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Sep 9, 2011 When you send your kids to school, pray they aren’t forced to become rally cattle: "At least 45 children from a government-run New Alipore school, some of them barely 10 years old, were herded into a Matador van and sent to central Calcutta without their parents’ consent."
Sep 9, 2011 India lacks strategy on terror: Fareed Zakaria: "India's policing is pathetic and it needs to do more to reach out to Muslims, says strategic affairs expert Fareed Zakaria", "India has no police"
Sep 9, 2011 Bollywood WikiLeaks: Bribery needed for shooting in India: "the numerous clearances (and bribes) needed for shooting a scene in India makes even Indian producers reluctant to shoot in the country. Many of the key outdoor scenes in Bollywood movies are shot overseas, in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S."
Sep 9, 2011 25 kg gold seized from fake CBI officer: "Around 25 kg of gold jewellery was seized from a locker owned by one of the two people who were arrested last month for cheating several businessmen and Bollywood personalities by posing as CBI officers"
Sep 9, 2011 Mentally challenged teen raped in Kashmir
Sep 9, 2011 Technology – India’s quiet anti-corruption crusader: "Technology, not protest marches, might be the biggest eradicator of corruption in India where under-the-table bribes thrive in the world of face-to-face transactions. Many facets of India’s government still operate in Dickensian offices where floor-to-ceiling stacks of paper files can provide good cover and easy excuses for “delays” that only a sweetener of a few hundred rupees can cut through."
Sep 9, 2011 CBI registers case against bank manager for loan fraud: "The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a bank manager for allegedly colluding with another in advancing loans to 60 persons against norms."
Sep 9, 2011 But 'twas a famous victory: "Corruption grows like a cancer in the Indian system because a vast, lumbering bureaucracy still has too many check posts at which the corrupt can extract cash or favours."
Sep 8, 2011 Woman assaulted for not following orders: "A brutal and horrific incident in Bihar. A woman beaten with hot iron rods in her private parts. The hineous act after the vitcim refused to obey her masters orders. While the police claim to have arrested one accused, a political blame game has begun in the state."
Sep 8, 2011 Relatives entry restricted, VIP's meet blast victims: "As VIP's started to visit the injured, hospitals cordoned off the area, restricting the entry of relatives."
Sep 8, 2011 Yet Another Black Wednesday Reform Or Perish: "Yet another wake-up call for the government. Six thoughts on the blast outside Delhi High Court that claimed 11 lives and left 76 injured."
Sep 8, 2011 At the mercy of terrorists: "An effete Prime Minister and his smug Home Minister mouth the same platitudes as India’s citizens are wantonly slaughtered."
Sep 8, 2011 Tainted Bihar IAS officer's house now a school: "During the raid on Verma's house the Vigilance sleuths also seized a 9 kg gold bar with Swiss hallmark, 800 guineas, Rs 16.50 lakh in cash, $1600, jewellery valued at over Rs 81 lakh, investments in share market amounting to Rs 20 lakh and papers pertaining to investments in immovable properties at four places"
Sep 8, 2011 Women 'more than' molested, stripped in Bhatta Parsaul: Govt: "“ ...police personnel broke open houses, looted valuables, money, ransacked houses, tore women's clothes and put them in a state of nakedness, badly molested and committed even more than that,”"
Sep 8, 2011 Acid sale bar - to foil attacks on women: "The central and state governments have been directed by the Supreme Court to restrict sale of acid to prevent rising incidents of acid attacks on women"
Sep 8, 2011 Bollywood welcomed funds from gangsters, politicians:WikiLeaks: "A leaked US diplomatic cable has said that Bollywood welcomed funding from gangsters and politicians, known in India as ''black money.'' While there is no direct reference of Dawood Ibrahim which allegedly financed a number of movies, the cable said that in recent decades, the Bollywood film industry has been associated with the notorious Mumbai underworld, at the nexus of gangsters, money, and politics."
Sep 8, 2011 DAY IN PICS - VVIPs lodged at Tihar: "Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the latest VIP to land in Tihar Jail after a Delhi court rejected his bail plea in the cash-for-vote scam."
Sep 8, 2011 Janardhana Reddy supporters force bandh in Bellary
Sep 8, 2011 The heart of the problem Jagdish Bhagwati: "Corruption in India, whose absence was among the hallmarks of Indian political virtue in the 1950s, has broken out like the devastating bubonic plague of the mid-14th century. But if it is to be attacked effectively, we need to distinguish between two forms of corruption. First, corruption is rampant at the level of politicians selling licences and top bureaucrats using their discretion to get perks in kind."
Sep 8, 2011 Corruption cuts across party lines in Kashmir, reveals WikiLeaks: "SRINAGAR Politics in Kashmir is “as filthy as Dal lake” and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked US diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks."
Sep 8, 2011 CITU demands amendment of J&K Accountability Act: "The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Tuesday demanded amendment of the Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission Act and Rules to give more teeth to the anti-graft State Accountability Commission (SAC) for weeding out corruption in the state."
Sep 8, 2011 Are I-T raids leading to corruption?: "The latest case of corruption to hit the taxman is that of Chennai based Everonn, wherein the CBI arrested a tax official for accepting bribe from a company official to reduce the concealed income detected during a raid on the company. So is it time for revenue authorities to make official announcements post corporate raids to promote greater transparency?"
Sep 8, 2011 Probe ordered into charges against KCA: "The Thrissur Vigilance Court on Tuesday directed the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) to investigate allegations of corruption against the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA)."
Sep 7, 2011 Terror: Third whammy after graft, price rise
Sep 7, 2011 Chhattisgarh policemen face DNA test over charges of ‘Naxal’ girl’s gangrape, murder: "The CID, Chhattisgarh, will soon take DNA samples of 25 policemen of Chando police station in Surguja, who were involved in an alleged encounter in July that led to the death of 16-year-old Meena Khalkho. While the police claim she was a Naxalite and “habitual to sex”, residents of her village Karcha have accused police of killing her after gangrape and then dubbing her a Naxalite.", "The doctor added: “Our observation suggested the presence of semen of many persons (on her underwear).”"
Sep 7, 2011 List of Politicians who are cooling their heels in jail: "the scam tainted politicians who seem to be walking to jail every other day"
Sep 6, 2011 With Amar, glamour quotient at a high in Tihar Jail: "Glamour quotient is at a high in Tihar Jail as it has never seen so many VIPs together and it now houses 2G accused A Raja, Sanjay Chandra, DMK MP Kanimozhi along with CWG accused Suresh Kalmadi and now cash-for-votes scam accused Amar Singh. Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the sixth MP and the latest VIP entrant in Asia's largest prison, the Tihar Jail."
Sep 5, 2011 Essar pays protection money to Maoists in Chhattisgarh: WikiLeaks: "The Ruias-led Essar Group, which has mining interests in Chhattisgarh, pays protection money to Maoists to safeguard its operations in the state,"
Sep 5, 2011 Politics in Kashmir as ''filthy'' as Dal lake: US cable: "Politics in Kashmir is ''as filthy as Dal lake'' and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked US diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks."
Sep 4, 2011 People's pressure force cops to change bribe to fine: "A group of citizens from various walks of life joined hands to challenge two 'suspicious' traffic cops. They were later taken to the Ajni police station where eight people have been booked, two, ironically, for obstructing a public servant while discharging his duty."
Sep 4, 2011 'कमेटी आ गई, भागो'....: "पुलिस को हर महीने पाँच सौ से हज़ार रूपए देता हूँ.और इतने ही करीब नगर निगम वाले ले जाते हैं. "
Sep 4, 2011 DU prof told us Gamma was a pehelwan: Police: "Professor R K Sharma told interrogators that he had never heard about a gamma irradiator. This, despite him being a member of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)."
Sep 4, 2011 85,000 cases still pending with Delhi Police: "A whopping 47 per cent of the over 1.81 lakh cases reported in the national capital in the past three-and-a-half years remain unsolved with Delhi Police"
Sep 3, 2011 AP infant deaths: Govt admits flaws in hospital: "10 babie die in 48 hours", "incubators are shared", "The government earlier gave a clean chit to the hospital, but has now taken a U-turn."
Sep 3, 2011 Lizard found in mid-day meal, kids affected: "Forty-four students from Sarvodaya Vidyalaya for Girls in Mohan Garden, west Delhi, were taken to DDU Hospital when they complained of nausea, abdominal pain and dizziness after a lizard was found in their mid-day meal."
Sep 3, 2011 Follow The Money: "Just not PC Things haven’t changed much in the last 60 years in some government offices, like the one here in Calcutta"
Sep 3, 2011 Finnish woman raped in south Delhi guest house
Sep 3, 2011 US Consul was told corruption was an "inalienable" part of India (Wikileaks): "In a cable written in 2007 after the collapse of an over-bridge in Hyderabad, Hopper listed the various ways in which people "explained" corruption and wondered "Does anyone care?""
Sep 3, 2011 Girl gangraped by 4, youth held
Sep 3, 2011 Andhra Pradesh: 10 infants dead in 48 hours: " The families allege the hospital failed to repair dysfunctional ventilators inspite of repeated complaints."
Sep 3, 2011 Andhra infant deaths: hospital gets clean chit: "Andhra infant deaths: hospital gets clean chit CNN-IBN The district administration gave a shocking reaction claiming it wasn't human error but God's error."
Sep 2, 2011 World’s worst lungs are in India - Cross-continental survey raises deeper air pollution fears than suspected
Aug 31, 2011 Guide launched 'to help overcome fear of India's corrupt police': "A human rights group has launched a campaign to help the public overcome its fear of India's police which has been tainted by allegations of extra-judicial killings, corruption, extortion, rape and sexual assault.", "In 2009, 59 people died in police custody in India, while a large number of suspects have been killed in 'fake encounters' – where police are alleged to have staged shoot-outs to cover up extrajudicial killings. Several police 'encounter specialist' gunmen have become notorious, especially in Mumbai where seven officers have killed more than 500 'suspects.'"
Aug 31, 2011 Three levels of corruption: "corruption in India has three levels: political, corporate, and low-level corruption, which I would call "chai pani"."
Aug 31, 2011 Manual scavenging still practised in Karnataka: Study: "Manual scavenging is still practised in parts of Karnataka with the condition of these social groups continuing to be ''pathetic and inhuman,''"
Aug 31, 2011 Over 9 lakh newborns die annually in India: Study: "Despite a significant increase in women and child healthcare in India, more than nine lakh children in the country still die every year before becoming one-month-old"
Aug 31, 2011 Woman kingpin of Goa sex racket held from Mumbai: "Shahin, who is termed as a kingpin of the racket, used to lure Mumbai-based girls under the guise of providing them jobs in casinos and in dance bars in Goa, police said. These girls were later forced into prostitution through an organised inter-state racket"
Aug 31, 2011 Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years,
Aug 30, 2011 Rs 6 lakh for a night of dance, booze and sex in Mumbai
Aug 30, 2011 Mumbai tops in 'worst cities' list: "Mumbai has been rated as one of the worst cities to live in"
Aug 30, 2011 Wife of convict gang-raped in jail: cops: "Police on Monday confirmed that the wife of a convict was allegedly gang raped by four wardens in the jail compound of the Central Jail at Fatehgarh."
Aug 29, 2011 This, No Middle-Class, Weekend Revolution: "as much as 40 per cent of kerosene fails to reach those it is meant for, while the notorious oil mafia uses it to adulterate petrol and earns a whopping Rs 90 billion (about $2 billion) every year out of it."
Aug 29, 2011 Sankararaman murder case: Plea says new tapes point to attempts to bribe judge: "indicated attempts by the Kanchi seer to bribe the judge hearing the case."
Aug 28, 2011 Lokayukta pleads for probe team: "Jharkhand Lokayukta got its website today, but the all-empowering moment of celebration turned sour when its head highlighted the lack of an independent probe team and inadequate office space"
Aug 28, 2011 Achuthanandan slams adoration of erstwhile royals: ""Even politicians and ministers speak in a ceremonial language of respect and fear when they address royal family members. This shows their slave mentality,""
Aug 28, 2011 4 UP jail wardens suspended on gangrape charges: "inmate accused them of raping his wife on the jail premises"
Aug 28, 2011 Lady cop looked on as colleague molested a girl: Goa committee: "The 21-year-old girl, who had escaped from a prostitution racket, was allegedly forced to perform oral sex by constable Vishwavijay Digambar Parab of Mapusa police station"
Aug 27, 2011 A cancer at the heart of Indian democracy: "Our electoral system is fueled by black money rather than white funds. The institutions that report to politicians know this, and make their own arrangements. The CBI can get ferocious when it wants about its preferred seasonal targets, but it has no interest in stopping fellow policemen from taking 150 rupees a month from each shanty in each Delhi slum in order to ensure that the water supply is not cut off.", "The political class has gathered to check the corruption of businessmen, judges, bureaucrats (down to the district level) and anyone else you can think of. But when it comes to introspection, the assembled elite begins to dissemble. It would rather not discuss a Lok Pal empowered to delve into the cash flow of politics."
Aug 27, 2011 Corruption has become way of life: Jaitley
Aug 27, 2011 “I Fear For My Life, But I’ll Go On”
Aug 27, 2011 Information Martyr: "Shehla Masood had to die because the state couldn’t protect her"
Aug 26, 2011 Half of our MPs anpadh, ganwaar: some gems from very civil society: "Om Puri said: “Yeh anpadh hain, inka kya background hai? Aadhe se zyaada MP ganwaar hain... hum dekhte hain TV pe, yeh kaise ladte hain House mein (They are illiterate, what is their background? More than half are rustic. On TV, we see them fighting in the House.”)"
Aug 25, 2011 Three-year-old girl burnt alive by drunk father
Aug 24, 2011 '542 VIPs are making a fool of 120 crore people’
Aug 24, 2011 Indian corruption hits all aspects of life
Aug 24, 2011 Arrested for murder, Bihar girl raped in custody: "A teenaged girl held in custody in a murder case in Bihar was allegedly raped by policemen while being interrogated"
Aug 23, 2011 Bengal hospital makes youth use his severed legs as pillow: "The patient was in agonizing pain and hardly realized the barbaric act." It was only when the patients and visitors, unable to bear the bizarre sight, began a hue and cry that the staff finally removed the legs."
Aug 23, 2011 'AIIMS wants Rs10k bribe for heart surgery’: "the operation has been rescheduled twice and three bottles of blood arranged by his family and submitted to the hospital in August last year for the surgery, is no longer usable."
Aug 23, 2011 Delhi Imam, Dalit leaders criticise Anna’s campaign
Aug 23, 2011 India graft: 'I paid a bribe for a death certificate': "Anjali Yadav's distress over India's rampant corruption culture reached a peak when she was forced to bribe a government official to provide a death certificate for her mother. "I was so ashamed,""
Aug 23, 2011 Don’t pay: CM to business: "Bid to curb extortion blamed on party ranks"
Aug 23, 2011 'Policemen raped 7 women in Bhatta-Parsaul'
Aug 22, 2011 Brutality unleashed: "The jailor beating a prisoner at Bhadohi jail in Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)"
Aug 21, 2011 'Cops raped 7 women in Bhatta-Parsaul': "The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has concluded that seven women had been raped by cops in the twin villages of Bhatta-Parsaul during clashes between police and farmers agitating against land acquisition"
Aug 21, 2011 Bukhari calls stir anti-Islam, tells Muslims to stay away: "Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, has called upon Muslims to stay away from the Anna movement saying his war cry - Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata Ki Jai - are against Islam."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ show: Have you ever paid a bribe?: " Citizens tell us if they have ever paid a bribe to get their work done easy."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ fights against cheating petrol pump attendant: "CJ Gaurav Aggarwal caught a petrol pump attendant cheating and complained, action was taken against the attendant."
Aug 21, 2011 Two minor girls raped in UP: "a 13-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a youth in Singahi area"
Aug 21, 2011 Security guard guns down youth over minor incident
Aug 21, 2011 Couple held with 15 pistols in Uttar Pradesh: "A young couple involved in smuggling firearms was arrested with 15 pistols in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district"
Aug 20, 2011 UPA-2 revisits Emergency: "Peaceful protests are fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution that all citizens are entitled to enjoy. No one can claim that this right is unfettered."
Aug 20, 2011 Fight against corruption: Maoists ask Team Anna to join them
Aug 20, 2011 Naked Man Outside Frame: "The ‘ban’ on Aarakshan is just part of a long capitulation. The mob is the final censor in our country."
Aug 19, 2011 40 pc Indian women face domestic violence: "According to the National Family Health Survey, only two per cent of abused women, ever go to the police for help."
Aug 19, 2011 Man beaten up, wife raped and killed: "his wife was raped and then murdered in front of him"
Aug 19, 2011 10 cops killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack
Aug 19, 2011 Guardian: Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free': ""Of the 40,000 rupees (£520) I earn a month from my restaurant, I pay at least a third in bribes," Vishal, 26, said. But bribery also extends into his personal life. Vishal has two young children and to get the eldest in to the best local school he paid a "donation" of 25,000 rupees (£3,400) in cash to the headmaster. A driving licence needed another bribe. Getting an appointment with a competent public doctor cost a substantial amount. And then there are the traffic police. Every other week Vishal says he is stopped, told he has committed an offence and made to pay 100 rupees (£1.25), the standard fee to avoid "too much bother"."
Aug 19, 2011 Corruption in India: four stories: "As anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare taps into public anger, ordinary Indians explain the role of bribes in their lives"
Aug 19, 2011 In Navi Mumbai, a PG med seat costs Rs 1.7cr: "A postgraduate radiology seat in a private medical college in Navi Mumbai has sold for Rs 1.7 crore. The capitation fee is a 40% increase over last year"
Aug 19, 2011 531 women become pregnant after birth control operation in Orissa: "At least 531 women have become pregnant despite undergoing permanent birth control operation in Orissa."
Aug 18, 2011 Shehla was threatened by a police officer: Father: "Sultan Masood said the police tried covering up Shehla's murder by initially terming it as suicide."
Aug 18, 2011 Bhopal: Slain RTI activist's father expects no justice: "Sultan said, “We belong to a lower middle class and lack the power to purchase or to influence a top politician or an official. We expect no justice.”"
Aug 16, 2011 Shehla Masood killing: Suicide bid or murder?
Aug 16, 2011 In India, harnessing people power to fight corruption
Aug 15, 2011 This is not the India we fought for, say freedom fighters: "this is not the nation of their dreams and are troubled by the all-pervading culture of corruption."
Aug 15, 2011 Maoist attack CRPF camp in J'khand,hoist black flags in Orissa
Aug 15, 2011 Taking dig at Rahul, Modi says shame that people use 'poor' for photo-op
Aug 14, 2011 64 yrs on, govt yet to fulfill aam admi's dream: "Every common man had a dream of his own - communal harmony, a speedy justice delivery system, a responsive bureaucracy, a transparent system, a corruption-free polity and, above all, honest governance. All these are, still, dreams only.", "So, on the eve of August 15, after 64 years, what does a young Indian dream? A fresh tryst with destiny?"
Aug 14, 2011 Bikes, youths roar against corruption: "Resembling a ‘second freedom struggle’ on the eve of 64th Independence Day, hundreds of youth took out a motorcycle rally"
Aug 14, 2011 CJs fight authorities, call for an end to bribes: "Citizen Journalists fight corruption and say 'bribe bandh'."
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Sep 9, 2011 When you send your kids to school, pray they aren’t forced to become rally cattle: "At least 45 children from a government-run New Alipore school, some of them barely 10 years old, were herded into a Matador van and sent to central Calcutta without their parents’ consent."
Sep 9, 2011 India lacks strategy on terror: Fareed Zakaria: "India's policing is pathetic and it needs to do more to reach out to Muslims, says strategic affairs expert Fareed Zakaria", "India has no police"
Sep 9, 2011 Bollywood WikiLeaks: Bribery needed for shooting in India: "the numerous clearances (and bribes) needed for shooting a scene in India makes even Indian producers reluctant to shoot in the country. Many of the key outdoor scenes in Bollywood movies are shot overseas, in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S."
Sep 9, 2011 25 kg gold seized from fake CBI officer: "Around 25 kg of gold jewellery was seized from a locker owned by one of the two people who were arrested last month for cheating several businessmen and Bollywood personalities by posing as CBI officers"
Sep 9, 2011 Mentally challenged teen raped in Kashmir
Sep 9, 2011 Technology – India’s quiet anti-corruption crusader: "Technology, not protest marches, might be the biggest eradicator of corruption in India where under-the-table bribes thrive in the world of face-to-face transactions. Many facets of India’s government still operate in Dickensian offices where floor-to-ceiling stacks of paper files can provide good cover and easy excuses for “delays” that only a sweetener of a few hundred rupees can cut through."
Sep 9, 2011 CBI registers case against bank manager for loan fraud: "The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a bank manager for allegedly colluding with another in advancing loans to 60 persons against norms."
Sep 9, 2011 But 'twas a famous victory: "Corruption grows like a cancer in the Indian system because a vast, lumbering bureaucracy still has too many check posts at which the corrupt can extract cash or favours."
Sep 8, 2011 Woman assaulted for not following orders: "A brutal and horrific incident in Bihar. A woman beaten with hot iron rods in her private parts. The hineous act after the vitcim refused to obey her masters orders. While the police claim to have arrested one accused, a political blame game has begun in the state."
Sep 8, 2011 Relatives entry restricted, VIP's meet blast victims: "As VIP's started to visit the injured, hospitals cordoned off the area, restricting the entry of relatives."
Sep 8, 2011 Yet Another Black Wednesday Reform Or Perish: "Yet another wake-up call for the government. Six thoughts on the blast outside Delhi High Court that claimed 11 lives and left 76 injured."
Sep 8, 2011 At the mercy of terrorists: "An effete Prime Minister and his smug Home Minister mouth the same platitudes as India’s citizens are wantonly slaughtered."
Sep 8, 2011 Tainted Bihar IAS officer's house now a school: "During the raid on Verma's house the Vigilance sleuths also seized a 9 kg gold bar with Swiss hallmark, 800 guineas, Rs 16.50 lakh in cash, $1600, jewellery valued at over Rs 81 lakh, investments in share market amounting to Rs 20 lakh and papers pertaining to investments in immovable properties at four places"
Sep 8, 2011 Women 'more than' molested, stripped in Bhatta Parsaul: Govt: "“ ...police personnel broke open houses, looted valuables, money, ransacked houses, tore women's clothes and put them in a state of nakedness, badly molested and committed even more than that,”"
Sep 8, 2011 Acid sale bar - to foil attacks on women: "The central and state governments have been directed by the Supreme Court to restrict sale of acid to prevent rising incidents of acid attacks on women"
Sep 8, 2011 Bollywood welcomed funds from gangsters, politicians:WikiLeaks: "A leaked US diplomatic cable has said that Bollywood welcomed funding from gangsters and politicians, known in India as ''black money.'' While there is no direct reference of Dawood Ibrahim which allegedly financed a number of movies, the cable said that in recent decades, the Bollywood film industry has been associated with the notorious Mumbai underworld, at the nexus of gangsters, money, and politics."
Sep 8, 2011 DAY IN PICS - VVIPs lodged at Tihar: "Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the latest VIP to land in Tihar Jail after a Delhi court rejected his bail plea in the cash-for-vote scam."
Sep 8, 2011 Janardhana Reddy supporters force bandh in Bellary
Sep 8, 2011 The heart of the problem Jagdish Bhagwati: "Corruption in India, whose absence was among the hallmarks of Indian political virtue in the 1950s, has broken out like the devastating bubonic plague of the mid-14th century. But if it is to be attacked effectively, we need to distinguish between two forms of corruption. First, corruption is rampant at the level of politicians selling licences and top bureaucrats using their discretion to get perks in kind."
Sep 8, 2011 Corruption cuts across party lines in Kashmir, reveals WikiLeaks: "SRINAGAR Politics in Kashmir is “as filthy as Dal lake” and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked US diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks."
Sep 8, 2011 CITU demands amendment of J&K Accountability Act: "The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Tuesday demanded amendment of the Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission Act and Rules to give more teeth to the anti-graft State Accountability Commission (SAC) for weeding out corruption in the state."
Sep 8, 2011 Are I-T raids leading to corruption?: "The latest case of corruption to hit the taxman is that of Chennai based Everonn, wherein the CBI arrested a tax official for accepting bribe from a company official to reduce the concealed income detected during a raid on the company. So is it time for revenue authorities to make official announcements post corporate raids to promote greater transparency?"
Sep 8, 2011 Probe ordered into charges against KCA: "The Thrissur Vigilance Court on Tuesday directed the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) to investigate allegations of corruption against the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA)."
Sep 7, 2011 Terror: Third whammy after graft, price rise
Sep 7, 2011 Chhattisgarh policemen face DNA test over charges of ‘Naxal’ girl’s gangrape, murder: "The CID, Chhattisgarh, will soon take DNA samples of 25 policemen of Chando police station in Surguja, who were involved in an alleged encounter in July that led to the death of 16-year-old Meena Khalkho. While the police claim she was a Naxalite and “habitual to sex”, residents of her village Karcha have accused police of killing her after gangrape and then dubbing her a Naxalite.", "The doctor added: “Our observation suggested the presence of semen of many persons (on her underwear).”"
Sep 7, 2011 List of Politicians who are cooling their heels in jail: "the scam tainted politicians who seem to be walking to jail every other day"
Sep 6, 2011 With Amar, glamour quotient at a high in Tihar Jail: "Glamour quotient is at a high in Tihar Jail as it has never seen so many VIPs together and it now houses 2G accused A Raja, Sanjay Chandra, DMK MP Kanimozhi along with CWG accused Suresh Kalmadi and now cash-for-votes scam accused Amar Singh. Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the sixth MP and the latest VIP entrant in Asia's largest prison, the Tihar Jail."
Sep 5, 2011 Essar pays protection money to Maoists in Chhattisgarh: WikiLeaks: "The Ruias-led Essar Group, which has mining interests in Chhattisgarh, pays protection money to Maoists to safeguard its operations in the state,"
Sep 5, 2011 Politics in Kashmir as ''filthy'' as Dal lake: US cable: "Politics in Kashmir is ''as filthy as Dal lake'' and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked US diplomatic cables from India released by Wikileaks."
Sep 4, 2011 People's pressure force cops to change bribe to fine: "A group of citizens from various walks of life joined hands to challenge two 'suspicious' traffic cops. They were later taken to the Ajni police station where eight people have been booked, two, ironically, for obstructing a public servant while discharging his duty."
Sep 4, 2011 'कमेटी आ गई, भागो'....: "पुलिस को हर महीने पाँच सौ से हज़ार रूपए देता हूँ.और इतने ही करीब नगर निगम वाले ले जाते हैं. "
Sep 4, 2011 DU prof told us Gamma was a pehelwan: Police: "Professor R K Sharma told interrogators that he had never heard about a gamma irradiator. This, despite him being a member of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)."
Sep 4, 2011 85,000 cases still pending with Delhi Police: "A whopping 47 per cent of the over 1.81 lakh cases reported in the national capital in the past three-and-a-half years remain unsolved with Delhi Police"
Sep 3, 2011 AP infant deaths: Govt admits flaws in hospital: "10 babie die in 48 hours", "incubators are shared", "The government earlier gave a clean chit to the hospital, but has now taken a U-turn."
Sep 3, 2011 Lizard found in mid-day meal, kids affected: "Forty-four students from Sarvodaya Vidyalaya for Girls in Mohan Garden, west Delhi, were taken to DDU Hospital when they complained of nausea, abdominal pain and dizziness after a lizard was found in their mid-day meal."
Sep 3, 2011 Follow The Money: "Just not PC Things haven’t changed much in the last 60 years in some government offices, like the one here in Calcutta"
Sep 3, 2011 Finnish woman raped in south Delhi guest house
Sep 3, 2011 US Consul was told corruption was an "inalienable" part of India (Wikileaks): "In a cable written in 2007 after the collapse of an over-bridge in Hyderabad, Hopper listed the various ways in which people "explained" corruption and wondered "Does anyone care?""
Sep 3, 2011 Girl gangraped by 4, youth held
Sep 3, 2011 Andhra Pradesh: 10 infants dead in 48 hours: " The families allege the hospital failed to repair dysfunctional ventilators inspite of repeated complaints."
Sep 3, 2011 Andhra infant deaths: hospital gets clean chit: "Andhra infant deaths: hospital gets clean chit CNN-IBN The district administration gave a shocking reaction claiming it wasn't human error but God's error."
Sep 2, 2011 World’s worst lungs are in India - Cross-continental survey raises deeper air pollution fears than suspected
Aug 31, 2011 Guide launched 'to help overcome fear of India's corrupt police': "A human rights group has launched a campaign to help the public overcome its fear of India's police which has been tainted by allegations of extra-judicial killings, corruption, extortion, rape and sexual assault.", "In 2009, 59 people died in police custody in India, while a large number of suspects have been killed in 'fake encounters' – where police are alleged to have staged shoot-outs to cover up extrajudicial killings. Several police 'encounter specialist' gunmen have become notorious, especially in Mumbai where seven officers have killed more than 500 'suspects.'"
Aug 31, 2011 Three levels of corruption: "corruption in India has three levels: political, corporate, and low-level corruption, which I would call "chai pani"."
Aug 31, 2011 Manual scavenging still practised in Karnataka: Study: "Manual scavenging is still practised in parts of Karnataka with the condition of these social groups continuing to be ''pathetic and inhuman,''"
Aug 31, 2011 Over 9 lakh newborns die annually in India: Study: "Despite a significant increase in women and child healthcare in India, more than nine lakh children in the country still die every year before becoming one-month-old"
Aug 31, 2011 Woman kingpin of Goa sex racket held from Mumbai: "Shahin, who is termed as a kingpin of the racket, used to lure Mumbai-based girls under the guise of providing them jobs in casinos and in dance bars in Goa, police said. These girls were later forced into prostitution through an organised inter-state racket"
Aug 31, 2011 Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years,
Aug 30, 2011 Rs 6 lakh for a night of dance, booze and sex in Mumbai
Aug 30, 2011 Mumbai tops in 'worst cities' list: "Mumbai has been rated as one of the worst cities to live in"
Aug 30, 2011 Wife of convict gang-raped in jail: cops: "Police on Monday confirmed that the wife of a convict was allegedly gang raped by four wardens in the jail compound of the Central Jail at Fatehgarh."
Aug 29, 2011 This, No Middle-Class, Weekend Revolution: "as much as 40 per cent of kerosene fails to reach those it is meant for, while the notorious oil mafia uses it to adulterate petrol and earns a whopping Rs 90 billion (about $2 billion) every year out of it."
Aug 29, 2011 Sankararaman murder case: Plea says new tapes point to attempts to bribe judge: "indicated attempts by the Kanchi seer to bribe the judge hearing the case."
Aug 28, 2011 Lokayukta pleads for probe team: "Jharkhand Lokayukta got its website today, but the all-empowering moment of celebration turned sour when its head highlighted the lack of an independent probe team and inadequate office space"
Aug 28, 2011 Achuthanandan slams adoration of erstwhile royals: ""Even politicians and ministers speak in a ceremonial language of respect and fear when they address royal family members. This shows their slave mentality,""
Aug 28, 2011 4 UP jail wardens suspended on gangrape charges: "inmate accused them of raping his wife on the jail premises"
Aug 28, 2011 Lady cop looked on as colleague molested a girl: Goa committee: "The 21-year-old girl, who had escaped from a prostitution racket, was allegedly forced to perform oral sex by constable Vishwavijay Digambar Parab of Mapusa police station"
Aug 27, 2011 A cancer at the heart of Indian democracy: "Our electoral system is fueled by black money rather than white funds. The institutions that report to politicians know this, and make their own arrangements. The CBI can get ferocious when it wants about its preferred seasonal targets, but it has no interest in stopping fellow policemen from taking 150 rupees a month from each shanty in each Delhi slum in order to ensure that the water supply is not cut off.", "The political class has gathered to check the corruption of businessmen, judges, bureaucrats (down to the district level) and anyone else you can think of. But when it comes to introspection, the assembled elite begins to dissemble. It would rather not discuss a Lok Pal empowered to delve into the cash flow of politics."
Aug 27, 2011 Corruption has become way of life: Jaitley
Aug 27, 2011 “I Fear For My Life, But I’ll Go On”
Aug 27, 2011 Information Martyr: "Shehla Masood had to die because the state couldn’t protect her"
Aug 26, 2011 Half of our MPs anpadh, ganwaar: some gems from very civil society: "Om Puri said: “Yeh anpadh hain, inka kya background hai? Aadhe se zyaada MP ganwaar hain... hum dekhte hain TV pe, yeh kaise ladte hain House mein (They are illiterate, what is their background? More than half are rustic. On TV, we see them fighting in the House.”)"
Aug 25, 2011 Three-year-old girl burnt alive by drunk father
Aug 24, 2011 '542 VIPs are making a fool of 120 crore people’
Aug 24, 2011 Indian corruption hits all aspects of life
Aug 24, 2011 Arrested for murder, Bihar girl raped in custody: "A teenaged girl held in custody in a murder case in Bihar was allegedly raped by policemen while being interrogated"
Aug 23, 2011 Bengal hospital makes youth use his severed legs as pillow: "The patient was in agonizing pain and hardly realized the barbaric act." It was only when the patients and visitors, unable to bear the bizarre sight, began a hue and cry that the staff finally removed the legs."
Aug 23, 2011 'AIIMS wants Rs10k bribe for heart surgery’: "the operation has been rescheduled twice and three bottles of blood arranged by his family and submitted to the hospital in August last year for the surgery, is no longer usable."
Aug 23, 2011 Delhi Imam, Dalit leaders criticise Anna’s campaign
Aug 23, 2011 India graft: 'I paid a bribe for a death certificate': "Anjali Yadav's distress over India's rampant corruption culture reached a peak when she was forced to bribe a government official to provide a death certificate for her mother. "I was so ashamed,""
Aug 23, 2011 Don’t pay: CM to business: "Bid to curb extortion blamed on party ranks"
Aug 23, 2011 'Policemen raped 7 women in Bhatta-Parsaul'
Aug 22, 2011 Brutality unleashed: "The jailor beating a prisoner at Bhadohi jail in Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)"
Aug 21, 2011 'Cops raped 7 women in Bhatta-Parsaul': "The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has concluded that seven women had been raped by cops in the twin villages of Bhatta-Parsaul during clashes between police and farmers agitating against land acquisition"
Aug 21, 2011 Bukhari calls stir anti-Islam, tells Muslims to stay away: "Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, has called upon Muslims to stay away from the Anna movement saying his war cry - Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata Ki Jai - are against Islam."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ show: Have you ever paid a bribe?: " Citizens tell us if they have ever paid a bribe to get their work done easy."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ fights against cheating petrol pump attendant: "CJ Gaurav Aggarwal caught a petrol pump attendant cheating and complained, action was taken against the attendant."
Aug 21, 2011 Two minor girls raped in UP: "a 13-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a youth in Singahi area"
Aug 21, 2011 Security guard guns down youth over minor incident
Aug 21, 2011 Couple held with 15 pistols in Uttar Pradesh: "A young couple involved in smuggling firearms was arrested with 15 pistols in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district"
Aug 20, 2011 UPA-2 revisits Emergency: "Peaceful protests are fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution that all citizens are entitled to enjoy. No one can claim that this right is unfettered."
Aug 20, 2011 Fight against corruption: Maoists ask Team Anna to join them
Aug 20, 2011 Naked Man Outside Frame: "The ‘ban’ on Aarakshan is just part of a long capitulation. The mob is the final censor in our country."
Aug 19, 2011 40 pc Indian women face domestic violence: "According to the National Family Health Survey, only two per cent of abused women, ever go to the police for help."
Aug 19, 2011 Man beaten up, wife raped and killed: "his wife was raped and then murdered in front of him"
Aug 19, 2011 10 cops killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack
Aug 19, 2011 Guardian: Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free': ""Of the 40,000 rupees (£520) I earn a month from my restaurant, I pay at least a third in bribes," Vishal, 26, said. But bribery also extends into his personal life. Vishal has two young children and to get the eldest in to the best local school he paid a "donation" of 25,000 rupees (£3,400) in cash to the headmaster. A driving licence needed another bribe. Getting an appointment with a competent public doctor cost a substantial amount. And then there are the traffic police. Every other week Vishal says he is stopped, told he has committed an offence and made to pay 100 rupees (£1.25), the standard fee to avoid "too much bother"."
Aug 19, 2011 Corruption in India: four stories: "As anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare taps into public anger, ordinary Indians explain the role of bribes in their lives"
Aug 19, 2011 In Navi Mumbai, a PG med seat costs Rs 1.7cr: "A postgraduate radiology seat in a private medical college in Navi Mumbai has sold for Rs 1.7 crore. The capitation fee is a 40% increase over last year"
Aug 19, 2011 531 women become pregnant after birth control operation in Orissa: "At least 531 women have become pregnant despite undergoing permanent birth control operation in Orissa."
Aug 18, 2011 Shehla was threatened by a police officer: Father: "Sultan Masood said the police tried covering up Shehla's murder by initially terming it as suicide."
Aug 18, 2011 Bhopal: Slain RTI activist's father expects no justice: "Sultan said, “We belong to a lower middle class and lack the power to purchase or to influence a top politician or an official. We expect no justice.”"
Aug 16, 2011 Shehla Masood killing: Suicide bid or murder?
Aug 16, 2011 In India, harnessing people power to fight corruption
Aug 15, 2011 This is not the India we fought for, say freedom fighters: "this is not the nation of their dreams and are troubled by the all-pervading culture of corruption."
Aug 15, 2011 Maoist attack CRPF camp in J'khand,hoist black flags in Orissa
Aug 15, 2011 Taking dig at Rahul, Modi says shame that people use 'poor' for photo-op
Aug 14, 2011 64 yrs on, govt yet to fulfill aam admi's dream: "Every common man had a dream of his own - communal harmony, a speedy justice delivery system, a responsive bureaucracy, a transparent system, a corruption-free polity and, above all, honest governance. All these are, still, dreams only.", "So, on the eve of August 15, after 64 years, what does a young Indian dream? A fresh tryst with destiny?"
Aug 14, 2011 Bikes, youths roar against corruption: "Resembling a ‘second freedom struggle’ on the eve of 64th Independence Day, hundreds of youth took out a motorcycle rally"
Aug 14, 2011 CJs fight authorities, call for an end to bribes: "Citizen Journalists fight corruption and say 'bribe bandh'."
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