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Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Fellow ministers too given quota flats: "It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa."
Jan 12, 2012 Not sure of date of birth: Parkash Singh Badal: "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be in trouble for allegedly furnishing contradictory information about his date of birth. According to the affidavit filed before the 2007 assembly polls the Punjab Chief Minister's age is 76 years but the one filed earlier this week highlights that he is 84.However the Punjab Chief Minister has played down the issue saying he is in fact not sure about his date of birth."
Jan 12, 2012 FTN: Are night shelters in winter not a priority for the govt?: "How much money has been spent in providing night shelters for the homeless as north India endures a chilly winter?"
Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Judges' children got 'quota' flats: "The flats were meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 12, 2012 Human safaris do happen in Andaman: Tour operators: "The local administration in the Andamans has denied any violation in the Jarawa tribal reserve, but CNN-IBN found a different story."
Jan 12, 2012 College girl raped in running bus, murdered
Jan 11, 2012 Shocker at Govt hospital in Jodhpur: "A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Jodhpur was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman’s Jarawa women forced to dance for food, probe ordered: "In what is a glaring evidence of what tourism has reduced the indigenous Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands to, a recent video released by the UK-based daily, The Guardian, has been the centre of outrage. It shows females of the tribe — some bare chested, and one naked, trying to cover herself with a polythene bag containing grain— being asked to dance by an off-camera policemen."
Jan 11, 2012 India’s babus need a mental makeover: "Insensitive, indifferent, unresponsive, corrupt, slothful, arrogant and unintelligent — the typical Indian bureaucrat has been accused of being all this and even more. The fact that bureaucracy, the`steel frame of India’ has rusted beyond repair and has lost the purpose of its existence, needs no overstating."
Jan 11, 2012 Not many moved by the plight of Dalit woman?: "Rekha Chavan was assaulted and humiliated because her son elope with an girl from the upper caste."
Jan 11, 2012 'Shocking' video of Andaman tribe sparks row: "The video has now created a storm given that Jarawas are strictly protected by law."
Jan 11, 2012 Maharashtra: Dalit woman stripped, paraded naked: "A Dalit woman was harassed in Satara district after it was discovered that her son had eloped with an upper-caste girl.", "Such kind of incidents are not rare"
Jan 11, 2012 TMC workers heckle Bengal college principal: "Rampurhat College principal Sibashish Banerjee fainted due to heckling and was admitted to a hospital."
Jan 11, 2012 Probe ordered into alleged exploitation of Jarawa tribals: "a video footage showing semi-naked Jarawa tribal women allegedly being ordered to dance before tourists in return for food."
Jan 11, 2012 Rats nibble at paralysed patient in govt hospital: "An elderly paralysed man, who was on ventilator support, has been seriously injured after allegedly being nibbled at by rats"
Jan 11, 2012 Jarawas are treated like animals: UK reporter: "IBN-18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to The Observer reporter Gethin Chamberlain, who released the video.", "Rs. 15000 can buy a policeman"
Jan 11, 2012 College principal gheraoed, faints
Jan 11, 2012 Dalit woman paraded naked: "a Dalit widow was assaulted and reportedly paraded naked at Mulgaon village of Patan tehsil in Satara district, western Maharashtra, two days ago, after her son eloped with a girl from a high-caste family."
Jan 11, 2012 Guardian - UK: Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists - video: "The Jarawa tribe have lived in peace in the Andaman Islands for thousands of years. Now tour companies run safaris through their jungle every day and wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman tribals dance: Centre seeks explanation: "Wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman human safari a national embarrassment?: "The Observer has set off a storm after releasing a video showing members of the protected Jarawa tribe dancing for tourists."
Jan 11, 2012 Sonia Gandhi's family residing at Ulhasnagar?: "A social activist has found a ration card on the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) premises that was issued in the names of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka, bearing their Delhi address. The family's annual income was shown as Rs 30,000."
Jan 11, 2012 All-night vigil for that elusive LKG seat: "Nursery admissions in Bangalore couldn’t get hotter than this. Rushing to grab that Kindergarten seat — mostly allotted on a first-come-first-served basis — anxious that their children would miss out, parents are camping outside schools ready to spend the night in a queue."
Jan 11, 2012 ICU patient dies after rodents feast on him: "The incident reaffirms the sorry state of affairs at the government hospitals in Jodhpur."
Jan 10, 2012 Over 68 pc milk adulterated; contains detergent: "A new report says that milk only in Goa and Puducherry was not adulterated"
Jan 10, 2012 Kidney racket makes peon millionaire: "Mehboob Ali, who was arrested on Monday in the kidney transplant racket allegedly owned huge plots of land in Lucknow, Balrampur and Siddharthnagar districts. Apart from owning several palatial buildings in the state capital, he also owned a number of high-end cars, and a hefty bank balance"
Jan 10, 2012 Andaman tribes lured to dance for tourists: "A video released, shows the tribals being forced to dance, allegedly after a bribe was paid to a policeman."
Jan 10, 2012 Vice-Chancellor of VTU failed in 7 semesters: "The head of Karnataka’s premier technical education umbrella institution, Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU), failed in seven of the ten semesters of his undergraduate degree course in mechanical engineering.", "He finally managed to pass the course, but only after many attempts, adding up to a total of 25 marks sheets. He now heads a university which has 200 engineering colleges functioning under it. And the High Court is looking at his claims that he passed in first class.", "he has just a second class degree, and contrary to his claim did not guide any PhD student.""
Jan 10, 2012 Akshaye's next a light and funny take on corruption: "Akshaye Khanna is looking forward to giving the audience a peak at the root cause of graft in our country with his next film. Aptly titled Gali Gali Chor Hai"
Jan 10, 2012 Food Ministry plans overhaul of corrupt FCI: "The food ministry is trying to tame its own "white elephant" - the Food Corporation of India (FCI)."
Jan 10, 2012 FTN: Are we losing the war against hunger?: "A report on Hunger and Malnutrition that the PM released on Tuesday shows that one in every three malnourished children in the world is Indian."
Jan 10, 2012 India's dying kids: Govt, systemic apathy to blame: "From the tribal areas in MP to villages in Raichur, children are dying everywhere due to severe malnutrition."
Jan 10, 2012 42 pc Indian kids malnourished, stunted: report: "The 'HUNGaMA report' released by the Prime Minister says every third malnourished child on the planet is an Indian."
Jan 10, 2012 NIA busts major counterfeit currency: "busted a gang which circulated Pakistan-made fake Indian currency notes (FICN) worth crores of rupees, with the arrest of 11 persons."
Jan 10, 2012 Indian science and higher education falling behind global standards?
Jan 10, 2012 BBC: India 'shamed' by child malnutrition, says PM Singh: "One in three malnourished child on this planet is Indian"
Jan 10, 2012 42% of Indian children underweight, Manmohan calls it a 'national shame': ""...the problem of malnutrition is a matter of national shame."
Jan 9, 2012 Firm fixed income tax tribunal to secure over 60 favourable orders for its clients: CBI: "the CBI is said to have identified at least 69 judgments where the firm, S K Tulsiyan & Co., not only had prior knowledge of these orders but in many cases is suspected to have written them as well. The most glaring case is that of the tribunal’s Kolkata bench — as many as 12 of its orders were recovered from Tulsiyan’s hard discs before these were delivered"
Jan 9, 2012 Scam after scam, all of them inside jobs: "the All India Pre-Veterinary Test held by the Veterinary Council of India was also allegedly rigged by Mahipal Singh and his gang members. CBI found during investigations that several medical students had paid fees as high as Rs one crore to the scamsters to get their papers cleared."
Jan 9, 2012 Will CCTV footage nail Noida police?: "With less than three weeks to go for the elections, another controversy has hit Uttar Pradesh. This time a petrol pump owner has accused the Noida Police of raiding his office and seizing cash, all on the pretext of enforcing the Election Commission's directive.", "UP cops rob in name of polls?"
Jan 9, 2012 Shock over cheating game: "A senior police official said the arrests came yesterday following investigations into a tip off that the question papers for the entrance examination held yesterday were leaked."
Jan 9, 2012 High-tech cheating game exposed: "Delhi Police today (January 9) claimed to have cracked a post graduate medical entrance racket in AIIMS with the arrest of five persons, including a doctor and two MBA students. A senior police official said the arrests came yesterday following investigations into a tip off that the question papers for the entrance examination held yesterday were leaked."
Jan 9, 2012 AIIMS entrance exam racket busted in Delhi: "The Delhi Police has arrested 5 persons include one doctor and four others and said more arrests are likely."
Jan 9, 2012 Corruption in the Naga society and the Antidote
Jan 9, 2012 Cheats use bluetooth, cell cameras to crack AIIMS test: "With the arrest of five persons, including a doctor and two MBA students, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have cracked an all-India post-graduate medical entrance racket at AIIMS."
Jan 9, 2012 70% of milk in Delhi, country is adulterated: "in the 33 states and UTs study, milk was found adulterated with detergent, fat and even urea, besides the age-old dilution with water. Across the country, 68.4% of the samples were found contaminated."
Jan 8, 2012 Delhi's missing children: Who is to blame?: "nearly 13 children go missing from the streets of Delhi every day.", "Delhi's secret shame"
Jan 8, 2012 UP polls: Money power rampant; crores recovered: "Weeks ahead of the Assembly polls, cars loaded with cash have been found abandoned by roadsides in the state."
Jan 8, 2012 Ghaziabad: 5 killed in 5 months over Rs 200: "The fight turned ugly on Friday night, when a woman and her 3 children were stabbed to death."
Jan 8, 2012 3 days, 100 statues, 10 parks, and multiplied: "the Election Commission wants “each and every statue of elephant” and “each and every statue of Ms Mayawati”, built in Uttar Pradesh, with public money, in public places, “suitably covered”."
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption is why they win: "If 650 million Indians squat in the open because they don't have access to toilets and more than 250 million people are forced to drink filthy water, it's not a coincidence." , "How else would one describe the tainted politicians and mafia dons winning polls - sometimes from jail?"
Jan 8, 2012 Rs 50,000 cr a year: What Food Bill corruption will be like: "How much will systemic corruption increase once the Food Security Bill is introduced? The answer could be around Rs 50,000 crore annually."
Jan 5, 2012 Army Chief age row turns political: "BJP today (January 5) slammed the government over the age controversy of Army Chief General V K Singh"
Jan 5, 2012 President Patil’s cook demands VIP treatment: "After listening to the woes of her cook, President Patil called up Governor E S L Narasimhan and complained, who turned the fire on the Health ministry. The command chain from the Health minister to Health Secretary, Director, Medical Education and then to the hospital superintendent finally led to his admission in a super speciality care hospital in the city."
Jan 4, 2012 Make your home free from graft, Kalam to children
Jan 4, 2012 Washington Times: India: Is the world's largest democracy floundering?: "Indians may finally have figured out that their country, long enslaved in the grip of corrupt politicians, bureaucracy, judiciary, armed forces, police, criminals and a fractured society, cannot be liberated unless they change the system.", ""We the People...” not “We the Parliamentarians...." in the preamble of India’s Constitution. The big difference between ‘We the People,’ and ‘We the elected representatives of the people,’ is that the latter are basically servants – not rulers"
Jan 4, 2012 UP: NREGA scam in Sonia Gandhi's constituency?: "In the last 2 years, Rs 280 crore were spent on MNREGS projects in Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli constituency."
Jan 4, 2012 Molestation charges haunt Beant Singh's kin preparing for poll: ""Bureau of Consular affairs has warned American women not to travel alone in India. And several countries, including the US and UK warn their citizens that women sometimes face physical harassment by local men, euphemistically known in India as eve-teasing,""
Jan 4, 2012 French tourist allegedly molested at Khajuraho, 3 arrested
Jan 3, 2012 बिहार: जेल में चल रहा किडनैपिंग का खेल: "यहां जेल के अंदर आने वाले कैदियों को जेल में ही अगवा किया जा रहा है. उसकी खरीद फरोख्त हो रही है और वसूली जा रही है मोटी रकम."
Jan 3, 2012 TIMES NOW impact: Shame prompts action: "It's apathy at its worst in Uttar Pradesh as a father was made to run from pillar to post with his son’s body in a wooden box."
Jan 3, 2012 Kashmir reels under power crisis: "The state has been witnessing up to 14 to 16 hours of load shedding each day."
Jan 3, 2012 Thrissur: Asylum abuse exposed, 41 rescued: "The inmates were chained to their beds, without clothes, with not even a proper roof above their heads.", "Mental home turns into hell"
Jan 3, 2012 Modi-baiter Guj cop Sanjiv Bhatt to face trial in 1998 custodial torture case: "Bhatt, along with constable Vajubhai Chau, has been charged for the offence punishable under sections 330 (causing hurt to extort confession), 324 (causing hurt with dangerous weapon) read with section 34 (action done by several persons with common intent) of the Indian Penal Code"
Jan 2, 2012 Meant for ‘distressed’, Orissa plot quota goes to babus, judges, journalists: "Assembly records show, among those to have benefited over the past 26 years from the quota — meant to help persons “in distress” — have been senior officers, high court judges, politicians as well as more than 30 senior journalists."
Jan 2, 2012 82-year-old found guilty of raping 10-year-old: "Mohiniraj Kulkarni, 82, guilty in the rape and murder case of a 10-year-old girl, who was found dead on the terrace of his bungalow"
Jan 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: For India, a Power Failure Looms: "India is the world's fifth-largest electricity producer after the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, but its per capita consumption is among the world's lowest"
Jan 2, 2012 1 killed during power shortage protests in J&K: "A young man was killed on the spot and two others injured when CISF personnel opened fire on Monday (January 2) to disperse protesters agitated over power shortage"
Jan 2, 2012 11 kids among 12 killed in road accident: "Eleven children on their way to school were among 12 killed and 20 others injured when an overloaded van carrying them collided with a truck amid dense fog"
Jan 2, 2012 24 foetuses in garbage dump: "24 foetuses were found dumped in a garbage spot in Shimoga, 15 of which were female foetuses."
Jan 2, 2012 Son's body wrapped in red tape?: "Munawar Khan has been carrying his son's body wrapped in a gunny bag in a wooden box. He has been sent from Jaunpur to Lucknow and back only to be told he now has to go to Benaras to get an autopsy. In all of this, not one authority from the hospital, police or Government have come forward to help this man."
Jan 2, 2012 Police arrest 2 for sacrificing child: "Two men have been arrested in central India for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl and cutting out her liver in a ritual sacrifice to ensure a better harvest"
Jan 2, 2012 CBI arrests senior railway official, tout in job racket: "demanding bribes of Rs five lakh each from two complainants for allegedly arranging them the job of Ticket Collector in the Railways from VIP quota through some senior Railway officers/politician at New Delhi."
Jan 2, 2012 Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister: "Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman"
Jan 1, 2012 Celsius 5, winter clothing 0.5 per head At night, hay to keep warm: "There is a tattered shawl and a frayed women’s cardigan. “The four of us took turns wearing these,”"
Jan 1, 2012 Begging cloud on Bengal pilgrims - 166 Haj participants missing, diplomat points finger at racket, others blame state laxity: "a senior Indian diplomat in Jeddah suggesting in an email that they may have been absorbed into a begging ring in Mecca and Medina."
Jan 1, 2012 Many Assam cops, officials into land grabbing: Gogoi: "many policemen and other officials in the state were into land grabbing, which had assumed alarming proportions.", "ministers, legislators and former rebels have also been accused of grabbing land in urban and semi-urban areas"
Jan 1, 2012 Hooch kills 17 in Andhra Pradesh: "Eight people are still battling for life in hospitals at Mylavaram and Vijayawada."
Jan 1, 2012 Mob tried to abduct & molest girl, beat up beau: "a group of youths attacked a couple and tried to abduct and molest the girl. When her partner tried to intervene, he was thrashed by the mob."
Jan 1, 2012 12 doctors in drug trial racket let off with Rs 5,000 fine in Madhya Prades: "In a travesty of justice, the Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday imposed a paltry Rs 5,000 fine each on the 12 doctors charged with conducting drug trials on mentally challenged patients."
Dec 31, 2011 Teachers turn pupils into item girls: "“All the male and female teachers were drunk when the hapless students were forced to perform for their entertainment,”"
Dec 31, 2011 Spurious liquor kills six in Andhra: "the condition of 10 others is critical."
Dec 30, 2011 Controversy, scams bent the learning curve: "A fake admissions scam shook the faith in DU's admission process. Ramjas College identified 29 students in the first and second year courses who had taken admission on forged certificates."
Dec 30, 2011 Mumbai shame, shame, cry netizens: ""Mumbaikars, u don't deserve anything better than those filmi sl**s ! U r cowards, hypocrites,""
Dec 30, 2011 Imagining India without corruption: "Indians Like Us (PLU) have chicanery in our DNA. Ending corruption would shatter our delightful economy, scatter our “contacts” and stunt future plans based on cosy “settings”. Anna gave us a temporary guilt trip, but thanks to Parliament's “supremacy” all is well"
Dec 30, 2011 Tantrik arrested for victimising several women: ""The complainant contacted the tantrik to get her problems solved after watching an advertisement. He allegedly cheated her of Rs 63,000 and even asked her to have physical relation,""
Dec 30, 2011 Four fake CBI officers arrested: "Kakinada police today arrested four persons for extorting Rs two lakh from a factory manager by pretending to be CBI officers."
Dec 29, 2011 Reformed rowdy hacked to death: "five men armed with machetes and other sharp-edged weapons brutally attacked him and fled the spot."
Dec 29, 2011 Man held for trying to rape Dutch woman: "The incident occurred when the 20-year-old victim was returning to her house in suburban Mulund in an auto-rickshaw in the early hours"
Dec 29, 2011 Man held for trying to rape Dutch woman: "The incident occurred when the 20-year-old victim was returning to her house in suburban Mulund in an auto-rickshaw in the early hours"
Dec 28, 2011 100 fake doctors? MP hit by Munnabhai scam: "the students, mostly from rich families, had been joining MBBS courses since 2009 by paying crores between them to hire practicing doctors and talented medical students from UP, Bihar and elsewhere to write the pre-medical test on their behalf, forging photographs and signatures."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption and the South Asian: "political parties and police as the most corrupt institutions—something which most of us are already aware or agree."
Dec 27, 2011 Techie promised railway jobs, duped candidates of Rs 50L: "contacted them on the pretext of giving them jobs in the railways and he even took Rs 4 lakh from each of them."
Dec 27, 2011 Maharashtra consumes Rs 100 cr gutkha daily: Oppn leader: "around Rs 100 crore was consumed in state of which Rs 25 crore was in Mumbai alone."
Dec 27, 2011 Students lament Bihar’s dysfunctional schools: "School authority does not take any care while preparing food. The 'daal' they serve us is very diluted and mostly boiled water. When we protest, they ask ‘are we your servants’? “Teachers take no interest in teaching. After we finish our lunch, they forcibly send us home.""
Dec 27, 2011 IPS officer caught cheating in exams: "An IPS and regional police officer, Jai Prakash Singh was allegedly caught cheating while appearing in his law exams at Lucknow University's New Campus", "It was then we frisked him and found a piece of paper (chit) in his pocket. The chit carried relevant information meant for his exams.''"
Dec 27, 2011 Cold wave claims 50 in Jharkhand
Dec 27, 2011 No RTE effect; primary schools in a sorry state: "Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some schools."
Dec 27, 2011 24 of 31 Doctors Found Absent: "When Aradhana Patnaik, the state director of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) gave a surprise visit to Sadar Hospital on Monday evening she was surprised to find 24 of the 31 doctors missing from duty."
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Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Fellow ministers too given quota flats: "It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa."
Jan 12, 2012 Not sure of date of birth: Parkash Singh Badal: "Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be in trouble for allegedly furnishing contradictory information about his date of birth. According to the affidavit filed before the 2007 assembly polls the Punjab Chief Minister's age is 76 years but the one filed earlier this week highlights that he is 84.However the Punjab Chief Minister has played down the issue saying he is in fact not sure about his date of birth."
Jan 12, 2012 FTN: Are night shelters in winter not a priority for the govt?: "How much money has been spent in providing night shelters for the homeless as north India endures a chilly winter?"
Jan 12, 2012 Orissa: Judges' children got 'quota' flats: "The flats were meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs."
Jan 12, 2012 Odisha Oppn for cancellation of land allotments: "Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised action against those misusing discretionary powers"
Jan 12, 2012 Human safaris do happen in Andaman: Tour operators: "The local administration in the Andamans has denied any violation in the Jarawa tribal reserve, but CNN-IBN found a different story."
Jan 12, 2012 College girl raped in running bus, murdered
Jan 11, 2012 Shocker at Govt hospital in Jodhpur: "A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Jodhpur was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman’s Jarawa women forced to dance for food, probe ordered: "In what is a glaring evidence of what tourism has reduced the indigenous Jarawa tribe in the Andaman Islands to, a recent video released by the UK-based daily, The Guardian, has been the centre of outrage. It shows females of the tribe — some bare chested, and one naked, trying to cover herself with a polythene bag containing grain— being asked to dance by an off-camera policemen."
Jan 11, 2012 India’s babus need a mental makeover: "Insensitive, indifferent, unresponsive, corrupt, slothful, arrogant and unintelligent — the typical Indian bureaucrat has been accused of being all this and even more. The fact that bureaucracy, the`steel frame of India’ has rusted beyond repair and has lost the purpose of its existence, needs no overstating."
Jan 11, 2012 Not many moved by the plight of Dalit woman?: "Rekha Chavan was assaulted and humiliated because her son elope with an girl from the upper caste."
Jan 11, 2012 'Shocking' video of Andaman tribe sparks row: "The video has now created a storm given that Jarawas are strictly protected by law."
Jan 11, 2012 Maharashtra: Dalit woman stripped, paraded naked: "A Dalit woman was harassed in Satara district after it was discovered that her son had eloped with an upper-caste girl.", "Such kind of incidents are not rare"
Jan 11, 2012 TMC workers heckle Bengal college principal: "Rampurhat College principal Sibashish Banerjee fainted due to heckling and was admitted to a hospital."
Jan 11, 2012 Probe ordered into alleged exploitation of Jarawa tribals: "a video footage showing semi-naked Jarawa tribal women allegedly being ordered to dance before tourists in return for food."
Jan 11, 2012 Rats nibble at paralysed patient in govt hospital: "An elderly paralysed man, who was on ventilator support, has been seriously injured after allegedly being nibbled at by rats"
Jan 11, 2012 Jarawas are treated like animals: UK reporter: "IBN-18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to The Observer reporter Gethin Chamberlain, who released the video.", "Rs. 15000 can buy a policeman"
Jan 11, 2012 College principal gheraoed, faints
Jan 11, 2012 Dalit woman paraded naked: "a Dalit widow was assaulted and reportedly paraded naked at Mulgaon village of Patan tehsil in Satara district, western Maharashtra, two days ago, after her son eloped with a girl from a high-caste family."
Jan 11, 2012 Guardian - UK: Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists - video: "The Jarawa tribe have lived in peace in the Andaman Islands for thousands of years. Now tour companies run safaris through their jungle every day and wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman tribals dance: Centre seeks explanation: "Wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement."
Jan 11, 2012 Andaman human safari a national embarrassment?: "The Observer has set off a storm after releasing a video showing members of the protected Jarawa tribe dancing for tourists."
Jan 11, 2012 Sonia Gandhi's family residing at Ulhasnagar?: "A social activist has found a ration card on the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) premises that was issued in the names of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka, bearing their Delhi address. The family's annual income was shown as Rs 30,000."
Jan 11, 2012 All-night vigil for that elusive LKG seat: "Nursery admissions in Bangalore couldn’t get hotter than this. Rushing to grab that Kindergarten seat — mostly allotted on a first-come-first-served basis — anxious that their children would miss out, parents are camping outside schools ready to spend the night in a queue."
Jan 11, 2012 ICU patient dies after rodents feast on him: "The incident reaffirms the sorry state of affairs at the government hospitals in Jodhpur."
Jan 10, 2012 Over 68 pc milk adulterated; contains detergent: "A new report says that milk only in Goa and Puducherry was not adulterated"
Jan 10, 2012 Kidney racket makes peon millionaire: "Mehboob Ali, who was arrested on Monday in the kidney transplant racket allegedly owned huge plots of land in Lucknow, Balrampur and Siddharthnagar districts. Apart from owning several palatial buildings in the state capital, he also owned a number of high-end cars, and a hefty bank balance"
Jan 10, 2012 Andaman tribes lured to dance for tourists: "A video released, shows the tribals being forced to dance, allegedly after a bribe was paid to a policeman."
Jan 10, 2012 Vice-Chancellor of VTU failed in 7 semesters: "The head of Karnataka’s premier technical education umbrella institution, Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU), failed in seven of the ten semesters of his undergraduate degree course in mechanical engineering.", "He finally managed to pass the course, but only after many attempts, adding up to a total of 25 marks sheets. He now heads a university which has 200 engineering colleges functioning under it. And the High Court is looking at his claims that he passed in first class.", "he has just a second class degree, and contrary to his claim did not guide any PhD student.""
Jan 10, 2012 Akshaye's next a light and funny take on corruption: "Akshaye Khanna is looking forward to giving the audience a peak at the root cause of graft in our country with his next film. Aptly titled Gali Gali Chor Hai"
Jan 10, 2012 Food Ministry plans overhaul of corrupt FCI: "The food ministry is trying to tame its own "white elephant" - the Food Corporation of India (FCI)."
Jan 10, 2012 FTN: Are we losing the war against hunger?: "A report on Hunger and Malnutrition that the PM released on Tuesday shows that one in every three malnourished children in the world is Indian."
Jan 10, 2012 India's dying kids: Govt, systemic apathy to blame: "From the tribal areas in MP to villages in Raichur, children are dying everywhere due to severe malnutrition."
Jan 10, 2012 42 pc Indian kids malnourished, stunted: report: "The 'HUNGaMA report' released by the Prime Minister says every third malnourished child on the planet is an Indian."
Jan 10, 2012 NIA busts major counterfeit currency: "busted a gang which circulated Pakistan-made fake Indian currency notes (FICN) worth crores of rupees, with the arrest of 11 persons."
Jan 10, 2012 Indian science and higher education falling behind global standards?
Jan 10, 2012 BBC: India 'shamed' by child malnutrition, says PM Singh: "One in three malnourished child on this planet is Indian"
Jan 10, 2012 42% of Indian children underweight, Manmohan calls it a 'national shame': ""...the problem of malnutrition is a matter of national shame."
Jan 9, 2012 Firm fixed income tax tribunal to secure over 60 favourable orders for its clients: CBI: "the CBI is said to have identified at least 69 judgments where the firm, S K Tulsiyan & Co., not only had prior knowledge of these orders but in many cases is suspected to have written them as well. The most glaring case is that of the tribunal’s Kolkata bench — as many as 12 of its orders were recovered from Tulsiyan’s hard discs before these were delivered"
Jan 9, 2012 Scam after scam, all of them inside jobs: "the All India Pre-Veterinary Test held by the Veterinary Council of India was also allegedly rigged by Mahipal Singh and his gang members. CBI found during investigations that several medical students had paid fees as high as Rs one crore to the scamsters to get their papers cleared."
Jan 9, 2012 Will CCTV footage nail Noida police?: "With less than three weeks to go for the elections, another controversy has hit Uttar Pradesh. This time a petrol pump owner has accused the Noida Police of raiding his office and seizing cash, all on the pretext of enforcing the Election Commission's directive.", "UP cops rob in name of polls?"
Jan 9, 2012 Shock over cheating game: "A senior police official said the arrests came yesterday following investigations into a tip off that the question papers for the entrance examination held yesterday were leaked."
Jan 9, 2012 High-tech cheating game exposed: "Delhi Police today (January 9) claimed to have cracked a post graduate medical entrance racket in AIIMS with the arrest of five persons, including a doctor and two MBA students. A senior police official said the arrests came yesterday following investigations into a tip off that the question papers for the entrance examination held yesterday were leaked."
Jan 9, 2012 AIIMS entrance exam racket busted in Delhi: "The Delhi Police has arrested 5 persons include one doctor and four others and said more arrests are likely."
Jan 9, 2012 Corruption in the Naga society and the Antidote
Jan 9, 2012 Cheats use bluetooth, cell cameras to crack AIIMS test: "With the arrest of five persons, including a doctor and two MBA students, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have cracked an all-India post-graduate medical entrance racket at AIIMS."
Jan 9, 2012 70% of milk in Delhi, country is adulterated: "in the 33 states and UTs study, milk was found adulterated with detergent, fat and even urea, besides the age-old dilution with water. Across the country, 68.4% of the samples were found contaminated."
Jan 8, 2012 Delhi's missing children: Who is to blame?: "nearly 13 children go missing from the streets of Delhi every day.", "Delhi's secret shame"
Jan 8, 2012 UP polls: Money power rampant; crores recovered: "Weeks ahead of the Assembly polls, cars loaded with cash have been found abandoned by roadsides in the state."
Jan 8, 2012 Ghaziabad: 5 killed in 5 months over Rs 200: "The fight turned ugly on Friday night, when a woman and her 3 children were stabbed to death."
Jan 8, 2012 3 days, 100 statues, 10 parks, and multiplied: "the Election Commission wants “each and every statue of elephant” and “each and every statue of Ms Mayawati”, built in Uttar Pradesh, with public money, in public places, “suitably covered”."
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption is why they win: "If 650 million Indians squat in the open because they don't have access to toilets and more than 250 million people are forced to drink filthy water, it's not a coincidence." , "How else would one describe the tainted politicians and mafia dons winning polls - sometimes from jail?"
Jan 8, 2012 Rs 50,000 cr a year: What Food Bill corruption will be like: "How much will systemic corruption increase once the Food Security Bill is introduced? The answer could be around Rs 50,000 crore annually."
Jan 5, 2012 Army Chief age row turns political: "BJP today (January 5) slammed the government over the age controversy of Army Chief General V K Singh"
Jan 5, 2012 President Patil’s cook demands VIP treatment: "After listening to the woes of her cook, President Patil called up Governor E S L Narasimhan and complained, who turned the fire on the Health ministry. The command chain from the Health minister to Health Secretary, Director, Medical Education and then to the hospital superintendent finally led to his admission in a super speciality care hospital in the city."
Jan 4, 2012 Make your home free from graft, Kalam to children
Jan 4, 2012 Washington Times: India: Is the world's largest democracy floundering?: "Indians may finally have figured out that their country, long enslaved in the grip of corrupt politicians, bureaucracy, judiciary, armed forces, police, criminals and a fractured society, cannot be liberated unless they change the system.", ""We the People...” not “We the Parliamentarians...." in the preamble of India’s Constitution. The big difference between ‘We the People,’ and ‘We the elected representatives of the people,’ is that the latter are basically servants – not rulers"
Jan 4, 2012 UP: NREGA scam in Sonia Gandhi's constituency?: "In the last 2 years, Rs 280 crore were spent on MNREGS projects in Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli constituency."
Jan 4, 2012 Molestation charges haunt Beant Singh's kin preparing for poll: ""Bureau of Consular affairs has warned American women not to travel alone in India. And several countries, including the US and UK warn their citizens that women sometimes face physical harassment by local men, euphemistically known in India as eve-teasing,""
Jan 4, 2012 French tourist allegedly molested at Khajuraho, 3 arrested
Jan 3, 2012 बिहार: जेल में चल रहा किडनैपिंग का खेल: "यहां जेल के अंदर आने वाले कैदियों को जेल में ही अगवा किया जा रहा है. उसकी खरीद फरोख्त हो रही है और वसूली जा रही है मोटी रकम."
Jan 3, 2012 TIMES NOW impact: Shame prompts action: "It's apathy at its worst in Uttar Pradesh as a father was made to run from pillar to post with his son’s body in a wooden box."
Jan 3, 2012 Kashmir reels under power crisis: "The state has been witnessing up to 14 to 16 hours of load shedding each day."
Jan 3, 2012 Thrissur: Asylum abuse exposed, 41 rescued: "The inmates were chained to their beds, without clothes, with not even a proper roof above their heads.", "Mental home turns into hell"
Jan 3, 2012 Modi-baiter Guj cop Sanjiv Bhatt to face trial in 1998 custodial torture case: "Bhatt, along with constable Vajubhai Chau, has been charged for the offence punishable under sections 330 (causing hurt to extort confession), 324 (causing hurt with dangerous weapon) read with section 34 (action done by several persons with common intent) of the Indian Penal Code"
Jan 2, 2012 Meant for ‘distressed’, Orissa plot quota goes to babus, judges, journalists: "Assembly records show, among those to have benefited over the past 26 years from the quota — meant to help persons “in distress” — have been senior officers, high court judges, politicians as well as more than 30 senior journalists."
Jan 2, 2012 82-year-old found guilty of raping 10-year-old: "Mohiniraj Kulkarni, 82, guilty in the rape and murder case of a 10-year-old girl, who was found dead on the terrace of his bungalow"
Jan 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: For India, a Power Failure Looms: "India is the world's fifth-largest electricity producer after the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, but its per capita consumption is among the world's lowest"
Jan 2, 2012 1 killed during power shortage protests in J&K: "A young man was killed on the spot and two others injured when CISF personnel opened fire on Monday (January 2) to disperse protesters agitated over power shortage"
Jan 2, 2012 11 kids among 12 killed in road accident: "Eleven children on their way to school were among 12 killed and 20 others injured when an overloaded van carrying them collided with a truck amid dense fog"
Jan 2, 2012 24 foetuses in garbage dump: "24 foetuses were found dumped in a garbage spot in Shimoga, 15 of which were female foetuses."
Jan 2, 2012 Son's body wrapped in red tape?: "Munawar Khan has been carrying his son's body wrapped in a gunny bag in a wooden box. He has been sent from Jaunpur to Lucknow and back only to be told he now has to go to Benaras to get an autopsy. In all of this, not one authority from the hospital, police or Government have come forward to help this man."
Jan 2, 2012 Police arrest 2 for sacrificing child: "Two men have been arrested in central India for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl and cutting out her liver in a ritual sacrifice to ensure a better harvest"
Jan 2, 2012 CBI arrests senior railway official, tout in job racket: "demanding bribes of Rs five lakh each from two complainants for allegedly arranging them the job of Ticket Collector in the Railways from VIP quota through some senior Railway officers/politician at New Delhi."
Jan 2, 2012 Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister: "Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman"
Jan 1, 2012 Celsius 5, winter clothing 0.5 per head At night, hay to keep warm: "There is a tattered shawl and a frayed women’s cardigan. “The four of us took turns wearing these,”"
Jan 1, 2012 Begging cloud on Bengal pilgrims - 166 Haj participants missing, diplomat points finger at racket, others blame state laxity: "a senior Indian diplomat in Jeddah suggesting in an email that they may have been absorbed into a begging ring in Mecca and Medina."
Jan 1, 2012 Many Assam cops, officials into land grabbing: Gogoi: "many policemen and other officials in the state were into land grabbing, which had assumed alarming proportions.", "ministers, legislators and former rebels have also been accused of grabbing land in urban and semi-urban areas"
Jan 1, 2012 Hooch kills 17 in Andhra Pradesh: "Eight people are still battling for life in hospitals at Mylavaram and Vijayawada."
Jan 1, 2012 Mob tried to abduct & molest girl, beat up beau: "a group of youths attacked a couple and tried to abduct and molest the girl. When her partner tried to intervene, he was thrashed by the mob."
Jan 1, 2012 12 doctors in drug trial racket let off with Rs 5,000 fine in Madhya Prades: "In a travesty of justice, the Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday imposed a paltry Rs 5,000 fine each on the 12 doctors charged with conducting drug trials on mentally challenged patients."
Dec 31, 2011 Teachers turn pupils into item girls: "“All the male and female teachers were drunk when the hapless students were forced to perform for their entertainment,”"
Dec 31, 2011 Spurious liquor kills six in Andhra: "the condition of 10 others is critical."
Dec 30, 2011 Controversy, scams bent the learning curve: "A fake admissions scam shook the faith in DU's admission process. Ramjas College identified 29 students in the first and second year courses who had taken admission on forged certificates."
Dec 30, 2011 Mumbai shame, shame, cry netizens: ""Mumbaikars, u don't deserve anything better than those filmi sl**s ! U r cowards, hypocrites,""
Dec 30, 2011 Imagining India without corruption: "Indians Like Us (PLU) have chicanery in our DNA. Ending corruption would shatter our delightful economy, scatter our “contacts” and stunt future plans based on cosy “settings”. Anna gave us a temporary guilt trip, but thanks to Parliament's “supremacy” all is well"
Dec 30, 2011 Tantrik arrested for victimising several women: ""The complainant contacted the tantrik to get her problems solved after watching an advertisement. He allegedly cheated her of Rs 63,000 and even asked her to have physical relation,""
Dec 30, 2011 Four fake CBI officers arrested: "Kakinada police today arrested four persons for extorting Rs two lakh from a factory manager by pretending to be CBI officers."
Dec 29, 2011 Reformed rowdy hacked to death: "five men armed with machetes and other sharp-edged weapons brutally attacked him and fled the spot."
Dec 29, 2011 Man held for trying to rape Dutch woman: "The incident occurred when the 20-year-old victim was returning to her house in suburban Mulund in an auto-rickshaw in the early hours"
Dec 29, 2011 Man held for trying to rape Dutch woman: "The incident occurred when the 20-year-old victim was returning to her house in suburban Mulund in an auto-rickshaw in the early hours"
Dec 28, 2011 100 fake doctors? MP hit by Munnabhai scam: "the students, mostly from rich families, had been joining MBBS courses since 2009 by paying crores between them to hire practicing doctors and talented medical students from UP, Bihar and elsewhere to write the pre-medical test on their behalf, forging photographs and signatures."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption and the South Asian: "political parties and police as the most corrupt institutions—something which most of us are already aware or agree."
Dec 27, 2011 Techie promised railway jobs, duped candidates of Rs 50L: "contacted them on the pretext of giving them jobs in the railways and he even took Rs 4 lakh from each of them."
Dec 27, 2011 Maharashtra consumes Rs 100 cr gutkha daily: Oppn leader: "around Rs 100 crore was consumed in state of which Rs 25 crore was in Mumbai alone."
Dec 27, 2011 Students lament Bihar’s dysfunctional schools: "School authority does not take any care while preparing food. The 'daal' they serve us is very diluted and mostly boiled water. When we protest, they ask ‘are we your servants’? “Teachers take no interest in teaching. After we finish our lunch, they forcibly send us home.""
Dec 27, 2011 IPS officer caught cheating in exams: "An IPS and regional police officer, Jai Prakash Singh was allegedly caught cheating while appearing in his law exams at Lucknow University's New Campus", "It was then we frisked him and found a piece of paper (chit) in his pocket. The chit carried relevant information meant for his exams.''"
Dec 27, 2011 Cold wave claims 50 in Jharkhand
Dec 27, 2011 No RTE effect; primary schools in a sorry state: "Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some schools."
Dec 27, 2011 24 of 31 Doctors Found Absent: "When Aradhana Patnaik, the state director of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) gave a surprise visit to Sadar Hospital on Monday evening she was surprised to find 24 of the 31 doctors missing from duty."
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