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Sep 24, 2011 Is Anything More Corrupt Than A Govt Buying MPs?: "The focus of the fight against corruption should be on UPA-II. After all, some of the accused in the 2G scam have even said that spectrum sales had the tacit approval of the PM."
Sep 24, 2011 Hazare attacks Chidambaram, seeks enquiry into 2G allegations: "Gandhian Anna Hazare today demanded an enquiry into allegations against the Union Home Minister in the 2G spectrum scam and criticised the Congress for backing him."
Sep 24, 2011 Chidambaram's place in the same cell in Tihar as Raja: BJP: "Upping the ante against Home Minister P Chidambaram in 2-G spectrum scam, BJP on Saturday said his place was in the same cell in Tihar jail in which former Telecom Minister A Raja has been lodged and demanded a probe into the alleged role of the Prime Minister in the case."
Sep 24, 2011 Deve Gowda's yet another son faces probe over assets: "Troubles mounted for former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda as a court Saturday ordered probe into his eldest son's assets while his another son and daughter-in-law are already battling graft cases.", "he has acquired assests worth Rs.500 crore."
Sep 24, 2011 Orissa MLA, his PSO shot dead by suspected Maoists
Sep 24, 2011 Pune civic polls: Suresh Kalmadi calling shots from Tihar
Sep 24, 2011 Chidambaram should be in jail with Raja: BJP: "home minister P Chidambaram should be in jail for his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scam. "The proof against Chidambaram is overwhelming."
Sep 24, 2011 Former DMK minister KPP Samy arrested on murder charges: "many residents witnessed her husband being forced into a vehicle by KPP Samy's brothers and their men after which he diappeared."
Sep 23, 2011 India faces worrisome leadership deficit
Sep 23, 2011 Reuters: BREAKINGVIEWS - Bring back Manmohan Singh: "India's government has lost its mojo. Its mishandling of corruption scandals comes as the culmination of almost two years of policy inertia. Anna Hazare, the campaigner who last month forced the government into a humiliating u-turn"
Sep 23, 2011 2G scam: CPI quizzes PM's role: "it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's responsibility to look into the irregularities of his ministers. The minister further slammed the Prime Minister's earlier statements that dismissed various scams as a result of his ministers' individual policies."
Sep 23, 2011 Cop assaulted by BSP man's son: "In what is a blatant misuse of power BSP leader Dayaram Kuril's son assaulted and threatened a traffic policeman who had stopped him for violating traffic rules. In yet another case of Maya's men flexing their muscles, the BSP leader's son and his supporters manhandled the cop who had dared to threaten him. What is worse, despite assaulting an on duty officer, not a single FIR has been registered. The UP Cops simply saying that a compromise had been reached."
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram should resign: Joshi: "BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has demanded P Chidambaram's resignation."
Sep 23, 2011 Pranab note puts Chidambaram under 2G scanner: "Pranab Mukherjee had sent a note to the PM in March 2011 saying Chidambaram as then Finance Minister could have prevented the scam."
Sep 23, 2011 JDS to file complaint against CM kin on alleged IT evasion: "JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy today said he would file a complaint before Income Tax Department and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee over alleged IT evasion by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's family members.", "a trust owned by Kumaraswamy's brother H D Balakrishna had received Rs 250 crore as donation from the mining sector and 164 Bangalore Development Authority sites were allotted to his (Kumaraswamy) relatives when he was Chief Minister"
Sep 23, 2011 2G strikes back, heat on Chidambaram to quit
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram guilty of inaction in 2G case: Note: "A Finance Ministry note indicated that Chidambaram did nothing to make A Raja change his 2G decisions."
Sep 23, 2011 Plan panel's joke on poor: Rs 31/day enough for family of 5: "Is a daily expenditure of Rs 31 enough to sustain a family of five in a city like Delhi and Mumbai? Country's top-most planning body, Planning Commission, says yes."
Sep 23, 2011 Some dismal signals: "Is the Indian economy becoming ungovernable? The increasing confusion over inflation, the increasing pessimism over the government’s ability to ease supply and cost constraints on the economy"
Sep 23, 2011 BJP demands Chidambaram's resignation: "demanded the ouster of home minister P Chidambaram and said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should investigate his role in the 2G spectrum scam."
Sep 23, 2011 2G: Chidambaram should resign or PM must drop him, says Jayalathithaa
Sep 23, 2011 CBI registers case against BSP MLA in Banda rape case
Sep 23, 2011 UP: BSP worker thrashes honest officer: "Thrashed for stopping illegal mining"
Sep 23, 2011 On cam: Cop assaulted by BSP man's son
Sep 23, 2011 Raja link emerges in Goa CM Kamat’s mining scam: "All of Goa’s working and non-working mines came up for environmental clearances between 2005 and 2007, when Raja was the Environment Minister. Before Raja moved out of the ministry in May 2007, he had cleared 136 mines."
Sep 23, 2011 CBI to probe Reddy brother's firm
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram would be in jail had there been Jan Lokpal: Hazare: "Amid the fresh controversy in the 2-G spectrum case, anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare today said Home Minister P Chidambaram would have been behind bars had the Jan Lokpal legislation been in existence."
Sep 23, 2011 PC running out of luck: "The 2G scam that is threatening to knock at the door of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is posing a serious threat to his image than the recent bomb blasts that the latter described as a ''blot'' on his government."
Sep 23, 2011 2G: Cong defending Chidambaram to shield PM?: "If the court suggests an investigation into Chidambaram's role as finance minister, it's bound to put even the Prime Minister in dock. So, a worried Prime Minister, in defending Chidambaram, is also shielding himself from such an eventuality."
Sep 23, 2011 Supreme Court orders CBI probe into illegal mining in Karnataka: "The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a CBI probe into alleged illegal mining in Karnataka by two companies, one of which is owned by jailed former minister G. Janardhana Reddy."
Sep 21, 2011 Dynasty politics making India bankrupt: Ramdev: "Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has demanded end of dynasty politics in India to save the country from bankruptcy."
Sep 21, 2011 Do we need a planning Commission?: "Such a planning commission is a blot on India. In this age, when corruption in each department has run in billions, when salaries of government staff and their counterparts are zooming up, our planning commission shamelessly tells the Supreme Court that Rs 25 ( not even fifty cent) a day is enough to live a life."
Sep 21, 2011 BJP comes out with ‘Ghotala Chaleesa’ of Cong, BSP: "UPA government is responsible for corruption worth Rs 4 lakh crore nationwide. At the same time, it accused the BSP government of allegedly being involved in scams worth Rs 2.54 lakh crore in UP during the past four years."
Sep 21, 2011 Can we find 500 good men and women to govern India?: "The punishment suffered by wise men who do not take part in government, is to suffer under the government of worse men –Plato."
Sep 21, 2011 Yatra for 'clean governance', Advani says, attacks govt for scams
Sep 21, 2011 Finance ministry note points 2G finger at PC
Sep 21, 2011 Nearly half of Goa’s mines illegal: PAC: "Less than a month after the first arrest in the country’s biggest mining scam in Karnataka’s Bellary, the lid is about to be blown off the illegal mining that has cost Goa — the state that exports 40% of India’s iron ore — thousands of crores,"
Sep 21, 2011 Was Chidu note on spectrum to PM a covert nod to Raja?
Sep 21, 2011 'किस दुनिया में रहती है सरकार?': "योजना आयोग ने कहा है कि शहर में 31 रुपए और गांवों में 25 रुपए प्रति दिन कमाने वाले व्यक्ति को ग़रीब नहीं माना जा सकता."
Sep 21, 2011 'अब अमीर ही बन सकते हैं नेता'
Sep 21, 2011 कितना कमाते हैं हमारे मंत्री?: "क्या आप जानते हैं कि भारत सरकार के मंत्री कितना कमाते हैं या उनकी संपत्ति किस रफ़्तार से बढ़ती है?", "आप कितने भी कल्पनाशील हो जाएँ तो वहाँ तक नहीं पहुँच सकते जो आंकड़े बताते हैं."
Sep 21, 2011 BBC: India: Half a dollar a day 'adequate', says panel: "Half a dollar a day is "adequate" for an Indian villager to spend on food, education and health, the country's main planning body has said. Critics say that the amount fixed by the Planning Commission is extremely low and aimed at "artificially" reducing the number of poor who are entitled to state benefits.", "Officially, 37% of India's 1.21bn people live below the poverty line. But one estimate suggests the true figure could be as high as 77%."
Sep 21, 2011 Reddy & associates have 200 bank lockers: CBI: "The CBI, probing illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company, has found that the arrested mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his associates had allegedly booked 200 lockers in a private bank here."
Sep 21, 2011 After Pranab's note, Swamy targets Chidambaram: "Swamy on Wednesday said that criminal culpability was clear on the part of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation after new report suggesting the then finance minister's involvement in the case."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: Pranab note blames Raja, Chidambaram: "An official Finance Ministry document has cast doubts over the role of Home Minister P Chidambaram, who was then finance minister, in the January 2008 decision of former telecom minister A Raja to issue 2G spectrum licences."
Sep 21, 2011 New twist in 2G scam: Pranab questions Chidambaram's role: "A letter sent by the finance ministry suggested that if Chidambaram had insisted, 2G spectrum could have been auctioned instead of being sold at throwaway prices on a first-come-first-serve basis."
Sep 21, 2011 Walther pistols, .22 bore revolvers preferred weapons of our MPs: "Former MP Atiq Ahmed, now in prison and facing trial in 35 criminal cases including several cases of murder, has spent the highest amount among the VIPs to buy a rifle 'Rugger M-77 Mark-II 30.66 mm' at a cost of Rs 3.15 lakh. Azmi opted for a PPK pistol for Rs three lakh. Kalmadi, who is now in Tihar prison pending trial in CWG scam, bought a Webly revolver in 1995 for Rs 9,150 while another jailbird Shahabuddin procured a S&W revolver in 2001 for Rs 43,507."
Sep 21, 2011 Spend Rs 32 a day? Govt says you can't be poor: "The Montek Singh Ahluwalia-headed Planning Commission had drawn flak from the apex court which, on May 14, took exception to the poverty line definition which initially said anyone spending more than Rs 20 in urban areas and Rs 15 in rural areas should not be considered poor."
Sep 21, 2011 Disaster averted, cover up exposed: "yet another crash that was averted in Mangalore. AI Express flight IX 206 avoided falling into a gorge due to an alert co-pilot. The captain of the flight miscalculated landing and showed 'error of judgement'. However, the alert co-pilot applied brakes on time as plane stops few inches away from the gorge."
Sep 21, 2011 Jodhpur: Bhanwari Devi's family alleges murder: "The Dalit nurse went missing after a controversial CD surfaced showing her and Rajasthan PHED Minister.", "Minister got Bhanwari killed?"
Sep 21, 2011 Bangalore: BSY's son-in-law's house searched: "There were complaints of bribery against the son-in-law, who runs 2 firms that were allegedly favoured by then CM."
Sep 21, 2011 Lokayukta raids Yeddyurappa kin's home: "Police attached to the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) Tuesday raided the residence and office of scam-hit former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's son-in-law R. Sohan Kumar here in search of evidence over graft cases."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: CBI opposes probe against Chidambaram
Sep 21, 2011 Lokayukta raids on offices of Yeddyurappa's son-in-law: "Davalagiri properties is owned by Sohan Kumar and sons of Yeddyurappa-- B Y Raghavendra, MP and B Y Vijendra."
Sep 21, 2011 Maya orders crackdown on graft in UP schemes in image makeover bid: "asking all district magistrates to visit at least one village and sub-divisional magistrates five villages every week and organise open meetings so as to hear the grievances of villagers and dispose them. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year."
Sep 21, 2011 Rajasthan minister meets President, expresses regret over 'loyalty-rewarded' remarks: "Khan as having told the party workers that Patil was so dedicated that "she used to make tea and cook food at Indira Gandhi's residence" and due to her honesty, devotion and loyalty, she is now the President."
Sep 21, 2011 2G case: CBI, Centre oppose probe against Chidambaram: "Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister, was party to the conspiracy with Raja in deciding the price of spectrum."
Sep 19, 2011 Ending the leakage raj
Sep 19, 2011 NYTimes: Corrupt ministers, nothing to worry
Sep 19, 2011 Despite CVC report, govt shielding guilty?: "One of the key concerns in the fight against corruption is the prosecution sanction required from the department concerned even after probe has established the accused official's guilt. Usually, the power to grant prosecution is put to good use to unnecessarily delay action against the guilty."
Sep 19, 2011 Railways most corrupt government organisation,says cvc annual report: "public sector banks like the Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank, State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank, besides the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which have high public interface, follow the railways in the CVC's roll call of dishonour."
Sep 19, 2011 NY Times: Health Officials at Risk as India’s Graft Thrives: "Who Killed the Doctors?: Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh are trying to figure out how the killing of three prominent doctors fit into the country's systematic corruption.", "“We sometimes don’t even have soap for our hands,” said P. N. Tiwari, the center’s vaccination officer. “Meanwhile, they are looting like monkeys,” a reference, he said, to politicians, bureaucrats and contractors. Half a dozen babies are born in the clinic daily, but the water tank is broken, so deliveries are performed without running water. The center has an ambulance, but it, too, is broken. Repairs would cost only about $30, but there is no cash to pay for it. Crucial medical supplies, like oral rehydration salts for children with diarrhea, have been out of stock for months."
Sep 19, 2011 Illegal mining case: CBI quizzes Karunakara Reddy: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the alleged illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of leases to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), today began questioning former Karnataka minister Gali Karunakara Reddy in connection with the case."
Sep 19, 2011 Truckload of cash seized belongs to Srinivas Reddy: Andhra police: "police claimed to have prima facie evidence that the Rs 4.95 crore cash seized from a truck on Thursday in Guntakal town in the district bordering mineral-rich Bellary district of Karnataka allegedly belonged to B V Srinivas Reddy, Managing Director of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) who is in CBI custody."
Sep 19, 2011 Cash-for-votes: Amar's bail extended, Ahmed Patel dragged in: "The person who paid money during the 2008 trust vote was Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel, counsel for Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, Ram Jethmalani, alleged in court"
Sep 19, 2011 Judicial custody of Reddys extended: "A CBI special court on Monday extended till October 3 the judicial custody of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy in connection with an illegal mining case."
Sep 19, 2011 Cong paid money in cash-for-votes scam: Jethmalani
Sep 19, 2011 Ex-CM's daughter's son-in-law charged with cheating
Sep 19, 2011 Cash-for-vote: Jethmalani says money came from Ahmed Patel: "Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh's counsel Ram Jethmalani on Monday made a u-turn and named before a Delhi court Congress leader Ahmed Patel as the source for the money in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam."
Sep 17, 2011 Cash seized from house of Janardhana Reddy's driver: "Andhra Pradesh Police Saturday seized Rs.4 lakh from the house of mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy's driver and also searched the houses of relatives of a former government official in an illegal mining case."
Sep 17, 2011 CBI seizes Rs 2 cr gold jewellery from lockers of Reddy's aide: "A CBI team today seized gold jewellery worth about Rs two crore from bank lockers of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) Managing Director Srinivasa Reddy"
Sep 17, 2011 Naidu's daughter-in-law quizzed: "The CBI sleuths on Friday went to the houses of Nara Brahmani, daughter-in-law of former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Galla Padmavathi, daughter-in-law of minister Galla Aruna Kumari and T Rama Devi, wife of NTV proprietor Narendranath Chowdary and recorded their statements with regard to the villas they bought in the Emaar Hills Township project as part of their probe into the APIIC-Emaar irregularities."
Sep 16, 2011 The Grammar of Anarchy: "Faced with a monumentally corrupt – and yet popularly elected – government,"
Sep 16, 2011 Narco test likely as GJR clams up: "Janardhana Reddy is a tough nut to crack and Srinivas Reddy is faking amnesia. The latter has told the officers that he could not remember a thing even though the maps of the Obulapuram Mines are shown to him in an effort to help him recollect some facts about the doings of the company of which he is the managing director and gets Rs 2.5 crore a year for his pains."
Sep 16, 2011 All that glitters is gold in Reddy palace: "Priceless items have been found in the house of former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI on September 5."
Sep 16, 2011 Shehla's letter alleges misuse of MP state funds: "Massod named state's top brass"
Sep 15, 2011 2G scam: Dayanidhi Maran questioned by CBI for 5 hours: "Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran was today questioned by the CBI for over five hours on alleged irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation during his tenure. Earlier this week, the agency had questioned his brother Kalanidhi Maran in connection with the preliminary enquiry in spectrum allocation during 2001-07 and allegations of pushing for Aircel takeover by Malaysia-based Maxis group,"
Sep 15, 2011 Chinese troops enter Indian territory; dismantle old bunkers
Sep 15, 2011 Arrest Reddy kin to prevent evidence tampering: Congress: "Congress Wednesday demanded the immediate arrest of jailed mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy’s brother G. Karunaraka Reddy and associate B. Sriramulu."
Sep 15, 2011 Graft during YSR rule was above norm in India: US cable: "A leaked diplomatic cable dispatched by the US Consul General in Chennai in 2007 had nailed the then Congress government headed by Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in Andhra Pradesh for ''widespread corruption that was beyond the pale'' even for India."
Sep 15, 2011 MP miffed because I denied admission request: Thampu: "The war over rival alumni associations took a new turn on Tuesday when St. Stephen’s principal Valson Thampu said college alumnus and MP Sandeep Dikshit had been targeting him ever since he refused an admission request from Dikshit’s camp for a student last year. Thampu said the college was being held hostage by the “legally unsound and morally untenable” parallel alumni association that Dikshit mentored two months ago."
Sep 15, 2011 SC directs Jayalalithaa to appear in Bangalore court: "The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha to appear in person before a Bangalore trial court on October 20 in a disproportionate assets case against her."
Sep 15, 2011 Can't stop probe into Maya assets case, says CBI
Sep 15, 2011 Why Amar Singh had to be rushed to AIIMS, asks court: "The Tihar jail authorities were asked by a Delhi court today to explain by tomorrow as to what ''necessitated'' shifting Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in cash-for-vote scam, to AIIMS last evening."
Sep 15, 2011 Mayawati had criminal nexus with relatives, CBI tells SC: "Alleging there was a ''criminal nexus'' between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her relatives, CBI today told the Supreme Court that the disproportionate assets case against her cannot be closed on the basis of conclusions arrived by the Income Tax department."
Sep 15, 2011 CBI grills Janardhana Reddy for more than five hours: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday questioned for more than five hours former Karnataka minister and mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy and his brother- in-law Srinavasa Reddy, who have been arrested in an illegal mining case."
Sep 15, 2011 Trains collide near Chennai; 5 bogies derail, 15 dead
Sep 15, 2011 CBI gets Bellary Reddys' custody till Sept 19: "Janardhana Reddy and Srinivasa Reddy were arrested on charges of illegal mining."
Sep 15, 2011 Another Chinese intrusion in Ladakh?: "Two Chinese helicopters, along with seven to eight troopers on board, flew into Indian territory along the Line of actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh region of J&K last month and damaged “unused bunkers” of India, before flying back undetected and unchallenged."
Sep 15, 2011 Road claims fake, will fix responsibility: HC: "At the end of the day, these bodies are answerable to the hassled, miserable and pitied commuters who pay hefty sums as road tax in the anticipation and hope that roads do not stalk them but bestow pain-free travel. The callous authorities cannot dodge the responsibility by indulging in the blame game, when the commuter silently suffers,”"
Sep 15, 2011 Ready to support any anti-graft movement: Left: "CPI leader Gurudas Das Gupta said both the BJP and the Congress are into corruption to fund elections."
Sep 15, 2011 Donation to JMM to save Rao Govt tax free: I-T tribunal: "four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs along with seven members of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal(A) were allegedly paid at least Rs 8.7 crore to ensure the survival of the Narasimha Rao Government. The Supreme Court in 1998 held that the MPs who cast their votes accordingly committed no crime that the legal system can act on."
Sep 15, 2011 No relief: Jaya has to appear before Karnataka court: "Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha was on Monday asked by the Supreme Court to appear personally on October 20 before a Karnataka trial court, adjudicating a disproportionate assets case against her."
Sep 15, 2011 Cong’s stars down in the dumps: "The UPA Government’s bad run seems to be uninterrupted. Let’s run through the dhobi list from the past week:"
Sep 15, 2011 ‘Black sheep’ CM can’t tame - Haldia industrialists groan under demands for money and interference by satraps claiming ties with Trinamul : "Pankaj Dhanuka, the chief executive officer of Lalbaba Seamless Tubes Pvt Ltd, was relieved on August 21 when chief minister Mamata Banerjee publicly told industrialists not to pay up if anyone sought money on behalf of her party."
Sep 15, 2011 PM calls for transparency in road projects: "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouratism or crony capitalism."
Sep 15, 2011 BJP funded sting operation, says its MP Jethmalani: "While arguing for bail for Amar Singh, senior advocate and BJP's Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani told the court Monday that the money in the attempt to bribe MPs ahead of the 2008 parliament trust vote did not come from his client, but ''probably from a BJP source''."
Sep 15, 2011 Illegal wall gone, potted plants minister’s new boundary: "Potted plants in place of a boundary wall? That’s exactly how the exterior of the house of Delhi government’s labour minister Ramakant Goswami looks after he followed the Lokayukta’s direction and demolished it as it was found encroaching on public land."
Sep 15, 2011 Team Anna demands withdrawal of judges' accountability bill: "Team Anna Monday demanded withdrawal of the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010, claiming it had no provision for investigation of corrupt judges or their prosecution.", "the bill is just to mislead the common man"
Sep 15, 2011 SC orders CBI probe into Banda rape case against BSP MLA: "a minor girl was allegedly raped for two days by the legislator before she fled on December 12 last year and registered a case. But the MLA's brother lodged a case of theft against her and when she was produced in court, the magistrate remanded her to judicial custody. "The person against whom allegations have been made continued to be free for over a month from the date of occurrence of the acts complained of," the petitioner had said. It needed chief minister Mayawati's intervention for the girl's release from prison and arrest of Dwivedi."
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Sep 24, 2011 Is Anything More Corrupt Than A Govt Buying MPs?: "The focus of the fight against corruption should be on UPA-II. After all, some of the accused in the 2G scam have even said that spectrum sales had the tacit approval of the PM."
Sep 24, 2011 Hazare attacks Chidambaram, seeks enquiry into 2G allegations: "Gandhian Anna Hazare today demanded an enquiry into allegations against the Union Home Minister in the 2G spectrum scam and criticised the Congress for backing him."
Sep 24, 2011 Chidambaram's place in the same cell in Tihar as Raja: BJP: "Upping the ante against Home Minister P Chidambaram in 2-G spectrum scam, BJP on Saturday said his place was in the same cell in Tihar jail in which former Telecom Minister A Raja has been lodged and demanded a probe into the alleged role of the Prime Minister in the case."
Sep 24, 2011 Deve Gowda's yet another son faces probe over assets: "Troubles mounted for former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda as a court Saturday ordered probe into his eldest son's assets while his another son and daughter-in-law are already battling graft cases.", "he has acquired assests worth Rs.500 crore."
Sep 24, 2011 Orissa MLA, his PSO shot dead by suspected Maoists
Sep 24, 2011 Pune civic polls: Suresh Kalmadi calling shots from Tihar
Sep 24, 2011 Chidambaram should be in jail with Raja: BJP: "home minister P Chidambaram should be in jail for his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scam. "The proof against Chidambaram is overwhelming."
Sep 24, 2011 Former DMK minister KPP Samy arrested on murder charges: "many residents witnessed her husband being forced into a vehicle by KPP Samy's brothers and their men after which he diappeared."
Sep 23, 2011 India faces worrisome leadership deficit
Sep 23, 2011 Reuters: BREAKINGVIEWS - Bring back Manmohan Singh: "India's government has lost its mojo. Its mishandling of corruption scandals comes as the culmination of almost two years of policy inertia. Anna Hazare, the campaigner who last month forced the government into a humiliating u-turn"
Sep 23, 2011 2G scam: CPI quizzes PM's role: "it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's responsibility to look into the irregularities of his ministers. The minister further slammed the Prime Minister's earlier statements that dismissed various scams as a result of his ministers' individual policies."
Sep 23, 2011 Cop assaulted by BSP man's son: "In what is a blatant misuse of power BSP leader Dayaram Kuril's son assaulted and threatened a traffic policeman who had stopped him for violating traffic rules. In yet another case of Maya's men flexing their muscles, the BSP leader's son and his supporters manhandled the cop who had dared to threaten him. What is worse, despite assaulting an on duty officer, not a single FIR has been registered. The UP Cops simply saying that a compromise had been reached."
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram should resign: Joshi: "BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has demanded P Chidambaram's resignation."
Sep 23, 2011 Pranab note puts Chidambaram under 2G scanner: "Pranab Mukherjee had sent a note to the PM in March 2011 saying Chidambaram as then Finance Minister could have prevented the scam."
Sep 23, 2011 JDS to file complaint against CM kin on alleged IT evasion: "JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy today said he would file a complaint before Income Tax Department and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee over alleged IT evasion by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's family members.", "a trust owned by Kumaraswamy's brother H D Balakrishna had received Rs 250 crore as donation from the mining sector and 164 Bangalore Development Authority sites were allotted to his (Kumaraswamy) relatives when he was Chief Minister"
Sep 23, 2011 2G strikes back, heat on Chidambaram to quit
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram guilty of inaction in 2G case: Note: "A Finance Ministry note indicated that Chidambaram did nothing to make A Raja change his 2G decisions."
Sep 23, 2011 Plan panel's joke on poor: Rs 31/day enough for family of 5: "Is a daily expenditure of Rs 31 enough to sustain a family of five in a city like Delhi and Mumbai? Country's top-most planning body, Planning Commission, says yes."
Sep 23, 2011 Some dismal signals: "Is the Indian economy becoming ungovernable? The increasing confusion over inflation, the increasing pessimism over the government’s ability to ease supply and cost constraints on the economy"
Sep 23, 2011 BJP demands Chidambaram's resignation: "demanded the ouster of home minister P Chidambaram and said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should investigate his role in the 2G spectrum scam."
Sep 23, 2011 2G: Chidambaram should resign or PM must drop him, says Jayalathithaa
Sep 23, 2011 CBI registers case against BSP MLA in Banda rape case
Sep 23, 2011 UP: BSP worker thrashes honest officer: "Thrashed for stopping illegal mining"
Sep 23, 2011 On cam: Cop assaulted by BSP man's son
Sep 23, 2011 Raja link emerges in Goa CM Kamat’s mining scam: "All of Goa’s working and non-working mines came up for environmental clearances between 2005 and 2007, when Raja was the Environment Minister. Before Raja moved out of the ministry in May 2007, he had cleared 136 mines."
Sep 23, 2011 CBI to probe Reddy brother's firm
Sep 23, 2011 Chidambaram would be in jail had there been Jan Lokpal: Hazare: "Amid the fresh controversy in the 2-G spectrum case, anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare today said Home Minister P Chidambaram would have been behind bars had the Jan Lokpal legislation been in existence."
Sep 23, 2011 PC running out of luck: "The 2G scam that is threatening to knock at the door of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is posing a serious threat to his image than the recent bomb blasts that the latter described as a ''blot'' on his government."
Sep 23, 2011 2G: Cong defending Chidambaram to shield PM?: "If the court suggests an investigation into Chidambaram's role as finance minister, it's bound to put even the Prime Minister in dock. So, a worried Prime Minister, in defending Chidambaram, is also shielding himself from such an eventuality."
Sep 23, 2011 Supreme Court orders CBI probe into illegal mining in Karnataka: "The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a CBI probe into alleged illegal mining in Karnataka by two companies, one of which is owned by jailed former minister G. Janardhana Reddy."
Sep 21, 2011 Dynasty politics making India bankrupt: Ramdev: "Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has demanded end of dynasty politics in India to save the country from bankruptcy."
Sep 21, 2011 Do we need a planning Commission?: "Such a planning commission is a blot on India. In this age, when corruption in each department has run in billions, when salaries of government staff and their counterparts are zooming up, our planning commission shamelessly tells the Supreme Court that Rs 25 ( not even fifty cent) a day is enough to live a life."
Sep 21, 2011 BJP comes out with ‘Ghotala Chaleesa’ of Cong, BSP: "UPA government is responsible for corruption worth Rs 4 lakh crore nationwide. At the same time, it accused the BSP government of allegedly being involved in scams worth Rs 2.54 lakh crore in UP during the past four years."
Sep 21, 2011 Can we find 500 good men and women to govern India?: "The punishment suffered by wise men who do not take part in government, is to suffer under the government of worse men –Plato."
Sep 21, 2011 Yatra for 'clean governance', Advani says, attacks govt for scams
Sep 21, 2011 Finance ministry note points 2G finger at PC
Sep 21, 2011 Nearly half of Goa’s mines illegal: PAC: "Less than a month after the first arrest in the country’s biggest mining scam in Karnataka’s Bellary, the lid is about to be blown off the illegal mining that has cost Goa — the state that exports 40% of India’s iron ore — thousands of crores,"
Sep 21, 2011 Was Chidu note on spectrum to PM a covert nod to Raja?
Sep 21, 2011 'किस दुनिया में रहती है सरकार?': "योजना आयोग ने कहा है कि शहर में 31 रुपए और गांवों में 25 रुपए प्रति दिन कमाने वाले व्यक्ति को ग़रीब नहीं माना जा सकता."
Sep 21, 2011 'अब अमीर ही बन सकते हैं नेता'
Sep 21, 2011 कितना कमाते हैं हमारे मंत्री?: "क्या आप जानते हैं कि भारत सरकार के मंत्री कितना कमाते हैं या उनकी संपत्ति किस रफ़्तार से बढ़ती है?", "आप कितने भी कल्पनाशील हो जाएँ तो वहाँ तक नहीं पहुँच सकते जो आंकड़े बताते हैं."
Sep 21, 2011 BBC: India: Half a dollar a day 'adequate', says panel: "Half a dollar a day is "adequate" for an Indian villager to spend on food, education and health, the country's main planning body has said. Critics say that the amount fixed by the Planning Commission is extremely low and aimed at "artificially" reducing the number of poor who are entitled to state benefits.", "Officially, 37% of India's 1.21bn people live below the poverty line. But one estimate suggests the true figure could be as high as 77%."
Sep 21, 2011 Reddy & associates have 200 bank lockers: CBI: "The CBI, probing illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company, has found that the arrested mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his associates had allegedly booked 200 lockers in a private bank here."
Sep 21, 2011 After Pranab's note, Swamy targets Chidambaram: "Swamy on Wednesday said that criminal culpability was clear on the part of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation after new report suggesting the then finance minister's involvement in the case."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: Pranab note blames Raja, Chidambaram: "An official Finance Ministry document has cast doubts over the role of Home Minister P Chidambaram, who was then finance minister, in the January 2008 decision of former telecom minister A Raja to issue 2G spectrum licences."
Sep 21, 2011 New twist in 2G scam: Pranab questions Chidambaram's role: "A letter sent by the finance ministry suggested that if Chidambaram had insisted, 2G spectrum could have been auctioned instead of being sold at throwaway prices on a first-come-first-serve basis."
Sep 21, 2011 Walther pistols, .22 bore revolvers preferred weapons of our MPs: "Former MP Atiq Ahmed, now in prison and facing trial in 35 criminal cases including several cases of murder, has spent the highest amount among the VIPs to buy a rifle 'Rugger M-77 Mark-II 30.66 mm' at a cost of Rs 3.15 lakh. Azmi opted for a PPK pistol for Rs three lakh. Kalmadi, who is now in Tihar prison pending trial in CWG scam, bought a Webly revolver in 1995 for Rs 9,150 while another jailbird Shahabuddin procured a S&W revolver in 2001 for Rs 43,507."
Sep 21, 2011 Spend Rs 32 a day? Govt says you can't be poor: "The Montek Singh Ahluwalia-headed Planning Commission had drawn flak from the apex court which, on May 14, took exception to the poverty line definition which initially said anyone spending more than Rs 20 in urban areas and Rs 15 in rural areas should not be considered poor."
Sep 21, 2011 Disaster averted, cover up exposed: "yet another crash that was averted in Mangalore. AI Express flight IX 206 avoided falling into a gorge due to an alert co-pilot. The captain of the flight miscalculated landing and showed 'error of judgement'. However, the alert co-pilot applied brakes on time as plane stops few inches away from the gorge."
Sep 21, 2011 Jodhpur: Bhanwari Devi's family alleges murder: "The Dalit nurse went missing after a controversial CD surfaced showing her and Rajasthan PHED Minister.", "Minister got Bhanwari killed?"
Sep 21, 2011 Bangalore: BSY's son-in-law's house searched: "There were complaints of bribery against the son-in-law, who runs 2 firms that were allegedly favoured by then CM."
Sep 21, 2011 Lokayukta raids Yeddyurappa kin's home: "Police attached to the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) Tuesday raided the residence and office of scam-hit former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's son-in-law R. Sohan Kumar here in search of evidence over graft cases."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: CBI opposes probe against Chidambaram
Sep 21, 2011 Lokayukta raids on offices of Yeddyurappa's son-in-law: "Davalagiri properties is owned by Sohan Kumar and sons of Yeddyurappa-- B Y Raghavendra, MP and B Y Vijendra."
Sep 21, 2011 Maya orders crackdown on graft in UP schemes in image makeover bid: "asking all district magistrates to visit at least one village and sub-divisional magistrates five villages every week and organise open meetings so as to hear the grievances of villagers and dispose them. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year."
Sep 21, 2011 Rajasthan minister meets President, expresses regret over 'loyalty-rewarded' remarks: "Khan as having told the party workers that Patil was so dedicated that "she used to make tea and cook food at Indira Gandhi's residence" and due to her honesty, devotion and loyalty, she is now the President."
Sep 21, 2011 2G case: CBI, Centre oppose probe against Chidambaram: "Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister, was party to the conspiracy with Raja in deciding the price of spectrum."
Sep 19, 2011 Ending the leakage raj
Sep 19, 2011 NYTimes: Corrupt ministers, nothing to worry
Sep 19, 2011 Despite CVC report, govt shielding guilty?: "One of the key concerns in the fight against corruption is the prosecution sanction required from the department concerned even after probe has established the accused official's guilt. Usually, the power to grant prosecution is put to good use to unnecessarily delay action against the guilty."
Sep 19, 2011 Railways most corrupt government organisation,says cvc annual report: "public sector banks like the Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank, State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank, besides the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which have high public interface, follow the railways in the CVC's roll call of dishonour."
Sep 19, 2011 NY Times: Health Officials at Risk as India’s Graft Thrives: "Who Killed the Doctors?: Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh are trying to figure out how the killing of three prominent doctors fit into the country's systematic corruption.", "“We sometimes don’t even have soap for our hands,” said P. N. Tiwari, the center’s vaccination officer. “Meanwhile, they are looting like monkeys,” a reference, he said, to politicians, bureaucrats and contractors. Half a dozen babies are born in the clinic daily, but the water tank is broken, so deliveries are performed without running water. The center has an ambulance, but it, too, is broken. Repairs would cost only about $30, but there is no cash to pay for it. Crucial medical supplies, like oral rehydration salts for children with diarrhea, have been out of stock for months."
Sep 19, 2011 Illegal mining case: CBI quizzes Karunakara Reddy: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the alleged illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of leases to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), today began questioning former Karnataka minister Gali Karunakara Reddy in connection with the case."
Sep 19, 2011 Truckload of cash seized belongs to Srinivas Reddy: Andhra police: "police claimed to have prima facie evidence that the Rs 4.95 crore cash seized from a truck on Thursday in Guntakal town in the district bordering mineral-rich Bellary district of Karnataka allegedly belonged to B V Srinivas Reddy, Managing Director of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) who is in CBI custody."
Sep 19, 2011 Cash-for-votes: Amar's bail extended, Ahmed Patel dragged in: "The person who paid money during the 2008 trust vote was Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel, counsel for Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, Ram Jethmalani, alleged in court"
Sep 19, 2011 Judicial custody of Reddys extended: "A CBI special court on Monday extended till October 3 the judicial custody of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy in connection with an illegal mining case."
Sep 19, 2011 Cong paid money in cash-for-votes scam: Jethmalani
Sep 19, 2011 Ex-CM's daughter's son-in-law charged with cheating
Sep 19, 2011 Cash-for-vote: Jethmalani says money came from Ahmed Patel: "Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh's counsel Ram Jethmalani on Monday made a u-turn and named before a Delhi court Congress leader Ahmed Patel as the source for the money in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam."
Sep 17, 2011 Cash seized from house of Janardhana Reddy's driver: "Andhra Pradesh Police Saturday seized Rs.4 lakh from the house of mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy's driver and also searched the houses of relatives of a former government official in an illegal mining case."
Sep 17, 2011 CBI seizes Rs 2 cr gold jewellery from lockers of Reddy's aide: "A CBI team today seized gold jewellery worth about Rs two crore from bank lockers of Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) Managing Director Srinivasa Reddy"
Sep 17, 2011 Naidu's daughter-in-law quizzed: "The CBI sleuths on Friday went to the houses of Nara Brahmani, daughter-in-law of former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Galla Padmavathi, daughter-in-law of minister Galla Aruna Kumari and T Rama Devi, wife of NTV proprietor Narendranath Chowdary and recorded their statements with regard to the villas they bought in the Emaar Hills Township project as part of their probe into the APIIC-Emaar irregularities."
Sep 16, 2011 The Grammar of Anarchy: "Faced with a monumentally corrupt – and yet popularly elected – government,"
Sep 16, 2011 Narco test likely as GJR clams up: "Janardhana Reddy is a tough nut to crack and Srinivas Reddy is faking amnesia. The latter has told the officers that he could not remember a thing even though the maps of the Obulapuram Mines are shown to him in an effort to help him recollect some facts about the doings of the company of which he is the managing director and gets Rs 2.5 crore a year for his pains."
Sep 16, 2011 All that glitters is gold in Reddy palace: "Priceless items have been found in the house of former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI on September 5."
Sep 16, 2011 Shehla's letter alleges misuse of MP state funds: "Massod named state's top brass"
Sep 15, 2011 2G scam: Dayanidhi Maran questioned by CBI for 5 hours: "Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran was today questioned by the CBI for over five hours on alleged irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation during his tenure. Earlier this week, the agency had questioned his brother Kalanidhi Maran in connection with the preliminary enquiry in spectrum allocation during 2001-07 and allegations of pushing for Aircel takeover by Malaysia-based Maxis group,"
Sep 15, 2011 Chinese troops enter Indian territory; dismantle old bunkers
Sep 15, 2011 Arrest Reddy kin to prevent evidence tampering: Congress: "Congress Wednesday demanded the immediate arrest of jailed mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy’s brother G. Karunaraka Reddy and associate B. Sriramulu."
Sep 15, 2011 Graft during YSR rule was above norm in India: US cable: "A leaked diplomatic cable dispatched by the US Consul General in Chennai in 2007 had nailed the then Congress government headed by Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in Andhra Pradesh for ''widespread corruption that was beyond the pale'' even for India."
Sep 15, 2011 MP miffed because I denied admission request: Thampu: "The war over rival alumni associations took a new turn on Tuesday when St. Stephen’s principal Valson Thampu said college alumnus and MP Sandeep Dikshit had been targeting him ever since he refused an admission request from Dikshit’s camp for a student last year. Thampu said the college was being held hostage by the “legally unsound and morally untenable” parallel alumni association that Dikshit mentored two months ago."
Sep 15, 2011 SC directs Jayalalithaa to appear in Bangalore court: "The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha to appear in person before a Bangalore trial court on October 20 in a disproportionate assets case against her."
Sep 15, 2011 Can't stop probe into Maya assets case, says CBI
Sep 15, 2011 Why Amar Singh had to be rushed to AIIMS, asks court: "The Tihar jail authorities were asked by a Delhi court today to explain by tomorrow as to what ''necessitated'' shifting Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in cash-for-vote scam, to AIIMS last evening."
Sep 15, 2011 Mayawati had criminal nexus with relatives, CBI tells SC: "Alleging there was a ''criminal nexus'' between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her relatives, CBI today told the Supreme Court that the disproportionate assets case against her cannot be closed on the basis of conclusions arrived by the Income Tax department."
Sep 15, 2011 CBI grills Janardhana Reddy for more than five hours: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday questioned for more than five hours former Karnataka minister and mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy and his brother- in-law Srinavasa Reddy, who have been arrested in an illegal mining case."
Sep 15, 2011 Trains collide near Chennai; 5 bogies derail, 15 dead
Sep 15, 2011 CBI gets Bellary Reddys' custody till Sept 19: "Janardhana Reddy and Srinivasa Reddy were arrested on charges of illegal mining."
Sep 15, 2011 Another Chinese intrusion in Ladakh?: "Two Chinese helicopters, along with seven to eight troopers on board, flew into Indian territory along the Line of actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh region of J&K last month and damaged “unused bunkers” of India, before flying back undetected and unchallenged."
Sep 15, 2011 Road claims fake, will fix responsibility: HC: "At the end of the day, these bodies are answerable to the hassled, miserable and pitied commuters who pay hefty sums as road tax in the anticipation and hope that roads do not stalk them but bestow pain-free travel. The callous authorities cannot dodge the responsibility by indulging in the blame game, when the commuter silently suffers,”"
Sep 15, 2011 Ready to support any anti-graft movement: Left: "CPI leader Gurudas Das Gupta said both the BJP and the Congress are into corruption to fund elections."
Sep 15, 2011 Donation to JMM to save Rao Govt tax free: I-T tribunal: "four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs along with seven members of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal(A) were allegedly paid at least Rs 8.7 crore to ensure the survival of the Narasimha Rao Government. The Supreme Court in 1998 held that the MPs who cast their votes accordingly committed no crime that the legal system can act on."
Sep 15, 2011 No relief: Jaya has to appear before Karnataka court: "Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha was on Monday asked by the Supreme Court to appear personally on October 20 before a Karnataka trial court, adjudicating a disproportionate assets case against her."
Sep 15, 2011 Cong’s stars down in the dumps: "The UPA Government’s bad run seems to be uninterrupted. Let’s run through the dhobi list from the past week:"
Sep 15, 2011 ‘Black sheep’ CM can’t tame - Haldia industrialists groan under demands for money and interference by satraps claiming ties with Trinamul : "Pankaj Dhanuka, the chief executive officer of Lalbaba Seamless Tubes Pvt Ltd, was relieved on August 21 when chief minister Mamata Banerjee publicly told industrialists not to pay up if anyone sought money on behalf of her party."
Sep 15, 2011 PM calls for transparency in road projects: "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouratism or crony capitalism."
Sep 15, 2011 BJP funded sting operation, says its MP Jethmalani: "While arguing for bail for Amar Singh, senior advocate and BJP's Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani told the court Monday that the money in the attempt to bribe MPs ahead of the 2008 parliament trust vote did not come from his client, but ''probably from a BJP source''."
Sep 15, 2011 Illegal wall gone, potted plants minister’s new boundary: "Potted plants in place of a boundary wall? That’s exactly how the exterior of the house of Delhi government’s labour minister Ramakant Goswami looks after he followed the Lokayukta’s direction and demolished it as it was found encroaching on public land."
Sep 15, 2011 Team Anna demands withdrawal of judges' accountability bill: "Team Anna Monday demanded withdrawal of the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010, claiming it had no provision for investigation of corrupt judges or their prosecution.", "the bill is just to mislead the common man"
Sep 15, 2011 SC orders CBI probe into Banda rape case against BSP MLA: "a minor girl was allegedly raped for two days by the legislator before she fled on December 12 last year and registered a case. But the MLA's brother lodged a case of theft against her and when she was produced in court, the magistrate remanded her to judicial custody. "The person against whom allegations have been made continued to be free for over a month from the date of occurrence of the acts complained of," the petitioner had said. It needed chief minister Mayawati's intervention for the girl's release from prison and arrest of Dwivedi."
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