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Oct 23, 2011 CNN-IBN special on 'Malnutrition' India's dying shame: "CNN-IBN highlights India's dying shame - Malnutrition"
Oct 23, 2011 State to rename over 200 “unwanted” girl children of Satara: "A survey by Maharashtra’s health department had found 222 girls in the district named Nakoshi or Nakusa — a name which in Marathi means “unwanted”.", "Other derogatory names given to girls are ‘Dagadi’ and ‘Dhondi’ which means a stone,”"
Oct 23, 2011 ‘If I am killed’: Odisha sarpanch posts YouTube video: "An Odisha village sarpanch who allegedly accompanied an Essar executive to meet the Maoists says he is being threatened by the police with an encounter death.", "“Malkangiri (Orissa) SP Anirudh (Kumar) Singh is responsible, if I go missing, or I die in an encounter, or if there is any attack on my family or children,’’"
Oct 23, 2011 Illegal minigun factory unearthed, 8 arrested: "Police today busted an illegal minigun factory at Harakh locality in Bihar's Begusarai district and arrested eight persons in this connection."
Oct 23, 2011 Has India's standard of living really improved?
Oct 23, 2011 Bangalore tops list of corrupt cities in India: "3,994 cases with bribes amounting to Rs 1,102 lakh are from Bangalore alone, with the police department (with a total of 1,274 cases) topping in taking bribes. The latest registered case was an amount of Rs 200 taken as bribe by the police in Malleswaram for passport verification in September."
Oct 23, 2011 7 docs, 10 students held for malpractices: "Seven doctors and 10 students have been arrested for alleged malpractices in the post-graduate medical entrance examination held all over Karnataka in January."
Oct 22, 2011 Bihar returns wheat to FCI, says stock was rotten: "Bihar Food Minister also alleged that the Centre held back more than half of the wheat that Bihar had asked for."
Oct 22, 2011 In India, Whistle-Blowers Pay with Their Lives
Oct 22, 2011 India is extremely corrupt: CVC survey: "Netizens in the country are mighty upset with the government with 92% of them describing India as an extremely corrupt nation."
Oct 22, 2011 Maharashtra: CM admits malnutrition crisis: "More than 200 children have died of malnutrition in the last four months in Melghat district."
Oct 22, 2011 Teenager gangraped in city: "A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men while she was waiting to catch a bus"
Oct 22, 2011 Ex-IIT professor, three others dupe people of Rs 60cr: "they use their IT skills and smooth talking to spin a web of deceit, and trap thousands of unsuspecting people, including film personalities"
Oct 22, 2011 Ex-IIT professor, three others dupe people of Rs 60cr: "they use their IT skills and smooth talking to spin a web of deceit, and trap thousands of unsuspecting people, including film personalities"
Oct 21, 2011 UP land mess: It’s not about the poor, it’s about the best deal: "“Even a horse will laugh at this argument,” the Supreme Court told the Uttar Pradesh government", "By “public purpose” the UP government meant housing complexes with swimming pools, spa and ayurvedic massage parlours.", "“Taking advantage of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the state is driving poor people to the wall. This is a sinister anti-people campaign started by many governments, including UP."
Oct 19, 2011 WB electricity woes continue, Govt in a fix: "The West Bengal government is not keen on acquiring land to set up more power generation facilities."
Oct 19, 2011 Market Watch: India struggles with boosting education India’s workforce, seen exploding by 100 million, needs better education: "The bill became effective on April 1, 2010, but India’s education system still has many flaws due to a lack of enforcement, experts caution. “If they’re not able to enforce the provisions of the Right to Education Act, it’s just another piece of paper,”"
Oct 18, 2011 Politicisation of Gujarat varsities now complete: "Between governor Dr Kamla and chief minister Narendra Modi, the two have just completed the politicisation of universities across Gujarat - the governor filling up vicechancellors' posts with Congressmen and Modi obviously choosing people with strong BJP leanings"
Oct 18, 2011 Free surgery costs 45 elderly patients their sight: "a farmer, was thrilled when government doctors set up camp outside his village to offer free cataract surgery. Except the surgery came at a higher price: it clouded his left eye with a painful blinding infection and might leave the old man with permanent loss of sight."
Oct 18, 2011 Tamils protest against clemency denial for Rajiv killers: "The decision to deny clemency for the three has sparked angry protests and pitted Tamil Nadu state leaders against the central government"
Oct 18, 2011 Kejriwal attacked with slipper, Team Anna undeterred
Oct 18, 2011 Allahabad University students lathi-charged: "Students, demanding holding of polls for their union, on Tuesday (October 18) gheraoed the Allahabad University Vice-Chancellor’s office prompting police to resort to cane-charge in which some received injuries."
Oct 18, 2011 Man who hurled shoe at Arvind Kejriwal
Oct 16, 2011 MP's son 'caught' in compromising position, manhandles police: "The son of a prominent Congress leader allegedly slapped some policemen when the latter caught him in a compromising situation with a girl in a car in Ashok Nagar police station area late on Thursday night. However, due to the intervention of the leader, he was let off and no action was taken against him."
Oct 16, 2011 Land grabbers kidnapped me: RTI activist: "Santosh Tiwari, 42, claims he was kidnapped by the land grabbers he sought information on."
Oct 15, 2011 Failed state?: "This landlocked province in India's troubled northeast, wracked by militancy for unending years, is like a gradually imploding minefield. Abject poverty, alarming unemployment, lack of development, massive corruption and absence of governance is pushing Manipur to the brink of being a 'failed state' - perhaps India's first in the modern era. More than 30 militant groups that indulge in massive extortion have links with venal politicians who, in collusion with bureaucrats, pocket the lion's share of development funds while the common man, caught between insurgents and security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations - and often accused by human rights groups of unspeakable excesses - is left battered and bruised."
Oct 15, 2011 UP: Man chops off tongue inside temple: "An unidentified man chopped off his tongue and made it as an offering at a temple"
Oct 14, 2011 May I have some more?: "It’s crippling for the Indian economy to be guided by absurd standards set by the Planning Commission to define the poor among us."
Oct 14, 2011 Is it possible to ban all groups that sponsor violence?: "The Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena on Thursday attacked Anna Hazare supporters outside a Delhi court."
Oct 14, 2011 Maya inaugurates park, hits out at Congress: "Under attack over the controversial Rs 685-crore Dalit memorial, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Friday hit out at Congress saying it had no right to criticise when it has raised so many memorials for the Nehru-Gandhi family across the Yamuna bank in Delhi."
Oct 14, 2011 Indore registers a sharp rise in suicide cases
Oct 14, 2011 Mayawati unveils Rs 685cr park in Noida, Cong calls it a 'waste': "Mayawati's pet project has been built at a cost of Rs 685 crore. The Congress slammed the project calling it a "complete waste of money". With statues of 24 elephants, the symbol of her Bahujan Samaj Party, and of Dalit icons BR Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram and of herself, the 82-acre Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden has been a subject of massive controversy. A helicopter, a convoy of big cars, a red carpet and several officials were gathered to greet the chief minister"
Oct 14, 2011 India: Where Corruption Is A Bigger Issue Than Economic Slowdown: "corruption so wide-spread in all aspects of life that it is testing common man’s tolerance."
Oct 14, 2011 Power problems to get worse across India: "Five of the NTPCs 22 plants nationwide have coal supply for just two days."
Oct 14, 2011 Team Anna supporters beaten up outside Patiala House Court
Oct 12, 2011 Bhushan attack a sign of growing intolerance?
Oct 12, 2011 Bhushan attack: Alternate views unacceptable?: "Many attempts have been made in the past on not just activists, but also journalists, to muzzle free speech."
Oct 12, 2011 Tolerance level falling in India: Kiran Bedi: "In the backdrop of the attack on Prashant Bhushan, a panel of experts discusses falling of tolerance level in India"
Oct 12, 2011 Daughter of retired HC Judge held for graft: "" Manisha Mhase, an advocate by profession, has been arrested along with two other persons including her assistant. The assistant and another lawyer were nabbed on Tuesday while accepting a bribe of Rs 30 lakh,"", "Manisha, whose father is the chairperson of the Maharashtra Consumer Redressal Forum, and Shirole had demanded money from the complainant for getting favourable order in a matter pending with the consumer forum in Delhi."
Oct 12, 2011 BBC: India encephalitis outbreak kills 400, mainly children: "More than 400 people, mainly children, have died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India"
Oct 12, 2011 Power crisis continue across the country: "Delhi power minister Haroon Yousuf blames UP for withdrawing more than its share of power form the Northern Grid."
Oct 12, 2011 UP govt fails to contain encephalitis, 7 more die: "Seven more children have succumbed to the encephalitis epidemic at a single hospital in the last 24 hours."
Oct 12, 2011 'Maoist sympathiser' accuses cops of harrassment: "Human right activists had termed her injury a case of "custodial violence" and sought an independent probe to expose police atrocities while Chhattisgarh Police have denied the accusations and said Sori slipped and fell in the bathroom while in police custody. Last week Sori had moved Delhi high court requesting that the Chhattisgarh Police not be allowed to take her back to the state as she faces a threat to her life."
Oct 12, 2011 Ramjas throws out 6 for faking marksheets: "Ramjas College has revoked the admission of six students whose marksheets were found to be forged, taking the total number of forgeries discovered to 27."
Oct 12, 2011 Dawood aide Mirchi owns huge bungalow in Bhopal
Oct 11, 2011 Slain officer demanded bribe from oil mafia: CBI: "Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt to death on eve of Republic Day this year, by suspected oil mafia goons, had allegedly, ''demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from his attackers,''"
Oct 11, 2011 Government's credibility at its 'lowest': CAG Vinod Rai: ""The governance is at its lowest ebb. The morale of the civil servant is low. The credibility of the government is at its lowest. It's a strong statement but it is harsh reality. And hence because of all this the decision making has become a causalty," said Rai who has given audit reports coming down heavily on Union government departments.", ""Today, we are facing a testing time in the history of our Nation. The quality of governance is below par and subject to severe criticism. There has been an erosion of people's faith in government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy including the Police force has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of the civil servants are being questioned,""
Oct 11, 2011 UP: 5 more kids die of encephalitis in 24 hours: "The encephalitis death toll in Uttar Pradesh has now risen to 505."
Oct 11, 2011 Bhanwari case: Rajasthan HC slams Gehlot govt: "The court has also questioned the CBI probe into the alleged abduction and possible murder of the nurse."
Oct 11, 2011 Bhanwari case: Rajasthan HC slams Gehlot govt: "The court has also questioned the CBI probe into the alleged abduction and possible murder of the nurse."
Oct 11, 2011 Four crore Indians have mental illness: Study: "According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time."
Oct 11, 2011 Personality disorder: "Manmohan Singh, finance minister, never really graduated to become a reformist prime minister. This handicap is stalling India's growth.", "Singh would have known better than the NAC bleeding hearts that farmers entitled to borrow from banks are seldom driven to suicide. Those who walk across the precipice are not banks' customers; they are generally victims of a moneylender-politician-police nexus. Expectedly, the loan waiver bonanza had no impact on farmer suicides."
Oct 11, 2011 School student abducted, raped in Lucknow
Oct 10, 2011 Bhatta-Parsaul rape victim: ‘He threatened to kill me, then misbehaved’: "“All the four men in our house have been put in jail. We have no food, no money,” said an elderly woman. “On that night, the police entered our house, trashed our things. Two of them dragged the women inside, while two men stayed outside,” she added pointing to the two women seated in front of her. One of them said, “We begged them with folded hands to spare us.”"
Oct 10, 2011 Killed 11 on order of ex-MP: Shooter: "the accused has claimed in interrogation that he had killed at least 11 people at the instance of RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin. “The accused is wanted in more than 20 cases of murder, attempt to murder, robbery and kidnapping and has not been arrested since 1998."
Oct 9, 2011 A rape, murder and 2 missing BSP MLAs cops can’t find: "At a time when the BSP has suspended several of its MLAs for ‘criminal activities and corruption’, the UP police can’t find two ruling party legislators against whom non-bailable warrants are pending in rape and murder cases."
Oct 9, 2011 IIT heads echo Narayana Murthy on dipping quality: " IIT Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi says most students come with a heavy coaching hangover. "There is a limit to what an instrument like an entrance exam can do. Taking school scores into consideration should allow us to get well-rounded students," he said. Gautam Baru, IIT-Guwahati director, says aspirants start preparing early. "By the time they join the IIT system, they are mentally fatigued.""
Oct 9, 2011 Maharashtra: Rs 1000 cr education scam exposed: "In an inspection carried out in the Nanded district, of 7 lakh school students shown on the records of 3500 schools, a whopping 1.4 lakh were found to be bogus, which means that the state handed over an extra unaccounted money for amount of Rs 120 crore to these schools."
Oct 8, 2011 Bikers slash girl for protesting eve-teasing: "the pillion rider, reached out from behind and slashed the girl on her back with a blade-like object. The bikers immediately fled, brushing past the girls once again,"
Oct 8, 2011 2 BSF jawans held in child ‘sacrifice’ case: "Two Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were arrested in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills for suspected " child sacrifice" in a temple in the 121 battalion camp. "
Oct 8, 2011 Case against Puducherry education minister for exam fraud: "The district crime branch filed a criminal case against Kalyanasundaram, exam hall supervisor P Adavan and office assistant M Rajini Kanth, who allegedly helped the minister to carry out the impersonation plan. A school dropout, Kalyanasundaram is a first-time legislator in Puducherry and became education minister and holds the IT and transport portfolios as well."
Oct 8, 2011 Find Me Some Destitutes Does UPA-II really want to count the poor?: "India continues to be home to 46 per cent of the malnourished children of the world; 36 per cent of the population lives on less than Rs 20 a day; one out of every second person in rural India is poor."
Oct 8, 2011 Design behind ‘counting’ the poor: "The Planning Commission's Rs 32 absurdity was not a simple academic exercise, but smacked of Soviet-era hoodwinking. By keeping hundreds of millions out of the ‘poverty zone’, UPA-II hoped to reduce subsidies for the purpose of presenting a more ‘balanced' Budget"
Oct 8, 2011 It's criminal neglect: CSR Director on encephalitis: "The Centre for Social Research Director says the disease could have been prevented had there been a political will."
Oct 8, 2011 Woman sacrifices girl to improve marriage: "A woman and three members of her family killed their neighbour's seven-year-old daughter after a self-styled godman said it would improve her marital relations, police in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district said"
Oct 8, 2011 Ultrasounds to blame for skewed sex ratio in India: UN: "The problem does seem acute in Mumbai. Its child-sex ratio stands at 892 girls for every 1,000 boys, which is not only much worse than the all-India figure of 914 girls but is also poorer than the Vietnam figure of 899 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six. The statistics released by the United Nations Population Fund on Thursday offer some cold comfort; China appears even more casual about the future of its girl child - with only 847 girls born for every 1,000 boys"
Oct 7, 2011 Unable to repay Rs 15 lakh, 3 of family end life
Oct 7, 2011 Why IIT? The whole education system is Jurassic in its content
Oct 7, 2011 Time to slay our demons: "The anti-corruption movement that has caught the popular imagination will open up Indian society to review and reform all that is antiquated."
Oct 7, 2011 Whose failure? Encephalitis kills 50,000 in 30 yrs: "Successive state governments have failed to vaccinate children in Uttar Pradesh."
Oct 7, 2011 BBC: India: Maoist attack kills four troops in Chhattisgarh: "Maoist rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribal people and the rural poor."
Oct 7, 2011 How poor India battles encephalitis: "Almost 500 children die of encephalitis in Eastern UP in two months because of poor sanitation and dirty water.", "India's Dying Children"
Oct 7, 2011 Whose failure? Encephalitis kills 50,000 in 30 years: "Public health experts and activists say that the epidemic has been badly mismanaged for the last 33 years and the story should make 21st century India hang its head in shame.", ""We had named him Harsh thinking he'll bring joy to our lives. But if god didn't want it what can we do," says Harsh's grandfather Ram Preet. Harsh's doctors have no time to grieve for him a there are 600 children in the encephalitis ward waiting to be saved."
Oct 7, 2011 Anonymous letter says Bhanwari Devi still alive, kept hostage: "Bhanwari Devi, a midwife and nurse missing for almost a month, is being kept hostage by a politician in Haryana.", "Her husband Amarchand has alleged that she was abducted at the behest of water resources minister Mahipal Maderna and his associates."
Oct 7, 2011 Food inflation rises to 9.41per cent; matter of concern, says Pranab: "Food inflation rose to 9.41 per cent for the week ended September 24 on the back of costlier vegetables, fruits, milk and protein-based items.", "The rate of price rise in food items was 16.88 per cent in the corresponding week of 2010."
Oct 7, 2011 15 Women Thags Arrested from Pandals: "who were stealing cash, jewellery and other belongings of the devotees taking advantage of the crowd."
Oct 7, 2011 No Indian university makes it to world's top 200: "Not a single Indian university, not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs figure in the latest ranking of the world's top 200 universities, with American varsities dominating the list."
Oct 7, 2011 Omar hands over ‘fixer’ to cops, he dies in custody: "A 61-year-old retired teacher and National Conference (NC) “sympathiser” who allegedly took money from two party leaders on the promise of getting them a ministership and a legislative council seat through union minister Farooq Abdullah, died in custody after he was handed over to the Crime Branch by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The family of the man, Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf, has alleged he was killed by the police because he knew “too many secrets”.", "“He did not die, he was killed in custody.”", "his constituency representative in Ganderbal had attempted to buy a ministership from an alleged middleman for Rs 71 lakh. “It is shocking for me. That fellow (Ganderbal’s Mohammad Yousuf) told me that he had taken a loan and given it to the party fund. But now I know that he had taken Rs 51 lakh from a toll barrier guy (the contractor runs the toll collection station) in Tangmarg, and Rs 5 lakh from his own PSO.”""
Oct 6, 2011 ‘PDS kerosene scam’ rocks Assembly: "“Eight lakh quintals of wheat is coming every month to Punjab under PDS but is not going to the poor. It is being cornered by flour mills in connivance with government officials. We demand a CBI inquiry into the whole PDS scam,”", "The Indian Express, in a three-part investigative series carried out in August 2009, had revealed how PDS kerosene in Punjab was not reaching the poor but and being diverted by the oil mafia."
Oct 5, 2011 The Australian: Corruption sucking the life out of India : "It has the world's largest pool of poor, sick, starving and illiterate. Access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipedream for most, disease is endemic and life is nasty, brutish and short for far too many Indians. A 300 million-strong middle class leaves 750 million poor. On present trends, in 2020 India will still have half a billion poor people. Worldwide, India ranks 134 on ease of doing business indicators, 119 on human development, 122 on gender equality and 87 on corruption.", "Last year, India's road death toll was about 150,000, three times as many as the US or, on a per vehicle basis, almost twenty times the US."
Oct 5, 2011 परिवार के दस लोगों ने आत्महत्या की: "अवसाद या ग़रीबी?", "आसपास के लोगों का कहना है कि इतने बड़े परिवार का खर्च मुश्किल से चल पाता था. उनका कहना है कि तीन महीने पहले भी परिवार की जिस बेटी की मौत हुई थी तो उसके इलाज के लिये भी परिवार के पास पैसे नहीं थे.""
Oct 5, 2011 BBC: What is it like to be a child bride?: "Some 40% of the world's child marriages take place in India. In the northern state of Rajasthan I witnessed the wedding of two sisters who were about six and 11 years old."
Oct 5, 2011 Night operations at Gaya International Airport suspended due to thefts: "have been suspended following the theft of the lighting systems installed by the Airport Authority of India on nearly half a dozen hillocks in the vicinity."
Oct 5, 2011 Cops lathicharge protesting J&K govt employees
Oct 5, 2011 Poor, poorer, poorest states? It’s Bihar, MP, Odisha: "after the official estimates received flak for using an outdated methodology that underestimated the proportion of poor in the country, puts Odisha as the state with the maximum proportion of poor at 57.2 percent in 2004-05."
Oct 5, 2011 Criminal raj in Rajasthan: "The Gehlot regime’s ineptitude does not end there. On September 18, Nawab Ali, a city Youth Congress president from Hanumangarh, was shot dead while going for a morning walk in Pilibanga. The same day, another local party leader, Gehrilal Patidar, was killed. The two back-to-back incidents provide testimony to the reigning lawlessness in Rajasthan under Congress rule."
Oct 5, 2011 Mumbai auto drivers targeted after Raj's rant
Oct 5, 2011 Dehradun: Family of 10 found dead near reservoir
Oct 4, 2011 With 75 districts UP remains backward: "Nine districts created by her in early 2000 were scrapped by her bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav. She had recreated them in 2007."
Oct 4, 2011 Rot starts at top: Indicted IIT chiefs go scot-free: "Poor quality of engineers is not the only problem afflicting the IITs. The rot has set in from the top. At least two of its directors - Damodar Acharya of IIT-Kharagpur and A K Bhowmick of IIT-Patna - are still in office, despite the Central Bureau of Investigation's indictment in the past."
Oct 3, 2011 Father shot by Naxals, daughter on police radar for Maoist links
Oct 2, 2011 Bangalore corporator killing was a supari job: Cops: "the gruesome murder of 46-year-old Congress corporator from Gandhinagar S Nataraj on Saturday was a supari (contract) killing involving professional hitmen."
Oct 2, 2011 IAC's campaign in Mira Road has no effect on menace: "The auto unions have become so brazen that they have even put up a fare chart outside the Bhayander (west) railway station and the rates are much higher than that approved by the RTO. Passengers also complained that the RTO and the traffic police did not register a case against any errant drivers.", "There are seven auto unions in Mira Road and all are against implementing meters."
Oct 2, 2011 The Rs. 81,500 crore lie: "In a season of scams, the biggest one has gone undetected, that of black money spent in every election. Politicians typically shrug it off, saying that historically they have always entered Parliament with a 'lie on our lips'. Except that, now, the lie has gotten bigger. It is, by one estimate, the Rs. 81,500 crore lie. Many say electoral reforms can tackle this. But we expose how political parties have sabotaged every attempt to clean up a political system rife with corruption, criminality and lack of internal democracy."
Oct 2, 2011 978 pregnant women marooned in flood hit Orissa district: "Rinarani Ojha has named her daughter 'Vanya' (flood) after the child was born safely on the rooftop of a building surrounded by floodwaters in Kendrapara district where 978 marooned women are in advanced stage of pregnancy."
Oct 2, 2011 CJ show: 50 citizens against corruption: "On this episode we showcase 50 citizens who stood up and fought against corruption."
Oct 1, 2011 With 58% figures, India tops in open defecation: "According to a UNICEF survey, 58% of the world's population practicing open defecation lives in India"
Oct 1, 2011 ‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’: "Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills of the Sitheri hills in Harur taluk, Dharmapuri district, in an apparent search for smuggled sandalwood. Over the next two days, government officers raped and humiliated 18 tribal women, beat up dozens of other unarmed villagers, tore down homes and polluted drinking water sources with diesel and the carcasses of village goats they butchered for dinner."
Oct 1, 2011 Dead Men Talking: "The Indian state can silence the living, not the voice of the silent ", "Here stands, India’s ‘gravest’ threat Paramilitary forces have laid siege to the forest. All resistance, armed or unarmed, has been branded ‘Maoist’. Entire villages are being burned."
Oct 1, 2011 His Barony, Undermined: "How did mining baron and former Karnataka tourism minister, Gali Janardhana Reddy, go from pauper, to prince, to prisoner in a little under a decade?", "his net worth was reduced to the negative as of March 31, 2003, and prior to 1998, he was not even an I-T assessee. But, for the financial year 2003-04, he declared a total income of Rs 12 lakh and a taxable income of Rs 9 lakh. For 2004-05, there is a stupendous jump in total income to Rs 8.38 crore. In 2005-06, this doubled to Rs 17.8 crore. In the same period, there was a simultaneous increase in his moveable and immovable assets. The total value of these assets rose from Rs 32.45 lakh in 2003-04 to Rs 43.52 crore in 2005-06. A similarly mercurial growth can be observed in the total assets of his wife Lakshmi Aruna."
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Oct 23, 2011 CNN-IBN special on 'Malnutrition' India's dying shame: "CNN-IBN highlights India's dying shame - Malnutrition"
Oct 23, 2011 State to rename over 200 “unwanted” girl children of Satara: "A survey by Maharashtra’s health department had found 222 girls in the district named Nakoshi or Nakusa — a name which in Marathi means “unwanted”.", "Other derogatory names given to girls are ‘Dagadi’ and ‘Dhondi’ which means a stone,”"
Oct 23, 2011 ‘If I am killed’: Odisha sarpanch posts YouTube video: "An Odisha village sarpanch who allegedly accompanied an Essar executive to meet the Maoists says he is being threatened by the police with an encounter death.", "“Malkangiri (Orissa) SP Anirudh (Kumar) Singh is responsible, if I go missing, or I die in an encounter, or if there is any attack on my family or children,’’"
Oct 23, 2011 Illegal minigun factory unearthed, 8 arrested: "Police today busted an illegal minigun factory at Harakh locality in Bihar's Begusarai district and arrested eight persons in this connection."
Oct 23, 2011 Has India's standard of living really improved?
Oct 23, 2011 Bangalore tops list of corrupt cities in India: "3,994 cases with bribes amounting to Rs 1,102 lakh are from Bangalore alone, with the police department (with a total of 1,274 cases) topping in taking bribes. The latest registered case was an amount of Rs 200 taken as bribe by the police in Malleswaram for passport verification in September."
Oct 23, 2011 7 docs, 10 students held for malpractices: "Seven doctors and 10 students have been arrested for alleged malpractices in the post-graduate medical entrance examination held all over Karnataka in January."
Oct 22, 2011 Bihar returns wheat to FCI, says stock was rotten: "Bihar Food Minister also alleged that the Centre held back more than half of the wheat that Bihar had asked for."
Oct 22, 2011 In India, Whistle-Blowers Pay with Their Lives
Oct 22, 2011 India is extremely corrupt: CVC survey: "Netizens in the country are mighty upset with the government with 92% of them describing India as an extremely corrupt nation."
Oct 22, 2011 Maharashtra: CM admits malnutrition crisis: "More than 200 children have died of malnutrition in the last four months in Melghat district."
Oct 22, 2011 Teenager gangraped in city: "A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men while she was waiting to catch a bus"
Oct 22, 2011 Ex-IIT professor, three others dupe people of Rs 60cr: "they use their IT skills and smooth talking to spin a web of deceit, and trap thousands of unsuspecting people, including film personalities"
Oct 22, 2011 Ex-IIT professor, three others dupe people of Rs 60cr: "they use their IT skills and smooth talking to spin a web of deceit, and trap thousands of unsuspecting people, including film personalities"
Oct 21, 2011 UP land mess: It’s not about the poor, it’s about the best deal: "“Even a horse will laugh at this argument,” the Supreme Court told the Uttar Pradesh government", "By “public purpose” the UP government meant housing complexes with swimming pools, spa and ayurvedic massage parlours.", "“Taking advantage of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the state is driving poor people to the wall. This is a sinister anti-people campaign started by many governments, including UP."
Oct 19, 2011 WB electricity woes continue, Govt in a fix: "The West Bengal government is not keen on acquiring land to set up more power generation facilities."
Oct 19, 2011 Market Watch: India struggles with boosting education India’s workforce, seen exploding by 100 million, needs better education: "The bill became effective on April 1, 2010, but India’s education system still has many flaws due to a lack of enforcement, experts caution. “If they’re not able to enforce the provisions of the Right to Education Act, it’s just another piece of paper,”"
Oct 18, 2011 Politicisation of Gujarat varsities now complete: "Between governor Dr Kamla and chief minister Narendra Modi, the two have just completed the politicisation of universities across Gujarat - the governor filling up vicechancellors' posts with Congressmen and Modi obviously choosing people with strong BJP leanings"
Oct 18, 2011 Free surgery costs 45 elderly patients their sight: "a farmer, was thrilled when government doctors set up camp outside his village to offer free cataract surgery. Except the surgery came at a higher price: it clouded his left eye with a painful blinding infection and might leave the old man with permanent loss of sight."
Oct 18, 2011 Tamils protest against clemency denial for Rajiv killers: "The decision to deny clemency for the three has sparked angry protests and pitted Tamil Nadu state leaders against the central government"
Oct 18, 2011 Kejriwal attacked with slipper, Team Anna undeterred
Oct 18, 2011 Allahabad University students lathi-charged: "Students, demanding holding of polls for their union, on Tuesday (October 18) gheraoed the Allahabad University Vice-Chancellor’s office prompting police to resort to cane-charge in which some received injuries."
Oct 18, 2011 Man who hurled shoe at Arvind Kejriwal
Oct 16, 2011 MP's son 'caught' in compromising position, manhandles police: "The son of a prominent Congress leader allegedly slapped some policemen when the latter caught him in a compromising situation with a girl in a car in Ashok Nagar police station area late on Thursday night. However, due to the intervention of the leader, he was let off and no action was taken against him."
Oct 16, 2011 Land grabbers kidnapped me: RTI activist: "Santosh Tiwari, 42, claims he was kidnapped by the land grabbers he sought information on."
Oct 15, 2011 Failed state?: "This landlocked province in India's troubled northeast, wracked by militancy for unending years, is like a gradually imploding minefield. Abject poverty, alarming unemployment, lack of development, massive corruption and absence of governance is pushing Manipur to the brink of being a 'failed state' - perhaps India's first in the modern era. More than 30 militant groups that indulge in massive extortion have links with venal politicians who, in collusion with bureaucrats, pocket the lion's share of development funds while the common man, caught between insurgents and security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations - and often accused by human rights groups of unspeakable excesses - is left battered and bruised."
Oct 15, 2011 UP: Man chops off tongue inside temple: "An unidentified man chopped off his tongue and made it as an offering at a temple"
Oct 14, 2011 May I have some more?: "It’s crippling for the Indian economy to be guided by absurd standards set by the Planning Commission to define the poor among us."
Oct 14, 2011 Is it possible to ban all groups that sponsor violence?: "The Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena on Thursday attacked Anna Hazare supporters outside a Delhi court."
Oct 14, 2011 Maya inaugurates park, hits out at Congress: "Under attack over the controversial Rs 685-crore Dalit memorial, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Friday hit out at Congress saying it had no right to criticise when it has raised so many memorials for the Nehru-Gandhi family across the Yamuna bank in Delhi."
Oct 14, 2011 Indore registers a sharp rise in suicide cases
Oct 14, 2011 Mayawati unveils Rs 685cr park in Noida, Cong calls it a 'waste': "Mayawati's pet project has been built at a cost of Rs 685 crore. The Congress slammed the project calling it a "complete waste of money". With statues of 24 elephants, the symbol of her Bahujan Samaj Party, and of Dalit icons BR Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram and of herself, the 82-acre Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden has been a subject of massive controversy. A helicopter, a convoy of big cars, a red carpet and several officials were gathered to greet the chief minister"
Oct 14, 2011 India: Where Corruption Is A Bigger Issue Than Economic Slowdown: "corruption so wide-spread in all aspects of life that it is testing common man’s tolerance."
Oct 14, 2011 Power problems to get worse across India: "Five of the NTPCs 22 plants nationwide have coal supply for just two days."
Oct 14, 2011 Team Anna supporters beaten up outside Patiala House Court
Oct 12, 2011 Bhushan attack a sign of growing intolerance?
Oct 12, 2011 Bhushan attack: Alternate views unacceptable?: "Many attempts have been made in the past on not just activists, but also journalists, to muzzle free speech."
Oct 12, 2011 Tolerance level falling in India: Kiran Bedi: "In the backdrop of the attack on Prashant Bhushan, a panel of experts discusses falling of tolerance level in India"
Oct 12, 2011 Daughter of retired HC Judge held for graft: "" Manisha Mhase, an advocate by profession, has been arrested along with two other persons including her assistant. The assistant and another lawyer were nabbed on Tuesday while accepting a bribe of Rs 30 lakh,"", "Manisha, whose father is the chairperson of the Maharashtra Consumer Redressal Forum, and Shirole had demanded money from the complainant for getting favourable order in a matter pending with the consumer forum in Delhi."
Oct 12, 2011 BBC: India encephalitis outbreak kills 400, mainly children: "More than 400 people, mainly children, have died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India"
Oct 12, 2011 Power crisis continue across the country: "Delhi power minister Haroon Yousuf blames UP for withdrawing more than its share of power form the Northern Grid."
Oct 12, 2011 UP govt fails to contain encephalitis, 7 more die: "Seven more children have succumbed to the encephalitis epidemic at a single hospital in the last 24 hours."
Oct 12, 2011 'Maoist sympathiser' accuses cops of harrassment: "Human right activists had termed her injury a case of "custodial violence" and sought an independent probe to expose police atrocities while Chhattisgarh Police have denied the accusations and said Sori slipped and fell in the bathroom while in police custody. Last week Sori had moved Delhi high court requesting that the Chhattisgarh Police not be allowed to take her back to the state as she faces a threat to her life."
Oct 12, 2011 Ramjas throws out 6 for faking marksheets: "Ramjas College has revoked the admission of six students whose marksheets were found to be forged, taking the total number of forgeries discovered to 27."
Oct 12, 2011 Dawood aide Mirchi owns huge bungalow in Bhopal
Oct 11, 2011 Slain officer demanded bribe from oil mafia: CBI: "Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt to death on eve of Republic Day this year, by suspected oil mafia goons, had allegedly, ''demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from his attackers,''"
Oct 11, 2011 Government's credibility at its 'lowest': CAG Vinod Rai: ""The governance is at its lowest ebb. The morale of the civil servant is low. The credibility of the government is at its lowest. It's a strong statement but it is harsh reality. And hence because of all this the decision making has become a causalty," said Rai who has given audit reports coming down heavily on Union government departments.", ""Today, we are facing a testing time in the history of our Nation. The quality of governance is below par and subject to severe criticism. There has been an erosion of people's faith in government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy including the Police force has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of the civil servants are being questioned,""
Oct 11, 2011 UP: 5 more kids die of encephalitis in 24 hours: "The encephalitis death toll in Uttar Pradesh has now risen to 505."
Oct 11, 2011 Bhanwari case: Rajasthan HC slams Gehlot govt: "The court has also questioned the CBI probe into the alleged abduction and possible murder of the nurse."
Oct 11, 2011 Bhanwari case: Rajasthan HC slams Gehlot govt: "The court has also questioned the CBI probe into the alleged abduction and possible murder of the nurse."
Oct 11, 2011 Four crore Indians have mental illness: Study: "According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time."
Oct 11, 2011 Personality disorder: "Manmohan Singh, finance minister, never really graduated to become a reformist prime minister. This handicap is stalling India's growth.", "Singh would have known better than the NAC bleeding hearts that farmers entitled to borrow from banks are seldom driven to suicide. Those who walk across the precipice are not banks' customers; they are generally victims of a moneylender-politician-police nexus. Expectedly, the loan waiver bonanza had no impact on farmer suicides."
Oct 11, 2011 School student abducted, raped in Lucknow
Oct 10, 2011 Bhatta-Parsaul rape victim: ‘He threatened to kill me, then misbehaved’: "“All the four men in our house have been put in jail. We have no food, no money,” said an elderly woman. “On that night, the police entered our house, trashed our things. Two of them dragged the women inside, while two men stayed outside,” she added pointing to the two women seated in front of her. One of them said, “We begged them with folded hands to spare us.”"
Oct 10, 2011 Killed 11 on order of ex-MP: Shooter: "the accused has claimed in interrogation that he had killed at least 11 people at the instance of RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin. “The accused is wanted in more than 20 cases of murder, attempt to murder, robbery and kidnapping and has not been arrested since 1998."
Oct 9, 2011 A rape, murder and 2 missing BSP MLAs cops can’t find: "At a time when the BSP has suspended several of its MLAs for ‘criminal activities and corruption’, the UP police can’t find two ruling party legislators against whom non-bailable warrants are pending in rape and murder cases."
Oct 9, 2011 IIT heads echo Narayana Murthy on dipping quality: " IIT Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi says most students come with a heavy coaching hangover. "There is a limit to what an instrument like an entrance exam can do. Taking school scores into consideration should allow us to get well-rounded students," he said. Gautam Baru, IIT-Guwahati director, says aspirants start preparing early. "By the time they join the IIT system, they are mentally fatigued.""
Oct 9, 2011 Maharashtra: Rs 1000 cr education scam exposed: "In an inspection carried out in the Nanded district, of 7 lakh school students shown on the records of 3500 schools, a whopping 1.4 lakh were found to be bogus, which means that the state handed over an extra unaccounted money for amount of Rs 120 crore to these schools."
Oct 8, 2011 Bikers slash girl for protesting eve-teasing: "the pillion rider, reached out from behind and slashed the girl on her back with a blade-like object. The bikers immediately fled, brushing past the girls once again,"
Oct 8, 2011 2 BSF jawans held in child ‘sacrifice’ case: "Two Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were arrested in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills for suspected " child sacrifice" in a temple in the 121 battalion camp. "
Oct 8, 2011 Case against Puducherry education minister for exam fraud: "The district crime branch filed a criminal case against Kalyanasundaram, exam hall supervisor P Adavan and office assistant M Rajini Kanth, who allegedly helped the minister to carry out the impersonation plan. A school dropout, Kalyanasundaram is a first-time legislator in Puducherry and became education minister and holds the IT and transport portfolios as well."
Oct 8, 2011 Find Me Some Destitutes Does UPA-II really want to count the poor?: "India continues to be home to 46 per cent of the malnourished children of the world; 36 per cent of the population lives on less than Rs 20 a day; one out of every second person in rural India is poor."
Oct 8, 2011 Design behind ‘counting’ the poor: "The Planning Commission's Rs 32 absurdity was not a simple academic exercise, but smacked of Soviet-era hoodwinking. By keeping hundreds of millions out of the ‘poverty zone’, UPA-II hoped to reduce subsidies for the purpose of presenting a more ‘balanced' Budget"
Oct 8, 2011 It's criminal neglect: CSR Director on encephalitis: "The Centre for Social Research Director says the disease could have been prevented had there been a political will."
Oct 8, 2011 Woman sacrifices girl to improve marriage: "A woman and three members of her family killed their neighbour's seven-year-old daughter after a self-styled godman said it would improve her marital relations, police in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district said"
Oct 8, 2011 Ultrasounds to blame for skewed sex ratio in India: UN: "The problem does seem acute in Mumbai. Its child-sex ratio stands at 892 girls for every 1,000 boys, which is not only much worse than the all-India figure of 914 girls but is also poorer than the Vietnam figure of 899 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six. The statistics released by the United Nations Population Fund on Thursday offer some cold comfort; China appears even more casual about the future of its girl child - with only 847 girls born for every 1,000 boys"
Oct 7, 2011 Unable to repay Rs 15 lakh, 3 of family end life
Oct 7, 2011 Why IIT? The whole education system is Jurassic in its content
Oct 7, 2011 Time to slay our demons: "The anti-corruption movement that has caught the popular imagination will open up Indian society to review and reform all that is antiquated."
Oct 7, 2011 Whose failure? Encephalitis kills 50,000 in 30 yrs: "Successive state governments have failed to vaccinate children in Uttar Pradesh."
Oct 7, 2011 BBC: India: Maoist attack kills four troops in Chhattisgarh: "Maoist rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribal people and the rural poor."
Oct 7, 2011 How poor India battles encephalitis: "Almost 500 children die of encephalitis in Eastern UP in two months because of poor sanitation and dirty water.", "India's Dying Children"
Oct 7, 2011 Whose failure? Encephalitis kills 50,000 in 30 years: "Public health experts and activists say that the epidemic has been badly mismanaged for the last 33 years and the story should make 21st century India hang its head in shame.", ""We had named him Harsh thinking he'll bring joy to our lives. But if god didn't want it what can we do," says Harsh's grandfather Ram Preet. Harsh's doctors have no time to grieve for him a there are 600 children in the encephalitis ward waiting to be saved."
Oct 7, 2011 Anonymous letter says Bhanwari Devi still alive, kept hostage: "Bhanwari Devi, a midwife and nurse missing for almost a month, is being kept hostage by a politician in Haryana.", "Her husband Amarchand has alleged that she was abducted at the behest of water resources minister Mahipal Maderna and his associates."
Oct 7, 2011 Food inflation rises to 9.41per cent; matter of concern, says Pranab: "Food inflation rose to 9.41 per cent for the week ended September 24 on the back of costlier vegetables, fruits, milk and protein-based items.", "The rate of price rise in food items was 16.88 per cent in the corresponding week of 2010."
Oct 7, 2011 15 Women Thags Arrested from Pandals: "who were stealing cash, jewellery and other belongings of the devotees taking advantage of the crowd."
Oct 7, 2011 No Indian university makes it to world's top 200: "Not a single Indian university, not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs figure in the latest ranking of the world's top 200 universities, with American varsities dominating the list."
Oct 7, 2011 Omar hands over ‘fixer’ to cops, he dies in custody: "A 61-year-old retired teacher and National Conference (NC) “sympathiser” who allegedly took money from two party leaders on the promise of getting them a ministership and a legislative council seat through union minister Farooq Abdullah, died in custody after he was handed over to the Crime Branch by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The family of the man, Haji Syed Mohammad Yousuf, has alleged he was killed by the police because he knew “too many secrets”.", "“He did not die, he was killed in custody.”", "his constituency representative in Ganderbal had attempted to buy a ministership from an alleged middleman for Rs 71 lakh. “It is shocking for me. That fellow (Ganderbal’s Mohammad Yousuf) told me that he had taken a loan and given it to the party fund. But now I know that he had taken Rs 51 lakh from a toll barrier guy (the contractor runs the toll collection station) in Tangmarg, and Rs 5 lakh from his own PSO.”""
Oct 6, 2011 ‘PDS kerosene scam’ rocks Assembly: "“Eight lakh quintals of wheat is coming every month to Punjab under PDS but is not going to the poor. It is being cornered by flour mills in connivance with government officials. We demand a CBI inquiry into the whole PDS scam,”", "The Indian Express, in a three-part investigative series carried out in August 2009, had revealed how PDS kerosene in Punjab was not reaching the poor but and being diverted by the oil mafia."
Oct 5, 2011 The Australian: Corruption sucking the life out of India : "It has the world's largest pool of poor, sick, starving and illiterate. Access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipedream for most, disease is endemic and life is nasty, brutish and short for far too many Indians. A 300 million-strong middle class leaves 750 million poor. On present trends, in 2020 India will still have half a billion poor people. Worldwide, India ranks 134 on ease of doing business indicators, 119 on human development, 122 on gender equality and 87 on corruption.", "Last year, India's road death toll was about 150,000, three times as many as the US or, on a per vehicle basis, almost twenty times the US."
Oct 5, 2011 परिवार के दस लोगों ने आत्महत्या की: "अवसाद या ग़रीबी?", "आसपास के लोगों का कहना है कि इतने बड़े परिवार का खर्च मुश्किल से चल पाता था. उनका कहना है कि तीन महीने पहले भी परिवार की जिस बेटी की मौत हुई थी तो उसके इलाज के लिये भी परिवार के पास पैसे नहीं थे.""
Oct 5, 2011 BBC: What is it like to be a child bride?: "Some 40% of the world's child marriages take place in India. In the northern state of Rajasthan I witnessed the wedding of two sisters who were about six and 11 years old."
Oct 5, 2011 Night operations at Gaya International Airport suspended due to thefts: "have been suspended following the theft of the lighting systems installed by the Airport Authority of India on nearly half a dozen hillocks in the vicinity."
Oct 5, 2011 Cops lathicharge protesting J&K govt employees
Oct 5, 2011 Poor, poorer, poorest states? It’s Bihar, MP, Odisha: "after the official estimates received flak for using an outdated methodology that underestimated the proportion of poor in the country, puts Odisha as the state with the maximum proportion of poor at 57.2 percent in 2004-05."
Oct 5, 2011 Criminal raj in Rajasthan: "The Gehlot regime’s ineptitude does not end there. On September 18, Nawab Ali, a city Youth Congress president from Hanumangarh, was shot dead while going for a morning walk in Pilibanga. The same day, another local party leader, Gehrilal Patidar, was killed. The two back-to-back incidents provide testimony to the reigning lawlessness in Rajasthan under Congress rule."
Oct 5, 2011 Mumbai auto drivers targeted after Raj's rant
Oct 5, 2011 Dehradun: Family of 10 found dead near reservoir
Oct 4, 2011 With 75 districts UP remains backward: "Nine districts created by her in early 2000 were scrapped by her bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav. She had recreated them in 2007."
Oct 4, 2011 Rot starts at top: Indicted IIT chiefs go scot-free: "Poor quality of engineers is not the only problem afflicting the IITs. The rot has set in from the top. At least two of its directors - Damodar Acharya of IIT-Kharagpur and A K Bhowmick of IIT-Patna - are still in office, despite the Central Bureau of Investigation's indictment in the past."
Oct 3, 2011 Father shot by Naxals, daughter on police radar for Maoist links
Oct 2, 2011 Bangalore corporator killing was a supari job: Cops: "the gruesome murder of 46-year-old Congress corporator from Gandhinagar S Nataraj on Saturday was a supari (contract) killing involving professional hitmen."
Oct 2, 2011 IAC's campaign in Mira Road has no effect on menace: "The auto unions have become so brazen that they have even put up a fare chart outside the Bhayander (west) railway station and the rates are much higher than that approved by the RTO. Passengers also complained that the RTO and the traffic police did not register a case against any errant drivers.", "There are seven auto unions in Mira Road and all are against implementing meters."
Oct 2, 2011 The Rs. 81,500 crore lie: "In a season of scams, the biggest one has gone undetected, that of black money spent in every election. Politicians typically shrug it off, saying that historically they have always entered Parliament with a 'lie on our lips'. Except that, now, the lie has gotten bigger. It is, by one estimate, the Rs. 81,500 crore lie. Many say electoral reforms can tackle this. But we expose how political parties have sabotaged every attempt to clean up a political system rife with corruption, criminality and lack of internal democracy."
Oct 2, 2011 978 pregnant women marooned in flood hit Orissa district: "Rinarani Ojha has named her daughter 'Vanya' (flood) after the child was born safely on the rooftop of a building surrounded by floodwaters in Kendrapara district where 978 marooned women are in advanced stage of pregnancy."
Oct 2, 2011 CJ show: 50 citizens against corruption: "On this episode we showcase 50 citizens who stood up and fought against corruption."
Oct 1, 2011 With 58% figures, India tops in open defecation: "According to a UNICEF survey, 58% of the world's population practicing open defecation lives in India"
Oct 1, 2011 ‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’: "Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills of the Sitheri hills in Harur taluk, Dharmapuri district, in an apparent search for smuggled sandalwood. Over the next two days, government officers raped and humiliated 18 tribal women, beat up dozens of other unarmed villagers, tore down homes and polluted drinking water sources with diesel and the carcasses of village goats they butchered for dinner."
Oct 1, 2011 Dead Men Talking: "The Indian state can silence the living, not the voice of the silent ", "Here stands, India’s ‘gravest’ threat Paramilitary forces have laid siege to the forest. All resistance, armed or unarmed, has been branded ‘Maoist’. Entire villages are being burned."
Oct 1, 2011 His Barony, Undermined: "How did mining baron and former Karnataka tourism minister, Gali Janardhana Reddy, go from pauper, to prince, to prisoner in a little under a decade?", "his net worth was reduced to the negative as of March 31, 2003, and prior to 1998, he was not even an I-T assessee. But, for the financial year 2003-04, he declared a total income of Rs 12 lakh and a taxable income of Rs 9 lakh. For 2004-05, there is a stupendous jump in total income to Rs 8.38 crore. In 2005-06, this doubled to Rs 17.8 crore. In the same period, there was a simultaneous increase in his moveable and immovable assets. The total value of these assets rose from Rs 32.45 lakh in 2003-04 to Rs 43.52 crore in 2005-06. A similarly mercurial growth can be observed in the total assets of his wife Lakshmi Aruna."
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