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Dec 22, 2012 SRK, Salman in race for banana awards: "Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh and Salman Khan's much hyped films 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' and 'Dabangg 2' are competing for the worst film trophy at the 2012 annual Golden Kela awards, which recognises the best of the worst in Hindi cinema."
Dec 21, 2012 CBI charges Airtel, Vodafone, ex-telecom secy in 2002 case: "THE CBI Friday filed a chargesheet against telecom firms Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Vodafone Mobile and former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh, accusing them of criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct in the allocation of additional spectrum in 2002"
Dec 21, 2012 CWG scam: Court orders framing of charges against Kalmadi: "A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of charges against sacked Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in the CWG scam case. All the accused will be charged with the offence of cheating, forge"
Dec 16, 2012 'Silly' taxes make manufacturing Jaguar, Land Rover impossible in India, Ratan Tata says: "Ruling out any possibility of manufacturing Jaguar and Land Rover in India in the near future, Tata group chief Ratan Tata has said that some "silly taxes" make even their assembly here costlier than the imports."
Dec 15, 2012 Nehru Place in world's top 30 notorious IT markets: Report: ""Nehru Place is reportedly one of the many markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods,""
Dec 15, 2012 4 months on, Alagiri's son surfaces: "After being on the run for four months in an alleged illegal granite quarrying scam, Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi surrendered before a court at nearby Melur today, four days after he was granted anticipatory bail by the High Court."
Dec 15, 2012 Granite scam: Durai Dayanidhi surrenders in Madurai court: "Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court four days after being granted anticipatory bail in the granite scam case by the Madras High Court. Accompanied by a"
Dec 15, 2012 media: Jindal-zee row Lights! Camera! Obscura! The trading of charges between Zee News and the Jindal group is a tangle in which the truth is lost: "It is a 10-second call reportedly placed by one of the Zee editors to Subhash Chandra after a meeting with Jindal officials which has seen the Zee boss, who was once locked in a tempestuous business partnership with the now-beleaguered global media mogul, Ruper Murdoch, getting embroiled in the story."
Dec 15, 2012 Lokayukta police to probe BBMP garbage tenders: "He alleged that BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel, Urban Development Principal Secretary Amita Prasad and eight others conspired to benefit the contractors by tampering with the tender process."
Dec 13, 2012 SC grants bail to ex-ministers - Ekka, Rai told to keep off state capital: "Ekka, a former rural development minister, had invested a staggering Rs 4.62 crore in Eco City Resort at Jalpaiguri in Bengal, Rs 2.24 crore in a residential house at Airport Road, Ranchi — in the name of his wife Menon Ekka — Rs 1.44 crore at Shubham Dairy near Irba, Ranchi, Rs 2.03 crore in Ekka Constructions and Rs 1.32 crore in Menon Constructions, both companies headed by his wife."
Dec 11, 2012 प्रॉपर्टी के धंधे में कालाबाज़ारी का बोलबाला?: "ताज़ा अनुमानों के अनुसार भारत की ‘काली अर्थव्यवस्था’ का आकार, देश के सकल घरेलू उत्पाद के 25 से 50 % तक है."
Dec 10, 2012 Zee Vs Jindal: Crime branch seeks lie detector test: "Chandra's Zee Group is accused of a Rs 100-cr extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's company."
Dec 10, 2012 Sahara’s numbers don’t add up: ads confuse, don’t clarify
Dec 9, 2012 UPA gave bribe to win FDI vote: Sitaram Yechury: "CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has accused the UPA government of using unfair means to defeat the Opposition's motion against bringing FDI in retail. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Ye"
Dec 9, 2012 Ratan Tata 'rattled' by India's image over scams, retrospective taxation: "wants the government to give an "irreversible commitment" that law of the land has sanctity. "Never before has India had that kind of image,""
Dec 6, 2012 OMC mining scam: ED attaches Rs 884 cr assets of J Reddy: "The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday attached assets worth Rs 884 crore of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron G Janardhana Reddy under the Prevention"
Dec 5, 2012 NY Times: Indian Official Starts Pulling Up Corruption’s Roots in Mumbai: "Each of the 33 homes in the 11-story building would come with a private lily pond, a car elevator and parking spaces for three cars next to the living room."
Dec 5, 2012 चीन और श्रीलंका से ज्यादा 'भ्रष्ट' है भारत: "श्रीलंका और भूटान में भारत से कम भ्रष्टाचार बताया गया है. इस सूची में श्रीलंका को 79वें और भूटान को 33वें स्थान पर रखा गया है."
Dec 5, 2012 ED attaches Reddy’s assets worth Rs 884 cr: "OMC is owned by former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy."
Dec 5, 2012 CAG digs out 500cr diamond export scam: "Interestingly, the public sector banks later claimed these losses from a government-owned insurance company, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited, which had provided cover to the banks against any 'unforeseen' losses."
Dec 5, 2012 700 scientists quit DRDO in last six years, defence minister says: "Significantly, it's the younger scientists and not the senior ones who have left for greener pastures."
Dec 5, 2012 Denmark, Finland, New Zealand at top in corruption ranking; India 94th: "China ranked 80th after 75th in 2011."
Dec 4, 2012 Zee editors' bail plea rejected: "The bail pleas of two Zee News channel editors, arrested for allegedly trying to extort Rs 100 crore from a Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group firm for not telecasting reports linking it to coal block allocation scam, were dismissed today by a Delhi court."
Dec 4, 2012 Singur land row turns ugly: "Within a week of his appointment as a TMC minister Becharam Manna, the man spearheading the farmers' campaign in Singur has issued an open dare to the Supreme Court while addressing a public meeting at Singur. Becharam assured farmers that they would get their land back and threatened to begin a mass agitation unless the Supreme Court passed a verdict in their favour."
Dec 4, 2012 How Wal-Mart lobbied to get access to India’s retail market: "Wal-Mart Stores prepared its entry into India’s supermarket sector in 2010 with a $100 million investment into a consultancy with no employees, no profits and a scant $14,000 in revenue."
Dec 4, 2012 Kejriwal alleges Cong-BJP nexus: "Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that though the Congress and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi play each other’s adversary before the public, they are business partners behind the curtains. "
Dec 2, 2012 Sahara ads indirectly confirm some of Sebi’s allegations: "The Sahara Group, in massive two-page advertisements in the print media today, has effectively confirmed that it had begun paying off investors in optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs), issued illegally by two of its companies, Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (SIREC) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation (SHIC)."
Dec 1, 2012 Is it time to re-write social media laws?: "In a major development, the Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General to respond to a petition challenging the controversial Section 66A in the Information Technology Act."
Dec 1, 2012 Zee News editors sent to judicial custody till Dec 14: "The two senior editors of Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, were on Friday sent to judicial custody till December 14 in connection with the Jindal Group extortion case. The duo has filed a second"
Dec 1, 2012 Section 66A of IT Act is a can of worms: Cyber law expert: "Cyber law expert Pawan Duggal has hailed the Supreme Court's intervention in the Palghar Facebook arrests case."
Dec 1, 2012 Don't want to live in fear of being jailed: IT Act petitioner: "The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi and Puducherry governments over the petition filed by a Delhi University student, Shreya Singhal, challenging the Informatio"
Dec 1, 2012 CAG reports put UPA in a spot: "3 CAG reports put the UPA Government in the dock. A CAG Audit report claims that the Centre's multi-crore JNNURM project achieved only 8.9% completion scheme. Another hard hiting CAG report criticises defence preparedness in armed forces. And, a report on army and ordinance factories points at at illegal sale of defense land."
Dec 1, 2012 Is the media facing a serious credibility crisis?: "A Delhi court on Wednesday sent the two arrested Zee News editors, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, to two-day police custody in the alleged Jindal extortion case."
Dec 1, 2012 Zee journalists' arrest: Editors call for media regulation: "The arrest of two editors of Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia has ignited the debate over whether there is a need for regulation of the media. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, ed"
Dec 1, 2012 Massive land scam in Jodhpur: "A massive land scam has been unravelled just 100 metres away from the Jodhpur Air Force Station."
Nov 30, 2012 'Smart criminal' Namdhari wanted to come out of Ponty's shadow: "In the crossfire, Namdhari quickly grabbed the opportunity and killed Hardeep so that he remained the only claimant of the unaccounted money and property the three of them knew about," a senior police officer said."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindals tried to bribe us first, says Zee CEO Alok Agarwal: "A Delhi court on Wednesday sent the two arrested Zee News editors, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, to two-day police custody in the alleged Jindal extortion case."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindal extortion case: Zee editors denied bail, sent to 2-day police custody: "A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of 2 senior journalists of Zee News channel and remanded them to a two-day police custody."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindal case: Zee promoter asked to join probe: "The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Wednesday asked Zee Network promoter Subhash Chandra to join the investigation into the extortion claims made by the Jindal Group. Meanwhile, Zee News has demanded the immediat"
Nov 28, 2012 Times campaign: Get rid of outdated laws
Nov 27, 2012 BBC: India journalists held for Jindal Group 'extortion': "Two senior journalists at Indian television channel Zee News have been arrested on charges of extortion."
Nov 27, 2012 Zee editors arrested in Jindal Group extortion case: "The crime branch of Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhry and Sameer Ahluwalia in connection with the Jindal Group extortion case. According to sources, the Zee News editors were ar"
Nov 26, 2012 Wal-Mart And Corruption In India: Is There Actually Any Way To Avoid It?: "I have worked in countries where bribery is simply an accepted part of everyday and business life though."
Nov 25, 2012 Anti-corruption probe: Why we should feel sorry for Walmart: "Walmart's reporting to the US authorities of possible wrongdoing by its joint venture with Bharti in India highlights the power of governance and law enforcement in America. Within our country, this company could have paid millions of dollars in bribes with no fallout whatsoever."
Nov 25, 2012 The mother of all scams: "The 2G and Coal scams stunned the nation -- they robbed the nation of lakhs of crores. But now prepare to be shocked again. NewsX's Special Investigation is about to show you how the roots of the mining scam run much deeper than reported ever before -- and how a nexus of mining mafias in cahoots with corrupt officials is looting, plundering and raping the nation of its most crucial and valuable assets without any fear of the law and right from under the noses of the govt which seems to protect them more than punish them."
Nov 24, 2012 Gadkari’s wife, sons held shares in 3 Purti ‘shell’ companies: "Annual documents submitted by Purti Power and Sugar Limited and its 18 'shell' shareholding companies to the registrar of companies reveal that chartered accountant S Gurumurthy may have been hasty in giving a double clean chit to Nitin Gadkari."
Nov 24, 2012 Jagan DA case: AP cabinet rejects CBI plea to probe minister: "The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has rejected the plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation to prosecute Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in connection with the disproportionate assets case agains"
Nov 23, 2012 Ponty Chadha's 'task force' worked as parallel excise department: "at the district level, the force comprised a district in-charge (DIC) who was answerable for fall in sales or returns from any district. The officer was provided with an SUV and gunners from private security agencies and was responsible for the output of his team"
Nov 23, 2012 Mumbai: Over 15,000 investors cheated in Rs 34 crore religious fraud: "As many as 15,000 investors from the Christian community were duped in an investment scheme promising Israel tour."
Nov 23, 2012 Ponty Chadha murder case: SS Namdhari arrested: "Sukhdev Singh Namdhari a close aide of liquor baron Ponty Chadha's for over two decades, was arrested on Friday for allegedly helping Ponty to take control of this disputed family property."
Nov 23, 2012 Why should public funds be used for Mulayam’s b’day?: "The fact that a bankrupt state government—which is seeking various packages from the Centre—can waive off farm loans of Rs 1,650 crore at a time when the Central government is also struggling to keep down its own deficits shows the disdain with which politicians treat public funds."
Nov 20, 2012 Stock Guru just the tip of the iceberg: Experts: "The Rs 2,300 crore Speak Asia scam, the Rs 1,700 crore Aryarup scam and now the Rs 500 crore Stock Guru scam - all these cases involved accusations of duping investors with false promises. Experts, however, chill"
Nov 20, 2012 Former UP chief secretary Neera Yadav gets 3-year jail for Noida land scam: "Tuesday's verdict is connected to her making illegal allotments to her relatives, bureaucrats and politicians. Incidentally, Yadav and her husband Mahendra Singh are BJP members since 2009.", "Yadav cornered four plots for her two daughters, husband and herself. One of these measuring 500 sq metres has a palatial bungalow. CBI claims the properties are worth crores. The CBI also found that Yadav's husband, Mahendra Singh, owns real estate in London and Glasgow. In India, the family allegedly owns properties in Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad and Lucknow in UP apart from Bangalore and Mumbai."
Nov 19, 2012 2G auction: SC flays govt for 'casual' effort: "The Supreme Court on Monday flayed the government over what it called a 'casual' attempt by it to auction the 2G spectrum. Chiding the government for not complying with its order and letting 'lower ranking"
Nov 19, 2012 Ponty Chadha’s mafia-style wars: Paid for by aam janta: "“Around 40 shots from three different weapons, all of which were licensed, were fired. The weapons ranged from .9mm pistols and .32 bore pistols to an AK 47,” another officer told the Hindustan Times. The Chadha shootout in Chattarpur reads like a scene from The Godfather — except this one is subsidised by hard-earned taxpayer money."
Nov 19, 2012 बाल ठाकरे कवरेज: इतना भी निरमा ना लगाओ: "पचौरी आगे कहते हैं कि टीवी चैनलों के कवरेज को देख कर लगा कि चैनल "डरे हुए हैं और वो यह मान कर कवरेज़ कर रहे हैं क्लिक करें शिव सैनिकों में उग्र होने की क्षमता है. इसका अर्थ यह हुआ कि मनमोहन सिंह अगर कल से अपना डंडा तोड़ना और रूतबा दिखाना शुरू कर दें तो आप उनका भी प्रशस्ती गान शुरू कर दें.""
Nov 18, 2012 Corrupt politicians spoil India's potential: "The comparisons between India and South Korea are striking. India became independent in 1947 while South Korea emerged a year later. Till the 1960s, South Korea survived on foreign aid and many African nations had better economies. Today, South Korea has a trillion dollar economy for its 50 million people while India's trillion-dollar GDP is for 1.2 billion people."
Nov 17, 2012 ambanis As The Gas Runs Low Encircled by damaging charges, the roads narrow for the Ambanis: "Delhi deals Mukesh (left) and Anil Ambani are known to wield influence in government"
Nov 17, 2012 FIR against Deve Gowda, SMK, BSY: "The Lokayukta police on Saturday registered an FIR against former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, former chief ministers S M Krishna and B S Yeddyurappa and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the implementation of the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (Nice)."
Nov 17, 2012 Was Stock Guru trickster Ulhas investing public money in blue films?
Nov 17, 2012 Stock Guru just one of the many cheat-and-run cases: "Records with the Mumbai Economic Offences Wing accessed by CNN-IBN show a substantial rise in cheat-and-run offences."
Nov 16, 2012 India's biggest stock trading scam, 2.5 lakh investors duped: "The couple lived in big houses, drove around in trendy cars with bouncers for security, holidayed abroad, and partied in five-star hotels. They were also fond of branded apparels and fancy gadgets, said sources ; Ulhas, in particular, was a gadget freak."
Nov 15, 2012 Indian couple fool 200,000 investors in £60 million con job: "They said they uncovered a plot in Dehra Dun dating back to 2004 when Ulhas opened a fake psychotherapy college, quickly followed by construction frauds in Nagpur, Maharashtra, a series of credit card scams in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2006, Bangalore and Bhubaneswar in 2007 and finally the creation of Stock Guru India in Delhi in 2009 "
Nov 15, 2012 The Australian: India on track to becoming a failed state: "INDIA ranks 78th in the Failed States Index 2012, which measures adversarial social, economic and political pressures faced by nations."
Nov 15, 2012 Indore: National Herald newspaper in another land row: "In another revelation concerning a questionable land deal involving the National Herald newspaper of the Congress, the Arjun Singh government in Madhya Pradesh in the eighties allotted 22,000 square feet of prime"
Nov 15, 2012 Sugarcane farmers agitate across Maharashtra, 2 dead: "The sugarcane farmers are agitating across several districts in Maharashtra for higher prices for their produce, against sugar co-operatives. And politics, as ever, is part of the mix. During the protests, a poli"
Nov 14, 2012 From Vadra to Gadkari, do in-house clean chits mean anything?: "Both Congress president son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari have been facing corruption allegations but the parties have given them a clean chit refuting all the charges. But are these clean chits cre"
Nov 14, 2012 Why Vadra affairs not being probed, BJP asks: "the government to spell out why the alleged land scam involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra was not being probed."
Nov 14, 2012 The Stock Guru scam: Experts answer your questions: "Pradeep Nambiar, a corporate lawyer, and Ankur Sachdeva, a victim of the scam, answer the questions of the victims of the fraud."
Nov 13, 2012 Stock Guru scam: Enforcement Directorate likely to join the probe: "Police sources say the Enforcement Directorate and the Serious Fraud Investigation office may join the probe."
Nov 13, 2012 Stock Guru scam: The big questions: " Rs 500 crore scam that left over 10,000 investors duped across seven states - the Delhi Police is now planning to approach the Enforcement Directorate and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to get"
Nov 12, 2012 CBI probes judge accused of taking bribe from US firm: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing into a corruption case against a Customs tribunal judge, Gowri Shanker, who allegedly took a bribe of $500,000 from a US firm in a RIG import dispute case."
Nov 12, 2012 Rs 500cr rides on Gurus of ‘fraud’ - 2 lakh people on list of couple’s victims: "“They promised 20 per cent monthly returns for six months and refund of the principal in the seventh,”"
Nov 11, 2012 Kejriwal alleges Ambanis, Dabur owners have black money: "India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday targeted several top Indian business groups and a Congress MP, alleging that they had stashed black money worth several hundred cro"
Nov 11, 2012 Inflated water bills: Time for DJB to fix its systems?: "A water bill of Rs 2 crore left a small Delhi family gasping this month. Satvir Kaur and Paramjit Singh were speechless when they saw their bill of Rs 2.39 crore. And it was not just Satvir. Her neighbor Usha"
Nov 11, 2012 HSBC Bank under scanner globally for alleged money laundering: "While IAC leader Arvind Kejriwal may have highlighted HSBC Bank's role in facilitating laundering black money in India, globally the London-headquartered banking major is also under scanner from several international a"
Nov 11, 2012 Is the government hiding the truth on black money?: "Reliance Industries Limited, the HSBC bank, the Dabur group have all denied the charges levelled against them by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal who accused their chiefs of having cror"
Nov 11, 2012 Political fight after Kejriwal's charge: "Arvind Kejriwal-led India Agianst Corruption (IAC) claimed that the government is concealing information of about 700 account holders in HSBC bank. While, the BJP has demanded the immediate probe into Kejriwal's allegations, the Government has refused to comment. In his latest round of allegations, Kejriwal targeted multinational HSBC Bank accusing it of indulging in money laundering and claimed Ambani brothers, Naresh Goyal and Congress MP Annu Tandon had parked their blackmoney in its Geneva branch."
Nov 11, 2012 Kejriwal's latest expose: Swiss banks: "In his latest round of allegations, Arvind Kejriwal today (Nov 9) targeted multinational HSBC Bank accusing it of indulging in money laundering and claimed Ambani brothers, Naresh Goyal and Congress MP Annu Tandon had parked their blackmoney in its Geneva branch."
Nov 11, 2012 Income Tax officials question Purti web: "Income Tax department is looking into BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's web of companies, raises serious questions over the associate and mostly non-existent investors."
Nov 11, 2012 Swamy vs Rahul: Round 2: "After Janta Party chief Subramanian Swamy alleged that Congress President Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi were behind the Congress giving Rs 90 crore loan to Associated Journals that published the now-defunct National Herald newspaper, in violation of tax and election laws, new controversy has erupted. An RTI activist has alleged that prime Mumbai land was misused by Rahul Gandhi's company Young Indian, which acquired Associated Journals, founded by late Jawaharlal Nehru. The RTI activist has claimed documents obtained by him under RTI showed that the Associated Journal was allotted a prime plot, ostensibly for a newspaper publication and a Nehru memorial library and research centre, neither of which was built."
Nov 11, 2012 CAG's comment sparks fresh row: "CAG Vinod Rai, whose reports on irregularities in coal block allocations and 2G telecom spectrum had created a major political storm, on Wednesday (November 7), deprecated the "brazenness" with which the decisions were being taken, calling it "appalling". "The brazenness (with which) decisions were being taken is actually appalling,†he said speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet in Gurgaon. The Comptroller and Auditor General, however, noted that with the Right to Information (RTI) act administrative and political executive have become conscious that they "will have to be answerable"."
Nov 11, 2012 UPA's decision-making process appalling: CAG Vinod Rai: "Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai on Wednesday slammed the UPA for its decision-making process, calling it 'brazen' and 'appalling'."
Nov 11, 2012 Most of Purti's companies had fake addresses: I-T report: "The Mumbai Income Tax department has shared its preliminary investigation report on BJP President Nitin Gadkari's Purti Group with the Pune Income Tax DG and Kokata Income Tax DG. The preliminary probe has found"
Nov 11, 2012 Herald land row spreads to Mumbai, Swamy plans action: "Yet another controversy surrounding Associated Journals Ltd has been unearthed. CNN-IBN has accessed RTI documents that raise fresh questions. The documents show that the Maharashtra government gave premium land"
Nov 11, 2012 Prima facie nexus in Aircel-Maxis deal involving Maran: SC: "The Central Bureau of Investigation submitted its status report in the Aircel-Maxis deal in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The deal involves former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and a Malaysian business ty"
Nov 11, 2012 Is The Government Encouraging Hawala?
Nov 11, 2012 Follow the money: "The paper revealed that Indian citizens held deposits adding up to Rs 23,373 crore in Swiss banks in 2006. By 2010, this had come down to Rs 9,295 crore, ostensibly because part of the money had come back to India through the hawala route or was simply masquerading as foreign investment in the stock market."
Nov 11, 2012 Are shareholders and directors insensitive to corruption?: "discussing the unethical practices in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors."
Nov 11, 2012 Actively considering making CAG multi-member body: Govt: "Facing a political storm following CAG reports on alleged scams, the government says it is actively considering a proposal to make the official auditor a multi-member body. Minister of State in Prime Minister"
Nov 11, 2012 Swamy demands SIT probe into Herald land scam in Bhopal: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Sunday demanded SIT inquiry into the Herald land scam in Bhopal. Swamy has demanded for a probe following CNN-IBN investigation in to the issue. According to reports"
Nov 11, 2012 Now, Herald land row comes to light in Bhopal too: "After Delhi, Lucknow and Mumbai, another Herald land row has come to light. This time in Bhopal where a shopping mall was built on the land sold to the newspaper at a concessional rate"
Nov 11, 2012 Concerned with corruption, Indian CFOs see growth below 6%
Nov 10, 2012 Has the Odisha mining scam surpassed Karnataka-Goa?: "In a season of scams, a central minister Srikant Jena on Monday demanded the resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, following reports of an alleged iron ore mining scam. The Congress has alleged that Mr Patnaik allowed iron ore worth Rs. 2, 50,000 crore to be illegally mined; a lot of by private firms in excess of the contracted amount"
Nov 10, 2012 Akhilesh Yadav refers Rs 1200 crore sugar mill scam under Mayawati rule to the Lokayukta
Nov 10, 2012 Politicians and cricketers on black money list: ex-Swiss bank employee: "Kejriwal alleged that the government is shielding HSBC and that there in no proof of the probe initiated being fair."
Nov 10, 2012 Unhappy Acres New questions—on original licence, location, resale—for Vadra’s land: "It is for the Haryana government to examine if Vadra’s reasons to sell the land to DLF lie in ‘hardship’, and if all the other deals he has struck across the state benefited from speedy grants of licences and permits."
Nov 10, 2012 Black money flowing out of India is more than fiscal deficit: "Kar estimates that in a period of 61 years from 1948 to 2008, India lost a total of $213 billion dollars due to illicit flows, the present value of which is at least $462 billion. In rupee terms this works out to a whopping Rs 25,317,60 crore. This number is almost 5 times the fiscal deficit of the government of India for the year 2012-2013."
Nov 10, 2012 Government protecting HSBC Bank, alleges Arvind Kejriwal: "India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday alleged that the government is protecting HSBC Bank, against whom he had made money laundering charges. The government, earlier in the day,"
Nov 10, 2012 Govt targeting the small fry, sparing the corrupt: Kejriwal: "India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has refused to accept the government's statement that explained that a probe had been initiated into the information provided by the g"
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Dec 22, 2012 SRK, Salman in race for banana awards: "Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh and Salman Khan's much hyped films 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' and 'Dabangg 2' are competing for the worst film trophy at the 2012 annual Golden Kela awards, which recognises the best of the worst in Hindi cinema."
Dec 21, 2012 CBI charges Airtel, Vodafone, ex-telecom secy in 2002 case: "THE CBI Friday filed a chargesheet against telecom firms Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Vodafone Mobile and former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh, accusing them of criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct in the allocation of additional spectrum in 2002"
Dec 21, 2012 CWG scam: Court orders framing of charges against Kalmadi: "A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of charges against sacked Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi and 10 others in the CWG scam case. All the accused will be charged with the offence of cheating, forge"
Dec 16, 2012 'Silly' taxes make manufacturing Jaguar, Land Rover impossible in India, Ratan Tata says: "Ruling out any possibility of manufacturing Jaguar and Land Rover in India in the near future, Tata group chief Ratan Tata has said that some "silly taxes" make even their assembly here costlier than the imports."
Dec 15, 2012 Nehru Place in world's top 30 notorious IT markets: Report: ""Nehru Place is reportedly one of the many markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods,""
Dec 15, 2012 4 months on, Alagiri's son surfaces: "After being on the run for four months in an alleged illegal granite quarrying scam, Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi surrendered before a court at nearby Melur today, four days after he was granted anticipatory bail by the High Court."
Dec 15, 2012 Granite scam: Durai Dayanidhi surrenders in Madurai court: "Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court four days after being granted anticipatory bail in the granite scam case by the Madras High Court. Accompanied by a"
Dec 15, 2012 media: Jindal-zee row Lights! Camera! Obscura! The trading of charges between Zee News and the Jindal group is a tangle in which the truth is lost: "It is a 10-second call reportedly placed by one of the Zee editors to Subhash Chandra after a meeting with Jindal officials which has seen the Zee boss, who was once locked in a tempestuous business partnership with the now-beleaguered global media mogul, Ruper Murdoch, getting embroiled in the story."
Dec 15, 2012 Lokayukta police to probe BBMP garbage tenders: "He alleged that BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel, Urban Development Principal Secretary Amita Prasad and eight others conspired to benefit the contractors by tampering with the tender process."
Dec 13, 2012 SC grants bail to ex-ministers - Ekka, Rai told to keep off state capital: "Ekka, a former rural development minister, had invested a staggering Rs 4.62 crore in Eco City Resort at Jalpaiguri in Bengal, Rs 2.24 crore in a residential house at Airport Road, Ranchi — in the name of his wife Menon Ekka — Rs 1.44 crore at Shubham Dairy near Irba, Ranchi, Rs 2.03 crore in Ekka Constructions and Rs 1.32 crore in Menon Constructions, both companies headed by his wife."
Dec 11, 2012 प्रॉपर्टी के धंधे में कालाबाज़ारी का बोलबाला?: "ताज़ा अनुमानों के अनुसार भारत की ‘काली अर्थव्यवस्था’ का आकार, देश के सकल घरेलू उत्पाद के 25 से 50 % तक है."
Dec 10, 2012 Zee Vs Jindal: Crime branch seeks lie detector test: "Chandra's Zee Group is accused of a Rs 100-cr extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's company."
Dec 10, 2012 Sahara’s numbers don’t add up: ads confuse, don’t clarify
Dec 9, 2012 UPA gave bribe to win FDI vote: Sitaram Yechury: "CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has accused the UPA government of using unfair means to defeat the Opposition's motion against bringing FDI in retail. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Ye"
Dec 9, 2012 Ratan Tata 'rattled' by India's image over scams, retrospective taxation: "wants the government to give an "irreversible commitment" that law of the land has sanctity. "Never before has India had that kind of image,""
Dec 6, 2012 OMC mining scam: ED attaches Rs 884 cr assets of J Reddy: "The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday attached assets worth Rs 884 crore of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron G Janardhana Reddy under the Prevention"
Dec 5, 2012 NY Times: Indian Official Starts Pulling Up Corruption’s Roots in Mumbai: "Each of the 33 homes in the 11-story building would come with a private lily pond, a car elevator and parking spaces for three cars next to the living room."
Dec 5, 2012 चीन और श्रीलंका से ज्यादा 'भ्रष्ट' है भारत: "श्रीलंका और भूटान में भारत से कम भ्रष्टाचार बताया गया है. इस सूची में श्रीलंका को 79वें और भूटान को 33वें स्थान पर रखा गया है."
Dec 5, 2012 ED attaches Reddy’s assets worth Rs 884 cr: "OMC is owned by former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy."
Dec 5, 2012 CAG digs out 500cr diamond export scam: "Interestingly, the public sector banks later claimed these losses from a government-owned insurance company, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited, which had provided cover to the banks against any 'unforeseen' losses."
Dec 5, 2012 700 scientists quit DRDO in last six years, defence minister says: "Significantly, it's the younger scientists and not the senior ones who have left for greener pastures."
Dec 5, 2012 Denmark, Finland, New Zealand at top in corruption ranking; India 94th: "China ranked 80th after 75th in 2011."
Dec 4, 2012 Zee editors' bail plea rejected: "The bail pleas of two Zee News channel editors, arrested for allegedly trying to extort Rs 100 crore from a Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group firm for not telecasting reports linking it to coal block allocation scam, were dismissed today by a Delhi court."
Dec 4, 2012 Singur land row turns ugly: "Within a week of his appointment as a TMC minister Becharam Manna, the man spearheading the farmers' campaign in Singur has issued an open dare to the Supreme Court while addressing a public meeting at Singur. Becharam assured farmers that they would get their land back and threatened to begin a mass agitation unless the Supreme Court passed a verdict in their favour."
Dec 4, 2012 How Wal-Mart lobbied to get access to India’s retail market: "Wal-Mart Stores prepared its entry into India’s supermarket sector in 2010 with a $100 million investment into a consultancy with no employees, no profits and a scant $14,000 in revenue."
Dec 4, 2012 Kejriwal alleges Cong-BJP nexus: "Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that though the Congress and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi play each other’s adversary before the public, they are business partners behind the curtains. "
Dec 2, 2012 Sahara ads indirectly confirm some of Sebi’s allegations: "The Sahara Group, in massive two-page advertisements in the print media today, has effectively confirmed that it had begun paying off investors in optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs), issued illegally by two of its companies, Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (SIREC) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation (SHIC)."
Dec 1, 2012 Is it time to re-write social media laws?: "In a major development, the Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General to respond to a petition challenging the controversial Section 66A in the Information Technology Act."
Dec 1, 2012 Zee News editors sent to judicial custody till Dec 14: "The two senior editors of Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, were on Friday sent to judicial custody till December 14 in connection with the Jindal Group extortion case. The duo has filed a second"
Dec 1, 2012 Section 66A of IT Act is a can of worms: Cyber law expert: "Cyber law expert Pawan Duggal has hailed the Supreme Court's intervention in the Palghar Facebook arrests case."
Dec 1, 2012 Don't want to live in fear of being jailed: IT Act petitioner: "The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi and Puducherry governments over the petition filed by a Delhi University student, Shreya Singhal, challenging the Informatio"
Dec 1, 2012 CAG reports put UPA in a spot: "3 CAG reports put the UPA Government in the dock. A CAG Audit report claims that the Centre's multi-crore JNNURM project achieved only 8.9% completion scheme. Another hard hiting CAG report criticises defence preparedness in armed forces. And, a report on army and ordinance factories points at at illegal sale of defense land."
Dec 1, 2012 Is the media facing a serious credibility crisis?: "A Delhi court on Wednesday sent the two arrested Zee News editors, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, to two-day police custody in the alleged Jindal extortion case."
Dec 1, 2012 Zee journalists' arrest: Editors call for media regulation: "The arrest of two editors of Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia has ignited the debate over whether there is a need for regulation of the media. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, ed"
Dec 1, 2012 Massive land scam in Jodhpur: "A massive land scam has been unravelled just 100 metres away from the Jodhpur Air Force Station."
Nov 30, 2012 'Smart criminal' Namdhari wanted to come out of Ponty's shadow: "In the crossfire, Namdhari quickly grabbed the opportunity and killed Hardeep so that he remained the only claimant of the unaccounted money and property the three of them knew about," a senior police officer said."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindals tried to bribe us first, says Zee CEO Alok Agarwal: "A Delhi court on Wednesday sent the two arrested Zee News editors, Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, to two-day police custody in the alleged Jindal extortion case."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindal extortion case: Zee editors denied bail, sent to 2-day police custody: "A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of 2 senior journalists of Zee News channel and remanded them to a two-day police custody."
Nov 28, 2012 Jindal case: Zee promoter asked to join probe: "The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Wednesday asked Zee Network promoter Subhash Chandra to join the investigation into the extortion claims made by the Jindal Group. Meanwhile, Zee News has demanded the immediat"
Nov 28, 2012 Times campaign: Get rid of outdated laws
Nov 27, 2012 BBC: India journalists held for Jindal Group 'extortion': "Two senior journalists at Indian television channel Zee News have been arrested on charges of extortion."
Nov 27, 2012 Zee editors arrested in Jindal Group extortion case: "The crime branch of Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhry and Sameer Ahluwalia in connection with the Jindal Group extortion case. According to sources, the Zee News editors were ar"
Nov 26, 2012 Wal-Mart And Corruption In India: Is There Actually Any Way To Avoid It?: "I have worked in countries where bribery is simply an accepted part of everyday and business life though."
Nov 25, 2012 Anti-corruption probe: Why we should feel sorry for Walmart: "Walmart's reporting to the US authorities of possible wrongdoing by its joint venture with Bharti in India highlights the power of governance and law enforcement in America. Within our country, this company could have paid millions of dollars in bribes with no fallout whatsoever."
Nov 25, 2012 The mother of all scams: "The 2G and Coal scams stunned the nation -- they robbed the nation of lakhs of crores. But now prepare to be shocked again. NewsX's Special Investigation is about to show you how the roots of the mining scam run much deeper than reported ever before -- and how a nexus of mining mafias in cahoots with corrupt officials is looting, plundering and raping the nation of its most crucial and valuable assets without any fear of the law and right from under the noses of the govt which seems to protect them more than punish them."
Nov 24, 2012 Gadkari’s wife, sons held shares in 3 Purti ‘shell’ companies: "Annual documents submitted by Purti Power and Sugar Limited and its 18 'shell' shareholding companies to the registrar of companies reveal that chartered accountant S Gurumurthy may have been hasty in giving a double clean chit to Nitin Gadkari."
Nov 24, 2012 Jagan DA case: AP cabinet rejects CBI plea to probe minister: "The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has rejected the plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation to prosecute Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in connection with the disproportionate assets case agains"
Nov 23, 2012 Ponty Chadha's 'task force' worked as parallel excise department: "at the district level, the force comprised a district in-charge (DIC) who was answerable for fall in sales or returns from any district. The officer was provided with an SUV and gunners from private security agencies and was responsible for the output of his team"
Nov 23, 2012 Mumbai: Over 15,000 investors cheated in Rs 34 crore religious fraud: "As many as 15,000 investors from the Christian community were duped in an investment scheme promising Israel tour."
Nov 23, 2012 Ponty Chadha murder case: SS Namdhari arrested: "Sukhdev Singh Namdhari a close aide of liquor baron Ponty Chadha's for over two decades, was arrested on Friday for allegedly helping Ponty to take control of this disputed family property."
Nov 23, 2012 Why should public funds be used for Mulayam’s b’day?: "The fact that a bankrupt state government—which is seeking various packages from the Centre—can waive off farm loans of Rs 1,650 crore at a time when the Central government is also struggling to keep down its own deficits shows the disdain with which politicians treat public funds."
Nov 20, 2012 Stock Guru just the tip of the iceberg: Experts: "The Rs 2,300 crore Speak Asia scam, the Rs 1,700 crore Aryarup scam and now the Rs 500 crore Stock Guru scam - all these cases involved accusations of duping investors with false promises. Experts, however, chill"
Nov 20, 2012 Former UP chief secretary Neera Yadav gets 3-year jail for Noida land scam: "Tuesday's verdict is connected to her making illegal allotments to her relatives, bureaucrats and politicians. Incidentally, Yadav and her husband Mahendra Singh are BJP members since 2009.", "Yadav cornered four plots for her two daughters, husband and herself. One of these measuring 500 sq metres has a palatial bungalow. CBI claims the properties are worth crores. The CBI also found that Yadav's husband, Mahendra Singh, owns real estate in London and Glasgow. In India, the family allegedly owns properties in Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad and Lucknow in UP apart from Bangalore and Mumbai."
Nov 19, 2012 2G auction: SC flays govt for 'casual' effort: "The Supreme Court on Monday flayed the government over what it called a 'casual' attempt by it to auction the 2G spectrum. Chiding the government for not complying with its order and letting 'lower ranking"
Nov 19, 2012 Ponty Chadha’s mafia-style wars: Paid for by aam janta: "“Around 40 shots from three different weapons, all of which were licensed, were fired. The weapons ranged from .9mm pistols and .32 bore pistols to an AK 47,” another officer told the Hindustan Times. The Chadha shootout in Chattarpur reads like a scene from The Godfather — except this one is subsidised by hard-earned taxpayer money."
Nov 19, 2012 बाल ठाकरे कवरेज: इतना भी निरमा ना लगाओ: "पचौरी आगे कहते हैं कि टीवी चैनलों के कवरेज को देख कर लगा कि चैनल "डरे हुए हैं और वो यह मान कर कवरेज़ कर रहे हैं क्लिक करें शिव सैनिकों में उग्र होने की क्षमता है. इसका अर्थ यह हुआ कि मनमोहन सिंह अगर कल से अपना डंडा तोड़ना और रूतबा दिखाना शुरू कर दें तो आप उनका भी प्रशस्ती गान शुरू कर दें.""
Nov 18, 2012 Corrupt politicians spoil India's potential: "The comparisons between India and South Korea are striking. India became independent in 1947 while South Korea emerged a year later. Till the 1960s, South Korea survived on foreign aid and many African nations had better economies. Today, South Korea has a trillion dollar economy for its 50 million people while India's trillion-dollar GDP is for 1.2 billion people."
Nov 17, 2012 ambanis As The Gas Runs Low Encircled by damaging charges, the roads narrow for the Ambanis: "Delhi deals Mukesh (left) and Anil Ambani are known to wield influence in government"
Nov 17, 2012 FIR against Deve Gowda, SMK, BSY: "The Lokayukta police on Saturday registered an FIR against former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, former chief ministers S M Krishna and B S Yeddyurappa and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the implementation of the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (Nice)."
Nov 17, 2012 Was Stock Guru trickster Ulhas investing public money in blue films?
Nov 17, 2012 Stock Guru just one of the many cheat-and-run cases: "Records with the Mumbai Economic Offences Wing accessed by CNN-IBN show a substantial rise in cheat-and-run offences."
Nov 16, 2012 India's biggest stock trading scam, 2.5 lakh investors duped: "The couple lived in big houses, drove around in trendy cars with bouncers for security, holidayed abroad, and partied in five-star hotels. They were also fond of branded apparels and fancy gadgets, said sources ; Ulhas, in particular, was a gadget freak."
Nov 15, 2012 Indian couple fool 200,000 investors in £60 million con job: "They said they uncovered a plot in Dehra Dun dating back to 2004 when Ulhas opened a fake psychotherapy college, quickly followed by construction frauds in Nagpur, Maharashtra, a series of credit card scams in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2006, Bangalore and Bhubaneswar in 2007 and finally the creation of Stock Guru India in Delhi in 2009 "
Nov 15, 2012 The Australian: India on track to becoming a failed state: "INDIA ranks 78th in the Failed States Index 2012, which measures adversarial social, economic and political pressures faced by nations."
Nov 15, 2012 Indore: National Herald newspaper in another land row: "In another revelation concerning a questionable land deal involving the National Herald newspaper of the Congress, the Arjun Singh government in Madhya Pradesh in the eighties allotted 22,000 square feet of prime"
Nov 15, 2012 Sugarcane farmers agitate across Maharashtra, 2 dead: "The sugarcane farmers are agitating across several districts in Maharashtra for higher prices for their produce, against sugar co-operatives. And politics, as ever, is part of the mix. During the protests, a poli"
Nov 14, 2012 From Vadra to Gadkari, do in-house clean chits mean anything?: "Both Congress president son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari have been facing corruption allegations but the parties have given them a clean chit refuting all the charges. But are these clean chits cre"
Nov 14, 2012 Why Vadra affairs not being probed, BJP asks: "the government to spell out why the alleged land scam involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra was not being probed."
Nov 14, 2012 The Stock Guru scam: Experts answer your questions: "Pradeep Nambiar, a corporate lawyer, and Ankur Sachdeva, a victim of the scam, answer the questions of the victims of the fraud."
Nov 13, 2012 Stock Guru scam: Enforcement Directorate likely to join the probe: "Police sources say the Enforcement Directorate and the Serious Fraud Investigation office may join the probe."
Nov 13, 2012 Stock Guru scam: The big questions: " Rs 500 crore scam that left over 10,000 investors duped across seven states - the Delhi Police is now planning to approach the Enforcement Directorate and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to get"
Nov 12, 2012 CBI probes judge accused of taking bribe from US firm: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing into a corruption case against a Customs tribunal judge, Gowri Shanker, who allegedly took a bribe of $500,000 from a US firm in a RIG import dispute case."
Nov 12, 2012 Rs 500cr rides on Gurus of ‘fraud’ - 2 lakh people on list of couple’s victims: "“They promised 20 per cent monthly returns for six months and refund of the principal in the seventh,”"
Nov 11, 2012 Kejriwal alleges Ambanis, Dabur owners have black money: "India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday targeted several top Indian business groups and a Congress MP, alleging that they had stashed black money worth several hundred cro"
Nov 11, 2012 Inflated water bills: Time for DJB to fix its systems?: "A water bill of Rs 2 crore left a small Delhi family gasping this month. Satvir Kaur and Paramjit Singh were speechless when they saw their bill of Rs 2.39 crore. And it was not just Satvir. Her neighbor Usha"
Nov 11, 2012 HSBC Bank under scanner globally for alleged money laundering: "While IAC leader Arvind Kejriwal may have highlighted HSBC Bank's role in facilitating laundering black money in India, globally the London-headquartered banking major is also under scanner from several international a"
Nov 11, 2012 Is the government hiding the truth on black money?: "Reliance Industries Limited, the HSBC bank, the Dabur group have all denied the charges levelled against them by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal who accused their chiefs of having cror"
Nov 11, 2012 Political fight after Kejriwal's charge: "Arvind Kejriwal-led India Agianst Corruption (IAC) claimed that the government is concealing information of about 700 account holders in HSBC bank. While, the BJP has demanded the immediate probe into Kejriwal's allegations, the Government has refused to comment. In his latest round of allegations, Kejriwal targeted multinational HSBC Bank accusing it of indulging in money laundering and claimed Ambani brothers, Naresh Goyal and Congress MP Annu Tandon had parked their blackmoney in its Geneva branch."
Nov 11, 2012 Kejriwal's latest expose: Swiss banks: "In his latest round of allegations, Arvind Kejriwal today (Nov 9) targeted multinational HSBC Bank accusing it of indulging in money laundering and claimed Ambani brothers, Naresh Goyal and Congress MP Annu Tandon had parked their blackmoney in its Geneva branch."
Nov 11, 2012 Income Tax officials question Purti web: "Income Tax department is looking into BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's web of companies, raises serious questions over the associate and mostly non-existent investors."
Nov 11, 2012 Swamy vs Rahul: Round 2: "After Janta Party chief Subramanian Swamy alleged that Congress President Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi were behind the Congress giving Rs 90 crore loan to Associated Journals that published the now-defunct National Herald newspaper, in violation of tax and election laws, new controversy has erupted. An RTI activist has alleged that prime Mumbai land was misused by Rahul Gandhi's company Young Indian, which acquired Associated Journals, founded by late Jawaharlal Nehru. The RTI activist has claimed documents obtained by him under RTI showed that the Associated Journal was allotted a prime plot, ostensibly for a newspaper publication and a Nehru memorial library and research centre, neither of which was built."
Nov 11, 2012 CAG's comment sparks fresh row: "CAG Vinod Rai, whose reports on irregularities in coal block allocations and 2G telecom spectrum had created a major political storm, on Wednesday (November 7), deprecated the "brazenness" with which the decisions were being taken, calling it "appalling". "The brazenness (with which) decisions were being taken is actually appalling,†he said speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet in Gurgaon. The Comptroller and Auditor General, however, noted that with the Right to Information (RTI) act administrative and political executive have become conscious that they "will have to be answerable"."
Nov 11, 2012 UPA's decision-making process appalling: CAG Vinod Rai: "Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai on Wednesday slammed the UPA for its decision-making process, calling it 'brazen' and 'appalling'."
Nov 11, 2012 Most of Purti's companies had fake addresses: I-T report: "The Mumbai Income Tax department has shared its preliminary investigation report on BJP President Nitin Gadkari's Purti Group with the Pune Income Tax DG and Kokata Income Tax DG. The preliminary probe has found"
Nov 11, 2012 Herald land row spreads to Mumbai, Swamy plans action: "Yet another controversy surrounding Associated Journals Ltd has been unearthed. CNN-IBN has accessed RTI documents that raise fresh questions. The documents show that the Maharashtra government gave premium land"
Nov 11, 2012 Prima facie nexus in Aircel-Maxis deal involving Maran: SC: "The Central Bureau of Investigation submitted its status report in the Aircel-Maxis deal in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The deal involves former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and a Malaysian business ty"
Nov 11, 2012 Is The Government Encouraging Hawala?
Nov 11, 2012 Follow the money: "The paper revealed that Indian citizens held deposits adding up to Rs 23,373 crore in Swiss banks in 2006. By 2010, this had come down to Rs 9,295 crore, ostensibly because part of the money had come back to India through the hawala route or was simply masquerading as foreign investment in the stock market."
Nov 11, 2012 Are shareholders and directors insensitive to corruption?: "discussing the unethical practices in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors."
Nov 11, 2012 Actively considering making CAG multi-member body: Govt: "Facing a political storm following CAG reports on alleged scams, the government says it is actively considering a proposal to make the official auditor a multi-member body. Minister of State in Prime Minister"
Nov 11, 2012 Swamy demands SIT probe into Herald land scam in Bhopal: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Sunday demanded SIT inquiry into the Herald land scam in Bhopal. Swamy has demanded for a probe following CNN-IBN investigation in to the issue. According to reports"
Nov 11, 2012 Now, Herald land row comes to light in Bhopal too: "After Delhi, Lucknow and Mumbai, another Herald land row has come to light. This time in Bhopal where a shopping mall was built on the land sold to the newspaper at a concessional rate"
Nov 11, 2012 Concerned with corruption, Indian CFOs see growth below 6%
Nov 10, 2012 Has the Odisha mining scam surpassed Karnataka-Goa?: "In a season of scams, a central minister Srikant Jena on Monday demanded the resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, following reports of an alleged iron ore mining scam. The Congress has alleged that Mr Patnaik allowed iron ore worth Rs. 2, 50,000 crore to be illegally mined; a lot of by private firms in excess of the contracted amount"
Nov 10, 2012 Akhilesh Yadav refers Rs 1200 crore sugar mill scam under Mayawati rule to the Lokayukta
Nov 10, 2012 Politicians and cricketers on black money list: ex-Swiss bank employee: "Kejriwal alleged that the government is shielding HSBC and that there in no proof of the probe initiated being fair."
Nov 10, 2012 Unhappy Acres New questions—on original licence, location, resale—for Vadra’s land: "It is for the Haryana government to examine if Vadra’s reasons to sell the land to DLF lie in ‘hardship’, and if all the other deals he has struck across the state benefited from speedy grants of licences and permits."
Nov 10, 2012 Black money flowing out of India is more than fiscal deficit: "Kar estimates that in a period of 61 years from 1948 to 2008, India lost a total of $213 billion dollars due to illicit flows, the present value of which is at least $462 billion. In rupee terms this works out to a whopping Rs 25,317,60 crore. This number is almost 5 times the fiscal deficit of the government of India for the year 2012-2013."
Nov 10, 2012 Government protecting HSBC Bank, alleges Arvind Kejriwal: "India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday alleged that the government is protecting HSBC Bank, against whom he had made money laundering charges. The government, earlier in the day,"
Nov 10, 2012 Govt targeting the small fry, sparing the corrupt: Kejriwal: "India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has refused to accept the government's statement that explained that a probe had been initiated into the information provided by the g"
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