing his official position when he was in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet and giving undue favour to a cable supply company in a 15-year-old case."
Nov 18, 2011 UP is home to people with dangerously wide gaps in skills, income and caste: "If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's", "more than 95% of the 8.5 crore population in the 25-60 age group would be looking for earning opportunities with neither sufficient education nor skills."
Nov 18, 2011 So Near Ranchi, Rendo Village Gets Light For The First Time: "Rendo village, just 15 kms from the state Capital, had light for the first time since Independence", "The naked truth of government work was there for all to see."
Nov 18, 2011 Probe MNREGA in UP: Jairam to Maya: "Intensifying his attack on Mayawati, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter accusing her of protecting those involved in alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in some districts while providing names of corrupt officials."
Nov 18, 2011 Indian railways' shocking callousness: "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday (November 17) responded to the horrific accident that took place at the Nizamuddin station in New Delhi. He said the incident is 'sad' but added that the people themselves are responsible for breaking rules."
Nov 18, 2011 Cash for Votes: Political fight to continue: "After its three former MPs were granted bail in the cash-for-vote case, BJP today accused the Congress of trying to purchase MPs ahead of the 2008 trust vote in Parliament and asked for a deeper probe to trace the source of money exchanged in the scam."
Nov 18, 2011 140 Rajya Sabha MPs have no pecuniary interests?: "The top MPs who have declared the highest remuneration -- cumulative of directorship, regular remunerated activity and professional engagement -- include Abhishek Manu Singhvi who leads the chart getting Rs 50 crore per annum followed by Vijay Mallya Rs 41.4 crore, Arun Jaitley Rs 10 crore, Ram Jethmalani Rs 8.41 crore and Naresh Gujral Rs 4.79 crore among others."
Nov 18, 2011 OBC mining case: Court rejects bail pleas of Reddys: "The bail pleas of mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy were today rejected by a local court; the third time since their arrest in the alleged illegal mining case, involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC)."
Nov 17, 2011 Congress wants only central forces for Rahul Gandhi's security: "The inner proximate ring of Rahul is managed by the elite Special Protection Group."
Nov 16, 2011 Politics of yatras and social change: "Sensing that corruption today has become a major poll plank, all political parties have subsequently announced to undertake yatras with an aim to bring greater transparency in governance."
Nov 16, 2011 Wall Street Journal: Mining Probe Threatens Top Indian Party: "Goa state accounts for nearly half of India's 100 million tons of exports of iron ore last year, most of which went to China.", "a culture of "bribing" of state and federal government officials."
Nov 16, 2011 Is this the moment for political awakening in India's cities?: "While still 68% rural, it seems India is the only exception to Democratic theory. Professor Ashutosh Varshney explains where the country's political and economic strengths lie."
Nov 16, 2011 Reuters: In graft-plagued India, a "crisis of political credibility": "(Reuters) - "The tragedy of India is its political system.""
Nov 16, 2011 Will the Lokayukta office be scrapped in Karnataka?: "The anti-corruption ombudsman is fighting for survival in the state of Karnataka, which ironically has topped the list of corrupt states in India. The Karnataka government may be planning to scrap the Lokayukta in the state."
Nov 16, 2011 India’s jargon tired and jaded: "He expressed his anger against rising corruption in UP and increasing backwardness. But his silence on the corruption at the centre was no less eloquent than his rhetoric."
Nov 16, 2011 Why Advani went wrong in Orissa?: "As the Pandora's Box opened, it is learnt about how the Naveen government allowed mineral smugglers to plunder Orissa to the tune of Rs 3 lakh crores, giving birth to the biggest scam in independent India’s history. Then more skeletons tumbled out of the closet. It was BJD government which illegally allotted as much as 6,000 acre of three-crop agricultural land -- including 1,300 acre belonging to Lord Jagannath Temple -- for the proposed dubious Vedanta university project in Puri-Konark marine drive."
Nov 16, 2011 CAG seeks powers to audit all govt spend: "At present, only 50% of the total Plan expenditure is under CAG review, many of the government's social sector spending skip government audit and are not available for any parliamentary scrutiny."
Nov 16, 2011 DMK MP arrested for land grab charges in TN: "Actor-turned-politician Ritheesh is a Member of Parliament from Ramanathpuram."
Nov 16, 2011 DMK MP held on land grab charges: "Kumar is the first DMK MP to be arrested on land grab charges. The actor-turned-politician, representing Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu"
Nov 16, 2011 Cash-for-votes tapes authentic: Delhi HC
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