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Feb 16, 2012 BBC: 500m children 'at risk of effects of malnutrition': "The survey covered families in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan and Nigeria. One parent in six said their children were abandoning school to help out by working for food."
Feb 15, 2012 Cops asked me how I was raped in a car and in what posture, says rape victim: "Officers at Park Street police station not only wasted crucial time in the investigation but allegedly passed insensitive and lewd remarks at the traumatized woman."
Feb 15, 2012 Woman raped in car at gunpoint in Kolkata, cops jeer: "here's worse - the police ignored her complaints when she mustered courage to report the incident two days later and even mocked her for going to a night club. Two officers allegedly passed sleazy remarks at her at Park Street police station"
Feb 15, 2012 How serious is the starvation problem in tea gardens?: "Tea garden workers get lower than minimum wage, inedible rations and don't even get proper medical facilities."
Feb 14, 2012 Teacher blinds a 4-year-old: "Its another shocking case of abuse where a four year old was mercilessly beaten by teacher causing him to permanently lose his vision. The child's only fault was that he could not count numbers properly."
Feb 14, 2012 BBC: India woman leaves home for lack of toilet: "Anita Narre left husband Shivram's home two days after her marriage in May last year because the house had no toilet."
Feb 14, 2012 A woman police constable punishes a young couple as they were celebrating Valentines Day in Dhanbad
Feb 12, 2012 BBC journalist's 'typically Indian' beating: "They set upon me, raining blows in a prolonged assault. I received injuries to my face, chest and legs. But by Indian standards, I suppose I got off lightly.", The police response can only be described as lethargic. It not only took more than 12 days to send an officer to the scene of the crime, but they also turned a blind eye to what I believe is a blatant intimidation campaign against me and potential witnesses"
Feb 11, 2012 Slammer Dunk To A Poll Safari: "Vijay Kumar Mishra: a textbook case of how a man can subvert prison for electioneering"
Feb 11, 2012 भीलवाड़ा में भूख से मौतें: "राजस्थान के भीलवाड़ा ज़िले में रामलाल भील के दो बच्चों को भूख ने निगल लिया."
Feb 11, 2012 Constable booked for raping minor: "He left her near Ghilaur police post the next day, threatening her with dire consequence if she informed the police about him."
Feb 10, 2012 Girl abducted, gangraped in moving car: "The accused pushed the girl into a Wagon R and drove around the neighbourhood even as they took turns to rape her"
Feb 9, 2012 Maya snubs woman fighting for justice: "Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has appeared to have crossed all limits of insensitivity when the CM called a woman an opposition pet dog. The woman named Sumitra Devi was trying to talk to the CM about her dead son, during Maya's rally. Sumitra Devi's son was murdered and police officers have refused to file an FIR in his case."
Feb 8, 2012 Does the Indian voter still vote according to caste?
Feb 8, 2012 Porngate: BJP MLA blacks out news from voters: "Laxman Savadi, who resigned as Karnataka cooperation minister on Wednesday, gave orders to cut off electricity to his constituency Athani on Tuesday, so that the people of the town could not see the news of his viewing pornographic clips in the assembly.", "no newspapers of any language could reach Athani as most bundles were booked and purchased en route."
Feb 7, 2012 'बलात्कार को हथियार के तौर पर इस्तेमाल करते हैं': "''माओवादियों के ख़िलाफ़ मुहिम में लगे सरकार समर्थित तत्त्व महिलाओं के साथ बलात्कार करते हैं और इसे माओवादियों के ख़िलाफ़ हथियार के तौर पर इस्तेमाल करते हैं.''"
Feb 7, 2012 'पति मर गया, कर्म तो करना ही पड़ेगा'
Feb 7, 2012 Madhya Pradesh: Cops tear off boy's ear: "Beasts in uniform"
Feb 7, 2012 Brothers kill sis-in-law over railway job: "police on Tuesday arrested two brothers for strangling their brother's wife in their Kurla home on Monday, two days after his death."
Feb 5, 2012 Two more Jarawas 'abuse' videos surface: "What's even more disturbing is that men in uniform are clearly seen in the video, ordering the tribals to perform."
Feb 5, 2012 Pune: Suresh Kalmadi given a hero's welcome: "The Congress has officially stated that the sacked CWG chief will not campaign for the Pune Municipal Polls."
Feb 5, 2012 Female foeticide: Haryana in California, Punjab in Canada?: "Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has sparked off a debate about the prevalence of this practice among Indians in North America, showing female foeticide via selective abortion in Canada’s Asian immigrant communities."
Feb 5, 2012 2 new videos of 'human safaris' in Andaman Islands: ""new videos raise fresh questions about the complicity of officers who are supposed to be protecting the tribe"."
Feb 5, 2012 Ponty Chadha is a study how power, politics and profit work when mixed with alcohol commerce: "How much space does it take to stack up currency worth Rs 100 crore? Or was it Rs 125 crore? How were I-T officials, who raided businessman Gurdeep Singh Chadha's premises in Noida and elsewhere last week"
Feb 4, 2012 'Maoist movement may end up as a bloody civil war'
Feb 4, 2012 Police officer arrested in Arunachal MMS sex scandal: "The MMS depicting the sexual act of a minor boy and girl, who, after being rounded up from Tadak Dulom bridge in Daporijo's Pakam Colony, were confined to a room of the police station in Upper Subansiri. They were allegedly forced to have sex by Bo and his accomplices on June 12, 2009, which was captured on a mobile phone."
Feb 2, 2012 Mumbai: Parties give tickets to dons for BMC polls: "Aiding the underworld in its quest for proxy power are the mainstream political parties fielding the family of dons."
Jan 31, 2012 Pune: Army jawans clash with traffic policemen: "2 jawans on a bike allegedly beat up traffic policemen after they were stopped from going into a no-entry zone."
Jan 31, 2012 Falak's ordeal draws global attention: "the child's heart-wrenching story has grabbed global attention with international groups voicing their concern over her condition."
Jan 31, 2012 India deadliest place in world for girl child: "It's official - India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy"
Jan 30, 2012 IAS officer’s wife arrested for assaulting woman cop: "The delay in arresting Anuja was due to none of the senior officers being prepared to name her, despite the episode being recorded on CCTV camera."
Jan 30, 2012 Bangalore: IAS officer's wife, woman cop exchange blows: "A woman police officer stopped an IAS officer's wife from entering the Chinnaswamy stadium, leading to a scuffle."
Jan 29, 2012 Is Mamata's Govt in complete denial?: "Another hospital on Saturday (January 28) joined the list of health facilities where infants are dying in West Bengal"
Jan 29, 2012 9 infants dead in last 48 hrs at WB Govt hospital
Jan 29, 2012 Bihar minister threatens to cut off doctors hands: "Bihar Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey threatened to chop off the hands of doctors planning to go on a strike."
Jan 29, 2012 Ban 2-finger test on rape victims: Panel: "Rape survivors are routinely subjected to forensic examination that include the "finger" test. Social activists have for long been demanding a ban on the "archaic and outdated" practice."
Jan 29, 2012 Corrupt are becoming role-models for youth in India: Murthy: ""Our youngsters don't have role-models to look up to and therefore and sadly because of corruption, some of the people who are doing exactly the opposite, dishonest, deceit, 'chalta hai' and all of that...they are becoming more and more powerful, they are becoming wealthier""
Jan 29, 2012 Corrupt are becoming role-models for youth in India: Murthy: ""Our youngsters don't have role-models to look up to and therefore and sadly because of corruption, some of the people who are doing exactly the opposite, dishonest, deceit, 'chalta hai' and all of that...they are becoming more and more powerful, they are becoming wealthier""
Jan 28, 2012 Election snippets: Liquor and politics go hand in hand: "As elections draw closer, political parties seem to be enticing voters with booze!"
Jan 26, 2012 Poor labourers pledged Rs 100, get Re 1 for day's work under govt's employment guarantee scheme: "many desperate, poor labourers across the country are being cheated of their hard earned money and the much publicized guaranteed daily wage of Rs 100 on many occasions remains a mere illusion."
Jan 24, 2012 Tour operators offer titillating 'human safaris' in Orissa: "Tour operators have been offering titillating "human safaris" in Orissa that provide a close look at the Bonda tribe"
Jan 24, 2012 Slap 'only option' when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: "Gandhian Anna Hazare has said a person is left with no option but to slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out."
Jan 24, 2012 No option but to slap when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: ""When a man's power of tolerance runs out, then whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, then the brain is put back in place. That is the only road open now""
Jan 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral gains: "I find an India in which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with those groups."
Jan 24, 2012 4 more infant death in WB hospital: "4 more infant deaths were reported on Tuesday (January 24) in West Bengal's Malda hospital, taking the tolld to 33 infant deaths in the last 7 days."
Jan 24, 2012 Gender ratio in Delhi not healthy, matter of concern: Sheila Dikshit: "Delhi's sex ratio of children up to six years of age has dropped to 866 girls per 1,000 boys"
Jan 24, 2012 Nine-year-old girl 'gang-raped'
Jan 23, 2012 Poverty forces Jaipur man to dump wife's body: "Police are looking for a man who left the body of his wife at their rented house and disappeared as he did not have money to perform the last rites."
Jan 23, 2012 18-year-old paraded semi-naked: "An 18-year-old girl was allegedly tortured and paraded in a semi-naked condition by family members of her second husband"
Jan 22, 2012 Shocking video: Punjab cop brutally beats up woman
Jan 21, 2012 Press TV: India: Country of corrupts: "the world's 8th largest corrupt nation in terms of politics, bureaucrats, corporate and also the individual corruption is a major concern. "
Jan 21, 2012 Toronto Star: Inside India’s corruption call centre: "“Do you know who the kidnappers are?” he asked. “Of course,” the caller replied. “They are the police.” The caller paused. “I may commit suicide,” he said. Just another day at the office for Mehra, one of 10 agents who staff the phones at the toll-free corruption hotline, a year-old pilot project designed by India’s Central Vigilance Commission"
Jan 21, 2012 India: 2nd most bribing nation: "54% of Indians who dealt with the police had paid a bribe in the past one year."
Jan 21, 2012 Victimised for their courage: "The main accused in the Pipli rape case Prashant Pradhan was produced in court"
Jan 21, 2012 Fake admission racket busted in Bihar?: "A massive face admission scam could be brewing in Bihar. A report reveals that students of primary and secondary schools have been admitted simultaneously to two institutions all to swindle money allocated for government schemes."
Jan 21, 2012 Why are the liberals silent now?
Jan 21, 2012 Mumbai: Rampant mismanagement in BMC schools: "An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers and rampant mismanagement."
Jan 21, 2012 Girl murdered by brothers for having affair: "A 16-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her three brothers after they came to know about her relationship with a boy in the neighbourhood here"
Jan 21, 2012 10 lakh bogus job cards under MNREGA in Karnataka
Jan 21, 2012 Bihar CM's education scheme turns into a scam: "The alleged scam has severely hit the image of a resurgent Bihar under Nitish Kumar.", "Over 3,36,000 ghost enrolments"
Jan 21, 2012 Nearly 11000 people go missing during the Badal regime: NGO: "10869 persons went missing during the last five years of the Parkash Singh Badal regime."
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi, Kanimozhi as heroes: Is a jail stint pilgrimage for politicians?: "a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man."
Jan 21, 2012 No place for freedom of speech?: "perhaps, a strong message could have perhaps been sent to the hardliners"
Jan 21, 2012 Victims of eve teasing pay with life: "Two teenaged schoolgirls died after they were run over by a speeding truck as they tried to evade a molestation attempt."
Jan 21, 2012 MP Minister lands in controversy: "Madhya Pradesh Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has landed in a controversy after he was caught by TV cameras allegedly getting his shoe laces tied by a minor tribal student "
Jan 21, 2012 A Black Ledger Custodial deaths on the rise, says report : "Deaths in Police Custody The 10 Worst States"
Jan 21, 2012 Justice Shivaraj Patil’s house burgled: "Silver idols and pooja vessels, worth about Rs three lakh, were stolen by some unindentified persons from the residence of former Karnataka Lokayukta"
Jan 21, 2012 Naxals kill 13 policemen, loot weapons: "Prasad and Bhandaria police station Officer-in-Charge Raj Bali Choudhary set out with men of the state police and Jharkhand Armed Police in three vehicles, escorted by an anti-landmine vehicle."
Jan 21, 2012 UP's wealth plundered for 22 yrs: Rahul: "thousands of crores of rupees which came to UP for MNREGA project, waiver of farmers loan and special package for Bundelkhand region have been embezzled by those in power."
Jan 20, 2012 What a Shame, no Salman Rushdie at literature festival: "“paid assassins” were being sent by the Mumbai underworld to “eliminate” him,"
Jan 20, 2012 Rushdie no-show and the borders of our shrunken minds: "The mullah-maulvi brigade that got into a fit of manufactured apoplexy over writer Salman Rushdie’s planned participation to the Jaipur Literary Festival has managed to create an atmosphere of intimidation severe enough for Rushdie not to attend the festival."
Jan 20, 2012 CJ Manglaram exposes corruption in Government schemes: "Forced to use crutches after he was beaten up, this farm labourer from Bamnor in Rajasthan filed RTIs in his crusade against corruption."
Jan 20, 2012 Caught in web of corruption: "It is fine for India to be proud of its high GDP growth rate, but that does not serve to shift attention at home and abroad from the growing corruption at all levels of governance."
Jan 20, 2012 West Bengal: 20 infants dead in 72 hours: "The Malda hospital says the babies were all malnourished, underweight and brought at the last stage."
Jan 20, 2012 Govt downplaying the tuberculosis threat?: "1000 TB deaths everyday"
Jan 20, 2012 Modi criticises PM on malnutrition issue: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it."
Jan 18, 2012 WB: Video showing BSF torture surfaces: "Reportedly, the person shown being beaten up in the video is a Bangladeshi national and was indulging in cattle smuggling."
Jan 16, 2012 UP: Girl set on fire after being gangraped: "The victim is currently admitted to a government hospital and is suffering from 75 per cent burn injuries."
Jan 15, 2012 The anatomy of corruption: "typically, for a plan involving costs of over Rs 5 crore in Jharkhand, a file goes through 240 stages. Laws created ostensibly to protect the common man are used to extract higher bribes instead."
Jan 15, 2012 Second rat attack in Rajasthan govt hospital: "The body of 25-year-old Janta Devi has been attacked by rodents in the mortuary of Beawar's Amrit Kaur Hospital."
Jan 15, 2012 Odisha rape: Main accused arrested: "Why did arrest take 3 months"
Jan 14, 2012 Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily: "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years", "The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."
Jan 14, 2012 Indian students rank 2nd last in global test: "scratch the glossy surface of our education system and the picture turns seriously bleak. Fifteen-year-old Indians who were put, for the first time, on a global stage stood second to last, only beating Kyrgyzstan when tested on their reading, math and science abilities."
Jan 14, 2012 Baby lifted from state-run hospital: "Hours after a woman died giving birth to twin babies on road on being refused admission to two state-run hospitals, a 2-day-old child went missing from another government hospital"
Jan 14, 2012 'चाय बागान के पांच मज़दूरों की भूख से मौत': "पश्चिम बंगाल के उत्तरी ज़िले जलपाईगुड़ी के देखलापारा चाय बागान में पिछले एक महीने में पांच मज़दूरों की मौत हो गई है."
Jan 13, 2012 18 month baby left to die in Bengal: "A defunct oxygen mask connected to an empty oxygen cylinder. This is the horror story of 18 month old Samir Sharma"
Jan 13, 2012 Now, politics over 19 year old's rape?: "The 19-year-old helpless girl from Arjunagada village under Pipili police station in Odisha is fighting for her life for daring to take on men who molested another girl. This young girl was raped by a group of youths from the locality on November 28, 2011 after she agreed to become a witness in another rape case involving her friend."
Jan 13, 2012 Kolkata shocker: Woman gives birth, dies on road: "Condemning the govt, the CPI(M) demanded that Mamata Banerjee give up her health portfolio to someone else."
Jan 13, 2012 Karunanidhi’s daughter accused of fraud: "complaint against M Karunanidhi's daughter Selvi and a few others for cheating him of Rs 69 lakh after promising him a member's post in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)."
Jan 13, 2012 AIIMS paper leak: 2 city doctors nabbed: "Mohit charged Rs 18 lakh for admission in radiology and orthopaedics departments. The less popular options like gynaecology were pegged at Rs 15 lakh."
Jan 13, 2012 Sharks grab 2,800 acres of B’lore land: "An internal drive by the Revenue Department to check the authenticity of land grant instances in and around Bangalore has revealed that land sharks have grabbed 2,804 acres of government prime land worth more than Rs 5,000 crore in the real estate market, by creating fake documents."
Jan 13, 2012 Woman dies on road after being refused admission to hospitals in WB: "The 40-year-old woman gave birth to the twins on the roadside"
Jan 13, 2012 Many other ‘national shames': "Malnutrition — and more so among children — is not the only national shame. There is corruption that has spread nationwide which is an equally bigger national shame."
Jan 13, 2012 Petty babus as our rulers : "I sent three e-mails to the Ministry of External Affairs, both to its general address and to the particular office, asking for contact details for two Indian missions abroad. My messages explained that the information was needed as I would soon be visiting those countries. There was no response."
Jan 13, 2012 Raped for raising her voice: "even the police has not helped us", "her family running from pilar to post trying desperately to get help alleging that while she fought for her life, her rapists roaming free, sheletered by those in power"
Jan 13, 2012 Turned away by hospitals woman delivers twins on Kolkata road, dies: "a woman died giving birth to twins on the pavement after being denied admission by two state-run hospitals despite possessing health cards."
Jan 13, 2012 Indian Christians fear backlash due to Sharia ruling: "All India Christian Council in New Delhi on Friday feared backlash against Christians in the country due to incrimination of pastors Jim Borst and CM Khanna by Srinagar's self-styled Islamic Shariat court."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha: SC rules bypassed in land allotment: "Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land to judges from the ministers' discretionary quota."
Jan 12, 2012 46 students take ill after breakfast at Palike school
Jan 12, 2012 BBC: India's bureaucracy is 'worst in Asia': "Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy ranks bureaucracies across Asia on a scale from one to 10, with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.21"
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Feb 16, 2012 BBC: 500m children 'at risk of effects of malnutrition': "The survey covered families in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan and Nigeria. One parent in six said their children were abandoning school to help out by working for food."
Feb 15, 2012 Cops asked me how I was raped in a car and in what posture, says rape victim: "Officers at Park Street police station not only wasted crucial time in the investigation but allegedly passed insensitive and lewd remarks at the traumatized woman."
Feb 15, 2012 Woman raped in car at gunpoint in Kolkata, cops jeer: "here's worse - the police ignored her complaints when she mustered courage to report the incident two days later and even mocked her for going to a night club. Two officers allegedly passed sleazy remarks at her at Park Street police station"
Feb 15, 2012 How serious is the starvation problem in tea gardens?: "Tea garden workers get lower than minimum wage, inedible rations and don't even get proper medical facilities."
Feb 14, 2012 Teacher blinds a 4-year-old: "Its another shocking case of abuse where a four year old was mercilessly beaten by teacher causing him to permanently lose his vision. The child's only fault was that he could not count numbers properly."
Feb 14, 2012 BBC: India woman leaves home for lack of toilet: "Anita Narre left husband Shivram's home two days after her marriage in May last year because the house had no toilet."
Feb 14, 2012 A woman police constable punishes a young couple as they were celebrating Valentines Day in Dhanbad
Feb 12, 2012 BBC journalist's 'typically Indian' beating: "They set upon me, raining blows in a prolonged assault. I received injuries to my face, chest and legs. But by Indian standards, I suppose I got off lightly.", The police response can only be described as lethargic. It not only took more than 12 days to send an officer to the scene of the crime, but they also turned a blind eye to what I believe is a blatant intimidation campaign against me and potential witnesses"
Feb 11, 2012 Slammer Dunk To A Poll Safari: "Vijay Kumar Mishra: a textbook case of how a man can subvert prison for electioneering"
Feb 11, 2012 भीलवाड़ा में भूख से मौतें: "राजस्थान के भीलवाड़ा ज़िले में रामलाल भील के दो बच्चों को भूख ने निगल लिया."
Feb 11, 2012 Constable booked for raping minor: "He left her near Ghilaur police post the next day, threatening her with dire consequence if she informed the police about him."
Feb 10, 2012 Girl abducted, gangraped in moving car: "The accused pushed the girl into a Wagon R and drove around the neighbourhood even as they took turns to rape her"
Feb 9, 2012 Maya snubs woman fighting for justice: "Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has appeared to have crossed all limits of insensitivity when the CM called a woman an opposition pet dog. The woman named Sumitra Devi was trying to talk to the CM about her dead son, during Maya's rally. Sumitra Devi's son was murdered and police officers have refused to file an FIR in his case."
Feb 8, 2012 Does the Indian voter still vote according to caste?
Feb 8, 2012 Porngate: BJP MLA blacks out news from voters: "Laxman Savadi, who resigned as Karnataka cooperation minister on Wednesday, gave orders to cut off electricity to his constituency Athani on Tuesday, so that the people of the town could not see the news of his viewing pornographic clips in the assembly.", "no newspapers of any language could reach Athani as most bundles were booked and purchased en route."
Feb 7, 2012 'बलात्कार को हथियार के तौर पर इस्तेमाल करते हैं': "''माओवादियों के ख़िलाफ़ मुहिम में लगे सरकार समर्थित तत्त्व महिलाओं के साथ बलात्कार करते हैं और इसे माओवादियों के ख़िलाफ़ हथियार के तौर पर इस्तेमाल करते हैं.''"
Feb 7, 2012 'पति मर गया, कर्म तो करना ही पड़ेगा'
Feb 7, 2012 Madhya Pradesh: Cops tear off boy's ear: "Beasts in uniform"
Feb 7, 2012 Brothers kill sis-in-law over railway job: "police on Tuesday arrested two brothers for strangling their brother's wife in their Kurla home on Monday, two days after his death."
Feb 5, 2012 Two more Jarawas 'abuse' videos surface: "What's even more disturbing is that men in uniform are clearly seen in the video, ordering the tribals to perform."
Feb 5, 2012 Pune: Suresh Kalmadi given a hero's welcome: "The Congress has officially stated that the sacked CWG chief will not campaign for the Pune Municipal Polls."
Feb 5, 2012 Female foeticide: Haryana in California, Punjab in Canada?: "Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has sparked off a debate about the prevalence of this practice among Indians in North America, showing female foeticide via selective abortion in Canada’s Asian immigrant communities."
Feb 5, 2012 2 new videos of 'human safaris' in Andaman Islands: ""new videos raise fresh questions about the complicity of officers who are supposed to be protecting the tribe"."
Feb 5, 2012 Ponty Chadha is a study how power, politics and profit work when mixed with alcohol commerce: "How much space does it take to stack up currency worth Rs 100 crore? Or was it Rs 125 crore? How were I-T officials, who raided businessman Gurdeep Singh Chadha's premises in Noida and elsewhere last week"
Feb 4, 2012 'Maoist movement may end up as a bloody civil war'
Feb 4, 2012 Police officer arrested in Arunachal MMS sex scandal: "The MMS depicting the sexual act of a minor boy and girl, who, after being rounded up from Tadak Dulom bridge in Daporijo's Pakam Colony, were confined to a room of the police station in Upper Subansiri. They were allegedly forced to have sex by Bo and his accomplices on June 12, 2009, which was captured on a mobile phone."
Feb 2, 2012 Mumbai: Parties give tickets to dons for BMC polls: "Aiding the underworld in its quest for proxy power are the mainstream political parties fielding the family of dons."
Jan 31, 2012 Pune: Army jawans clash with traffic policemen: "2 jawans on a bike allegedly beat up traffic policemen after they were stopped from going into a no-entry zone."
Jan 31, 2012 Falak's ordeal draws global attention: "the child's heart-wrenching story has grabbed global attention with international groups voicing their concern over her condition."
Jan 31, 2012 India deadliest place in world for girl child: "It's official - India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy"
Jan 30, 2012 IAS officer’s wife arrested for assaulting woman cop: "The delay in arresting Anuja was due to none of the senior officers being prepared to name her, despite the episode being recorded on CCTV camera."
Jan 30, 2012 Bangalore: IAS officer's wife, woman cop exchange blows: "A woman police officer stopped an IAS officer's wife from entering the Chinnaswamy stadium, leading to a scuffle."
Jan 29, 2012 Is Mamata's Govt in complete denial?: "Another hospital on Saturday (January 28) joined the list of health facilities where infants are dying in West Bengal"
Jan 29, 2012 9 infants dead in last 48 hrs at WB Govt hospital
Jan 29, 2012 Bihar minister threatens to cut off doctors hands: "Bihar Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey threatened to chop off the hands of doctors planning to go on a strike."
Jan 29, 2012 Ban 2-finger test on rape victims: Panel: "Rape survivors are routinely subjected to forensic examination that include the "finger" test. Social activists have for long been demanding a ban on the "archaic and outdated" practice."
Jan 29, 2012 Corrupt are becoming role-models for youth in India: Murthy: ""Our youngsters don't have role-models to look up to and therefore and sadly because of corruption, some of the people who are doing exactly the opposite, dishonest, deceit, 'chalta hai' and all of that...they are becoming more and more powerful, they are becoming wealthier""
Jan 29, 2012 Corrupt are becoming role-models for youth in India: Murthy: ""Our youngsters don't have role-models to look up to and therefore and sadly because of corruption, some of the people who are doing exactly the opposite, dishonest, deceit, 'chalta hai' and all of that...they are becoming more and more powerful, they are becoming wealthier""
Jan 28, 2012 Election snippets: Liquor and politics go hand in hand: "As elections draw closer, political parties seem to be enticing voters with booze!"
Jan 26, 2012 Poor labourers pledged Rs 100, get Re 1 for day's work under govt's employment guarantee scheme: "many desperate, poor labourers across the country are being cheated of their hard earned money and the much publicized guaranteed daily wage of Rs 100 on many occasions remains a mere illusion."
Jan 24, 2012 Tour operators offer titillating 'human safaris' in Orissa: "Tour operators have been offering titillating "human safaris" in Orissa that provide a close look at the Bonda tribe"
Jan 24, 2012 Slap 'only option' when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: "Gandhian Anna Hazare has said a person is left with no option but to slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out."
Jan 24, 2012 No option but to slap when power to tolerate graft ends: Anna: ""When a man's power of tolerance runs out, then whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, then the brain is put back in place. That is the only road open now""
Jan 24, 2012 Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral gains: "I find an India in which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with those groups."
Jan 24, 2012 4 more infant death in WB hospital: "4 more infant deaths were reported on Tuesday (January 24) in West Bengal's Malda hospital, taking the tolld to 33 infant deaths in the last 7 days."
Jan 24, 2012 Gender ratio in Delhi not healthy, matter of concern: Sheila Dikshit: "Delhi's sex ratio of children up to six years of age has dropped to 866 girls per 1,000 boys"
Jan 24, 2012 Nine-year-old girl 'gang-raped'
Jan 23, 2012 Poverty forces Jaipur man to dump wife's body: "Police are looking for a man who left the body of his wife at their rented house and disappeared as he did not have money to perform the last rites."
Jan 23, 2012 18-year-old paraded semi-naked: "An 18-year-old girl was allegedly tortured and paraded in a semi-naked condition by family members of her second husband"
Jan 22, 2012 Shocking video: Punjab cop brutally beats up woman
Jan 21, 2012 Press TV: India: Country of corrupts: "the world's 8th largest corrupt nation in terms of politics, bureaucrats, corporate and also the individual corruption is a major concern. "
Jan 21, 2012 Toronto Star: Inside India’s corruption call centre: "“Do you know who the kidnappers are?” he asked. “Of course,” the caller replied. “They are the police.” The caller paused. “I may commit suicide,” he said. Just another day at the office for Mehra, one of 10 agents who staff the phones at the toll-free corruption hotline, a year-old pilot project designed by India’s Central Vigilance Commission"
Jan 21, 2012 India: 2nd most bribing nation: "54% of Indians who dealt with the police had paid a bribe in the past one year."
Jan 21, 2012 Victimised for their courage: "The main accused in the Pipli rape case Prashant Pradhan was produced in court"
Jan 21, 2012 Fake admission racket busted in Bihar?: "A massive face admission scam could be brewing in Bihar. A report reveals that students of primary and secondary schools have been admitted simultaneously to two institutions all to swindle money allocated for government schemes."
Jan 21, 2012 Why are the liberals silent now?
Jan 21, 2012 Mumbai: Rampant mismanagement in BMC schools: "An RTI obtained by CNN-IBN reveals a high dropout rate, a dearth of teachers and rampant mismanagement."
Jan 21, 2012 Girl murdered by brothers for having affair: "A 16-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her three brothers after they came to know about her relationship with a boy in the neighbourhood here"
Jan 21, 2012 10 lakh bogus job cards under MNREGA in Karnataka
Jan 21, 2012 Bihar CM's education scheme turns into a scam: "The alleged scam has severely hit the image of a resurgent Bihar under Nitish Kumar.", "Over 3,36,000 ghost enrolments"
Jan 21, 2012 Nearly 11000 people go missing during the Badal regime: NGO: "10869 persons went missing during the last five years of the Parkash Singh Badal regime."
Jan 21, 2012 Kalmadi, Kanimozhi as heroes: Is a jail stint pilgrimage for politicians?: "a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man."
Jan 21, 2012 No place for freedom of speech?: "perhaps, a strong message could have perhaps been sent to the hardliners"
Jan 21, 2012 Victims of eve teasing pay with life: "Two teenaged schoolgirls died after they were run over by a speeding truck as they tried to evade a molestation attempt."
Jan 21, 2012 MP Minister lands in controversy: "Madhya Pradesh Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen has landed in a controversy after he was caught by TV cameras allegedly getting his shoe laces tied by a minor tribal student "
Jan 21, 2012 A Black Ledger Custodial deaths on the rise, says report : "Deaths in Police Custody The 10 Worst States"
Jan 21, 2012 Justice Shivaraj Patil’s house burgled: "Silver idols and pooja vessels, worth about Rs three lakh, were stolen by some unindentified persons from the residence of former Karnataka Lokayukta"
Jan 21, 2012 Naxals kill 13 policemen, loot weapons: "Prasad and Bhandaria police station Officer-in-Charge Raj Bali Choudhary set out with men of the state police and Jharkhand Armed Police in three vehicles, escorted by an anti-landmine vehicle."
Jan 21, 2012 UP's wealth plundered for 22 yrs: Rahul: "thousands of crores of rupees which came to UP for MNREGA project, waiver of farmers loan and special package for Bundelkhand region have been embezzled by those in power."
Jan 20, 2012 What a Shame, no Salman Rushdie at literature festival: "“paid assassins” were being sent by the Mumbai underworld to “eliminate” him,"
Jan 20, 2012 Rushdie no-show and the borders of our shrunken minds: "The mullah-maulvi brigade that got into a fit of manufactured apoplexy over writer Salman Rushdie’s planned participation to the Jaipur Literary Festival has managed to create an atmosphere of intimidation severe enough for Rushdie not to attend the festival."
Jan 20, 2012 CJ Manglaram exposes corruption in Government schemes: "Forced to use crutches after he was beaten up, this farm labourer from Bamnor in Rajasthan filed RTIs in his crusade against corruption."
Jan 20, 2012 Caught in web of corruption: "It is fine for India to be proud of its high GDP growth rate, but that does not serve to shift attention at home and abroad from the growing corruption at all levels of governance."
Jan 20, 2012 West Bengal: 20 infants dead in 72 hours: "The Malda hospital says the babies were all malnourished, underweight and brought at the last stage."
Jan 20, 2012 Govt downplaying the tuberculosis threat?: "1000 TB deaths everyday"
Jan 20, 2012 Modi criticises PM on malnutrition issue: "Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said, instead of "merely making comments on the issue", the PM should provide a solution for it."
Jan 18, 2012 WB: Video showing BSF torture surfaces: "Reportedly, the person shown being beaten up in the video is a Bangladeshi national and was indulging in cattle smuggling."
Jan 16, 2012 UP: Girl set on fire after being gangraped: "The victim is currently admitted to a government hospital and is suffering from 75 per cent burn injuries."
Jan 15, 2012 The anatomy of corruption: "typically, for a plan involving costs of over Rs 5 crore in Jharkhand, a file goes through 240 stages. Laws created ostensibly to protect the common man are used to extract higher bribes instead."
Jan 15, 2012 Second rat attack in Rajasthan govt hospital: "The body of 25-year-old Janta Devi has been attacked by rodents in the mortuary of Beawar's Amrit Kaur Hospital."
Jan 15, 2012 Odisha rape: Main accused arrested: "Why did arrest take 3 months"
Jan 14, 2012 Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily: "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years", "The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."
Jan 14, 2012 Indian students rank 2nd last in global test: "scratch the glossy surface of our education system and the picture turns seriously bleak. Fifteen-year-old Indians who were put, for the first time, on a global stage stood second to last, only beating Kyrgyzstan when tested on their reading, math and science abilities."
Jan 14, 2012 Baby lifted from state-run hospital: "Hours after a woman died giving birth to twin babies on road on being refused admission to two state-run hospitals, a 2-day-old child went missing from another government hospital"
Jan 14, 2012 'चाय बागान के पांच मज़दूरों की भूख से मौत': "पश्चिम बंगाल के उत्तरी ज़िले जलपाईगुड़ी के देखलापारा चाय बागान में पिछले एक महीने में पांच मज़दूरों की मौत हो गई है."
Jan 13, 2012 18 month baby left to die in Bengal: "A defunct oxygen mask connected to an empty oxygen cylinder. This is the horror story of 18 month old Samir Sharma"
Jan 13, 2012 Now, politics over 19 year old's rape?: "The 19-year-old helpless girl from Arjunagada village under Pipili police station in Odisha is fighting for her life for daring to take on men who molested another girl. This young girl was raped by a group of youths from the locality on November 28, 2011 after she agreed to become a witness in another rape case involving her friend."
Jan 13, 2012 Kolkata shocker: Woman gives birth, dies on road: "Condemning the govt, the CPI(M) demanded that Mamata Banerjee give up her health portfolio to someone else."
Jan 13, 2012 Karunanidhi’s daughter accused of fraud: "complaint against M Karunanidhi's daughter Selvi and a few others for cheating him of Rs 69 lakh after promising him a member's post in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)."
Jan 13, 2012 AIIMS paper leak: 2 city doctors nabbed: "Mohit charged Rs 18 lakh for admission in radiology and orthopaedics departments. The less popular options like gynaecology were pegged at Rs 15 lakh."
Jan 13, 2012 Sharks grab 2,800 acres of B’lore land: "An internal drive by the Revenue Department to check the authenticity of land grant instances in and around Bangalore has revealed that land sharks have grabbed 2,804 acres of government prime land worth more than Rs 5,000 crore in the real estate market, by creating fake documents."
Jan 13, 2012 Woman dies on road after being refused admission to hospitals in WB: "The 40-year-old woman gave birth to the twins on the roadside"
Jan 13, 2012 Many other ‘national shames': "Malnutrition — and more so among children — is not the only national shame. There is corruption that has spread nationwide which is an equally bigger national shame."
Jan 13, 2012 Petty babus as our rulers : "I sent three e-mails to the Ministry of External Affairs, both to its general address and to the particular office, asking for contact details for two Indian missions abroad. My messages explained that the information was needed as I would soon be visiting those countries. There was no response."
Jan 13, 2012 Raped for raising her voice: "even the police has not helped us", "her family running from pilar to post trying desperately to get help alleging that while she fought for her life, her rapists roaming free, sheletered by those in power"
Jan 13, 2012 Turned away by hospitals woman delivers twins on Kolkata road, dies: "a woman died giving birth to twins on the pavement after being denied admission by two state-run hospitals despite possessing health cards."
Jan 13, 2012 Indian Christians fear backlash due to Sharia ruling: "All India Christian Council in New Delhi on Friday feared backlash against Christians in the country due to incrimination of pastors Jim Borst and CM Khanna by Srinagar's self-styled Islamic Shariat court."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha: SC rules bypassed in land allotment: "Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land to judges from the ministers' discretionary quota."
Jan 12, 2012 46 students take ill after breakfast at Palike school
Jan 12, 2012 BBC: India's bureaucracy is 'worst in Asia': "Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy ranks bureaucracies across Asia on a scale from one to 10, with 10 being the worst possible score. India scored 9.21"
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