|
|
| |
| |
|
|
RSS |
Latest News of Indian Society:
For old news of indian society, please click in the sub-menu navigation bar above
For old news of indian society, please click in the sub-menu navigation bar above
Aug 14, 2011 CJs fight corruption in the education system: "Citizen Journalists fight against the corruption in the education system of the country."
Aug 14, 2011 Inhuman, but manual scavenging lives on: "Even 65 years after Independence, 8000 manual scavengers live by clearing human waste in Karnataka."
Aug 14, 2011 Rains claim 24 lives in UP and West Bengal
Aug 14, 2011 How a 'rich' school tagged poor students in Delhi: "The children are made to wear an ink mark "F/S", denoting freeship, on their shirt collars to distinguish them from the rest of the children."
Aug 13, 2011 India's scandal-hit government still tops poll
Aug 13, 2011 250 houses submerged by flood waters
Aug 12, 2011 Telangana: President approves, Hyderabad no more free job zone
Aug 12, 2011 Maval: Witnesses say cops shot detained farmer thrice: "eyewitnesses said he was shot at with a revolver by a police inspector after some other cops pushed him out of a police van in which he was detained."
Aug 12, 2011 Realty bites: House in Mumbai slums for Rs 40 lakh: "The realty market is booming in Mumbai's slums that house 60% of the city's population."
Aug 12, 2011 Scams, price rise? UPA would still win polls today: "The Prime Minister's own credibility takes a hit. Yet its share of popular votes does not drop."
Aug 12, 2011 Is corruption in our DNA?: "“If Central government releases one rupee for poor, only 10 paisa reaches them.”"
Aug 11, 2011 We, the corrupt Indians!: "We know corruption is wrong but we also know that it is prevalent and convenient."
Aug 11, 2011 Our freedom song: "Yes, we rank 87 out of 178 countries measured in the Transparency International’s corruption index. Yes, we have major scams running into thousands of crores where public money has been looted. Yes, you need to often pay a bribe to get work done and buying a house involves undisclosed cash transactions. But is the fight against corruption really that hopeless?"
Aug 11, 2011 SBI, ICICI hike loan rates to 15-year highs: "In case of ICICI Bank, the floating reference rate, which is the benchmark for retail loans and the I-bar-the benchmark for corporate loans-have both been increased by 50 basis points to 15.75% and 18.75%, respectively."
Aug 11, 2011 Banana Republic: "If a state government is incapable of maintaining law and order and takes recourse to knee-jerk bans raising the bogey of perceived threats, it has no business to be in power."
Aug 10, 2011 Nearly 1,300 Pakistanis missing in India: "Nearly 1,300 Pakistanis on visit to India are traceless after their visa expired"
Aug 9, 2011 Pune farmers' protest turns ugly, four dead: "The police resorted to firing when protesters took to stone pelting over land acquisition in Pune."
Aug 7, 2011 Five-year-old girl raped in east Delhi: "The accused, Deepak (34), was known to the victim's family."
Aug 7, 2011 Man abandons wife for giving birth to girl
Aug 7, 2011 Mass copying racket in private medical college busted, 13 held
Aug 7, 2011 UP tops 'fake' encounters list, Manipur second: "Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake encounters with nearly 120 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in past three years."
Aug 6, 2011 Bhopal: Drug trials conducted on gas victims: "At least 80 pc of the patients on whom trials were conducted, were victims of the gas tragedy."
Aug 6, 2011 Delhi: No electricity at IGI T-3 for 5 hours: "All check-ins were done manually and security check-ins were compromised as machines were not working."
Aug 6, 2011 Without Armour No legal cover at all for our whistleblowers : "Whistleblowers have to brave threats when exposing corruption, Prof Kumar of IIT Kharagpur has been suspended for exposing irregularities at IITs and in the entrance test, His complaint is with the CVC, Sajib Nandi, the whistleblower who is trying to unveil systematic doping at SAI, also faces threats"
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: fight for proper mid-day meal in Andhra Pradesh: "Chaitanya turned citizen journalist to expose plight of school children due to corruption."
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: Have you ever paid a bribe?: "Citizens tell if they have ever paid a bribe to get their work done."
Aug 6, 2011 Rajasthan woman branded as 'witch', tortured: "A 35-year-old woman was made to lie on embers and searing hot tongs were placed on her body after she was branded a "witch" by her family members, including her husband, in Rajasthan’s Pali district"
Aug 5, 2011 CAG finds manipulations in Tatkal ticket bookings: "CAG report holding booking clerks, agents and touts responsible for the non-availability of the facility to genuine passengers.", ""There were irreuglarities such as booking of all Tatkal quota tickets within a few minutes of the opening of reservation,"", "CAG has found that during login at the website exactly at 8 am on the day of booking for Tatkal or general tickets, the system would hang. "It took 4-5 minutes to login, by which time Tatkal quota was sold out,""
Aug 4, 2011 Indian module could be involved in Mumbai blasts: PC
Aug 4, 2011 Woman killed over dowry dispute
Aug 4, 2011 India 4th most dangerous country in world for women: Survey: "A global perception survey has named India as the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women, with female foeticide and human trafficking being cited as the major reasons.", "named Afghanistan as the most dangerous place in the world for women while Congo has been placed second and Pakistan was in the third place."
Aug 3, 2011 India's Frustration With Corruption Boils Over: Choudhury
Aug 3, 2011 Why corruption is your problem…: "Is the government intent on dealing with corruption? Arvind Kejriwal's repeated assertion was “No!”"
Aug 3, 2011 Living in a public toilet, battling for life: "Those with no money have no option but to live in subways, under flyovers, on pavements, under trees — and some in unused urinals"
Aug 3, 2011 Finally, shelter and free food for Aiims patients: "Occupants of a public toilet till now, critically-ill Ramrati and Hem Kumari have found a home in the Sanatan Dharm Shiv Mandir dharamshala"
Aug 3, 2011 AIIMS admission racket: CBI registers four new cases
Aug 3, 2011 No safety for women anywhere...: "Eve teasing is a common problem faced by many women in the City"
Aug 3, 2011 'Baba' rapes teeanged girl in Delhi, held
Aug 3, 2011 From clerks to crorepatis: BMC's top 5 contractors: "Almost every one of these firms has one thing in common: political patronage. It is a rags-to-riches story born out of enormous sums of taxpayers money spent by the BMC to build roads every year since 1989."
Aug 3, 2011 Boycotting the corrupt only way to end graft: Justice Hegde: "The last one year, we have seen Rs 1.76 lakh crore in one scam, Rs 70,000 crore in another scam. Nobody could’ve projected that in one year, in this country, in one scam, such huge amount of money could have been involved. Rs 1.76 lakh crore would amount to the annual plan of this country -- how many times the annual plan? So we have to fight corruption immediately and more strongly. You cannot depend on institutions like the Lokayukta and the Police. As a society, we have to address the problem of corruption to do something about it. I feel in my experience, the only way we can have effective fight against corruption, is by boycotting the corrupt."
Aug 3, 2011 Trio rapes, robs 40-yr-old woman
Aug 3, 2011 Naxals put price tag on road projects in Bihar: "Several area commanders arrested in Aurangabad and Gaya have admitted to charging levy up to 7-10 per cent of the project cost. “If the quality of work is poor (correspondingly the profit margin of company will be higher), Maoists even bargain for up to 20 per cent levy of the project cost,”"
Aug 3, 2011 Woman burnt to death over dowry in Ghaziabad
Aug 2, 2011 CHANGE FROM THE TOP: "Indians know well that ‘corruption’ began at the top, in the political, administrative and corporate realms, and was then passed down to India and Bharat with gross abandon."
Aug 2, 2011 Pradeep S Mehta: Making food subsidies work better: "The ADB study showed that the deserving poor in India received only 10 per cent of the benefits from the system. Nearly twice accrues to the undeserving — the middle class. Around 43 per cent is siphoned off by the system illegally, and 28 per cent are excess costs incurred by the sarkari system — the Food Corporation of India, and so on."
Aug 2, 2011 Nine travellers lynched to death near Bangalore
Aug 2, 2011 People disheartened due to corruption, says Bhagawat
Aug 2, 2011 BBC: Property scams target India's middle class: "Cheats and swindlers are taking advantage of India's suburban construction boom"
Aug 2, 2011 Kolkata: Non-teaching staff member dies after being punched by students
Aug 2, 2011 Corruption in INDIA: A never ending saga
Aug 2, 2011 Boy spends one year in jail for stealing Rs 200: "For 12 months now, Shamsuddin (19) has been lodged in Tihar Jail despite the fact that his alleged crime, that of stealing Rs 200, would usually carry a sentence of three months' imprisonment. After being denied bail once, he was granted bail three months ago, but did not have the Rs 10,000 in property needed for a bail bond."
Aug 2, 2011 Prescription drugs sold over the counter: "Many chemists dispense medicines at higher prices without insisting on a prescription"
Aug 2, 2011 Lady dead after daylight robbery in flat; call wouldn’t go to 100 88-year-old gagged & tied: "An 88-year-old woman died after daylight robbers tied her hands behind her back, held her daughter-in-law at gunpoint and looted their apartment near one of the most recognisable stretches in the city.", "a neighbour’s frantic call to “100” did not get through to what is supposed to be the most reliable number in the country in an emergency."
Aug 2, 2011 'Mafia-like' mining network in Bellary: Lokayukta: "Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde today said a 'mafia-like' network existed in Bellary where the Reddy brothers, who are ministers, have influence and illegal mining there was like a ''single window corruption system''."
Jul 27, 2011 Delhi: 2 girls gang-raped, 1 left in front of NCW: "An 18-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped on July 19 from Vijaynagar area by a group of youths when she had gone to purchase books,"
Jul 27, 2011 Udaipur: men fake deliveries to get govt funds: "The officials at a health centre in Udaipur have been forging entries of deliveries in the name of men."
Jul 27, 2011 Indians are a depressed lot: Report: "nearly 36% suffered from what is called Major Depressive Episode (MDE). "
Jul 27, 2011 Mall woman abduction: Sons of cops, management students on the run: "police said two are sons of retired head constables of Haryana Police."
Jul 24, 2011 India marks watershed economic reforms anniversary: "bribery remains rife in the 1.2-billion-strong nation, particularly in government offices with officials seeking money for everything from school entrance to marriage certificates, and the economic boom has bypassed hundreds of millions of Indians. Some 42 percent of the population, or 455 million people, still live on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. Statistics on health, infant deaths and malnutrition are worse than those for some countries in sub-Saharan Africa."
Jul 24, 2011 Ring of fraud: "Indian mobile phone users are being flooded with scam smses like these. They come in various forms — lottery wins, employment opportunities, offers to work from home or to get admission at reputed universities abroad."
Jul 24, 2011 Bumpy ride for Mumbaikars as potholes grow: "More than 6000 potholes have surfaced on Mumbai's roads this monsoon."
Jul 24, 2011 Take action against ACP, junior: Court: "The Delhi police chief has been asked by a city court to take action against one of his assistant commissioners and an inspector for botching up the probe into the killing of a Dalit student by some student leaders of a Delhi University college."
Jul 24, 2011 Lots Of Food For Thought: "As many as 46 per cent of the malnourished children of the world—of whom at least 75,000 die every month—are in India. Another alarming official statistic—36 per cent of Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day."
Jul 24, 2011 Informers killed after kangaroo court trial: "A Maoist kangaroo court branded six villagers police informers, shot dead two and relegated three to house arrest in Latehar last week. "
Jul 23, 2011 ‘Growing anger over corruption...it can’t be business as usual’
Jul 23, 2011 The Creative Writer - The will to change?: "In India, corruption is an affliction that goes right down to the grassroots. It can only be defeated by a change that is just as deep-rooted."
Jul 23, 2011 Sathya Sai Baba's fondness for perfumes: "Apart from recovering a staggering haul of gold, silver jewellery, diamonds and cash from various rooms during three rounds of inventories, the officials had also stumbled upon interesting personal belongings of Sathya Sai Baba in his Yajur Mandir residence in Prasanthi Nilayam. There were imported shaving kits, perfumes, scents, toiletries, shampoos, soaps and napkins. There were also expensive watches of various international brands. What more, there were packets of putrefied dry fruits also. "Sai Baba loved good perfumes when he was alive. When he used to come out for darshans and give discourses, he was always sporting perfumes of top international brands,""
Jul 23, 2011 Tamil Nadu man sells infant daughter for Rs 40,000: "convinced his wife Fathima to sell their third girl child, born about a month ago, saying there was no other way they could manage costs"
Jul 23, 2011 Mother of all scams: Men deliver babies in Rajasthan, claims health centre: "The pregnancy assistants of the centre allegedly provided false delivery details to obtain government aid meant for below poverty line (BPL) pregnant women under the centrally sponsored scheme, the 'Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)'. Names of at least 32 men, claiming to have delivered babies at the centre, are mentioned in the records"
Jul 22, 2011 CVC for honesty lessons in schools
Jul 22, 2011 Only bureaucrats, politicians gain from quotas: SC
Jul 21, 2011 Govt sleeps over CCTVs, Mumbai still unsafe: "Not even a fraction of the number of CCTVs proposed post 26/11 were purchased."
Jul 21, 2011 This government peon owns assets worth Rs 2 crore: "works as a peon at the collector's office in Cuttack."
Jul 20, 2011 Eight Congressmen feared killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack
Jul 20, 2011 Senior Cong leader escapes unhurt as Naxals blow up bridge in Chhattisgarh
Jul 19, 2011 Regulatory body can check corruption in media
Jul 19, 2011 India Sees Growth Imperiled With Greek-Like Tax Evasion
Jul 19, 2011 More gold, cash tumble out of Sathya Sai Baba's cupboards: "valuables worth nearly Rs 59 crore being found so far in three rounds of counting."
Jul 18, 2011 Police rain lathis on striking students in Jaipur
Jul 17, 2011 Corrupt India is a national shame: "According to some estimates, India’s parallel economy has risen from a mere 3 per cent of the GDP in the mid 50s to around 50 per cent today."
Jul 17, 2011 Why India can't feed her people: "At the Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi, a woman looks through a garbage pile for spoiled fruits and vegetables to eat."
Jul 17, 2011 Maximum Seismicity: "As his city becomes a recurrent victim of terror, the Mumbaikar sinks deeper into fatalistic acceptance"
Jul 16, 2011 The truth is that India doesn't care: "They say that it's deja vu for Bombay but in India it's deja vu time with everything, be it terrorism, scams, natural calamities, railway accidents, communal riots, boats capsizing, farmer suicides, Maoist killings. The cost of life is cheap in this country, and, heartless and indifferent as it might sound, we watch what's happened to others on TV, then get on with our lives. We are used to people dying."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai blasts: As terror targets India again, when will enough be ENOUGH
Jul 16, 2011 If the Murdoch Empire Needs a Home, India Awaits: Pankaj Mishra: "More disturbingly, the editorial departments in many of India’s major newspapers and television channels are now open to the highest bidder: political parties, corporations, celebrities, indeed anyone who can afford to can secure favorable coverage for themselves with a simple cash transaction. What Indians call “paid news” is not confined to a few small-town rags."
Jul 16, 2011 Pranab Bardhan | Inequality of opportunity is the worst in India
Jul 16, 2011 UP: minor gangraped, beaten for having an affair: "This is the second such incident to be reported in Lakhimpur and the eight in Uttar Pradesh in the past month."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai not equipped to tackle terror, says Prithviraj Chavan
Jul 16, 2011 Life is so f******g cheap
Jul 16, 2011 In Ranchi, alert means nothing: "No policemen in sight at entry and exit points of Ranchi station on Thursday, 24 hours after DGP GS Rath issued a statewide alert in the wake of Mumbai blasts."
Jul 16, 2011 Indore hospital uses children as guinea pigs: "Gets money from Korean firm, MNCs to conduct clinical drug trials on close to 2,000 children."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai: No choice but to carry on?: "While Mumbaikars come back to normal, they refuse to call it resilience."
Jul 15, 2011 All Indian cities are vulnerable: Chidambaram
Jul 15, 2011 Mumbai: No choice but to carry on?
Jul 15, 2011 'Twice lucky' blasts survivor wonders who is really safe in Mumbai
Jul 15, 2011 Dalal Street shows 'care a damn' attitude to terror strike: "Showing resilience and a care a damn attitude towards the terror strike in the city, it was business as usual in the stock market today."
Jul 15, 2011 Mumbaikars move on, yet again: "A day after three blasts shook Maximum City Mumbai, the city is back on track with people, though angry at the government's inability to stop the terror strikes, returning to their work and business. Though Mumbaikars are back at work as they feel that there is no other option, fear still lurks."
Jul 13, 2011 CCTV shows man beaten to death in Coimbatore: "While several people watched the man being killed, no one came forward to help him.", "Just outside of the police station"
Jul 13, 2011 Return of Dawood-Rajan gang war in Mumbai?: "He was released after completing a 13-year sentence that was served to him in connection with one of the cases. He hit the headlines in 2009, when three police officers were suspended after attending a Christmas party that he had thrown in Chembur."
Jul 13, 2011 Crowd watches as goons murder man on street in Coimbatore: "A man was beaten to death in Coimbatore by four men and the entire episode was caught on CCTV that showed how people were mute spectators to the day killing."
| First Prev 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Next Last |
Aug 14, 2011 CJs fight corruption in the education system: "Citizen Journalists fight against the corruption in the education system of the country."
Aug 14, 2011 Inhuman, but manual scavenging lives on: "Even 65 years after Independence, 8000 manual scavengers live by clearing human waste in Karnataka."
Aug 14, 2011 Rains claim 24 lives in UP and West Bengal
Aug 14, 2011 How a 'rich' school tagged poor students in Delhi: "The children are made to wear an ink mark "F/S", denoting freeship, on their shirt collars to distinguish them from the rest of the children."
Aug 13, 2011 India's scandal-hit government still tops poll
Aug 13, 2011 250 houses submerged by flood waters
Aug 12, 2011 Telangana: President approves, Hyderabad no more free job zone
Aug 12, 2011 Maval: Witnesses say cops shot detained farmer thrice: "eyewitnesses said he was shot at with a revolver by a police inspector after some other cops pushed him out of a police van in which he was detained."
Aug 12, 2011 Realty bites: House in Mumbai slums for Rs 40 lakh: "The realty market is booming in Mumbai's slums that house 60% of the city's population."
Aug 12, 2011 Scams, price rise? UPA would still win polls today: "The Prime Minister's own credibility takes a hit. Yet its share of popular votes does not drop."
Aug 12, 2011 Is corruption in our DNA?: "“If Central government releases one rupee for poor, only 10 paisa reaches them.”"
Aug 11, 2011 We, the corrupt Indians!: "We know corruption is wrong but we also know that it is prevalent and convenient."
Aug 11, 2011 Our freedom song: "Yes, we rank 87 out of 178 countries measured in the Transparency International’s corruption index. Yes, we have major scams running into thousands of crores where public money has been looted. Yes, you need to often pay a bribe to get work done and buying a house involves undisclosed cash transactions. But is the fight against corruption really that hopeless?"
Aug 11, 2011 SBI, ICICI hike loan rates to 15-year highs: "In case of ICICI Bank, the floating reference rate, which is the benchmark for retail loans and the I-bar-the benchmark for corporate loans-have both been increased by 50 basis points to 15.75% and 18.75%, respectively."
Aug 11, 2011 Banana Republic: "If a state government is incapable of maintaining law and order and takes recourse to knee-jerk bans raising the bogey of perceived threats, it has no business to be in power."
Aug 10, 2011 Nearly 1,300 Pakistanis missing in India: "Nearly 1,300 Pakistanis on visit to India are traceless after their visa expired"
Aug 9, 2011 Pune farmers' protest turns ugly, four dead: "The police resorted to firing when protesters took to stone pelting over land acquisition in Pune."
Aug 7, 2011 Five-year-old girl raped in east Delhi: "The accused, Deepak (34), was known to the victim's family."
Aug 7, 2011 Man abandons wife for giving birth to girl
Aug 7, 2011 Mass copying racket in private medical college busted, 13 held
Aug 7, 2011 UP tops 'fake' encounters list, Manipur second: "Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake encounters with nearly 120 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in past three years."
Aug 6, 2011 Bhopal: Drug trials conducted on gas victims: "At least 80 pc of the patients on whom trials were conducted, were victims of the gas tragedy."
Aug 6, 2011 Delhi: No electricity at IGI T-3 for 5 hours: "All check-ins were done manually and security check-ins were compromised as machines were not working."
Aug 6, 2011 Without Armour No legal cover at all for our whistleblowers : "Whistleblowers have to brave threats when exposing corruption, Prof Kumar of IIT Kharagpur has been suspended for exposing irregularities at IITs and in the entrance test, His complaint is with the CVC, Sajib Nandi, the whistleblower who is trying to unveil systematic doping at SAI, also faces threats"
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: fight for proper mid-day meal in Andhra Pradesh: "Chaitanya turned citizen journalist to expose plight of school children due to corruption."
Aug 6, 2011 CJ: Have you ever paid a bribe?: "Citizens tell if they have ever paid a bribe to get their work done."
Aug 6, 2011 Rajasthan woman branded as 'witch', tortured: "A 35-year-old woman was made to lie on embers and searing hot tongs were placed on her body after she was branded a "witch" by her family members, including her husband, in Rajasthan’s Pali district"
Aug 5, 2011 CAG finds manipulations in Tatkal ticket bookings: "CAG report holding booking clerks, agents and touts responsible for the non-availability of the facility to genuine passengers.", ""There were irreuglarities such as booking of all Tatkal quota tickets within a few minutes of the opening of reservation,"", "CAG has found that during login at the website exactly at 8 am on the day of booking for Tatkal or general tickets, the system would hang. "It took 4-5 minutes to login, by which time Tatkal quota was sold out,""
Aug 4, 2011 Indian module could be involved in Mumbai blasts: PC
Aug 4, 2011 Woman killed over dowry dispute
Aug 4, 2011 India 4th most dangerous country in world for women: Survey: "A global perception survey has named India as the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women, with female foeticide and human trafficking being cited as the major reasons.", "named Afghanistan as the most dangerous place in the world for women while Congo has been placed second and Pakistan was in the third place."
Aug 3, 2011 India's Frustration With Corruption Boils Over: Choudhury
Aug 3, 2011 Why corruption is your problem…: "Is the government intent on dealing with corruption? Arvind Kejriwal's repeated assertion was “No!”"
Aug 3, 2011 Living in a public toilet, battling for life: "Those with no money have no option but to live in subways, under flyovers, on pavements, under trees — and some in unused urinals"
Aug 3, 2011 Finally, shelter and free food for Aiims patients: "Occupants of a public toilet till now, critically-ill Ramrati and Hem Kumari have found a home in the Sanatan Dharm Shiv Mandir dharamshala"
Aug 3, 2011 AIIMS admission racket: CBI registers four new cases
Aug 3, 2011 No safety for women anywhere...: "Eve teasing is a common problem faced by many women in the City"
Aug 3, 2011 'Baba' rapes teeanged girl in Delhi, held
Aug 3, 2011 From clerks to crorepatis: BMC's top 5 contractors: "Almost every one of these firms has one thing in common: political patronage. It is a rags-to-riches story born out of enormous sums of taxpayers money spent by the BMC to build roads every year since 1989."
Aug 3, 2011 Boycotting the corrupt only way to end graft: Justice Hegde: "The last one year, we have seen Rs 1.76 lakh crore in one scam, Rs 70,000 crore in another scam. Nobody could’ve projected that in one year, in this country, in one scam, such huge amount of money could have been involved. Rs 1.76 lakh crore would amount to the annual plan of this country -- how many times the annual plan? So we have to fight corruption immediately and more strongly. You cannot depend on institutions like the Lokayukta and the Police. As a society, we have to address the problem of corruption to do something about it. I feel in my experience, the only way we can have effective fight against corruption, is by boycotting the corrupt."
Aug 3, 2011 Trio rapes, robs 40-yr-old woman
Aug 3, 2011 Naxals put price tag on road projects in Bihar: "Several area commanders arrested in Aurangabad and Gaya have admitted to charging levy up to 7-10 per cent of the project cost. “If the quality of work is poor (correspondingly the profit margin of company will be higher), Maoists even bargain for up to 20 per cent levy of the project cost,”"
Aug 3, 2011 Woman burnt to death over dowry in Ghaziabad
Aug 2, 2011 CHANGE FROM THE TOP: "Indians know well that ‘corruption’ began at the top, in the political, administrative and corporate realms, and was then passed down to India and Bharat with gross abandon."
Aug 2, 2011 Pradeep S Mehta: Making food subsidies work better: "The ADB study showed that the deserving poor in India received only 10 per cent of the benefits from the system. Nearly twice accrues to the undeserving — the middle class. Around 43 per cent is siphoned off by the system illegally, and 28 per cent are excess costs incurred by the sarkari system — the Food Corporation of India, and so on."
Aug 2, 2011 Nine travellers lynched to death near Bangalore
Aug 2, 2011 People disheartened due to corruption, says Bhagawat
Aug 2, 2011 BBC: Property scams target India's middle class: "Cheats and swindlers are taking advantage of India's suburban construction boom"
Aug 2, 2011 Kolkata: Non-teaching staff member dies after being punched by students
Aug 2, 2011 Corruption in INDIA: A never ending saga
Aug 2, 2011 Boy spends one year in jail for stealing Rs 200: "For 12 months now, Shamsuddin (19) has been lodged in Tihar Jail despite the fact that his alleged crime, that of stealing Rs 200, would usually carry a sentence of three months' imprisonment. After being denied bail once, he was granted bail three months ago, but did not have the Rs 10,000 in property needed for a bail bond."
Aug 2, 2011 Prescription drugs sold over the counter: "Many chemists dispense medicines at higher prices without insisting on a prescription"
Aug 2, 2011 Lady dead after daylight robbery in flat; call wouldn’t go to 100 88-year-old gagged & tied: "An 88-year-old woman died after daylight robbers tied her hands behind her back, held her daughter-in-law at gunpoint and looted their apartment near one of the most recognisable stretches in the city.", "a neighbour’s frantic call to “100” did not get through to what is supposed to be the most reliable number in the country in an emergency."
Aug 2, 2011 'Mafia-like' mining network in Bellary: Lokayukta: "Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde today said a 'mafia-like' network existed in Bellary where the Reddy brothers, who are ministers, have influence and illegal mining there was like a ''single window corruption system''."
Jul 27, 2011 Delhi: 2 girls gang-raped, 1 left in front of NCW: "An 18-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped on July 19 from Vijaynagar area by a group of youths when she had gone to purchase books,"
Jul 27, 2011 Udaipur: men fake deliveries to get govt funds: "The officials at a health centre in Udaipur have been forging entries of deliveries in the name of men."
Jul 27, 2011 Indians are a depressed lot: Report: "nearly 36% suffered from what is called Major Depressive Episode (MDE). "
Jul 27, 2011 Mall woman abduction: Sons of cops, management students on the run: "police said two are sons of retired head constables of Haryana Police."
Jul 24, 2011 India marks watershed economic reforms anniversary: "bribery remains rife in the 1.2-billion-strong nation, particularly in government offices with officials seeking money for everything from school entrance to marriage certificates, and the economic boom has bypassed hundreds of millions of Indians. Some 42 percent of the population, or 455 million people, still live on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. Statistics on health, infant deaths and malnutrition are worse than those for some countries in sub-Saharan Africa."
Jul 24, 2011 Ring of fraud: "Indian mobile phone users are being flooded with scam smses like these. They come in various forms — lottery wins, employment opportunities, offers to work from home or to get admission at reputed universities abroad."
Jul 24, 2011 Bumpy ride for Mumbaikars as potholes grow: "More than 6000 potholes have surfaced on Mumbai's roads this monsoon."
Jul 24, 2011 Take action against ACP, junior: Court: "The Delhi police chief has been asked by a city court to take action against one of his assistant commissioners and an inspector for botching up the probe into the killing of a Dalit student by some student leaders of a Delhi University college."
Jul 24, 2011 Lots Of Food For Thought: "As many as 46 per cent of the malnourished children of the world—of whom at least 75,000 die every month—are in India. Another alarming official statistic—36 per cent of Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day."
Jul 24, 2011 Informers killed after kangaroo court trial: "A Maoist kangaroo court branded six villagers police informers, shot dead two and relegated three to house arrest in Latehar last week. "
Jul 23, 2011 ‘Growing anger over corruption...it can’t be business as usual’
Jul 23, 2011 The Creative Writer - The will to change?: "In India, corruption is an affliction that goes right down to the grassroots. It can only be defeated by a change that is just as deep-rooted."
Jul 23, 2011 Sathya Sai Baba's fondness for perfumes: "Apart from recovering a staggering haul of gold, silver jewellery, diamonds and cash from various rooms during three rounds of inventories, the officials had also stumbled upon interesting personal belongings of Sathya Sai Baba in his Yajur Mandir residence in Prasanthi Nilayam. There were imported shaving kits, perfumes, scents, toiletries, shampoos, soaps and napkins. There were also expensive watches of various international brands. What more, there were packets of putrefied dry fruits also. "Sai Baba loved good perfumes when he was alive. When he used to come out for darshans and give discourses, he was always sporting perfumes of top international brands,""
Jul 23, 2011 Tamil Nadu man sells infant daughter for Rs 40,000: "convinced his wife Fathima to sell their third girl child, born about a month ago, saying there was no other way they could manage costs"
Jul 23, 2011 Mother of all scams: Men deliver babies in Rajasthan, claims health centre: "The pregnancy assistants of the centre allegedly provided false delivery details to obtain government aid meant for below poverty line (BPL) pregnant women under the centrally sponsored scheme, the 'Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)'. Names of at least 32 men, claiming to have delivered babies at the centre, are mentioned in the records"
Jul 22, 2011 CVC for honesty lessons in schools
Jul 22, 2011 Only bureaucrats, politicians gain from quotas: SC
Jul 21, 2011 Govt sleeps over CCTVs, Mumbai still unsafe: "Not even a fraction of the number of CCTVs proposed post 26/11 were purchased."
Jul 21, 2011 This government peon owns assets worth Rs 2 crore: "works as a peon at the collector's office in Cuttack."
Jul 20, 2011 Eight Congressmen feared killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack
Jul 20, 2011 Senior Cong leader escapes unhurt as Naxals blow up bridge in Chhattisgarh
Jul 19, 2011 Regulatory body can check corruption in media
Jul 19, 2011 India Sees Growth Imperiled With Greek-Like Tax Evasion
Jul 19, 2011 More gold, cash tumble out of Sathya Sai Baba's cupboards: "valuables worth nearly Rs 59 crore being found so far in three rounds of counting."
Jul 18, 2011 Police rain lathis on striking students in Jaipur
Jul 17, 2011 Corrupt India is a national shame: "According to some estimates, India’s parallel economy has risen from a mere 3 per cent of the GDP in the mid 50s to around 50 per cent today."
Jul 17, 2011 Why India can't feed her people: "At the Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi, a woman looks through a garbage pile for spoiled fruits and vegetables to eat."
Jul 17, 2011 Maximum Seismicity: "As his city becomes a recurrent victim of terror, the Mumbaikar sinks deeper into fatalistic acceptance"
Jul 16, 2011 The truth is that India doesn't care: "They say that it's deja vu for Bombay but in India it's deja vu time with everything, be it terrorism, scams, natural calamities, railway accidents, communal riots, boats capsizing, farmer suicides, Maoist killings. The cost of life is cheap in this country, and, heartless and indifferent as it might sound, we watch what's happened to others on TV, then get on with our lives. We are used to people dying."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai blasts: As terror targets India again, when will enough be ENOUGH
Jul 16, 2011 If the Murdoch Empire Needs a Home, India Awaits: Pankaj Mishra: "More disturbingly, the editorial departments in many of India’s major newspapers and television channels are now open to the highest bidder: political parties, corporations, celebrities, indeed anyone who can afford to can secure favorable coverage for themselves with a simple cash transaction. What Indians call “paid news” is not confined to a few small-town rags."
Jul 16, 2011 Pranab Bardhan | Inequality of opportunity is the worst in India
Jul 16, 2011 UP: minor gangraped, beaten for having an affair: "This is the second such incident to be reported in Lakhimpur and the eight in Uttar Pradesh in the past month."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai not equipped to tackle terror, says Prithviraj Chavan
Jul 16, 2011 Life is so f******g cheap
Jul 16, 2011 In Ranchi, alert means nothing: "No policemen in sight at entry and exit points of Ranchi station on Thursday, 24 hours after DGP GS Rath issued a statewide alert in the wake of Mumbai blasts."
Jul 16, 2011 Indore hospital uses children as guinea pigs: "Gets money from Korean firm, MNCs to conduct clinical drug trials on close to 2,000 children."
Jul 16, 2011 Mumbai: No choice but to carry on?: "While Mumbaikars come back to normal, they refuse to call it resilience."
Jul 15, 2011 All Indian cities are vulnerable: Chidambaram
Jul 15, 2011 Mumbai: No choice but to carry on?
Jul 15, 2011 'Twice lucky' blasts survivor wonders who is really safe in Mumbai
Jul 15, 2011 Dalal Street shows 'care a damn' attitude to terror strike: "Showing resilience and a care a damn attitude towards the terror strike in the city, it was business as usual in the stock market today."
Jul 15, 2011 Mumbaikars move on, yet again: "A day after three blasts shook Maximum City Mumbai, the city is back on track with people, though angry at the government's inability to stop the terror strikes, returning to their work and business. Though Mumbaikars are back at work as they feel that there is no other option, fear still lurks."
Jul 13, 2011 CCTV shows man beaten to death in Coimbatore: "While several people watched the man being killed, no one came forward to help him.", "Just outside of the police station"
Jul 13, 2011 Return of Dawood-Rajan gang war in Mumbai?: "He was released after completing a 13-year sentence that was served to him in connection with one of the cases. He hit the headlines in 2009, when three police officers were suspended after attending a Christmas party that he had thrown in Chembur."
Jul 13, 2011 Crowd watches as goons murder man on street in Coimbatore: "A man was beaten to death in Coimbatore by four men and the entire episode was caught on CCTV that showed how people were mute spectators to the day killing."
| First Prev 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Next Last |