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Govt not serious about Lokpal bill: Kejriwal
Mulayam slams govt for action taken against Baba
'Congress to pay heavily for Ramlila crackdown'
Fast hasn't ended, they wanted to kill me: Ramdev: "Baba Ramdev targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi and government, alleging that his peaceful agitation was treated with unprecedented 'barbarism' and vowed to continue his 'satyagraha' against corruption.", "The government, especially the Congress, do not want to see me alive as my movement can expose their black deeds", "He also alleged that there was a conspiracy to arrest him and "eliminate" him in an encounter. "They were ready to unleash another Jallianwala Bagh."
'Against Brutal Crackdown On Democracy' : "Various civil society groups come together against 'brutal crackdown on anti-corruption protesters and curfew, bans and restrictions on protests in Jantar Mantar and imposition of Section 144 in several parts of Delhi' "
No bail for Kanimozhi, Karuna calls DMK emergency meeting
Posco: Orissa govt sends forces to acquire land: "Orissa government has started massive preparation for a crackdown by using armed force on the anti POSCO villagers at the POSCO site to acquire their land. "
Adarsh accused Deshmukh under HC scanner in one more case
Rapped by SC, plan panel to raise BPL bar
Why is UPA not disclosing names of blackmoney holders?: "why the UPA government was not disclosing the names of those who have stashed black money abroad, "despite repeated rebukes by the Supreme Court.""
Beware the Ides of June: "'Politicians welcomed the 21st century with loot on an unprecedented scale'"
Anonymous Attacks Indian Government To Protest Corruption: "The Indian government has faced a lot of criticism from opposition parties and citizens for its brutal crack down on a large group of peaceful protesters led by popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev."
Govt purposefully defaming Lokpal movement: Anna Hazare
PM should ensure that Maran quits Union Cabinet: Bardhan
BJP, RSS slam Cong, say it supports corruption
Jayalalithaa seeks Chidambaram's resignation: "Accusing home minister P Chidambaram of getting himself elected to Parliament through "fraudulent" means, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said his continuance in the Union council of ministers was untenable and sought his resignation. "
What about Rs 200-cr bribe: SC asks CBI
Kumaraswamy accused of earning money from mining firms: "Rs 167 crore was transferred to various bank accounts of the family members of JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy during 2006, barely four months after he became Chief Minister"
Back to dark days of 1970s: "The Congress’s fascist reaction to the anti-corruption movement shows the party still remains unchanged. Its misdeeds remind us of the 1975-77 Emergency."
Chidambaran has played fraud: Jayalalithaa
UPA turning India into 'Country of scams': Murli Manohar Joshi
PM must be under LokPal ambit
Government should resign, says Shanti Bhushan
Wrote two letters, still PM didn't act on corruption: Gupta
Maran left out in the cold by DMK
2G Scam Gets Worse for Govt
Congress' Baba crisis escalates as man aims shoe at top leader
PM asks ministers to come clean on business interests
Top netas against transparency: Antony
'Action on black money will expose people close to UPA'
BBC - Has India's government lost the plot on corruption?
The Lokpal billboard: Rulers need to live simply: "With ministers, politicians, bureaucrats and business barons becoming the real power-centres in India, the glory of Indian democracy is dead. The shameful efforts taken by politicians and power-brokers to appease Baba Ramdev are ample testimony of how scared tribes that are neck-deep in corruption are. The Lokpal must have the power to call anyone who is proved corrupt, no matter who he is. Only when our rulers learn to live a simple life and stop plundering national wealth will corruption in public life be eliminated. The government is in no mood to eradicate corruption. Earlier, we fought to free the country from colonial dominance. It is now time to launch a second struggle for independence to save our country from corrupt governance."
Shameful chapter in Indian democracy: Arun Jaitley
Ramdev protest: Sonia, Manmohan's naivete backfires
“UPA government lacks credibility to fight corruption”
Janata Dal-United calls for dismissal of Maran over telecom scam
Govt tells agencies to speed up probe of Ramdev’s businesses
Rahul b’day to be Kisan Adhikar Diwas
South Indian food for Tihar jail inmates now: "When news of Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi's name appeared in the 2G spectrum scam, female inmates of jail number six, responsible for the canteen were immediately trained to cook south Indian food"
BJP warns UPA: We rule over 36% of India: "Prasad said that every new scam coming out was also showing a growingly repressive character of the UPA government which “would not take any credible and effective action in unearthing black money because this would expose its own people"
Punjab chief minister asks govt to concede to Ramdev's demands
Digvijay Singh fit for mental asylum: Anna Hazare: ""In Pune's Yerawada there is a mental hospital, he should be taken there,""
corruption: black economy The Family’s Silver: "A lack of sincerity is evident in the Centre’s overtures on black money"
Manmohan Singh government most corrupt since independence: BJP
Five-star spa therapy for Madani at taxpayers’ cost: "Should the taxpayers bear the exorbitant cost of Ayurveda Parishkarana therapy at a five-star spa for a terror man who had allegedly sown brutal devastation on their lives and property through heinous acts of extremism? Unfortunately, that is exactly what the people of Karnataka have to do for Abdul Nasser Madani, key accused in the 2008 Bangalore bombings case."
BJP leader’s wife in brothel mess: "the city police arrested the wife of a senior party leader for running a brothel under the guise of a massage parlour and spa."
‘Mothers, sisters, daughters of ministers are never raped...’: "“These corrupt, dishonest people and thieves (the ministers) neither practise yoga, nor accept spiritualism, or God... Every month these dishonest people loot Rs 1.5 lakh crore, or Rs 5,000 crore daily. These people remaining in power even for a single day is a big threat to the country.”"
Digvijay has crossed all limits of decency: Prasad
Yeddyurappa fooled 6 cr people on export ban: Hegde: "While mines owners paid Rs 27 per ton of 64 FE grade and Rs 17 for lower grade iron ore, they sold it for Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 per ton"
CWG scam: Delhi court denies bail to Suresh Kalmadi
Dayanidhi Maran forced me to sell Aircel, says Sivasankaran
CPI backs Ramdev’s agitation against graft
WB: CPI(M) leaders assaulted for alleged corruption: "Eight local CPI(M) leaders were today paraded by being pulled with the ropes tied around their waists before being beaten up by villagers at Saraighar in Burdwan district over alleged corruption."
BJP trains guns on UPA, Maya graft
Gowda family floated 25 companies to channel funds: BSY aide: "An aide of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and his family to disclose the source of funding in the 25 private companies which they ''floated for investment''."
BJP: PM in charge during ‘coal scam’: "The BJP has now unearthed a `75,000-crore coal scam in the UPA government. The party has directly blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for it, saying that the scam related to the period when the ministry was under his charge."
BJP pulls up UPA Govt. for slow pace in tackling corruption
PM is a 'witness' in corruption cases: TDP chief
Chandy's 100-Day Programme a Stunt: Achuthanandan: ""This bravado of Chandy is meant to hoodwink people. He has on his right and left ministers facing investigations for corruption," ", ""What moral right does Chandy have to wax eloquent on corruption since India has been turned into the most corrupt country in the world under the UPA Government? Will he be ready to disown the corrupt ministers at the Centre?""
PM Presiding Over the Most Corrupt Government: BJP
Jaya govt scraps DMK's pet projects: "Reversing the DMK regime's pet projects, the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu on Friday scrapped housing and insurance schemes named after M Karunanidhi and announced a probe into alleged irregularities in the construction of new assembly-cum-secretariat complex. "
Dayanidhi Maran started 2G scam: Murli Manohar Joshi: "Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday accused textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran of having played a vital role in starting the 2G spectrum scam.", "Maran cleared the decks only after Maxis' sister company invested Rs.675 crore in the Maran-owned Sun TV"
CBI names former BJP minister in Dara encounter case: ""There were two rival liquor mafias in Churu and Jhunjhunu districts of Rajasthan. One was headed by Sumer Singh Fagediya and included Vijendra Singh alias Tilaia and Dara Singh. The other group, ruled by one Virender Singh Nyangli, was protected by then BJP minister and present MLA Rajender Singh Rathore,"", "Dara Singh was allegedly killed by the SOG in a fake encounter"
Maran in the dock: ""He has not been able to deny the specific charges.""
JPC to probe Maran's role in spectrum scam: "panel would probe charges against Union minister Dayanidhi Maran. "
THE ROT RUNS DEEP: "Corruption has become synonymous with governance, as have greed and personal aggrandizement. India has been shamed. The government under Manmohan Singh should have seen the writing on the wall and begun a ruthless correction of a failing, corroded and misused machinery, especially as the prime minister had nothing to lose."
Scams worth Rs 1L crore in Gujarat: Congress
Three Demands: "bring back in the nation Rs. 400 trillion (US$ 9 trillion) of black money why 34735 laws are created by British still imposed on this nation? Why people of this country are still tortured and humiliated by using those laws in the same way as British used to do."
Hazare warns Ramdev, says beware of govt's motive: "he should not be swayed by government’s overtures because it plays “fraud” by first agreeing to demands and then backing out."
BJP says Maran action simple case of 'bribery': "BJP on Thursday dismissed Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran's explanation on pay-offs to family-owned Sun TV Network and alleged that it was a simple case of "bribery and quid pro quo"", "Manmohan Singh only defends the corrupt "
Kani busy playing do-gooder at Tihar: "On her first night at Tihar, she had complained about the toilet allotted to her, which was changed later."
323 tel lines busts Maran; demands 10 cr damages for IE rpt
Before Raja, Maran too looted BSNL: Report
Congress decides to expose scams in BJP ruled states to counter corruption attack
Prashant Bhushan draws Supreme Court attention to CBI's inattention on Dayalu Ammal: "Supreme Court lawyer and anti-corruption activistPrashant Bhushan has drawn the apex court’s attention towards the involvement of DMK chief MK Karunanidhi’s wives Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi and Union minister Dayanidhi Maran in the transactions relating to 2G spectrum allocation by former Telecom minister A Raja."
2G: Maran denies charges; CBI may chargesheet: "Union Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday denied the charges of wrongdoing brought against him in the 2G spectrum allocation as the telecom minister in 2006, but sources said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may file a chargesheet against him for his alleged involvement in the scam", "Maxis Group made investments in Maran's family run business Sun Network of Rs 599.1 crore. In addition to investment in Sun Direct, investment of Rs 111.28 crore was made by Maxis in a FM company owned by Marans. "
VS under UDF scanner over land allotment: "VS had taken out of turn interest to allot 2.33 acres of land for his distant relative T K Soman, an ex-serviceman, in Kasargode district. It was alleged that the government had waived the condition that the given land should not be alienated for 25 years from the day of allotment. "
After praise, Hazare targets Modi for corruption in Gujarat
It’s two steps back: ""The argument that India doesn’t have sufficient resources to do this is equally fraudulent. The monies looted through the 2G spectrum scam alone (leave alone all other scams and recovering the humongous amount of black money stashed abroad) would be more than enough to provide meaningful food security to our people.""
2G scam: now Dayanidhi Maran in the dock: ""After A Raja and Kanimozhi, Union Minister of Textiles Dayanidhi Maran is in the dock in the 2G spectrum scam following reports that he allegedly favoured Aircel promoters Maxis in the allocation of spectrum while he was the telecom minister in 2006", "Tehelka report alleged that there was a Rs 600 crore scam in the clearance of Maxis file by Maran""
Clarify whether Sun TV benefited by pay-offs: BJP to Maran
Fresh trouble? BJP questions telecom pay-offs to Maran firm
More grain rots in MP: too much, little space? : ""The state govt claims it has exhausted its storage options but private godown owners are crying foul.""
Koda’s bail plea rejected in CBI court: ""The special court of the CBI rejected the bail petition of the former Chief Minister Madhu Koda""
What Is The Purpose Of Creating Such A Lokpal? : """Prime Minister should not be covered under Lokpal." “Judiciary would be out of Lokpal." Definitely government’s intentions are suspect. ""
Bars And Codes: ""Sins of our daughters Karunanidhi on his way to Tihar jail to see daughter Kanimozhi""
Minutes of the meeting of Lokpal Bill panel: ""Broadly, the government disagreed on almost everything.", "Justice Santosh Hegde asked the government, "Then who is covered under Lokpal? And what is the purpose of creating such a Lokpal?" Effectively, the Lokpal would have jurisdiction only on Joint Secretary and above officers but not on PM. There would be around 2000 such odd officers in Government of India. Are we creating Lokpal for investigating corruption of such a few officers? Was this the purpose of such a big anti-corruption movement in India?""
Govt wants PM, MPs out of Lokpal Bill: Arvind Kejriwal
3 years of rebellion and scams: ""It has been a roller-coaster ride for the BJP government in the State which completes three years in office on Monday.""
Vigilance steps up hunt for IVRCL man - Official holds key to unravelling Koda reign power scam : ""pegged the bribe paid by Srivastava to bag the contract at Rs 35.59 crore.", "the absconding IVRCL general manager was directly involved in bribing a chain of politicians and state officials to bag the rural electrification contract.", "Srivastava, who headed IVRCL’s power projects in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, had said in a recorded statement that Rs 11.40 crore was paid prior to awarding of the contract to former chief minister Madhu Koda through his close associate Vinod Sinha, “against a 2.5 per cent commission for getting the tenders in Jharkhand”. Books of accounts seized by the income tax department from IVRCL’s Ranchi office also revealed that handsome contributions were made by the company towards the election funds of former RJD MLAs Girinath Singh and Prakash Ram, labour inspectors of Garhwa, Latehar and Palamau districts, Binu Singh, younger brother of the then water resources minister Kamlesh Singh, G.N.S. Munda, JSEB member (transmission) and to various engineers.""
Power for Patna, rural Bihar powerless: ""Patna getting over 90 per cent of the total power supply only 10 per cent is left for the rest of the state""
TRS dares Naidu to accept probe into assets: ""Naidu, who had only two acres of land in his ancestral village, rose to become the "richest politician in the country."""
CBI to summon high-profile Adarsh accused: "summoning some high-profile accused and witnesses, including former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan"
Bellary Reddy sits on Rs 2cr gold chair: "Karnataka tourism and infrastructure minister G Janardhana Reddy sits on a gold chair worth Rs 2.2 crore, offers pooja to gold idols worth Rs 2.58 crore and wears a belt worth Rs 13.15 lakh. The gold plates, bowls, spoon, fork and knife at his house is worth Rs 20.87 lakh. "
128 kids died after vaccine in 2010, govt can't say why: "The government closed its three vaccine labs — Central Research Institute in Kasauli, BCG Laboratory in Chennai and Pasteur Institute of India in Coonoor — in January 2008, citing non-compliance of good manufacturing practices. "
Cabinet approves Rs 78 lakh for Munda’s US visit: "Chief Minister Arjun Munda’s visit to US has been cleared by the State Cabinet. "
Bhardwaj acting like "old courtier" of Congress: BJP
Mayor for CBI probe into charges against Delhi govt in CWG
Govt fails to stem grain rot in Madhya Pradesh
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