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Dec 9, 2011 AMRI hospital tragedy in Kolkata: Toll rises to 89, owners arrested: ""What's the use of coming now? He is already dead. All are dead. The administration is hopeless, useless,", "Chief minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the spot, but only stoked the rage of the people, leading to a near-stampede and police resorting to batons."
Dec 8, 2011 Kolkata: Major fire at AMRI hospital, 20 dead: "Nearly 25 fire tenders were working hard to evacuate all patients and staff and there was still no clarity on the cause of the fire."
Dec 8, 2011 'बुंदेलखंड पैकेज में हो रहा है भ्रष्टाचार': "दशकों से सूखे की मार की वजह से बुंदेलखंड में इसी साल के शुरुआती पांच महीनों में 519 किसानों ने आत्महत्या की, जबकि 2010 में ये सालाना आंकड़ा 583 था."
Dec 8, 2011 भंवरी के पति पर भी गहराया सीबीआई का शक: "एक खबर ने राजस्थान के कम से कम डेढ़ सौ नेताओं, अफसरों और पुलिस अफसरों की नींद उड़ा दी है. खबर है ही कुछ ऐसी...सीबीआई को अजमेर के एक बैंक लॉकर से भंवरी देवी की डेढ़ सौ सीडी मिली हैं. इनमें कुछ सीडी में तो ब़ड़े-बड़े दिग्गज नेता न सिर्फ भंवरी के साथ डांस कर रहे हैं, बल्कि भंवरी की डांस पर नोट भी लुटा रहे हैं."
Dec 8, 2011 दोनों ने मारे थप्पड़, एक को बेल दूसरे को जेल: "'अगर हक की मांग करने गई महिला को कई थप्पड़ लगाने वाले सरपंच को तुरंत जमानत दी जा सकती है, तो फिर सिर्फ एक थप्पड़ लगाने वाले हरविंदर को जमानत क्यों नहीं मिलनी चाहिए? क्या हरविंदर का अपराध इसलिए बड़ा है कि उसने एक केंद्रीय मंत्री को थप्पड़ मारा है?'"
Dec 8, 2011 56,000 homeless in Delhi, finds UNDP: "the Capital has a total of 55,955 people living without any shade or shelter."
Dec 8, 2011 Telegraph UK: Government 'peon' on £50 a month a millionaire property magnate: "he had started on a salary of less than £2 a month, he had earned a total of just under £19,000. They believe only corruption can explain the fortune they uncovered in their dawn raid this week: evidence of properties worth around £500,000, a fleet of cars and motorbikes, including an SUV, a Chevrolet Avio, a truck"
Dec 7, 2011 'Moral education must to weed out corruption': "The root cause of corruption, which has taken a shape of an epidemic in the country, is sharp deterioration in moral fibre of society,"
Dec 7, 2011 Police lathicharge protesting teachers in Punjab
Dec 7, 2011 Sidhu beats up guard at toll gate, triggers row
Dec 7, 2011 First the slap, now the highandedness: "teachers were allegedly roughed up by policemen."
Dec 7, 2011 After Sarpanch, cops rough up teachers in Punjab: "Protesting teachers and villagers were roughed by policemen at Sukhna village in Muktsar."
Dec 7, 2011 200 Indian fans hired at Rs 300 to welcome Tom Cruise: ""but 300 for an hour outside the airport is not bad.""
Dec 6, 2011 India: The most disappointing BRIC of all?: "It’s such a shame."
Dec 6, 2011 India's income inequality has doubled in 20 years: "The top 10% of wage earners now make 12 times more than the bottom 10%"
Dec 6, 2011 MP Navjot Sidhu creates scene at toll plaza: "An enraged Sidhu came back to the plaza, overpowered Ramaiah and another guard and bundled them into his vehicle!"
Dec 6, 2011 India going the China way on online content?: "Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Facebook, Google and others seeking to device a screening mechanism."
Dec 6, 2011 Karnataka govt mulls banning temple ritual: "BJP Government in Karnataka is mulling a ban on "made snana", an annual religious ritual in which people roll on left over food consumed by Brahmins to fulfill vow at a famous temple in the state"
Dec 6, 2011 NHR Direct: Will 'slapping Sarpanch' get away?: "A leader of Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal has repeatedly slapped a lady teacher, who was demanding a permanent job"
Dec 6, 2011 Will police arrest Akali Dal sarpanch?: "Is it a banana republic? the question that India is asking after visuals surfaced of a Sarpanch from the Akali Dal thrashing a woman teacher with at least 100 cops as mute spectators. Under extreme pressure Punjab government ordered the filing of a FIR against sarpanch Baljinder Singh -- the Sarpanch though still remains at large."
Dec 6, 2011 Patna University has more temples than colleges: "There are at least three such temples in Patna Science College. The owner of one of the temples lost a legal battle few years back. But the temple continues to exist."
Dec 5, 2011 International Business Times: Deadly Snakes Unleashed in Government Office in India [VIDEO]: "Corruption in India is a serious national problem. Despite a new anti-corruption bill, the country has gotten worse over the past year, according to Transparency International's annual index. India scored the second worse of all the developing BRIC economies, just behind Russia. India was 95th place (of 183) on the list, a whole 20 places worse than China and just one spot better than Pakistan."
Dec 5, 2011 How was Bhanwari eliminated?: "To win Bhanwari's trust, a kidnap plan is staged in which Shahabuddin alias Raju Bhai saves her on August 15 from people attempting to abduct her in Jodhpur."
Dec 5, 2011 Akali Dal sarpanch slaps woman in MP's function: "Police just stood by watching"
Dec 4, 2011 Farmer drinks poison in front of CM: "A distressed farmer drank poison in front of the chief minister and thousands of agriculturists at a public meeting in Amravati district"
Dec 4, 2011 Teen raped thrice on empty trains: "After being reprimanded by her parents for not studying, the 15-year-old girl left her home in Solapur on Friday and headed for the station. "
Dec 4, 2011 Adivasi tortured to death: "Jhipru Muk-ne was tortured because he couldn't repay his employer a loan of measely 6,000 rupees. But what's even more shocking is that the police reportedly refused to register a complaint when the victim's wife approached them."
Dec 4, 2011 India slips to 95th rank on Corruption Perception Index: "This year, the country scores 3.1 on 10, with 10 being the highest score.", "Last year, India was placed at 87."
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi hospital dumps bio-medical waste in open: "Patel Chest Institute dumps medical waste like syringes and contaminated blood in an a municipal garbage bin."
Dec 4, 2011 Ex-Union minister Swami Chinmayanand accusedof rape, murder attempt: "The Shahjahanpur police in Uttar Pradesh lodged a case of assault, rape, forced abortion and attempt to murder against former Union minister of state for home, Swami Chinmayanand"
Dec 4, 2011 देखें: पार्क में प्रेमी जोड़ों पर लेडी इंस्पेक्टर की दबंगई
Dec 4, 2011 Has moral policing gone too far?
Dec 4, 2011 Ghaziabad: Cops turn moral police, target couples: "Policemen have resumed 'Operation Majnu' to crack down on couples, which they claim will curb sexual harassment."
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi: 6 Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested: "This module is believed to be behind the three biggest terror attacks in the last two years."
Dec 4, 2011 60-year-old arrested for raping infant: "A 60-year-old man was today arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child"
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi in 'most unsafe' cities in India list: "The National Capital has emerged as one of the most unsafe cities along with Patna, Kanpur and Meerut in the country"
Dec 4, 2011 Rs.5 lakh solatium for Tamil Nadu women raped by cops: "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs.5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men.", "A team of police and forest department personnel indulged in loot, arson and rape in Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district in June 1992."
Dec 4, 2011 Debt trap turns death trap for Vidarbha farmers: "The cotton crisis has pushed 123 farmers to suicide in 2011, says the state government."
Dec 4, 2011 Will her father reward Kanimozhi for ‘sacrifice’?: "Kanimozhi is likely to rewarded with a party post for "enduring" 190 days in Tihar jail. This is the buzz in the DMK as party chief M Karunanidhi's daughter prepares to fly down home to a grand reception in Chennai."
Dec 4, 2011 PCC chief takes on ‘corrupt’ BJP, says cash liquor, won’t get votes
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Killing Rebels Alone Won’t Stop India’s Violent Uprisings: View: "The government and news media heralded the death of the rebel leader as the decisive blow to a 45-year conflict that has cost 10,000 lives."
Dec 4, 2011 Bastar Roads: More Corrupt than Violent
Dec 4, 2011 WB: 2 dead in police crackdown on power theft: "A 30-year old woman and a 14-year old were killed as the power theft crackdown by police turned violent."
Dec 3, 2011 CJ Impact: Bhavani gets back land grabbed by mafia
Dec 3, 2011 CJ Report on black-marketing of LPG cylinders: "CJ Samar Gupta reports from Alwar on misuse of domestic LPG cylinders in the city, that leads to black-marketing."
Dec 3, 2011 10 killed, 2 injured in Maoist attack in Jharkhand: "Ten persons, including eight policemen, were killed and two policemen were injured on Saturday when Maoists attacked the convoy of MP and former Jharkhand Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari"
Dec 2, 2011 Corruption up in India...Integrity score falls, Rank down
Dec 2, 2011 India Sinks Lower in Corruption Index: "In the South Asian region, India did worse than both Sri Lanka (No. 86) and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan (No. 38)."
Dec 2, 2011 dailymail: How India squanders British aid: "the chief salesman is pleased with his latest sale of a £600,000 Phantom to a billionaire Delhi businessman. Thirty-five Phantoms, the biggest and most expensive Rolls-Royce, have been bought in India already in 2011. By the end of the year, another 35 will be sold to Indian tycoons and Bollywood film stars."
Dec 2, 2011 ‘Prayers not enough for a better world’: "in India, people pray and make offerings to God in the morning and then step out and indulge in corruption."
Dec 2, 2011 How corrupt is India? It's getting worse, index says: "India’s score fell from 3.3 last year to 3.1 this year, bringing its international ranking down from 87th least corrupt to 95th"
Dec 2, 2011 Mad rush for gun licences in UP: "“The district officials have been flooded with such applications and finding it extremely difficult to cope as they are being pressurised by the politicians, mainly those from the ruling party", "the number of firearms license holders in the state to 11.53 lakh""
Dec 2, 2011 UP is back to playing the communal card again: "As elections to the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly get closer, all parties are rushing back to the old and overused success formula: wooing the minorities."
Dec 2, 2011 FIR against Stalin, son and four others: "An FIR was registered against DMK leader M K Stalin, his son Udhayanidhi and four others for allegedly threatening a person to sell his property at a prime locality at a lesser price."
Nov 30, 2011 India home to half of Asia’s Aids patients: "About 48 lakh people are living with HIV in Asia in 2010"
Nov 30, 2011 Indians 5th most vacation-deprived: Study
Nov 30, 2011 Ghaziabad SO suspended for harassing couples: "the officer has not behaved in an appropriate manner. Hence, we decided to suspend her"
Nov 29, 2011 Love under siege: Cops harass couples in parks in Ghaziabad: "Led by Pandey, for the past three days, cops have been picking up young couples at parks and malls. The "offenders" are being asked to "explain their conduct" and then handed on-the-spot "punishment", without a care for their dignity and rights."
Nov 29, 2011 Behind biggest I-T seizure, a case of multiplying crores: "Having dropped out after matriculation, Lal Babu’s rise to riches, officials say, began with his association with two BCCL general managers, D C Jha and S P Singh, as well as BJP Jharia MLA Kunti Singh. The latter is the widow of the late coal mafia don Surya Dev Singh."
Nov 26, 2011 the bohras female circumcision, The Yin, Wounded : "for women the procedure is to curb sexual desire and prevent wives from straying from their husbands”"
Nov 25, 2011 Most people in India are of 'very low intellectual level': Katju: "Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas"."
Nov 24, 2011 Honour killing: Engg student bludgeoned to death
Nov 24, 2011 Bangalore runs to fight female foeticide
Nov 24, 2011 Mumbai legislators' hostel a source for obscene calls: "The reception at Manora, one of the four MLA hostels in Mumbai, receives at least two dozen complaints every day about obscene calls received from the hostel's numbers."
Nov 24, 2011 884 deaths due to encephalitis in the country: Govt
Nov 23, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 21, 2011 So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
Nov 21, 2011 Midnight crackdown at Ramlila: SC seeks explanation from police: "“Explain whether the use of force was justified? What were the circumstance which led to the action and why the police could not wait till the morning to ask the people to leave the venue,”", "He compared the incident with the atrocities during the Nazi era in Germany and accused Home Minister P Chidambaram of being responsible for the crackdown in which a woman died and several others were injured."
Nov 19, 2011 Girl assaulted, father dies trying to save her
Nov 18, 2011 In India, the hunt for information can be deadly: "they won stacks of government documents proving, they say, that their village chief had looted a government pension fund. In return, Sharma was made a cripple, his son a widower, his young grandsons motherless. He is forced to live under 24-hour police guard."
Nov 18, 2011 BBC: India minister says rural jobs funds spent on toys: "Funds meant to provide work to India's rural poor have been diverted by corrupt officials", "It is also home to a large number of poor with 56 million people earning less than $1 a day and 300,000 not even managing to get one square meal a day."
Nov 18, 2011 India Against Corruption launch drive against errant auto drivers
Nov 18, 2011 Now ads will have to deliver what they promise: "“In view of large number of consumer complaints, the Government is considering setting up an inter-ministerial committee to look at ways and means to check false and misleading advertisements effectively.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Jharkhand: Coal mafia behind nun's death?: "Sister Valsa was murdered in Pakur district of Jharkhand by a group of 40 unidentified men."
Nov 18, 2011 Bhatta-Parsaul rape: Court orders FIR against 30 cops: ""Four-five personnel had entered the house of the victim on May 7 while she was alone and gangraped her on the orders given by their seniors, who were these police officers deployed on duty in the area. After gangraping the woman, they had looted Rs.1 lakh from her house," Sharma said. "The victim, on the next day, approached the Dankaur police station with her complaint but she was turned away. Her FIR was not registered and she was sent back. She then turned up to several senior police officers but no one listened to her,”"
Nov 18, 2011 Capital Shame: "slipped while trying to board a moving train at the Nizamuddin railway station and was trapped in the gap between the platform and the coach for well over an hour, bled to death after a shoddy rescue operation"
Nov 18, 2011 UP is home to people with dangerously wide gaps in skills, income and caste: "If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's", "more than 95% of the 8.5 crore population in the 25-60 age group would be looking for earning opportunities with neither sufficient education nor skills."
Nov 18, 2011 Activist nun killed in Jharkhand: "Valsa John, who spearheaded an anti-displacement movement against a private company at Pachwara village in Pakur district, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Pakur. "She was beaten with sticks and then axed to death"
Nov 18, 2011 So Near Ranchi, Rendo Village Gets Light For The First Time: "Rendo village, just 15 kms from the state Capital, had light for the first time since Independence", "The naked truth of government work was there for all to see."
Nov 18, 2011 Indian railways' shocking callousness: "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday (November 17) responded to the horrific accident that took place at the Nizamuddin station in New Delhi. He said the incident is 'sad' but added that the people themselves are responsible for breaking rules."
Nov 18, 2011 One death every minute in India due to road accident: "With more than one death and four injuries every minute, India has the dubious distinction of reporting highest number of road fatalities in the world and the government says the prime reason is ''drivers' fault''."
Nov 18, 2011 WB: Huge cache of arms recovered in Midnapore: "Joint forces have recovered 40 directional mines, 2 Insas, 1 SLR rifle, 250 cartridges and 100 kg explosives."
Nov 18, 2011 J'khand: Nun fighting for tribal rights killed
Nov 18, 2011 Delhi: Man dies after slipping under moving train: "No medical help for hours"
Nov 16, 2011 BBC: Anti-corruption campaigners in India risk their lives: ""In today's India speaking the truth is not easy," Mr Singh, 44, says wistfully, remembering how, on that March day more than 100 people came looking for him.", ""
Nov 16, 2011 Is this the moment for political awakening in India's cities?: "While still 68% rural, it seems India is the only exception to Democratic theory. Professor Ashutosh Varshney explains where the country's political and economic strengths lie."
Nov 16, 2011 Maharashtra children homes in a mess: report: "Around 35 children die of preventable diseases like septicemia and TB, and some, allegedly due to beatings."
Nov 16, 2011 J'khand: Juniors hit with belts in Sainik school
Nov 16, 2011 Gaya: Encephalitis claims 84 lives in 80 days: "One child has been dying everyday for the last three months in the Gaya district of Bihar."
Nov 16, 2011 Kerala nun murdered by mining mafia in Jharkhand: "The tribals have been displaced from their homelands and subject to inhuman exploitation by the coal mafia and Sister Valsa had taken it upon herself to resist the mafia."
Nov 15, 2011 Minor girl raped in a car in Delhi: "A minor girl was raped allegedly by four youths in a car after they abducted her when she was returning from school in south-west Delhi"
Nov 14, 2011 Mumbai: Hundreds suffering from malnutrition: "In 2010, 18 children under the age of 5 died due to malnutrition in the slums of Mumbai's Govandi area."
Nov 14, 2011 MP: Increase in hunger deaths among infants: "The 2010 health survey says there were 1 lakh 8 thousand infant deaths in Madhya Pradesh", "child starvation is rampant in Madhya Pradesh"
Nov 13, 2011 ‘In India, day-to-day petty corruption is hardest on the poor': "one out of two Indians had to pay bribes to access central services. Big scandals are bad but it is the day-to-day petty corruption that is the hardest on the poor. This is because they do not have the money to pay and if they don't, they do not get the services."
Nov 13, 2011 'Payment of Rs 5-10k speed money can be legitimised': "Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu's suggestion of legalising "harassment bribes" on Sunday found support from Adi Godrej, chairman of Godrej Industries, who suggested that a cap on facilitation fees of Rs 5,000 or 10,000 may be fixed."
Nov 13, 2011 WB hospital horror: 5 more infants die: "The scourge of crib deaths continues to torment West Bengal with five more infants losing their lives in a state hospital in Burdwan in the past 24 hours. With these, the number of such infant deaths in the state rose to over 50 in the past two weeks.", "children stacked like goods"
Nov 13, 2011 He fought bribe, but lost peace in life: "Police threatened me saying they would arrest me as a terrorist: Siddiqhi"
Nov 12, 2011 Walking the talk against graft: "Over 40 per cent of 110 crore people live at or below Rs32 a day. And over 60 per cent of Indians have paid a bribe at least once."
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Dec 9, 2011 AMRI hospital tragedy in Kolkata: Toll rises to 89, owners arrested: ""What's the use of coming now? He is already dead. All are dead. The administration is hopeless, useless,", "Chief minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the spot, but only stoked the rage of the people, leading to a near-stampede and police resorting to batons."
Dec 8, 2011 Kolkata: Major fire at AMRI hospital, 20 dead: "Nearly 25 fire tenders were working hard to evacuate all patients and staff and there was still no clarity on the cause of the fire."
Dec 8, 2011 'बुंदेलखंड पैकेज में हो रहा है भ्रष्टाचार': "दशकों से सूखे की मार की वजह से बुंदेलखंड में इसी साल के शुरुआती पांच महीनों में 519 किसानों ने आत्महत्या की, जबकि 2010 में ये सालाना आंकड़ा 583 था."
Dec 8, 2011 भंवरी के पति पर भी गहराया सीबीआई का शक: "एक खबर ने राजस्थान के कम से कम डेढ़ सौ नेताओं, अफसरों और पुलिस अफसरों की नींद उड़ा दी है. खबर है ही कुछ ऐसी...सीबीआई को अजमेर के एक बैंक लॉकर से भंवरी देवी की डेढ़ सौ सीडी मिली हैं. इनमें कुछ सीडी में तो ब़ड़े-बड़े दिग्गज नेता न सिर्फ भंवरी के साथ डांस कर रहे हैं, बल्कि भंवरी की डांस पर नोट भी लुटा रहे हैं."
Dec 8, 2011 दोनों ने मारे थप्पड़, एक को बेल दूसरे को जेल: "'अगर हक की मांग करने गई महिला को कई थप्पड़ लगाने वाले सरपंच को तुरंत जमानत दी जा सकती है, तो फिर सिर्फ एक थप्पड़ लगाने वाले हरविंदर को जमानत क्यों नहीं मिलनी चाहिए? क्या हरविंदर का अपराध इसलिए बड़ा है कि उसने एक केंद्रीय मंत्री को थप्पड़ मारा है?'"
Dec 8, 2011 56,000 homeless in Delhi, finds UNDP: "the Capital has a total of 55,955 people living without any shade or shelter."
Dec 8, 2011 Telegraph UK: Government 'peon' on £50 a month a millionaire property magnate: "he had started on a salary of less than £2 a month, he had earned a total of just under £19,000. They believe only corruption can explain the fortune they uncovered in their dawn raid this week: evidence of properties worth around £500,000, a fleet of cars and motorbikes, including an SUV, a Chevrolet Avio, a truck"
Dec 7, 2011 'Moral education must to weed out corruption': "The root cause of corruption, which has taken a shape of an epidemic in the country, is sharp deterioration in moral fibre of society,"
Dec 7, 2011 Police lathicharge protesting teachers in Punjab
Dec 7, 2011 Sidhu beats up guard at toll gate, triggers row
Dec 7, 2011 First the slap, now the highandedness: "teachers were allegedly roughed up by policemen."
Dec 7, 2011 After Sarpanch, cops rough up teachers in Punjab: "Protesting teachers and villagers were roughed by policemen at Sukhna village in Muktsar."
Dec 7, 2011 200 Indian fans hired at Rs 300 to welcome Tom Cruise: ""but 300 for an hour outside the airport is not bad.""
Dec 6, 2011 India: The most disappointing BRIC of all?: "It’s such a shame."
Dec 6, 2011 India's income inequality has doubled in 20 years: "The top 10% of wage earners now make 12 times more than the bottom 10%"
Dec 6, 2011 MP Navjot Sidhu creates scene at toll plaza: "An enraged Sidhu came back to the plaza, overpowered Ramaiah and another guard and bundled them into his vehicle!"
Dec 6, 2011 India going the China way on online content?: "Kapil Sibal met the representatives of Facebook, Google and others seeking to device a screening mechanism."
Dec 6, 2011 Karnataka govt mulls banning temple ritual: "BJP Government in Karnataka is mulling a ban on "made snana", an annual religious ritual in which people roll on left over food consumed by Brahmins to fulfill vow at a famous temple in the state"
Dec 6, 2011 NHR Direct: Will 'slapping Sarpanch' get away?: "A leader of Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal has repeatedly slapped a lady teacher, who was demanding a permanent job"
Dec 6, 2011 Will police arrest Akali Dal sarpanch?: "Is it a banana republic? the question that India is asking after visuals surfaced of a Sarpanch from the Akali Dal thrashing a woman teacher with at least 100 cops as mute spectators. Under extreme pressure Punjab government ordered the filing of a FIR against sarpanch Baljinder Singh -- the Sarpanch though still remains at large."
Dec 6, 2011 Patna University has more temples than colleges: "There are at least three such temples in Patna Science College. The owner of one of the temples lost a legal battle few years back. But the temple continues to exist."
Dec 5, 2011 International Business Times: Deadly Snakes Unleashed in Government Office in India [VIDEO]: "Corruption in India is a serious national problem. Despite a new anti-corruption bill, the country has gotten worse over the past year, according to Transparency International's annual index. India scored the second worse of all the developing BRIC economies, just behind Russia. India was 95th place (of 183) on the list, a whole 20 places worse than China and just one spot better than Pakistan."
Dec 5, 2011 How was Bhanwari eliminated?: "To win Bhanwari's trust, a kidnap plan is staged in which Shahabuddin alias Raju Bhai saves her on August 15 from people attempting to abduct her in Jodhpur."
Dec 5, 2011 Akali Dal sarpanch slaps woman in MP's function: "Police just stood by watching"
Dec 4, 2011 Farmer drinks poison in front of CM: "A distressed farmer drank poison in front of the chief minister and thousands of agriculturists at a public meeting in Amravati district"
Dec 4, 2011 Teen raped thrice on empty trains: "After being reprimanded by her parents for not studying, the 15-year-old girl left her home in Solapur on Friday and headed for the station. "
Dec 4, 2011 Adivasi tortured to death: "Jhipru Muk-ne was tortured because he couldn't repay his employer a loan of measely 6,000 rupees. But what's even more shocking is that the police reportedly refused to register a complaint when the victim's wife approached them."
Dec 4, 2011 India slips to 95th rank on Corruption Perception Index: "This year, the country scores 3.1 on 10, with 10 being the highest score.", "Last year, India was placed at 87."
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi hospital dumps bio-medical waste in open: "Patel Chest Institute dumps medical waste like syringes and contaminated blood in an a municipal garbage bin."
Dec 4, 2011 Ex-Union minister Swami Chinmayanand accusedof rape, murder attempt: "The Shahjahanpur police in Uttar Pradesh lodged a case of assault, rape, forced abortion and attempt to murder against former Union minister of state for home, Swami Chinmayanand"
Dec 4, 2011 देखें: पार्क में प्रेमी जोड़ों पर लेडी इंस्पेक्टर की दबंगई
Dec 4, 2011 Has moral policing gone too far?
Dec 4, 2011 Ghaziabad: Cops turn moral police, target couples: "Policemen have resumed 'Operation Majnu' to crack down on couples, which they claim will curb sexual harassment."
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi: 6 Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested: "This module is believed to be behind the three biggest terror attacks in the last two years."
Dec 4, 2011 60-year-old arrested for raping infant: "A 60-year-old man was today arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child"
Dec 4, 2011 Delhi in 'most unsafe' cities in India list: "The National Capital has emerged as one of the most unsafe cities along with Patna, Kanpur and Meerut in the country"
Dec 4, 2011 Rs.5 lakh solatium for Tamil Nadu women raped by cops: "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs.5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men.", "A team of police and forest department personnel indulged in loot, arson and rape in Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district in June 1992."
Dec 4, 2011 Debt trap turns death trap for Vidarbha farmers: "The cotton crisis has pushed 123 farmers to suicide in 2011, says the state government."
Dec 4, 2011 Will her father reward Kanimozhi for ‘sacrifice’?: "Kanimozhi is likely to rewarded with a party post for "enduring" 190 days in Tihar jail. This is the buzz in the DMK as party chief M Karunanidhi's daughter prepares to fly down home to a grand reception in Chennai."
Dec 4, 2011 PCC chief takes on ‘corrupt’ BJP, says cash liquor, won’t get votes
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Kapil Sibal, the computer salesman who plays with other people's money: "India’s government-run schools are among the worst in the world, and for the most part, lack teachers and even infrastructure. The only lesson that India’s schools have to offer to the world is that schooling must not be confused with education, a fact demonstrated by the success of Indians around the world despite wasting several years in India’s dysfunctional education system."
Dec 4, 2011 Killing Rebels Alone Won’t Stop India’s Violent Uprisings: View: "The government and news media heralded the death of the rebel leader as the decisive blow to a 45-year conflict that has cost 10,000 lives."
Dec 4, 2011 Bastar Roads: More Corrupt than Violent
Dec 4, 2011 WB: 2 dead in police crackdown on power theft: "A 30-year old woman and a 14-year old were killed as the power theft crackdown by police turned violent."
Dec 3, 2011 CJ Impact: Bhavani gets back land grabbed by mafia
Dec 3, 2011 CJ Report on black-marketing of LPG cylinders: "CJ Samar Gupta reports from Alwar on misuse of domestic LPG cylinders in the city, that leads to black-marketing."
Dec 3, 2011 10 killed, 2 injured in Maoist attack in Jharkhand: "Ten persons, including eight policemen, were killed and two policemen were injured on Saturday when Maoists attacked the convoy of MP and former Jharkhand Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari"
Dec 2, 2011 Corruption up in India...Integrity score falls, Rank down
Dec 2, 2011 India Sinks Lower in Corruption Index: "In the South Asian region, India did worse than both Sri Lanka (No. 86) and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan (No. 38)."
Dec 2, 2011 dailymail: How India squanders British aid: "the chief salesman is pleased with his latest sale of a £600,000 Phantom to a billionaire Delhi businessman. Thirty-five Phantoms, the biggest and most expensive Rolls-Royce, have been bought in India already in 2011. By the end of the year, another 35 will be sold to Indian tycoons and Bollywood film stars."
Dec 2, 2011 ‘Prayers not enough for a better world’: "in India, people pray and make offerings to God in the morning and then step out and indulge in corruption."
Dec 2, 2011 How corrupt is India? It's getting worse, index says: "India’s score fell from 3.3 last year to 3.1 this year, bringing its international ranking down from 87th least corrupt to 95th"
Dec 2, 2011 Mad rush for gun licences in UP: "“The district officials have been flooded with such applications and finding it extremely difficult to cope as they are being pressurised by the politicians, mainly those from the ruling party", "the number of firearms license holders in the state to 11.53 lakh""
Dec 2, 2011 UP is back to playing the communal card again: "As elections to the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly get closer, all parties are rushing back to the old and overused success formula: wooing the minorities."
Dec 2, 2011 FIR against Stalin, son and four others: "An FIR was registered against DMK leader M K Stalin, his son Udhayanidhi and four others for allegedly threatening a person to sell his property at a prime locality at a lesser price."
Nov 30, 2011 India home to half of Asia’s Aids patients: "About 48 lakh people are living with HIV in Asia in 2010"
Nov 30, 2011 Indians 5th most vacation-deprived: Study
Nov 30, 2011 Ghaziabad SO suspended for harassing couples: "the officer has not behaved in an appropriate manner. Hence, we decided to suspend her"
Nov 29, 2011 Love under siege: Cops harass couples in parks in Ghaziabad: "Led by Pandey, for the past three days, cops have been picking up young couples at parks and malls. The "offenders" are being asked to "explain their conduct" and then handed on-the-spot "punishment", without a care for their dignity and rights."
Nov 29, 2011 Behind biggest I-T seizure, a case of multiplying crores: "Having dropped out after matriculation, Lal Babu’s rise to riches, officials say, began with his association with two BCCL general managers, D C Jha and S P Singh, as well as BJP Jharia MLA Kunti Singh. The latter is the widow of the late coal mafia don Surya Dev Singh."
Nov 26, 2011 the bohras female circumcision, The Yin, Wounded : "for women the procedure is to curb sexual desire and prevent wives from straying from their husbands”"
Nov 25, 2011 Most people in India are of 'very low intellectual level': Katju: "Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas"."
Nov 24, 2011 Honour killing: Engg student bludgeoned to death
Nov 24, 2011 Bangalore runs to fight female foeticide
Nov 24, 2011 Mumbai legislators' hostel a source for obscene calls: "The reception at Manora, one of the four MLA hostels in Mumbai, receives at least two dozen complaints every day about obscene calls received from the hostel's numbers."
Nov 24, 2011 884 deaths due to encephalitis in the country: Govt
Nov 23, 2011 Mothers wailing, children die Two families, same tragedy: "No words can be as searing as children screaming “mummy, mummy”, engulfed by fire and smoke. No shock can be as numbing as a mother’s realisation that her child, no more than four years old, was not with her when she was swept out by a stampede."
Nov 21, 2011 So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
Nov 21, 2011 Midnight crackdown at Ramlila: SC seeks explanation from police: "“Explain whether the use of force was justified? What were the circumstance which led to the action and why the police could not wait till the morning to ask the people to leave the venue,”", "He compared the incident with the atrocities during the Nazi era in Germany and accused Home Minister P Chidambaram of being responsible for the crackdown in which a woman died and several others were injured."
Nov 19, 2011 Girl assaulted, father dies trying to save her
Nov 18, 2011 In India, the hunt for information can be deadly: "they won stacks of government documents proving, they say, that their village chief had looted a government pension fund. In return, Sharma was made a cripple, his son a widower, his young grandsons motherless. He is forced to live under 24-hour police guard."
Nov 18, 2011 BBC: India minister says rural jobs funds spent on toys: "Funds meant to provide work to India's rural poor have been diverted by corrupt officials", "It is also home to a large number of poor with 56 million people earning less than $1 a day and 300,000 not even managing to get one square meal a day."
Nov 18, 2011 India Against Corruption launch drive against errant auto drivers
Nov 18, 2011 Now ads will have to deliver what they promise: "“In view of large number of consumer complaints, the Government is considering setting up an inter-ministerial committee to look at ways and means to check false and misleading advertisements effectively.”"
Nov 18, 2011 Jharkhand: Coal mafia behind nun's death?: "Sister Valsa was murdered in Pakur district of Jharkhand by a group of 40 unidentified men."
Nov 18, 2011 Bhatta-Parsaul rape: Court orders FIR against 30 cops: ""Four-five personnel had entered the house of the victim on May 7 while she was alone and gangraped her on the orders given by their seniors, who were these police officers deployed on duty in the area. After gangraping the woman, they had looted Rs.1 lakh from her house," Sharma said. "The victim, on the next day, approached the Dankaur police station with her complaint but she was turned away. Her FIR was not registered and she was sent back. She then turned up to several senior police officers but no one listened to her,”"
Nov 18, 2011 Capital Shame: "slipped while trying to board a moving train at the Nizamuddin railway station and was trapped in the gap between the platform and the coach for well over an hour, bled to death after a shoddy rescue operation"
Nov 18, 2011 UP is home to people with dangerously wide gaps in skills, income and caste: "If Uttar Pradesh was to be declared a separate country today, it would be the sixth-largest nation. With a total population at par with Brazil, population density comparable to that of the UK and per-capita income similar to Kenya's", "more than 95% of the 8.5 crore population in the 25-60 age group would be looking for earning opportunities with neither sufficient education nor skills."
Nov 18, 2011 Activist nun killed in Jharkhand: "Valsa John, who spearheaded an anti-displacement movement against a private company at Pachwara village in Pakur district, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Pakur. "She was beaten with sticks and then axed to death"
Nov 18, 2011 So Near Ranchi, Rendo Village Gets Light For The First Time: "Rendo village, just 15 kms from the state Capital, had light for the first time since Independence", "The naked truth of government work was there for all to see."
Nov 18, 2011 Indian railways' shocking callousness: "Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday (November 17) responded to the horrific accident that took place at the Nizamuddin station in New Delhi. He said the incident is 'sad' but added that the people themselves are responsible for breaking rules."
Nov 18, 2011 One death every minute in India due to road accident: "With more than one death and four injuries every minute, India has the dubious distinction of reporting highest number of road fatalities in the world and the government says the prime reason is ''drivers' fault''."
Nov 18, 2011 WB: Huge cache of arms recovered in Midnapore: "Joint forces have recovered 40 directional mines, 2 Insas, 1 SLR rifle, 250 cartridges and 100 kg explosives."
Nov 18, 2011 J'khand: Nun fighting for tribal rights killed
Nov 18, 2011 Delhi: Man dies after slipping under moving train: "No medical help for hours"
Nov 16, 2011 BBC: Anti-corruption campaigners in India risk their lives: ""In today's India speaking the truth is not easy," Mr Singh, 44, says wistfully, remembering how, on that March day more than 100 people came looking for him.", ""
Nov 16, 2011 Is this the moment for political awakening in India's cities?: "While still 68% rural, it seems India is the only exception to Democratic theory. Professor Ashutosh Varshney explains where the country's political and economic strengths lie."
Nov 16, 2011 Maharashtra children homes in a mess: report: "Around 35 children die of preventable diseases like septicemia and TB, and some, allegedly due to beatings."
Nov 16, 2011 J'khand: Juniors hit with belts in Sainik school
Nov 16, 2011 Gaya: Encephalitis claims 84 lives in 80 days: "One child has been dying everyday for the last three months in the Gaya district of Bihar."
Nov 16, 2011 Kerala nun murdered by mining mafia in Jharkhand: "The tribals have been displaced from their homelands and subject to inhuman exploitation by the coal mafia and Sister Valsa had taken it upon herself to resist the mafia."
Nov 15, 2011 Minor girl raped in a car in Delhi: "A minor girl was raped allegedly by four youths in a car after they abducted her when she was returning from school in south-west Delhi"
Nov 14, 2011 Mumbai: Hundreds suffering from malnutrition: "In 2010, 18 children under the age of 5 died due to malnutrition in the slums of Mumbai's Govandi area."
Nov 14, 2011 MP: Increase in hunger deaths among infants: "The 2010 health survey says there were 1 lakh 8 thousand infant deaths in Madhya Pradesh", "child starvation is rampant in Madhya Pradesh"
Nov 13, 2011 ‘In India, day-to-day petty corruption is hardest on the poor': "one out of two Indians had to pay bribes to access central services. Big scandals are bad but it is the day-to-day petty corruption that is the hardest on the poor. This is because they do not have the money to pay and if they don't, they do not get the services."
Nov 13, 2011 'Payment of Rs 5-10k speed money can be legitimised': "Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu's suggestion of legalising "harassment bribes" on Sunday found support from Adi Godrej, chairman of Godrej Industries, who suggested that a cap on facilitation fees of Rs 5,000 or 10,000 may be fixed."
Nov 13, 2011 WB hospital horror: 5 more infants die: "The scourge of crib deaths continues to torment West Bengal with five more infants losing their lives in a state hospital in Burdwan in the past 24 hours. With these, the number of such infant deaths in the state rose to over 50 in the past two weeks.", "children stacked like goods"
Nov 13, 2011 He fought bribe, but lost peace in life: "Police threatened me saying they would arrest me as a terrorist: Siddiqhi"
Nov 12, 2011 Walking the talk against graft: "Over 40 per cent of 110 crore people live at or below Rs32 a day. And over 60 per cent of Indians have paid a bribe at least once."
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