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Aug 4, 2011 Cops name Amar Singh in cash-for-vote scam
Aug 4, 2011 CAG findings put Delhi CM in the line of fire: "The CAG report holds Sheila Dikshit responsible for excess expenditure of over Rs 100 cr during the CWG."
Aug 4, 2011 'Lokpal Bill tilted in favour of the corrupt’: ""What we have is a jokepal... It is a deceit on the nation,""
Aug 4, 2011 Former DMK minister arrested in land grabbing case
Aug 4, 2011 Crores spent, but CWG works lie in a shambles: "Sheila Dixit needs to answer more than one question on why so much of money went down the drain."
Aug 4, 2011 CWG: CAG flays Shiela govt over health expenses: "Delhi government gave contracts to non-existing firms for health services during the Games."
Aug 4, 2011 Jaya strikes again, two DMK leaders arrested: "The mayor of Erode Kumar Murugesh and former DMK minister NKKP Raja have been arrested."
Aug 4, 2011 Sadananda says he's not a puppet CM: "Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Thursday asserted that he would not be a puppet in the hands of former chief minister Yeddyurappa, who ensured his victory in the election as BJP legislature party leader."
Aug 4, 2011 Government to pump Rs.1,732 crore into Air India: "The equity includes fresh infusion of equity worth Rs.1,200 crore and Rs.532 crore as the fare for VVIP travel,"
Aug 4, 2011 J&K minister's son held for assaulting neighbours over a scuffle
Aug 4, 2011 Land Acquisition Act is a fraud, ought to be scrapped: SC: "Frowning at increasing incidents of government forcibly acquiring land for industrialisation and residential schemes, the Supreme Court today observed that the Land Acquisition Act ought to be scrapped as it is a ''fraud'' devised by some ''sick people''."
Aug 4, 2011 Madras High Court rejects Chidambaram plea against case challenging his 2009 election: "AIADMK rival, who lost by little over 3,000 votes, told court HM had won by 'corrupt practices'"
Aug 3, 2011 Toronto Star: The high cost of doing business in India: "Canadian businessman Mir Ali says he's being extorted by an Indian cabinet minister who allegedly demands a bribe in exchange for a government contract.", "His plight is a familiar one in modern India.", "India ranks 87th out of 178 nations in Transparency International’s 2010 corruption perception survey, meaning that other developing countries such as China, Columbia and Rwanda are considered less corrupt."
Aug 3, 2011 Karnataka has a new CM with Yeddy in charge: "governor has permitted the Lokayukta to prosecute the outgoing CM for corruption in a mining scam."
Aug 3, 2011 Activist exposes political nexus in Olympic body: ""It seems CWG was a friendly money minting game for some common friends in Congress and BJP under the joint leadership of Kalmadi and Malhotra. Many BJP leaders enjoyed luxurious family-trips to foreign countries like China, spending huge amounts of public money, to ‘study' for preparations of CWG Games. But no study report was filed,""
Aug 3, 2011 Wall Street Journal: Report Casts Glare on Indian Billionaires: "Some of India’s biggest mining companies, several of which are run by members of the country’s growing list of billionaires, stand accused by an anti-corruption agency in the southern Indian state of Karnataka of a litany of illegal actions, including widespread bribery."
Aug 3, 2011 Why corruption is your problem…: "Is the government intent on dealing with corruption? Arvind Kejriwal's repeated assertion was “No!”"
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: Delhi govt defends CM against CAG charges: "The Delhi government on Wednesday came out in the open against the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that blames it for wasteful expenditure worth Rs 130 crore in CWG projects."
Aug 3, 2011 BBC: Karnataka mining scandal: Yeddyurappa faces probe: "The governor of India's Karnataka state has ordered a criminal investigation against a former chief minister indicted in a mining scandal."
Aug 3, 2011 Start criminal proceeding against BSY: Governor
Aug 3, 2011 Haryana to relook land allotment to Gandhi trust: "CNN-IBN has exposed how the Haryana government had shown preferential treatment to the Rajiv Gandhi Trust."
Aug 3, 2011 Rajiv Gandhi Trust: Villagers demand land back
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: Kalmadi issue embarrasses both Cong and BJP
Aug 3, 2011 Kalmadi undergoes test for dementia at AIIMS: "AIIMS experts have conducted detailed examination of sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi for memory-related disorder dementia besides a number of other pathological tests of his vital parameters."
Aug 3, 2011 Dikshit evades questions on CAG report on CWG: "Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today evaded questions on the Comptroller and Auditor General reportedly rapping her government for irregularities in Commonwealth Games projects"
Aug 3, 2011 Start criminal proceeding against BSY: Governor: "Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj on Wednesday gave the go ahead to the Lokayukta Police to start criminal proceedings against Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa."
Aug 3, 2011 Gifts of 'love' to Mayawati not taxable: Delhi HC: "ITAT had accepted Mayawati's claim that immovable property worth Rs 62.72 lakh and cash payments of Rs 2 lakh were gifts given by her supporters out of love and affection."
Aug 3, 2011 From clerks to crorepatis: BMC's top 5 contractors: "Almost every one of these firms has one thing in common: political patronage. It is a rags-to-riches story born out of enormous sums of taxpayers money spent by the BMC to build roads every year since 1989."
Aug 3, 2011 Surprise! No politician in cash-for-vote scandal: "Delhi Police have claimed that they have not found evidence to establish the complicity of any politician in one of the country's biggest political scandals"
Aug 3, 2011 CAG raps Sheila Dikshit for irregularities in CWG
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: L'Affaire Kalmadi: "leaked CAG report which apparently cites letters by former Sports Ministers Sunil Dutt and Mani Shankar Aiyar and faulted the Prime Minister's Office [PMO] for ignoring warnings on the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the Commonwealth Games [CWG] Organising Committee [OC] Chief."
Aug 3, 2011 CAG criticises Shiela govt, civic bodies for CWG loss: "Spaceage supplied low cost luminaries of Saudi make costing Rs 5,040 per piece, but it charged the Delhi government Rs 25,704 per piece earning a super profit of Rs 2.68 crore.", "The PWD admitted that of the 3.82 lakh potted plants bought by them, a third costing nearly Rs 79 lakh perished, and the rest were given to government offices. CAG teams visited the offices but could not find the potted plants.""
Aug 3, 2011 It took 12 hours to tame BSY
Aug 3, 2011 Karuna's grandson threatens to sue land grab complainant
Aug 3, 2011 Land grabbing case: Former DMK MLA Ranganathan lands in police net
Aug 3, 2011 I brought out a bitter truth, says Hegde
Aug 3, 2011 85% of Sibal's Constituency Wants Jan Lokpal: Hazare: ""Seeing these results the question arises, does Kapil Sibal still represent the people of his constituency?""
Aug 3, 2011 Conference Call, Was It? : "Hot Seat Raja’s deposition has re-intensified debate and the spotlight on Chidambaram", "Were Raja’s decisions cleared by the PM and former FM? Who cleared the equity sale of Swan and Unitech Wireless? Should Tata Teleservices be clubbed in with Swan and Unitech Wireless? Will A-G Vahanvati’s role in clearing Raja’s decisions make it to fresh chargesheets? Will Chidambaram be made to stand witness in court?"
Aug 3, 2011 A Rich Vein Of Dissent: "Lokayukta pegs loss due to illegal mining in four years ending 2010 at Rs 16,085 crore Report charges Yediyurappa and his family of taking bribes from mining firms. Two instances cited: Rs 10 cr paid to Yeddy family trust; land sold at 200 times market price for Rs 20 cr to a mining firm Ex-CM H.D. Kumaraswamy, four ministers, 787 officials also named. Calls for prosecution under Prevention of Corruption Act."
Aug 3, 2011 Anna attacks Govt as people support Jan Lokpal Bill
Aug 3, 2011 BJP questions Singh’s role in 2G scam: "Piqued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ''unprovoked'' comment that there were ''skeletons in the opposition’s cupboard'', the BJP on Monday alleged that the prime Minister was ''micro-managing the telecom policy'' rather than being an aloof witness to the scam."
Aug 3, 2011 30 Minutes: The mining republic: "On this episode we look at how has rampant illegal mining bled Karnataka's economy and ecology drive."
Aug 3, 2011 Adarsh scam: CBI records Shinde's statement: "Shinde was summoned in May to appear two-member enquiry commission probing scam as a witness."
Aug 3, 2011 Yeddyurappa resigns as Karnataka CM
Aug 3, 2011 What Cong didn’t read in Hegde report: Andhra ‘link’: "the report’s mention of the crucial role played by ports in Congress-ruled Andhra Pradesh in the export of illegally mined iron ore."
Aug 3, 2011 Angry SC tells govt to pay up
Aug 3, 2011 PM aware of 2G details: Arun Jaitley: "Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said that Manmohan Singh is aware of the details in the 2G scam."
Aug 3, 2011 HC pulls up Haryana govt over Gurgaon land acquisition: "the state had gone “berserk” in acquiring land and warned that “courts are not helpless”."
Aug 3, 2011 CWG scam: CAG report blames PMO, Delhi govt: "CAG sources also report that intentional delays caused by Kalmadi led to high expenses."
Aug 3, 2011 With BSY gone, BJP trains guns on Dikshit: "ruling party has not taken any action against Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit despite Shunglu Committee "indicting" her."
Aug 3, 2011 Is the 'honest' PM telling lies? Questions Anna Hazare
Aug 3, 2011 Yeddyurappa smashes Naidu's laptop, slaps minister
Aug 3, 2011 CAG questions PMO for giving Kalmadi Organizing Committee reins: "the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has faulted the PMO for letting Suresh Kalmadi capture the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games, a decision which enabled the jailed sports czar to have a decisive say in the spending of hundreds of crores of public money."
Aug 3, 2011 2G: Balwa accuses Pranab along with PM, PC: "After Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee has become the new target in 2G case."
Aug 3, 2011 Rajiv Gandhi trust flouts land laws: Haryana HC: ""When you are caught red handed, you are trying to escape... We cannot tolerate what you are doing with the common man," The high court told the state government. "This has to be stopped. We are shocked at the sad state of affairs. Be rational and be fair to everybody," the high court added."
Aug 3, 2011 Manmohan knew even the minute details of 2G scam: BJP
Aug 2, 2011 Chief minister of Karnataka resigns over corruption charges
Aug 2, 2011 BBC: New session of Indian parliament hit by graft row
Aug 2, 2011 BBC: New law to tackle India corruption: "Corruption is a big issue in India after a string of corruption scandals from a multi-billion dollar telecom scandal to last year's commonwealth games. Several top government officials including a former minister have been arrested and are facing criminal charges."
Aug 2, 2011 Abolishing discretionary powers of Ministers can curb corruption: Pranab: "Apart from fast tracking of cases against corrupt public servants, GoM has recommended expediting of the setting up of 71 Special CBI Courts which have already been sanctioned."
Aug 2, 2011 Lok Pal Bill eyewash, should be withdrawn: Kejriwal
Aug 2, 2011 India Digest: After Fixing Yeddy, Lokayukta Slams Bellary’s Mining ‘Mafia’
Aug 2, 2011 Alibaba & 800 thieves; Santosh Hegde wants every one prosecuted
Aug 2, 2011 The plunder of the past & the loot of the present: "India is facing a crisis of character, what with rampant corruption, reports of tonnes of black money stashed away in foreign banks, and the countless scams and scandals that have come to light in recent times — and their numbers keep rising by the day."
Aug 2, 2011 Yeddyurappa's downfall from one scam to another
Aug 2, 2011 India's sleeping politicians
Aug 2, 2011 Rebellion in Karnataka BJP; MLAs, MPs back BSY: "Yeddyurappa, who reluctantly agreed to resign on Thursday following the high command's decision in the wake of his severe indictment by the Lokayukta in the illegal mining scam,"
Aug 2, 2011 The rise and fall of BS Yeddyurappa
Aug 2, 2011 CBI chargesheet against seven in street lights scam: "The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had floated a tender for street lighting in the city in 2008, in which, according to the CBI, the seven persons named and a private firm “entered into a criminal conspiracy” to bag the contract worth Rs 34.53 crore."
Aug 2, 2011 Anna denied permission to go on fast at Jantar Mantar
Aug 2, 2011 Want to attend Parliament? Show previous record, HC to Kalmadi: "produce his attendance record in Lok Sabha for the last five years."
Aug 2, 2011 Supreme Court suspends mining in Bellary, Karnataka: "Besides Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the report had indicted mining barons and ministers, the Reddy brothers, companies and officials in the illegal mining that has led to a political storm and the ouster of the chief minister."
Aug 2, 2011 Court rebukes Kalmadi; asks why he wants to attend parliament: "The Delhi High Court Thursday snubbed Congress MP and sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who asked for permission to attend parliament, and said the government would not fall if he didn't attend the session."
Aug 2, 2011 Download Lokayukta report on illegal mining
Aug 2, 2011 Rs 215 cr Reddy money stashed abroad: report: "Between 2006-2010, 3.98 metric tonnes of iron ore worth Rs 12,228 crore was illicitly exported. This could not have happened without the government machinery's help."
Aug 2, 2011 When should a minister resign?
Aug 2, 2011 BJP finds Yeddyurappa hard to tame
Aug 2, 2011 Jailed MPs want to attend Parliament, government has nothing to do with it: "In the past, RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin and independent MP Pappu Yadav were convicted in separate cases for murder but were shifted from a Bihar jail to the Tihar Jail to participate in Parliament proceedings after securing permission from the courts."
Aug 2, 2011 NY Times: Leader of India State Resigns Over Corruption Inquiry: "The top political leader of an important southern state agreed to resign Thursday, one day after anticorruption investigators implicated him in a $3.5 billion scandal involving the illegal mining of iron ore."
Aug 2, 2011 India Minister Exits as Graft Fight Mounts
Aug 2, 2011 BS Yeddyurappa's successor should act against corruption: Congress
Aug 2, 2011 Graft probe accuses top officials in Indian state
Aug 2, 2011 Taiwan News: Graft probe accuses top officials in Indian state
Aug 2, 2011 Cabinet clears Lokpal Bill; PM exempt; "Jokepal" says Team Anna
Aug 2, 2011 Reddys park Rs 215 crore in tax havens: Report: "The final report on illegal mining illustrates that Karnataka's powerful Bellary ministers, whose transactions were way beyond what is declared to the state authorities, are involved in money laundering and tax evasion to smuggle out their crores - similar to what former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda was up to some time ago."
Aug 2, 2011 Court warns Tiwari for refusing to give blood sample: "The Delhi High Court Thursday sternly warned Congress leader N.D. Tiwari of ''dire consequences'' for refusing to provide his blood sample for DNA profiling to decide a paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be his biological son.", "Tiwari's five-decade political career virtually ended in 2009 after a news channel showed explicit clippings of an elderly man purported to be him with three young women in bed when he was the governor of Andhra Pradesh. A few days later, Tiwari resigned on health grounds."
Aug 2, 2011 Lokpal Bill clearance a deceit: Team Anna: "The Anna Hazare team today described the Lokpal Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet as a "deceit on the nation".", "those states which plan to set up the institution of Lokayukta will now plan to avoid Chief Ministers from it. "This bill will have a cascading effect,""
Aug 2, 2011 Yeddyurappa, the master survivor grounded by mining scam: "From a rice mill clerk and a farmers' leader to heading the first BJP Government in the South, B S Yeddyurappa has been a master survivor emerging unscathed through much turbulence in his three years in office before the Lokayukta report on illegal mining scam did him in."
Aug 2, 2011 'Mafia-like' mining network in Bellary: Lokayukta: "Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde today said a 'mafia-like' network existed in Bellary where the Reddy brothers, who are ministers, have influence and illegal mining there was like a ''single window corruption system''."
Aug 2, 2011 Clerk to CM and mines — the rise & fall of BSY: "a SC-appointed panel reported large-scale illegal mining in Karnataka damning the state government"
Aug 2, 2011 Not the people's lokpal bill: team Anna Hazare: "the government is trying to fool the people"
Aug 2, 2011 Karnataka mining scam is much bigger: Hegde: "Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has named Jindal Steel as one of the bribe givers."
Aug 2, 2011 2G scam: After Raja, Behura seeks to implicate PM
Aug 2, 2011 After fixing Yeddy, Lokayukta slams Bellary's mining 'mafia': "Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde today said a 'mafia-like' network existed in Bellary where the Reddy brothers, who are ministers, have influence and illegal mining there was like a “single window corruption system”."
Aug 2, 2011 Yeddyurappa agrees to go, sends resignation letter to Gadkari: "lokayukta had indicted him for illegal mining in the state."
Aug 2, 2011 Resign now, BJP tells defiant chief minister Yeddyurappa
Aug 2, 2011 Yeddyurappa should be tried legally: Cong
Aug 2, 2011 Time running out for BSY after Lokayukta says prosecute him: "Lokayukta report on illegal mining recommended action under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, against him and three of his Cabinet colleagues, including mining businessmen-turned-politicians, the Reddy brothers of Bellary."
Aug 2, 2011 YEDDYURAPPA GIVES UP: "Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa sent in his resignation to BJP party president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday evening, several hours after the BJP central leadership asked him to quit following his indictment in the Rs 16,000-crore mining scam."
Aug 2, 2011 Karnataka CM defiant even after BJP asks him to resign

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