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Jan 8, 2012 Can any airline fly profitably — and safely — in India?: "Apparently not."
Jan 8, 2012 CBI prises open coal scam file: "The CBI, armed with a Supreme Court order, has reopened an 11-year-old case file and is readying a chargesheet to nail eight high-profile persons, including former Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) CMD B. Akla and coal merchant Ramesh Gandhi, in a Rs 90-lakh scam."
Jan 8, 2012 Clean up RBI’s mess: "The RBI has not only wrecked Indian industry, but it has also wrecked the future of India. Who can afford a student loan at 15 per cent?"
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption, bureaucracy keep NRI investors away: "Payment of bribes at all levels and an unresponsive bureaucracy emerged as the most common complaints from overseas Indian investors waiting to invest in the country.", "“Most government offices don’t reply to emails or take calls. Due to this, we usually come in contact with people with wrong intentions.”"
Jan 8, 2012 Red tape, inadequate facilities hit India investments: NRIs: "Overseas investment in India has been hit by corruption and lack of proper facilities in the country, say non resident Indians (NRIs)."
Jan 8, 2012 Policy paralysis can drag GDP growth below 7%: Parekh: ""The common man in India is corrupt because he cannot get anything done without paying a bribe... I myself had to pay for a death certificate. We need some redressal mechanism for this problem. We need police reform, judicial reform," he said."
Jan 8, 2012 Court jails former Indian telecoms minister: "Ram was sent to the same prison in New Delhi where another disgraced former telecoms minister, A. Raja, has been held since February last year while he awaits trial over a separate corruption case."
Jan 5, 2012 Are top airlines compromising on safety to cut costs?: "The DGCA has warned airlines that they cannot compromise on safety despite financial stress."
Jan 5, 2012 Unsafe for Kingfisher to fly?: "DGCA has rapped all the Indian air carriers over the issue of neglecting safety due to financial constraints"
Jan 5, 2012 Breakthrough in black money case?: "The businessman in question accepts depositing Rs. 60 cr unaccounted money in Zurich, Singapore and the United States. He has a house in posh Sainik farms area of Delhi and office in south extension. The businessman known to have top political connections."
Jan 5, 2012 President Patil’s cook demands VIP treatment: "After listening to the woes of her cook, President Patil called up Governor E S L Narasimhan and complained, who turned the fire on the Health ministry. The command chain from the Health minister to Health Secretary, Director, Medical Education and then to the hospital superintendent finally led to his admission in a super speciality care hospital in the city."
Jan 5, 2012 Complaint filed against Maya in UP Lokayukta: "The complaint states that the CM benefited to the tune of Rs 250 crores from her involvement in liquor trade."
Jan 4, 2012 Kingfisher Airlines safety an issue: DGCA: "The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) which carried out a financial audit of all domestic airlines has found sickness to be pretty endemic in the Indian aviation sector and suggested rather drastic remedies."
Jan 4, 2012 Top manager says ‘weak government’ hurting Indian investment
Jan 4, 2012 Scam-scarred Goa gears up for polls: "From between the mountainous heaps of illegally mined ore and humungous moral craters of political corruption"
Jan 3, 2012 Key aide arrested, Jagan next?: "CBI on Monday night (January 2) arrested Vijayasai Reddy, the auditor of companies of Y S R Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, who faces a disproportionate asset case."
Jan 3, 2012 'Save Yeddy plan' in place?: "A Preliminary probe conducted by a top Karnataka cop finds 191police officers innocent. The preliminary report contradicts Justice Santosh Hegde's report on illegal mining."
Jan 3, 2012 Koda Will Have to Pay 1200 Crores Tax: "the former Chief Minister will have to pay 1200 crore as Income Tax within six months, otherwise penalty and other proceedings against him will be taken."
Jan 3, 2012 Kashmir reels under power crisis: "The state has been witnessing up to 14 to 16 hours of load shedding each day."
Jan 3, 2012 CBI arrests Jagan Mohan Reddy's aide: "With the arrest, the CBI is one step closer to arresting Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case."
Jan 3, 2012 Karnataka government in a fix over illegal mining report: "Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, in his report in July last year, indicted over 600 officials from police, revenue, transport, forest and mining departments."
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Meant for ‘distressed’, Orissa plot quota goes to babus, judges, journalists: "Assembly records show, among those to have benefited over the past 26 years from the quota — meant to help persons “in distress” — have been senior officers, high court judges, politicians as well as more than 30 senior journalists."
Jan 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: For India, a Power Failure Looms: "India is the world's fifth-largest electricity producer after the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, but its per capita consumption is among the world's lowest"
Jan 2, 2012 HC cancels Srilakshmi’s bail in OMC case: "The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday cancelled the bail of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Y Srilakshmi in the OMC illegal mining case."
Jan 1, 2012 Raja, Kalmadi relish paneer, kheer, halwa in Tihar 2012: "Only well behaved prisoners are allowed to use the phone. The prisoners also got special food to mark New Year: vegetable curry with paneer, kheer, halwa, puri, parathas and pulao."
Jan 1, 2012 Citbank fraud: Citi failed to act on scam warning signals, says probe report
Dec 30, 2011 Multi-level marketing – in need of cognate regulation?: "The country has been periodically rocked by scams of MLM companies and such frequent frauds indicate regulatory circumvention"
Dec 30, 2011 New Companies Bill takes ethics to a newer level: "India has witnessed some major corporate scams."
Dec 30, 2011 Major Scandals of 2011: "2G Spectrum scam:"
Dec 30, 2011 CBI Trouble for Lalbabu Singh: "After the biggest recovery of cash of 130 crore Rupees by the Income Tax department the CBI has also tightened its noose on Lalbabu Singh, the infamous coal contractor of Dhanbad."
Dec 30, 2011 Janardhana Reddy’s 2-day escort bail petition quashed: "the CBI opposed the petition saying the programme in Bellary is aimed at intimidating the witnesses. The CBI prosecutor pointed out that Reddy’s supporters arranged a large number of huge cut-outs and hundreds of vehicles in Bellary even before the designated court granting him bail.", "Gali is in possession of several fake passports and could vanish out of the country in no time."
Dec 30, 2011 Four fake CBI officers arrested: "Kakinada police today arrested four persons for extorting Rs two lakh from a factory manager by pretending to be CBI officers."
Dec 29, 2011 CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe: "The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service"
Dec 28, 2011 IPO fraud: Sebi moves swiftly on seven IPOs: "The regulator has unearthed mis-utilisation and diversion of funds from the IPO proceeds by the companies and has ordered them to call back an aggregate of Rs 140 crore and deposit them in an escrow account"
Dec 27, 2011 'Pulse import by Pawar ministry led to Rs 1k cr loss': "companies were given the imported consignments through a skewed tender process. These private companies, the report says, are also major players in the pulses market. They took a long time to lift the imported consignments, which ensured that prices of pulses in the domestic market remained high."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption in India Will Scare Off Foreign Investors - CNBC
Dec 27, 2011 Maharashtra consumes Rs 100 cr gutkha daily: Oppn leader: "around Rs 100 crore was consumed in state of which Rs 25 crore was in Mumbai alone."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI files chargesheet against ex Jharkhand minister in DA case: "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda's close aide and his ex-ministerial colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi was chargesheeted today by CBI for allegedly acquiring disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs seven crore.", "The chargesheet had accused Koda of misusing his position to allegedly benefit Sinha and Choudhary in taking "bribes" from various companies in the allotment of lease of iron mines in the State."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI estimates illegal mining by OMC led to loss of Rs 5,100 crore: "The CBI today told a local court that illegal mining allegedly involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy had resulted in a loss of Rs 5,100 crore to the state exchequer."
Dec 27, 2011 Summons issued in 2G spectrum case: "Essar Group promoters Anshuman and Ravi Ruia along with five others were on Wednesday (December 21) issued summons by a Delhi court which took cognizance of CBI's charge sheet arising out of investigation in the 2G scam case. Special Judge O P Saini also issued summons to Loop Telecom promoters Kiran Khaitan, her husband I P Khaitan and Essar Group director (Strategy and Planning) Vikas Saraf and three companies -- Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd, Loop Mobile India Ltd and Essar Tele Holding -- named as accused in the third charge sheet."
Dec 27, 2011 Disaster averted at Chennai Airport
Dec 27, 2011 Sukhram's conviction upheld by HC: "In a setback to former Telecom Minister Sukhram, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (December 21) upheld his conviction and three year jail term in the 1996 telecom scam."
Dec 27, 2011 2G: Court summons five corporate honchos: "charges filed in the 2G case alleging criminal conspiracy and cheating by three more firms and five people, including some promoters of the Essar Group."
Dec 27, 2011 US lists Delhi's Nehru Place among notorious markets in world: "An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR)."
Dec 27, 2011 1996 Telecom scam: HC orders ex-minister Sukhram to serve sentence: "also upheld the conviction of ex-deputy Director-General of the Department of Telecom (DoT) Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Managing Director P Rama Rao."
Dec 27, 2011 Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due towards Air India: "In 2011-12, foreign travel bill of cabinet ministers was a staggering Rs 460.78 crore till December 16, 2011"
Dec 27, 2011 Ravi Ruia steps down as chairman of Essar Energy following CBI chargesheet
Dec 27, 2011 2G: Chargesheet against Essar, Loop accepted: "All eight accused named in the chargesheet have been summoned to be present before court on January 27.", "accused of cheating and criminal conspiracy"
Dec 27, 2011 2011: A year dedicated to MLM and Ponzi scheme frauds
Dec 27, 2011 Most corrupt industries in India: "India lost a staggering $462 billion in illicit financial flows due to tax evasion, crime and corruption."
Dec 27, 2011 India tycoon's got tons of cash, nowhere to invest: ""If you are an honest businessman in India, it's very difficult to start up anything," said Jamshyd Godrej, chairman of manufacturing giant Godrej & Boyce."
Dec 25, 2011 $128 billion siphoned out in a decade: "The report has been prepared by international watchdog Global Financial Integrity (GFI)"
Dec 25, 2011 2011:Landmark legislation, scams pack action into Mines sector
Dec 24, 2011 UK regulator hints “covert” Ambani fund invested in RCom: "Indian markets regulator, Sebi, settled for a penalty of Rs 50 crore on the group through a “consent order” under which Anil Ambani and four of his board members were barred from investing in the markets till the end of the year."
Dec 24, 2011 Murky drug trial in Indore - Part 2: "One of the doctors in the clinic allegedly involved in drug trials of mentally ill admits to trial on them, and a family alleges drug trial on an infant."
Dec 24, 2011 Drug trial on mentally challenged?: "In an out and out treachery by a pharma company in Indore, TIMES NOW's investigation has revealed how a mentally ill patient was used for a drug trial without consent. The patient from a poor family was used like a guinea pig by the medical practitioners"
Dec 23, 2011 Telecom official, accomplice charged with corruption: "there was enough evidence on record to charge Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) official Ashok Kumar Sharma and his accomplice Sanjay Bhalla for criminal conspiracy to commit cheating, forgery for purpose of cheating, and using as genuine a forged document"
Dec 23, 2011 Lokpal Bill impotent if CBI not included: Mohandas Pai: "Director of Manipal Universal Learning and the Former Director of Infosys said the CBI has to be under the control of the Lokpal to make it effective."
Dec 23, 2011 Odisha 2011: Maoist Activities, Calamities and Scams: "vast areas turning safe havens for the red rebels marauding from neighbouring provinces in 2011, seen as a year of calamities and scams in the state."
Dec 23, 2011 CBI counsel draws parallel between OMC, Satyam scams: "urged the court to reject the bail applications of the accused - Gali Janardhan Reddy and BV Srinivas Reddy of OMC."
Dec 23, 2011 Corruption impeding investments, says Moody’s: "A report from Moody's has said that policymakers need to stamp out "rampant corruption" as part of measures to support investment and prevent the country from falling into a low-growth high-inflation trap."
Dec 23, 2011 ‘Investors’ are realty’s mafia; that’s why prices can’t come down: "these investors are not generally you and me buying a second flat for investment, but non-resident Indians or even politicians channelising their black money into the sector."
Dec 22, 2011 Gunmen chase, kill realtor in bustling Howrah locality: "A promoter was chased down a busy road by 8-10 gunmen in Howrah on Thursday morning, cornered in a residential locality and shot and hacked to death in front of horrified women and children."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 Koreans face wrath of cops, detained for nine hours: ""Even the policeman thrashed us. The police treated us like criminals and kept us in the police station for hours."
Dec 20, 2011 BJP targets Chidambaram: "accusing him of showing "disrespect" to Parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier."
Dec 20, 2011 Outrage, clinical trials on mentally ill: "It is the worst form of treachery and deceit. Reports suggest that over 200 mentally ill patients were subjected to drug trial in Bhopal. The report of the Economic Offences wing details how informed consent was not taken from the patients, and how more than 80 patients underwent severe aftereffects of the drugs."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja hatched 2G conspiracy: Former aide: "Jailed former communications minister A. Raja's former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary Monday told a special court here that the DMK leader hatched the conspiracy on 2G spectrum licences much before he headed the ministry."
Dec 19, 2011 2G accused corporate honchos visited Raja since 2004: Ex-aide: "the former minister was in touch with Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra even during his stint with the ministry of environment and forests between 2004-07."
Dec 19, 2011 Fake notes: Can’t ‘bank’ on banks: "Getting forged notes from ATM counters has now become a regular affair in the city.", "The cops quizzed me about the places from where I got the money. I was interrogated as if I had printed the fake notes. It was adding insult to the injury,""
Dec 19, 2011 CAG challenges Government: "CAG puts out detailed mathematical logic, methodology and figure estimating the loss. The CAG has challenged government and is sticking to the estimated 1.76 lakh crore loss figure on 2G scam."
Dec 19, 2011 Corruption mars Goa's 50th liberation anniversary: "The big mining scam has taken the sheen off the celebrations of 50 years of liberation of Goa."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja, Kani involved in 2G scam: Raja's ex-aide: "He also said Sanjay Chandra, Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka were known to Raja from his days as environment minister.", "A Raja allocated spectrum by Tamil Nadu's Ration shop mechanism"
Dec 18, 2011 Reuters: Insight: Hardly "Incredible India": "Frustrated executives while away time in five-star hotels waiting for deals that never come, and civil servants play video games in their offices - growing signs of the reform limbo and crisis of confidence behind India's economic malaise."
Dec 18, 2011 Audit firms involved in scams face heavy fines: "Jail up to 10 years and fines up to three times the scam amount await chartered accountants and audit firms found guilty in corporate frauds. Audit firms, including the global Big 4 - Pricewaterhouse, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young - for the first time face punitive action"
Dec 18, 2011 Government hiding truth on PC's 'favours' to ex-client: BJP
Dec 17, 2011 Raja committed offence with active connivance of Chidu: Swamy: "Subramanian Swamy today urged a Delhi court to make P Chidambaram an accused in the 2G case for his alleged role in allowing two telecom firms to earn windfall profits by offloading their shares to foreign firms."
Dec 17, 2011 2G: Raja acted on PC's instructions, says Swamy: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's deposition against Home Minister P Chidambaram will continue on January 7."
Dec 16, 2011 Parl paralysed as Oppn demands PC's resignation: "BJP MPs forced the adjournment of both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha till Monday."
Dec 16, 2011 2G case: Swamy to appear as witness against PC today: "Subramanium Swamy will appear as a witness before a special CBI court in New Delhi on Saturday in support of his private complaint seeking home minister P Chidambaram’s prosecution in the 2G scam."
Dec 16, 2011 Illegal mining: CBI opposes bail pleas of Janardhana Reddy: "Opposing the fresh bail pleas of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, the CBI alleged that the two were main culprits in the OMC mining scam."
Dec 16, 2011 PC row: Hotelier involved in theft of 21 ministry files, says firm: "“The accused (S P Gupta) not only forged letterheads of Sonia Gandhi and other leaders but was also involved in stealing of 21 files from the office of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs at Shastri Bhavan. These files were recovered from the house of Gupta’s financial advisor during an Income-Tax raid"
Dec 16, 2011 Policy paralysis, corruption scandals and global slowdown has derailed India
Dec 16, 2011 The Vancouver Sun: India probes more than 100 deaths from moonshine liquor: "West Bengal's illegal alcohol industry thrives, destroying lives at the bottom of society, because many senior politicians and influential businessmen have ownership stakes and local police receive bribes to look the other way, Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/India+probes+more+than+deaths+from+moonshine+liquor/5866751/story.html#ixzz1gkNIxcDN"
Dec 16, 2011 'Death Of The Internet As We Know It': "as many as 255 (71%) of the 358 complaints made to Google in the last six months, were about 'government criticism' and only 8, or 2.23% were about "hate speech"."
Dec 16, 2011 काश पति ने वादा निभाया होता!: "अस्पतालों और शव गृहों के सामने शव एक-दूसरे पर अनाज की बोरियों की तरह रखे गए हैं. क़ब्रिस्तान में भी उतनी ही भीड़ है.", "आलम की मौत के बाद मशीदुर की चिंता यह है कि उनकी 11 बेटे-बेटियों का गुज़ारा कैसे होगा ?", "वाममोर्चा सरकार ने इस धंधे को कुटीर उद्योग का दर्जा दे दिया था."
Dec 16, 2011 गिरते रूपए को बचाने के लिए पूजा पाठ: "श्रद्धालु चाहते है कि उनके भगवान अमरीकी डॉलर की तुलना में रूपए की गिरती हुई कीमत को संभाल लें"
Dec 16, 2011 Illegal mining caught on tape: "The Shivraj Singh government in Madhya Pradesh is under fire from the opposition which is accusing it of involvement in an illegal mining case. TIMES NOW traveled to ground zero to find the truth and our cameras captured some shocking pictures."
Dec 16, 2011 Maharashtra: hooch worth Rs 16 cr seized in 2011: "Excise officials fear Mumbai may see spurious liquor flooding the market due to the high taxes on liquor."
Dec 16, 2011 Fake currency notes circulation on the rise in Bihar: "He was allegedly smuggling the notes to East Champaran from Bangladesh"
Dec 16, 2011 AI debt mounts to Rs.43,000 crore: govt: "Air India has also a net loss of Rs.18,000 crore accumulated in the past three to four years,"
Dec 16, 2011 Chidambaram under fire for 'favouring a former client'; government, BJP lock horns: "Referring to the cases against businessman SP Gupta, the BJP accused Chidambaram of misusing his office and committing a "criminal offence" by "favouring a former client"."
Dec 16, 2011 Prashant Bhushan alleges that CBI ignored Shyam Telecom because of Putin links: "“Russia-based Sistema group is promoted by Russian billionaire Mr Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who has a very close relationship with the Russian President Mr Vladimir Putin."
Dec 16, 2011 Rupee breaches 54 per dollar mark: "The Indian rupee fell by 46 paise to a record low of Rs 54.17 per US dollar"
Dec 16, 2011 With our bucks to the wall: "The widest impact of a freefalling rupee is in the higher prices of oil we buy in the international market."
Dec 16, 2011 Conflict of interest: Oppn wants PC to quit: "CNN-IBN had accessed papers which show that the Home Ministry withdrew charges against a hotelier."
Dec 16, 2011 Chidambaram case: MHA's decision revoked: "The case against SP Gupta was reportedly dropped on the Home Ministry's directions."
Dec 15, 2011 How many Sukhois must crash for us to call it a scandal?: "When Mulayam Singh Yadav was defence minister in the HD Deve Gowda government in the late 1990s, he was, for all practical purposes, minister in absentia. Preoccupied rather more with defending his political turf in the volatile state of Uttar Pradesh", "the deals associated with its purchase from Russia in the late 1990s have been dogged by the taint of corruption that has spared no political party – from the Congress to the BJP to the Samjawadi Party.", "a report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General revealed in 2006 that the Sukhoi deal, valued initially at Rs 22,000 crore, had by then shot up to Rs 45,000 crore. Just to translate the manuals from Russian to English cost Rs 42 crore of taxpayers’ money.", "particularly when private secretaries of politicians openly admit to having taking commissions on defence deals. And when these magnificent flying machines keep falling from the skies, you have to wonder just how deep the rot runs. And just how much of a blood price the nation must pay to the leeches that suck it dry."
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Jan 8, 2012 Can any airline fly profitably — and safely — in India?: "Apparently not."
Jan 8, 2012 CBI prises open coal scam file: "The CBI, armed with a Supreme Court order, has reopened an 11-year-old case file and is readying a chargesheet to nail eight high-profile persons, including former Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) CMD B. Akla and coal merchant Ramesh Gandhi, in a Rs 90-lakh scam."
Jan 8, 2012 Clean up RBI’s mess: "The RBI has not only wrecked Indian industry, but it has also wrecked the future of India. Who can afford a student loan at 15 per cent?"
Jan 8, 2012 Corruption, bureaucracy keep NRI investors away: "Payment of bribes at all levels and an unresponsive bureaucracy emerged as the most common complaints from overseas Indian investors waiting to invest in the country.", "“Most government offices don’t reply to emails or take calls. Due to this, we usually come in contact with people with wrong intentions.”"
Jan 8, 2012 Red tape, inadequate facilities hit India investments: NRIs: "Overseas investment in India has been hit by corruption and lack of proper facilities in the country, say non resident Indians (NRIs)."
Jan 8, 2012 Policy paralysis can drag GDP growth below 7%: Parekh: ""The common man in India is corrupt because he cannot get anything done without paying a bribe... I myself had to pay for a death certificate. We need some redressal mechanism for this problem. We need police reform, judicial reform," he said."
Jan 8, 2012 Court jails former Indian telecoms minister: "Ram was sent to the same prison in New Delhi where another disgraced former telecoms minister, A. Raja, has been held since February last year while he awaits trial over a separate corruption case."
Jan 5, 2012 Are top airlines compromising on safety to cut costs?: "The DGCA has warned airlines that they cannot compromise on safety despite financial stress."
Jan 5, 2012 Unsafe for Kingfisher to fly?: "DGCA has rapped all the Indian air carriers over the issue of neglecting safety due to financial constraints"
Jan 5, 2012 Breakthrough in black money case?: "The businessman in question accepts depositing Rs. 60 cr unaccounted money in Zurich, Singapore and the United States. He has a house in posh Sainik farms area of Delhi and office in south extension. The businessman known to have top political connections."
Jan 5, 2012 President Patil’s cook demands VIP treatment: "After listening to the woes of her cook, President Patil called up Governor E S L Narasimhan and complained, who turned the fire on the Health ministry. The command chain from the Health minister to Health Secretary, Director, Medical Education and then to the hospital superintendent finally led to his admission in a super speciality care hospital in the city."
Jan 5, 2012 Complaint filed against Maya in UP Lokayukta: "The complaint states that the CM benefited to the tune of Rs 250 crores from her involvement in liquor trade."
Jan 4, 2012 Kingfisher Airlines safety an issue: DGCA: "The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) which carried out a financial audit of all domestic airlines has found sickness to be pretty endemic in the Indian aviation sector and suggested rather drastic remedies."
Jan 4, 2012 Top manager says ‘weak government’ hurting Indian investment
Jan 4, 2012 Scam-scarred Goa gears up for polls: "From between the mountainous heaps of illegally mined ore and humungous moral craters of political corruption"
Jan 3, 2012 Key aide arrested, Jagan next?: "CBI on Monday night (January 2) arrested Vijayasai Reddy, the auditor of companies of Y S R Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, who faces a disproportionate asset case."
Jan 3, 2012 'Save Yeddy plan' in place?: "A Preliminary probe conducted by a top Karnataka cop finds 191police officers innocent. The preliminary report contradicts Justice Santosh Hegde's report on illegal mining."
Jan 3, 2012 Koda Will Have to Pay 1200 Crores Tax: "the former Chief Minister will have to pay 1200 crore as Income Tax within six months, otherwise penalty and other proceedings against him will be taken."
Jan 3, 2012 Kashmir reels under power crisis: "The state has been witnessing up to 14 to 16 hours of load shedding each day."
Jan 3, 2012 CBI arrests Jagan Mohan Reddy's aide: "With the arrest, the CBI is one step closer to arresting Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case."
Jan 3, 2012 Karnataka government in a fix over illegal mining report: "Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, in his report in July last year, indicted over 600 officials from police, revenue, transport, forest and mining departments."
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Jagan's aide Vijay Sai Reddy to be produced in court Tuesday: "As the auditor and financial advisor of the family of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he allegedly played a key role in floating of dozens of companies by Jaganmohan Reddy and mobilising investments from various companies both in India and abroad. A former director of Oriental Bank of Commerce, Vijay Sai Reddy was questioned several times by the CBI"
Jan 2, 2012 Meant for ‘distressed’, Orissa plot quota goes to babus, judges, journalists: "Assembly records show, among those to have benefited over the past 26 years from the quota — meant to help persons “in distress” — have been senior officers, high court judges, politicians as well as more than 30 senior journalists."
Jan 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: For India, a Power Failure Looms: "India is the world's fifth-largest electricity producer after the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, but its per capita consumption is among the world's lowest"
Jan 2, 2012 HC cancels Srilakshmi’s bail in OMC case: "The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday cancelled the bail of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Y Srilakshmi in the OMC illegal mining case."
Jan 1, 2012 Raja, Kalmadi relish paneer, kheer, halwa in Tihar 2012: "Only well behaved prisoners are allowed to use the phone. The prisoners also got special food to mark New Year: vegetable curry with paneer, kheer, halwa, puri, parathas and pulao."
Jan 1, 2012 Citbank fraud: Citi failed to act on scam warning signals, says probe report
Dec 30, 2011 Multi-level marketing – in need of cognate regulation?: "The country has been periodically rocked by scams of MLM companies and such frequent frauds indicate regulatory circumvention"
Dec 30, 2011 New Companies Bill takes ethics to a newer level: "India has witnessed some major corporate scams."
Dec 30, 2011 Major Scandals of 2011: "2G Spectrum scam:"
Dec 30, 2011 CBI Trouble for Lalbabu Singh: "After the biggest recovery of cash of 130 crore Rupees by the Income Tax department the CBI has also tightened its noose on Lalbabu Singh, the infamous coal contractor of Dhanbad."
Dec 30, 2011 Janardhana Reddy’s 2-day escort bail petition quashed: "the CBI opposed the petition saying the programme in Bellary is aimed at intimidating the witnesses. The CBI prosecutor pointed out that Reddy’s supporters arranged a large number of huge cut-outs and hundreds of vehicles in Bellary even before the designated court granting him bail.", "Gali is in possession of several fake passports and could vanish out of the country in no time."
Dec 30, 2011 Four fake CBI officers arrested: "Kakinada police today arrested four persons for extorting Rs two lakh from a factory manager by pretending to be CBI officers."
Dec 29, 2011 CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe: "The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service"
Dec 28, 2011 IPO fraud: Sebi moves swiftly on seven IPOs: "The regulator has unearthed mis-utilisation and diversion of funds from the IPO proceeds by the companies and has ordered them to call back an aggregate of Rs 140 crore and deposit them in an escrow account"
Dec 27, 2011 'Pulse import by Pawar ministry led to Rs 1k cr loss': "companies were given the imported consignments through a skewed tender process. These private companies, the report says, are also major players in the pulses market. They took a long time to lift the imported consignments, which ensured that prices of pulses in the domestic market remained high."
Dec 27, 2011 Corruption in India Will Scare Off Foreign Investors - CNBC
Dec 27, 2011 Maharashtra consumes Rs 100 cr gutkha daily: Oppn leader: "around Rs 100 crore was consumed in state of which Rs 25 crore was in Mumbai alone."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI files chargesheet against ex Jharkhand minister in DA case: "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda's close aide and his ex-ministerial colleague Bhanu Pratap Shahi was chargesheeted today by CBI for allegedly acquiring disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs seven crore.", "The chargesheet had accused Koda of misusing his position to allegedly benefit Sinha and Choudhary in taking "bribes" from various companies in the allotment of lease of iron mines in the State."
Dec 27, 2011 CBI estimates illegal mining by OMC led to loss of Rs 5,100 crore: "The CBI today told a local court that illegal mining allegedly involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy had resulted in a loss of Rs 5,100 crore to the state exchequer."
Dec 27, 2011 Summons issued in 2G spectrum case: "Essar Group promoters Anshuman and Ravi Ruia along with five others were on Wednesday (December 21) issued summons by a Delhi court which took cognizance of CBI's charge sheet arising out of investigation in the 2G scam case. Special Judge O P Saini also issued summons to Loop Telecom promoters Kiran Khaitan, her husband I P Khaitan and Essar Group director (Strategy and Planning) Vikas Saraf and three companies -- Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd, Loop Mobile India Ltd and Essar Tele Holding -- named as accused in the third charge sheet."
Dec 27, 2011 Disaster averted at Chennai Airport
Dec 27, 2011 Sukhram's conviction upheld by HC: "In a setback to former Telecom Minister Sukhram, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (December 21) upheld his conviction and three year jail term in the 1996 telecom scam."
Dec 27, 2011 2G: Court summons five corporate honchos: "charges filed in the 2G case alleging criminal conspiracy and cheating by three more firms and five people, including some promoters of the Essar Group."
Dec 27, 2011 US lists Delhi's Nehru Place among notorious markets in world: "An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR)."
Dec 27, 2011 1996 Telecom scam: HC orders ex-minister Sukhram to serve sentence: "also upheld the conviction of ex-deputy Director-General of the Department of Telecom (DoT) Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Managing Director P Rama Rao."
Dec 27, 2011 Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due towards Air India: "In 2011-12, foreign travel bill of cabinet ministers was a staggering Rs 460.78 crore till December 16, 2011"
Dec 27, 2011 Ravi Ruia steps down as chairman of Essar Energy following CBI chargesheet
Dec 27, 2011 2G: Chargesheet against Essar, Loop accepted: "All eight accused named in the chargesheet have been summoned to be present before court on January 27.", "accused of cheating and criminal conspiracy"
Dec 27, 2011 2011: A year dedicated to MLM and Ponzi scheme frauds
Dec 27, 2011 Most corrupt industries in India: "India lost a staggering $462 billion in illicit financial flows due to tax evasion, crime and corruption."
Dec 27, 2011 India tycoon's got tons of cash, nowhere to invest: ""If you are an honest businessman in India, it's very difficult to start up anything," said Jamshyd Godrej, chairman of manufacturing giant Godrej & Boyce."
Dec 25, 2011 $128 billion siphoned out in a decade: "The report has been prepared by international watchdog Global Financial Integrity (GFI)"
Dec 25, 2011 2011:Landmark legislation, scams pack action into Mines sector
Dec 24, 2011 UK regulator hints “covert” Ambani fund invested in RCom: "Indian markets regulator, Sebi, settled for a penalty of Rs 50 crore on the group through a “consent order” under which Anil Ambani and four of his board members were barred from investing in the markets till the end of the year."
Dec 24, 2011 Murky drug trial in Indore - Part 2: "One of the doctors in the clinic allegedly involved in drug trials of mentally ill admits to trial on them, and a family alleges drug trial on an infant."
Dec 24, 2011 Drug trial on mentally challenged?: "In an out and out treachery by a pharma company in Indore, TIMES NOW's investigation has revealed how a mentally ill patient was used for a drug trial without consent. The patient from a poor family was used like a guinea pig by the medical practitioners"
Dec 23, 2011 Telecom official, accomplice charged with corruption: "there was enough evidence on record to charge Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) official Ashok Kumar Sharma and his accomplice Sanjay Bhalla for criminal conspiracy to commit cheating, forgery for purpose of cheating, and using as genuine a forged document"
Dec 23, 2011 Lokpal Bill impotent if CBI not included: Mohandas Pai: "Director of Manipal Universal Learning and the Former Director of Infosys said the CBI has to be under the control of the Lokpal to make it effective."
Dec 23, 2011 Odisha 2011: Maoist Activities, Calamities and Scams: "vast areas turning safe havens for the red rebels marauding from neighbouring provinces in 2011, seen as a year of calamities and scams in the state."
Dec 23, 2011 CBI counsel draws parallel between OMC, Satyam scams: "urged the court to reject the bail applications of the accused - Gali Janardhan Reddy and BV Srinivas Reddy of OMC."
Dec 23, 2011 Corruption impeding investments, says Moody’s: "A report from Moody's has said that policymakers need to stamp out "rampant corruption" as part of measures to support investment and prevent the country from falling into a low-growth high-inflation trap."
Dec 23, 2011 ‘Investors’ are realty’s mafia; that’s why prices can’t come down: "these investors are not generally you and me buying a second flat for investment, but non-resident Indians or even politicians channelising their black money into the sector."
Dec 22, 2011 Gunmen chase, kill realtor in bustling Howrah locality: "A promoter was chased down a busy road by 8-10 gunmen in Howrah on Thursday morning, cornered in a residential locality and shot and hacked to death in front of horrified women and children."
Dec 20, 2011 Rs 10,000 cr bribe a year: ACB report on Andhra liquor: "payment of bribes as protection money to everyone from officials and ministers to journalists", "Names of over 50 MLAs of various parties have reportedly cropped up during the probe"
Dec 20, 2011 Koreans face wrath of cops, detained for nine hours: ""Even the policeman thrashed us. The police treated us like criminals and kept us in the police station for hours."
Dec 20, 2011 BJP targets Chidambaram: "accusing him of showing "disrespect" to Parliament by making a statement outside on the recent controversy over allegedly helping a local hotelier."
Dec 20, 2011 Outrage, clinical trials on mentally ill: "It is the worst form of treachery and deceit. Reports suggest that over 200 mentally ill patients were subjected to drug trial in Bhopal. The report of the Economic Offences wing details how informed consent was not taken from the patients, and how more than 80 patients underwent severe aftereffects of the drugs."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja hatched 2G conspiracy: Former aide: "Jailed former communications minister A. Raja's former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary Monday told a special court here that the DMK leader hatched the conspiracy on 2G spectrum licences much before he headed the ministry."
Dec 19, 2011 2G accused corporate honchos visited Raja since 2004: Ex-aide: "the former minister was in touch with Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra even during his stint with the ministry of environment and forests between 2004-07."
Dec 19, 2011 Fake notes: Can’t ‘bank’ on banks: "Getting forged notes from ATM counters has now become a regular affair in the city.", "The cops quizzed me about the places from where I got the money. I was interrogated as if I had printed the fake notes. It was adding insult to the injury,""
Dec 19, 2011 CAG challenges Government: "CAG puts out detailed mathematical logic, methodology and figure estimating the loss. The CAG has challenged government and is sticking to the estimated 1.76 lakh crore loss figure on 2G scam."
Dec 19, 2011 Corruption mars Goa's 50th liberation anniversary: "The big mining scam has taken the sheen off the celebrations of 50 years of liberation of Goa."
Dec 19, 2011 Raja, Kani involved in 2G scam: Raja's ex-aide: "He also said Sanjay Chandra, Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka were known to Raja from his days as environment minister.", "A Raja allocated spectrum by Tamil Nadu's Ration shop mechanism"
Dec 18, 2011 Reuters: Insight: Hardly "Incredible India": "Frustrated executives while away time in five-star hotels waiting for deals that never come, and civil servants play video games in their offices - growing signs of the reform limbo and crisis of confidence behind India's economic malaise."
Dec 18, 2011 Audit firms involved in scams face heavy fines: "Jail up to 10 years and fines up to three times the scam amount await chartered accountants and audit firms found guilty in corporate frauds. Audit firms, including the global Big 4 - Pricewaterhouse, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young - for the first time face punitive action"
Dec 18, 2011 Government hiding truth on PC's 'favours' to ex-client: BJP
Dec 17, 2011 Raja committed offence with active connivance of Chidu: Swamy: "Subramanian Swamy today urged a Delhi court to make P Chidambaram an accused in the 2G case for his alleged role in allowing two telecom firms to earn windfall profits by offloading their shares to foreign firms."
Dec 17, 2011 2G: Raja acted on PC's instructions, says Swamy: "Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's deposition against Home Minister P Chidambaram will continue on January 7."
Dec 16, 2011 Parl paralysed as Oppn demands PC's resignation: "BJP MPs forced the adjournment of both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha till Monday."
Dec 16, 2011 2G case: Swamy to appear as witness against PC today: "Subramanium Swamy will appear as a witness before a special CBI court in New Delhi on Saturday in support of his private complaint seeking home minister P Chidambaram’s prosecution in the 2G scam."
Dec 16, 2011 Illegal mining: CBI opposes bail pleas of Janardhana Reddy: "Opposing the fresh bail pleas of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, the CBI alleged that the two were main culprits in the OMC mining scam."
Dec 16, 2011 PC row: Hotelier involved in theft of 21 ministry files, says firm: "“The accused (S P Gupta) not only forged letterheads of Sonia Gandhi and other leaders but was also involved in stealing of 21 files from the office of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs at Shastri Bhavan. These files were recovered from the house of Gupta’s financial advisor during an Income-Tax raid"
Dec 16, 2011 Policy paralysis, corruption scandals and global slowdown has derailed India
Dec 16, 2011 The Vancouver Sun: India probes more than 100 deaths from moonshine liquor: "West Bengal's illegal alcohol industry thrives, destroying lives at the bottom of society, because many senior politicians and influential businessmen have ownership stakes and local police receive bribes to look the other way, Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/India+probes+more+than+deaths+from+moonshine+liquor/5866751/story.html#ixzz1gkNIxcDN"
Dec 16, 2011 'Death Of The Internet As We Know It': "as many as 255 (71%) of the 358 complaints made to Google in the last six months, were about 'government criticism' and only 8, or 2.23% were about "hate speech"."
Dec 16, 2011 काश पति ने वादा निभाया होता!: "अस्पतालों और शव गृहों के सामने शव एक-दूसरे पर अनाज की बोरियों की तरह रखे गए हैं. क़ब्रिस्तान में भी उतनी ही भीड़ है.", "आलम की मौत के बाद मशीदुर की चिंता यह है कि उनकी 11 बेटे-बेटियों का गुज़ारा कैसे होगा ?", "वाममोर्चा सरकार ने इस धंधे को कुटीर उद्योग का दर्जा दे दिया था."
Dec 16, 2011 गिरते रूपए को बचाने के लिए पूजा पाठ: "श्रद्धालु चाहते है कि उनके भगवान अमरीकी डॉलर की तुलना में रूपए की गिरती हुई कीमत को संभाल लें"
Dec 16, 2011 Illegal mining caught on tape: "The Shivraj Singh government in Madhya Pradesh is under fire from the opposition which is accusing it of involvement in an illegal mining case. TIMES NOW traveled to ground zero to find the truth and our cameras captured some shocking pictures."
Dec 16, 2011 Maharashtra: hooch worth Rs 16 cr seized in 2011: "Excise officials fear Mumbai may see spurious liquor flooding the market due to the high taxes on liquor."
Dec 16, 2011 Fake currency notes circulation on the rise in Bihar: "He was allegedly smuggling the notes to East Champaran from Bangladesh"
Dec 16, 2011 AI debt mounts to Rs.43,000 crore: govt: "Air India has also a net loss of Rs.18,000 crore accumulated in the past three to four years,"
Dec 16, 2011 Chidambaram under fire for 'favouring a former client'; government, BJP lock horns: "Referring to the cases against businessman SP Gupta, the BJP accused Chidambaram of misusing his office and committing a "criminal offence" by "favouring a former client"."
Dec 16, 2011 Prashant Bhushan alleges that CBI ignored Shyam Telecom because of Putin links: "“Russia-based Sistema group is promoted by Russian billionaire Mr Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who has a very close relationship with the Russian President Mr Vladimir Putin."
Dec 16, 2011 Rupee breaches 54 per dollar mark: "The Indian rupee fell by 46 paise to a record low of Rs 54.17 per US dollar"
Dec 16, 2011 With our bucks to the wall: "The widest impact of a freefalling rupee is in the higher prices of oil we buy in the international market."
Dec 16, 2011 Conflict of interest: Oppn wants PC to quit: "CNN-IBN had accessed papers which show that the Home Ministry withdrew charges against a hotelier."
Dec 16, 2011 Chidambaram case: MHA's decision revoked: "The case against SP Gupta was reportedly dropped on the Home Ministry's directions."
Dec 15, 2011 How many Sukhois must crash for us to call it a scandal?: "When Mulayam Singh Yadav was defence minister in the HD Deve Gowda government in the late 1990s, he was, for all practical purposes, minister in absentia. Preoccupied rather more with defending his political turf in the volatile state of Uttar Pradesh", "the deals associated with its purchase from Russia in the late 1990s have been dogged by the taint of corruption that has spared no political party – from the Congress to the BJP to the Samjawadi Party.", "a report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General revealed in 2006 that the Sukhoi deal, valued initially at Rs 22,000 crore, had by then shot up to Rs 45,000 crore. Just to translate the manuals from Russian to English cost Rs 42 crore of taxpayers’ money.", "particularly when private secretaries of politicians openly admit to having taking commissions on defence deals. And when these magnificent flying machines keep falling from the skies, you have to wonder just how deep the rot runs. And just how much of a blood price the nation must pay to the leeches that suck it dry."
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