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May 25, 2012 OPINION: Reforming the bureaucracy: "Transfer orders are often arbitrary or motivated. Unless the policy that governs the transfers of public servants becomes transparent, the quid pro quo culture that dominates Indian bureaucracy will not dissolve."
May 25, 2012 Mum's family told 'corrupt' Goa police unlikely to solve mystery: "THE family of a Derby mother who died in mysterious circumstances in Goa have been warned that the police there are "deeply rooted in corruption.""
May 25, 2012 2G: CBI court charges Essar, Loop promoters: "The court also granted bail to Essar's Ravi and Anshuman Ruia, and Loop Telecom's Kiran Khaitan and IP Khaitan."
May 25, 2012 DA case: Massive crowd gathers as CBI grills Jagan: "Prohibitory orders have been issued in Hyderabad as policy fear that Jagan's supporters could go on the rampage if he is arrested."
May 25, 2012 B'lore: Another vigilance officer attacked: "The attack comes just days after an auditor, SP Mahantesh, was murdered in the city."
May 24, 2012 Whistleblowers Who Led Crusade against Corruption
May 24, 2012 Report Uncovers True Scope of India's 'Black Money': "It would appear from India's unnaturally low taxpayer base, widespread anecdotal evidence of tax evasion, and lack of procedural clarity and prosecutorial energy on many aspects of tax collection that the country's Ministry of Finance, the Department of Revenue, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes are incapable of working cohesively."
May 24, 2012 Lal battis etc: "Denying red beacons to MPs hardly dents the larger culture of VIP-cossetting", "Instead of engaging in the task of dropping privileges that do not serve the democratic purpose, instead of separating the necessary from the outdated, parliamentarians are trying to institutionalise segregation to enable a privileged few to glide through cordons. It is there in the 31 categories of VIPs"
May 24, 2012 Angry citizens take to the streets: "for the man on the street, any time is a bad time to break news of a seven and a half rupees hike in petrol prices. At Rs 81 a litre, the city of Bangalore will pay the highest for petrol."
May 24, 2012 US report cites police abuses, extrajudicial killings in India: ""The most significant human rights problems (in India) were police and security force abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture, and rape; widespread corruption at all levels of government; and separatist, insurgent, and societal violence," the report released by US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said."
May 24, 2012 US report slams India on corruption, social violence: "The US state department has highlighted "widespread corruption at all levels of government" and separatist, insurgent and societal violence among the most significant human rights problems in India. "Widespread impunity at all levels of government remained a serious problem,""
May 23, 2012 Show for President cost Navy Rs 23 crore: "The Navy has run up a tab of Rs 23 crore for a day's extravaganza for the President. This included a bill of Rs 12 lakh for drinking water and Rs 17 lakh for the presidential banquet, besides spending Rs 14 lakh on alteration of a cattle fence and a similar amount on repairing a staircase."
May 23, 2012 Economic mess starts to hurt Indian diplomacy: "s these crises drag on, they are beginning to have a diplomatic fallout on India's relations with these nations with implications ranging from the minor to the significant."
May 23, 2012 28% Indian executives okay with bribery: Study: "Corporate India tops the global league when it comes to bribing and financial frauds, with 28 per cent of top executives being keen on making cash payments to win new businesses or retain existing clients, says a survey by leading global consultancy Ernst & Young (E&Y)."
May 23, 2012 Jagan Reddy, India’s richest politician, lied to EC on assets: "In 2004, when Jagan’s father YSR Reddy was yet to become the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, he had only Rs 8.19 lakh of assets. Clearly, being the son of a Chief Minister is not injurious to one’s acquisitive streak. Five years later (in 2009), by the time YSR completed his first term as CM, his son’s assets together with that of his wife had jumped to Rs 77.40 crore. Just two years later, he and his wife were worth Rs 410 crore. And we know he hasn’t disclosed everything."
May 23, 2012 Mass opulence: An inside view of Jagan's palace: "Reddy's mansion is located in the Green Belt area of Yelahanka in Bangalore. It was built in 31 acres of land and valued at over Rs.100 crore. The mansion has a private helipad also.", "In his 2011 election affidavit, Jagan revealed his direct and indirect ownership of 11 companies. These are:Sandur Power, Saraswati Power, Carmel Asia Holdings, Bharathi Cement Corp, Kealawn Technologies Pvt Ltd, Marvel Infrastructure, Classic Realty, Silicon Builders, Swasti Power Engineering Ltd. Sandur Power's annual reports show that it has several subsidiaries, such as: Classic Realty, Harish Infrastructure, Capstone Infra, Silicon Builders."
May 23, 2012 CWG flats: Right hand buys what left hand is selling: "When in trouble, dial the public sector. This is the formula babus use to get out of tight spots. And so it may be with the Delhi Development Authority’s auction of Commonwealth Games flats"
May 22, 2012 Sending out wrong signals: "The death of SP Mahantesh, a 48-year-old Karnataka administrative officer who exposed scams in cooperative societies in Bangalore, is not a one-off case; such cases are taking place with alarming regularity in India, a country that boasts of a Right to Information Act (RTI)."
May 22, 2012 Arvind Subramanian: What is India's real growth potential?: "India has lagged most developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and perhaps also China."
May 22, 2012 Gen VK Singh: In India we have a tendency to shoot the whistleblower
May 22, 2012 Reuters Canada: India faces mass default and restructuring as devaluation looms: "India's mounting economic and political woes are prompting market players to raise the specter of a Greek-style crisis in Asia's third largest economy."
May 22, 2012 Haryana: 80,000 sacks of wheat rot in the open: "Palwal is facing an acute shortage of storage space. With a covered capacity of just 5000 MT, a staggering 59,000 MT of wheat is lying in the open."
May 22, 2012 The UPA government looks old and tired: Yogendra Yadav: "growing frustration with the Congress and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, should it really be celebrating?"
May 22, 2012 Why UPA-2 has failed: Voodoo politics and economics: "How did UPA-2 pull disillusionment (and potential defeat) from the jaws of thumping victory in 2009? What went wrong?"
May 22, 2012 Here’s proof ministers grow assets faster; don’t ask how: "winning politicians do indeed grow their assets faster than losers, and that ministers grow their assets even more quickly."
May 22, 2012 Democracy is about freedom of expression: Taniya Bhardwaj on lighting the CM’s fuse
May 22, 2012 3 yrs of UPA2: Is there anything to celebrate?: "On a day that the UPA2 finishes 3 years and is expected to come out with a report card, opposition parties have taken on the Government. The BJP and the Left tear into the Government's performance."
May 22, 2012 UPA government is losing credibility: Survey: "A CNN-IBN survey says that the UPA government is losing its credibility and it has failed on several fronts."
May 22, 2012 White paper on black money focuses on real estate, gold: "Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee tabled white paper on black money in Parliament on Monday."
May 22, 2012 Women perform nude worship near Tumkur: "As per tradition, women wear neem leaves, and with a lock on their mouths, go once around the village. On Friday night, over 100 women worshipped the goddess in this manner, with men looking on. "
May 22, 2012 The Last Word: Govt spending on political anniversaries wrong?: "On The Last Word, Karan Thakar asks a panel of experts, is the Indian tradition of taking out multiple large advertisements in all newspapers to commemorate political birth, death or other anniversaries acceptable or morally wrong?"
May 21, 2012 MPs set to get status symbol: Beacons: "Bowing to unprecedented pressure from parliamentarians, the Centre is considering allowing red beacons on cars of MPs across the country with the exception of the "VIP area" in the national capital."
May 21, 2012 BJP demands probe into allegations against Gujarat Governor: "BJP MPs created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding a probe against Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal."
May 21, 2012 Delhi Police arrests robbers donating part of booty to Shirdi Sai shrine: "The gang members used to commit robberies in Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. They had an affluent lifestyle, moved around with their girlfriends in stolen luxury cars and stayed in 5-star hotels."
May 21, 2012 एयर इंडिया: शराब, कावियार 'चुराने' की जाँच: "एक पायलेट ने अपनी ग्राउंडिंग के दौरान किस तरह से और कैसे 2.2 करोड़ रुपए का उड़ान भत्ता हासिल किया.", "एक केबिनकर्मी को कस्टम विभाग ने तब पकड़ा जब वो विमान से शराब की 372 छोटी बोतलें लेकर जाने की कोशिश कर रहा था."
May 21, 2012 School textbooks: Pakistan is part of India, P V Narasimha Rao is country's PM: "only 15 per cent of graduates are suitable for employment and it is a sorry state of affairs. It reflects the poor quality of education at all levels, from primary to higher levels."
May 21, 2012 Kicking the book out of syllabus: blame it on Sonia: "At least 17 books have been taken off the shelves because they `offended’ sentiments. The country certainly owes an explanation from the authorities."
May 21, 2012 Rescue the nation: "We see our nation being plundered and mismanaged by the politicians in power. Even as the rupee collapses and industrial production growth turns negative, our top leadership discusses 60-year-old cartoons in Parliament."
May 21, 2012 Australia's next big problem: India's democracy: "“No wonder business is in a sulk and investment is falling. Red tape and corruption, always present, seem to have got worse — in recent state elections so many banknotes were doled out that they help explain a liquidity problem in the banking system."
May 21, 2012 An increment of Rs1,000 is all he got in 18 years: "Corruption is a disease that plagues India from inside. There is widespread belief that nobody is serious enough to completely weed out corruption in the country"
May 21, 2012 Evangelist K A Paul arrested while offering Rs 1 cr for fake encounter in AP police sting: "the evangelist had conspired to abduct and murder his associate Koteswara Rao, the main accused in the murder of his brother K David Raju, in Mahaboobnagar district in 2010. The SP said the evangelist had offered Rs. 1 crore to the Ongole Taluka Police Inspector to assist him in the crime and paid an advance of Rs 3 lakh."
May 21, 2012 The austerity of the affluent: "A rural Indian spending Rs. 22.50 a day would not be considered poor by a Planning Commission whose Deputy Chairman's foreign trips between May and October last year cost a daily average of Rs. 2.02 lakh"
May 21, 2012 Ramp to Raisina Hill: "And if representation is the issue, we editorial writers would like one of us to be considered for the job. After all, we slave away to interpret events for you and surely that is a useful talent when it comes to interacting with foreign dignitaries. Also, ensconced in the salubrious surrounding of the presidential mansion, one of our tribe, to use that word loosely, may come up with more inspired editorials."
May 20, 2012 IAC's 'Expose corruption yatra' in UP from June 5
May 20, 2012 Companies abetting bribery need to be severely punished, says CVC: "Private companies indulging in bribery get away with less or no punishment because of the lacunae in India's anti-corruption law, Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar said."
May 20, 2012 India Is a Risky Ballgame: "The string of controversies also underscores the opaque nexus between business and politics in India, and the scope for unethical practice therein."
May 20, 2012 India's soap opera on corruption: "Raja walked free from jail on bail, after the judge ruled against the slow progress of the trial and the fact that almost all the other accused had been released thus making it pointless to detain Raja."
May 20, 2012 Just how rich are India's politicians?: "Maybe it is time to prosecute Mayawati for her alleged transgressions. But maybe it's time to widen the net, as well."
May 20, 2012 'Dictatorships Cannot Afford Laughter' : "'Because people may laugh at the dictator and that wouldn’t do. In all the years of Hitler, there never was a good comedy, not a good cartoon, not a parody, or a spoof'"
May 20, 2012 Roads to disaster: "In the last decade alone, road accidents have claimed more than 8,500 lives. Since 2000, the City has recorded over 66,327 accidents."
May 19, 2012 As Air India struggled for cash and occupancy, its employees milked it dry: "a flight purser who was dismissed from service after he was apprehended with 372 mini-liquor bottles by customs at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Similarly, a catering officer was found with Rs. 20,200 worth of caviar tins that were missing from a special charter flight."
May 17, 2012 Among those whom AI sacked, an Emirates pilot and one in the air: "Critics complain that among the several problems of Air India’s management style is the fact that the right hand frequently does not know what the left is up to.", "Among the 71 striking pilots sacked by the mandarins who run India’s national carrier is one who isn’t even an Air India employee, and another who was literally mid-air over Europe when he was fired for not showing up at work."
May 17, 2012 Ramalinga Raju too routed funds via industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad into Jagan’s firm: "Satyam's Ramalinga Raju had invested Rs 20 crore in Jagati publications belonging to Jaganmohan Reddy through industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad. Raju made this investment through Maytas Infra -- as a quid pro quo for the YSR regime having allotted a Rs 121-crore road-widening project in Kadapa district to the infrastructure company on a nomination basis."
May 15, 2012 India Digest: 23 Tax Tribunal Members Under CBI Scanner for ‘Fixing’ Verdicts
May 15, 2012 World Bank gives evidence of corruption in highway projects: "The Bank's report has an annexure of "collateral" evidence showing how contractors produced fake invoices and certificates to get advance from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)."
May 15, 2012 A 'Kahaani' of Indian bureaucracy, corruption
May 15, 2012 With Flexibility, Africa Surpasses India
May 15, 2012 CBI arrests two in Jagan corruption case: "The CBI today arrested former special secretary to Andhra Pradesh government KV Bramhananda Reddy and chairman of MAA TV Nimmagadda Prasad in connection with an alleged corruption case involving Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy."
May 15, 2012 India’s growth threatened by old abuses: "“This country is close to becoming the Greece of Asia.” "
May 15, 2012 'Our Duty To Dissent': "'We think that the short, heated and not very well informed debate in the Parliament did not do justice to the responsibility that a democratic society has towards its future generations' "
May 15, 2012 'क्यों बच्ची को जिंदा दफनाने की कोशिश की': "दिल्ली के नजदीक पिलखुआ में एक दो महीने की बच्ची के माता-पिता ने तांत्रिक के कहने पर उसे जिंदा दफनाने की कोशिश की."
May 15, 2012 Is India heading towards fascism?: "surveys have pointed out 50 per cent of Indians are corrupt. "
May 15, 2012 वो बेचती दारू.....: "ऐसी ही एक हॉकी खिलाड़ी हैं नोरी मुंडू जो आज घर में शराब चुलाई कर अपना और अपने घर वालों का पेट पालने पर मजबूर हैं."
May 15, 2012 No arrest in murder of teen who witnessed mother's rape: "All the nine accused roamed free Monday, a day after they shockingly burnt alive a teenager who was the main witness in his mother's rape in 2006", "They also told me time and again to shell out Rs.1 crore to police and officials, including the judge."
May 15, 2012 Dangers of deletion: "The Ambedkar cartoon has been misread. And this could just be the beginning"
May 15, 2012 Paternity row: HC asks Tiwari to give consent for DNA test in 2 days: "Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari was on Monday asked by the Delhi High Court to inform it within two days as to whether he wants to voluntarily give his blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit or police force be used for obtaining it."
May 15, 2012 7-year-old who saw his mother raped burnt alive: "The victim's mother was allegedly gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village. He was being threatened to withdraw the case and not appear as a witness in the court"
May 14, 2012 27% of India’s doctors exist only on paper: "Union health ministry's scrutiny has found that two lakh of the registered doctors aren't working anymore. Of the 10.7 lakh nurses registered, six lakh don't exist."
May 13, 2012 23 tax tribunal members under CBI scanner for ‘fixing’ verdicts: "Jugal Kishore, an ITAT member from Kolkata, for allegedly receiving a bribe from the bosses of S K Tulsiyan and Co., for delivering “pre-decided’’ judgments. The CBI recovered Rs 28 lakh from Kishore’s residence."
May 13, 2012 Girls abandoned by 'protectors'?: "What happens when those entrusted with caring for these children turn into monsters who abuse them? What happens when young girls are exploited for money by the very people who are supposed to provide for them? This is Apna Ghar, a shelter home in Haryana which is no less than a house of horrors. The children and women in this facility allegedly assaulted by the woman who runs the place, beaten up, forced to work, and sometimes even pushed into flesh trade."
May 13, 2012 Dark clouds hover as Indian parliament turns 60: "Winston Churchill who predicted that the natives were not fit to govern themselves and would soon “fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages”."
May 13, 2012 Centralisation of power root cause of corruption: Anna Hazare
May 13, 2012 Anna invites Gen Singh to join anti-graft movement
May 13, 2012 विचारों का गला घोंटना आधुनिक रोग: योगेंद्र यादव: "ऐसे व्यक्ति पर कुछ अनपढ़ लोग अंबेडकर के नाम पर हमला करें, इससे ज्यादा दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण और विडंबना की बात और क्या हो सकती है."
May 13, 2012 Senior officer in cabinet secretariat leaked Army chief General VK Singh's letter to Prime Minister: PTI report: "Army Chief letter leak: Top female officer found guilty?"
May 12, 2012 More Enrons in sight in India?: "Casting aside the need for transparency and competition, the politicians and civil servants of both coal and environment ministries made hay while the sun was shining and merrily allotted around 200 coal blocks without auctions. Soon, the coal-power bubble will burst. A Coalgate and a multitude of Enrons will unfold, followed by unmanageable NPAs with the banks. After all, the people of India are always there to bear the burden of the sins of their political leaders "
May 12, 2012 Kejriwal threatens nationwide movement if Lokpal Bill not passed by May 22
May 12, 2012 क्‍या निर्मल बाबा हैं 420, केस हुआ दर्ज: "कृपा बांटने का दावा करने वाले निर्मल बाबा को क्या अब खुद कृपा की जरुरत पड़ने वाली है."
May 12, 2012 लोकतंत्र है या तानाशाहियों का जमघट?: "हमारे देश में अभिव्यक्ति के लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार का हाल उसी टिटवाल के कुत्ते जैसा है."
May 11, 2012 Sabarmati Central Jail: Inmates become fathers despite no bail or parole: "Police escorts not only allowed the couple privacy, they even bolted the van's door from outside."
May 10, 2012 Girls sexually abused, paraded naked, forced to work at kids’ shelter: ""We were molested by various people. If any girl protested, she would be paraded naked and beaten. Jaswanti forced us to work as labourers and snatched our wages,""
May 10, 2012 Haryana: Grain rots while poor starve: "CNN-IBN revisited a storage yard only to discover that the condition has worsened."
May 10, 2012 Supreme Court asks Centre to examine complaints against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan: "In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court on Thursday "requested" the Centre to examine the allegations of serious corruption and misconduct against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan and take suitable action, including his removal as the chief of National Human Rights Commission, if they were found correct."
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Raids at Tamil Nadu Agriculture University VC’s office, homes: "in connection with alleged malpractices in the purchase of cane harvesters by the university."
May 10, 2012 Why is grain rotting in the open yet again?: "The country is on the verge of record harvest, and yet for a third consecutive year, there is simply no space for storage."
May 10, 2012 Excl: UP DIG tries to do a U-turn: "Mathur landed in a controversy when he told a man who had come to lodge a missing complaint about his sister that had he been in his place, he would have shot her."
May 10, 2012 NRHM scam: CBI arrests senior IAS officer Pradeep Shukla: "The arrest came after the CBI was pulled up by Allahabad high court for not touching big names in the FIR lodged in connection with the NRHM scam."
May 9, 2012 DVAC searches houses, offices of TNAU V-C
May 9, 2012 Centre waives Meira Kumar's pending rent payment: "An RTI query filed reveals that the bill of Rs 1.98 crore issued against the Lok Sabha speaker stands withdrawn."
May 9, 2012 25% of Central schemes named after Rajiv Gandhi: "At least 25% of Central schemes are named after late PM Rajiv Gandhi."
May 9, 2012 On missing wives’ trail - Rai, Ekka better halves keep CBI officers on toes : "“Though we had a picture of Sushila, we were confused. Since the accused happens to be a woman we could not arrest her amid all the other ghunghat-clad women of the family who had gathered there,”"
May 9, 2012 अब भक्‍तों की कृपा मांगते निर्मल बाबा: "कई सवालों और कई आरोपों से घिरे निर्मल बाबा के समागम बदस्तूर जारी हैं, फर्क सिर्फ इतना है कि जहां निर्मल बाबा पहले अपने भक्तों पर अनोखे उपोयों से कृपा बरसाते थे, अब वहां वो भक्तों से कृपा मांगते दिख रहे हैं."
May 9, 2012 निर्मल बाबा को नटवरलाल का अवॉर्ड: "साल 2011-12 के लिए निर्मल बाबा को नटवरलाल का अवॉर्ड दिया गया."
May 9, 2012 निर्मल बाबा के खिलाफ केस दर्ज करने का आदेश: "दिव्य शक्ति का दावा करने वाले निर्मल बाबा को अब खुद कृपा की जरूरत पड़ सकती है. क्योंकि उनके खिलाफ कोर्ट ने एफआईआर दर्ज करने का आदेश दे दिया है. बाबा पर इल्जाम है कि वो अपने अटपटे नुस्खों से धोखाधड़ी और ठगी कर रहे हैं."
May 9, 2012 U.S. hits Air India with $80K fine: "Citing Air India’s failure to post customer service and tarmac delay contingency plans on its website as well as failing to adequately inform passengers about its optional fees, the U.S. DOT made an example out of India’s struggling national airline. Air India is the first entity facing a penalty assessed for a violation of the DOT’s new airline consumer rules"
May 9, 2012 Top cop says 'kill daughter'- NCW seeks suspension of UP DIG: "The National Commission for Women (NCW) today (May 9) has sought for the suspension of Satish Kumar Mathur, DIG of Saharanpur range, for allegedly endorsing honour killing, telling the family of abducted girl to shoot her if caught eloping."
May 9, 2012 A suitable president: "By choosing pliant heads of state, Congress has diminished the office", "President S. Radhakrishnan worked quietly behind the scenes to ensure that Indira Gandhi became prime minister"
May 9, 2012 4 AU professors, ex-AICTE official chargesheeted : "seven private individuals, four pharmacy professors of Andhra University and one former senior official of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for conspiring to get approvals to run pharmacy colleges by submitting fake, forged documents without proper infrastructure to offer courses."
May 9, 2012 Long View: India’s Very First Corruption Scandal

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