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Sep 29, 2012 16-yr-old raped at Bihar MLA's house, 5 held: " two of the accused spotted the girl, a Class 9 student, at Patna Junction and tricked her into going with them to the MLA's house."
Sep 29, 2012 Loot on in name of reforms and aam aadmi, Mamata Banerjee says: "Nowadays, the trend is whenever any anti-people decision is taken, it is taken in the name of reforms,""
Sep 28, 2012 'Austere' UPA's 3rd anniversary bash cost Rs 7,700 per head: ""The Rs 7,700-a-head dinner comes at a time when the government has announced austerity measures. Incidentally, the UPA-2 had stipulated that Rs 28 per day is sufficient to keep a person out of poverty. ""
Sep 28, 2012 MLA's husband brandishes gun: "Janata Dal (United) MLA Poonam Yadav's husband Ranbir Yadav snatches a carbine from his wife's bodyguard taking law into his hands showing off strength threatening protesters with the weapon."
Sep 28, 2012 Contractor-politician nexus across India: Whistleblower: "Chief Engineer Water Resources Vijay Pandhare, who blew the lid off the Maharashtra irrigation scam, has said that the nexus between contractors and politicians exists in all states."
Sep 28, 2012 Mother of all scams, order inquiry: INLD: "Terming the change of land use in the Gurgaon Manesar Urban Complex master plan as the mother of all scams, the INLD on Monday demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge into the issue."
Sep 28, 2012 Want to escape a scam? Create another one
Sep 28, 2012 India's Kleptocracy loots masses of humanity: "A 'kleptocracy' refers to "rule by thieves". A kleptocracy is a capitalist-oriented society where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class. In such a society, like India, politicians operate at the expense of the wider population as a basic "way of doing business" without pretence of honest service. This type of government corruption is often achieved by the embezzlement of state funds. In India, constitutional democracy exists in "name only"."
Sep 28, 2012 An underachieving India has only its leaders to blame
Sep 28, 2012 Will India Ever Rid Itself of Corruption?: "“We will vote, but we are losing faith in politics,” said a student at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. ”Young people are very pessimistic, and don’t think voting will change anything.”"
Sep 28, 2012 Coal scandal: India's tough fight against corruption: "His business rivals never fully understood how Manoj Jayaswal got so rich so fast, except that he often seemed joined at the hip with powerful politicians. He hosted them at lavish parties, entertained them at his daughter's opulent Thai wedding and stood among them at India's presidential palace"
Sep 28, 2012 ‘Corrupt officials, netas playing with people’s lives’: "Rs 35,000 crore was siphoned off or wasted on dud irrigation projects in the past decade."
Sep 28, 2012  Is Ajit Pawar the only Maharashtra politician involved in the irrigation scam?: "India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari had refused to speak out on the irrigation scam in Maharashtra."
Sep 28, 2012 Sonia has role in scams, PM needs to answer: Modi: "Attacking Sonia Gandhi he said that the UPA took the FDI decision a day after she came back form the US."
Sep 28, 2012 Irrigation scam: BJP leaders evade tough questions -- NewsX
Sep 28, 2012 Indian Dairy Uses Satire to Stick It to Politicians in Butter Ads: "ads for Amul brand butter have stuck the knife into Indian politicians for all manner of blunders, scams and gaffes."
Sep 28, 2012 Everyone corrupt in state: IAC: "not just the party in power, but even the Opposition in Maharashtra is corrupt"
Sep 28, 2012 BJP attacks PM on corruption at national council: ""This government is engaging in corruption and is then being brazen about it. Have they got any inner conscience which is needed to continue in office? This is a government of, for and by the corrupt,""
Sep 28, 2012 Urban India rejects UPA's reforms, even PM: Poll: "Feeling the pinch of the fuel price hike, the urban middle class has dealt a severe blow to the Manmohan Singh Government, giving the Prime Minister's push for reforms a big thumbs down. The aam admi, Congress' target group, feels the government has not just lost credibility in the face of corruption charges, but also that its policies are burning a hole in their pockets."
Sep 28, 2012 The trouble with political financing in India: "Political financing in India remains opaque The more things change, the more they remain the same."
Sep 27, 2012 NCP, Cong competing in corruption in Maha, alleges BJP
Sep 27, 2012 The corrupt ‘Don’ Sonia Gandhi is world’s 4th richest politician: "Manmohan Singh was involved in a $32 Billion 3G scandal which involved almost all major players of his cabinet."
Sep 27, 2012 It's BJP versus the whistleblower: "An RTI activist has alleged that BJP president Nitin Gadkari did not want her to pursue the irrigation scam in Maharashtra"
Sep 27, 2012 Maha irrigation scam: Kejriwal questions Gadkari: "Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday attacked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari over claims by his fellow activists that the Opposition leader and a party MP, Ajay Sancheti, were involved in the Maharashtra irrigation scam that involves key Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders like Ajit Pawar, the nephew of Sharad Pawar, a Congress ally."
Sep 27, 2012 BJP had refused to speak on irrigation scam: Arvind Kejriwal: "Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari had refused to speak out on the irrigation scam in Maharashtra."
Sep 27, 2012 After Ajit Pawar, BJP linked to Maha irrigation scam: "Two days after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar resigned as Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister over allegations of corruption, it now emerges that the Bharatiya Janata Party may have benefitted from the scam."
Sep 27, 2012 Congress may sue Mamata for mimicking PM: "The Congress party is likely to take legal action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for mimicking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh"
Sep 27, 2012 Congress of the corruption, by the corruption, for the corruption: Mamata
Sep 27, 2012 Rotting grain has deprived food to 80 million people: "An estimated 36,000 tonnes of grain has gone bad at the various storage facilities of the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) since 2008, enough to feed 80 million people at a per capita consumption of 440 grams"
Sep 27, 2012 IOC talks tough over Kalmadi: "Faced with the threat from the International Olympic Committee to take action if its directives are not followed, the Indian Olympic Association announced the date of its elections and said it wanted "perfect relations" with the parent body."
Sep 27, 2012 Arvind Kejriwal demands sacking of NCP minister Sunil Tatkare: ""Scams take place but nobody goes to jail. Instead they are granted bail. Even in this current scam of Rs 70,000 crore, who will investigate? Both CBI and ACB are in the hands of the government.""
Sep 27, 2012 CBI, not Congress, is contesting Gujarat assembly polls against me: Narendra Modi: "Modi said the Congress, which used a section of the bureaucracy against him in previous polls, had now deployed "an investigation agency" (read CBI) to defeat him in the state elections"
Sep 27, 2012 Model molested at home in Bengal as politician and realtors watch: "Police ignored her complaint, although the victims had bleeding injuries."
Sep 27, 2012 'Rs 20,000 cr misused in Maharashtra irrigation projects': "Mumbai: Whistleblower in the Maharashtra irrigation scam Vijay Pandhare has claimed unnecessary expenses worth Rs 20,000 crore in state irrigation projects."
Sep 27, 2012 Coalgate is 94 percent Congress scam, 6 percent others: "the total geological reserves of the coal blocks given away for free between 1993 and 2011 stands at 44,802.9 million tonnes."
Sep 27, 2012 Why did it take so long to resign, Ajit Pawar?: "On 29 May 2007, the Times of India reported on Bhosale under the headline ‘How Bhosale milked the MKVDC’ (Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation)"
Sep 27, 2012 Rashtrapati Bhawan asks for return of gifts taken by private family trust of Pratibha Patil: "The President's Secretariat has taken steps to recover return gifts received by former President Pratibha Patil in her official capacity as President of India", "Former President Pratibha Patil was embroiled in a controversy over misuse of the highest office of the nation for leisure and pleasure of her family members, relatives and friends by undertaking expensive official trips costing more than Rs 200 crore"
Sep 27, 2012 Union Minister Alagiri son's anticipatory bail plea rejected: "The Madras High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister M K Alagiri's son, Durai Dayanidhi, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying case."
Sep 27, 2012 Maha Deputy CM Ajit Pawar quits: "resigned following allegations of an irrigation scam when he was state's water resource minister and said he was prepared for a CBI probe."
Sep 27, 2012 J&K Deputy CM uses 25 official cars: RTI: "As per a government order, a minister is entitled to two vehicles - one for himself and his guards and the other for his personal staff."
Sep 27, 2012 Anticipatory bail plea of MK Alagiri's son rejected: "Durai Dayanidhi is among the 60 people named in the FIR related to the illegal granite mining case."
Sep 27, 2012 UP: HC questions 24-hour power supply to VIP districts: "The districts include Amethi, Raebareli, Etawah, Kannauj, Mainpuri and Ramnagar."
Sep 25, 2012 Can political parties put good economics over bad politics?: "The Congress and the BJP debate if good economics can be put over bad politics by the political parties."
Sep 25, 2012 Coalgate: CBI may arrest former UPA minister Santosh Bagrodia: "The Coal Scam is set to cause further embarrassment for the Congress and the UPA Government. Sources telling 'The Sunday Guardian' that the CBI is set to arrest former Minister of State for Coal, Santosh Bagrodia. Remember, it was NewsX which had exposed how Bagrodia knew about false declarations made by the Abhijeet Group in their bid to corner coal blocks in 2008. Despite this knowledge, Bagrodia had chosen not to act against the Abhijeet Group, which was subsequently allocated a coal block."
Sep 25, 2012 India is like a boat without a sailor: Modi: "“The PM doesn’t speak… or he cannot speak… or he doesn’t have anything to speak… Imagine, friends, the country is like a boat without sailor,”"
Sep 23, 2012 Scams in Air India: SC notice to Centre on plea for CBI, SIT probe: "probe into alleged irregularities, including purchase of aircraft for the national carrier and giving up of profit making routes to private airlines, when Praful Patel was Civil Aviation Minister."
Sep 23, 2012 AP land sold to firm at Re 1 per acre: "The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) allegedly sold 100 acres of land at Mambattu village in Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district, at the rate of Re 1 per acre to Apache Footwear India Pvt Ltd, a Singapore-based footwear company in March 2010, when K Rosaiah was Andhra Pradesh chief minister."
Sep 23, 2012 Akhilesh Yadav government to withdraw criminal cases against over 3000 SP workers: "the SP government is withdrawing criminal cases not only against its party leaders but also against mafia-turned-politicians like Abhay Singh, Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra. fact, Singh, Ansari and Mishra won elections from inside jail."
Sep 23, 2012 Who’s running Birsa Vihar? - JTDC boss unaware outsourced firm already on board: "Situated on the Main Road, bang opposite Ranchi Club, it was shut down in 2007 after a costly makeover, mismanagement and allegations of funds bungling."
Sep 23, 2012 ‘For 15-20 years now, we have been attending the elongated funeral rites of the parliamentary system’: "former telecom minister Arun Shourie says it’s important for Parliament to function and that he is worried about the state of the economy"
Sep 23, 2012 Is the UPA a lameduck government?: "Mulayam and Mayawati are likely to support the UPA to avoid a snap poll while the BJP says the government will not last till 2014."
Sep 23, 2012 UPA spends Rs 100 cr for image makeover campaign: "After singers like Kailash Kher, the government is also planning to rope in other big names for its TVCs."
Sep 23, 2012 Maharashtra Sadan scam: ACB to probe Bhujbal: "PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal has been accused of awarding the contracts for the building to his relatives."
Sep 23, 2012 The Rs 16,653 cr lie at heart of govt’s diesel price justification: "If we were to apportion the subsidies paid in proportion to their private shareholdings, you will find that non-government private institutions and retail investors bailed out the government to the tune of Rs 16,653 crore."
Sep 23, 2012 TN: Over 50 arrested in Rs 16,000-cr granite scam: "Search is on for Union minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, who is also one of the accused in the scam."
Sep 23, 2012 No justice for the poor in Hisar: "They refuse to conduct his final rites. A father who could not bear to see his daughter’s trauma when a 16 year old was abducted and gang raped and then threatened into silence until an MMS clip of the horrific crime surfaced."
Sep 23, 2012 Coal Min Jaiswal faces public ire: "In Kanpur, agitated traders tried to stop Union Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal's cavalcade, waiving blackflags, shouting slogans and even hurling shoes at his car. However, Jaiswal drove away from the scene."
Sep 23, 2012 Man seen waving sleeper at Nitish Kumar
Sep 15, 2012 2437 murders in 6 months, UP CM admits crisis: "The initial euphoria after Akhilesh Yadav's victory in elections has been replaced by a fear of the return of the 'gunda raj'."
Sep 15, 2012 Iron ore export scam: CBI registers five cases, searches: "Spelling more trouble for BJP MLA G Janardhan Reddy, the CBI has registered five new cases in illegal iron ore exports worth Rs 2,500 crore and carried out searches at 17 locations including on the premises of associates of the jailed mining baron today."
Sep 15, 2012 K'taka: Touring MLAs return, cost state Rs 4 cr: "The tour came at a time when the state was reeling under a severe drought and the MLAs refused to return despite pleas from the CM."
Sep 14, 2012 Scams spread, scamsters get bolder: "People feel corruption is not only deep-rooted but institutionalised as well"
Sep 14, 2012 India must scrap its repressive sedition laws
Sep 14, 2012 Congress neck-deep in corruption: SP
Sep 14, 2012 ‘Diesel price hike a fallout of scams’: "it a deliberate punishment to the citizens of the country for raising their voice against the Congress party for looting the exchequer through multi-crore scams."
Sep 14, 2012 Our MPs pay peanuts for breakfast, lunch at Parliament House canteen: "The subsidies involve telephone calls, air and rail fares, housing, water, electricity, personal assistants, DA, TA, the lot. An average MP gets a salary of Rs 80,000, taxfree."
Sep 14, 2012 Coalgate: Action against small players in a big scam?: "Government on Thursday accepted the Inter-Ministerial Group's recommendations to cancel allocations to 4 companies for 8 coal blocks."
Sep 14, 2012 Jaiswal, Sahai to be sacked?: "After the Coal Minister admissed his links to mining baron Manoj Jayaswal, the government is now preparing tself for a Cabinet reshuffle. Sources tell TIMES NOW that Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal and Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai will not be retained post the reshuffle."
Sep 14, 2012 Direct: Sri Prakash Jaiswal: "Union Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal, speaks exclusively to TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on the Newshour Direct and takes direct questions on his relationship with mining baron Manoj Jayswal whose companies were found to be among those named in the CBI's FIR on Coalgate."
Sep 14, 2012 Coalgate: The Jaiswal-Jayaswal link: "TIMES NOW has accessed fresh documents which prove the link between Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal and mining baron Manoj Jayswal. Initially, the Coal Minister had distanced himself from Manoj, but evidence with the TIMES NOW forced him to admit that he has been named as an arbitrator by Manoj. But the defiant minister says that the explosive documents are utter trash."
Sep 14, 2012 Narendra Modi calls Congress 'coal thief': "The Gujarat Chief Minister said the AICC means All India Coal Congress."
Sep 14, 2012 Wake up govt, smell the coffee, the world has changed
Sep 14, 2012 Kalmadi cannot contest IOA chief election: HC: "The court has ordered the IOA polls to be held on the basis of the sports code that doesn't allow more than three terms for the IOA chief."
Sep 14, 2012 The Last Word: Is UPA's populist caution damaging India's future?: "More than 2 months have passed since Pranab Mukherjee resigned as Finance Minister but has the great hope that things will change been even partly realised or is it unfulfilled and now looking illusory?"
Sep 14, 2012 MP: Evicting protestors in Harda an unfair treatment?: "The government, which conceded to demands of protestors in the first case of jal stayagraha at Khandwa, acted tough in Harda."
Sep 14, 2012 Aseem Trivedi out on bail, govt yet to drop sedition charge: "Cartoonist and anti-corruption activist Aseem Trivedi is out on bail. But the government is yet to drop the sedition charge slapped against him."
Sep 14, 2012 Is the state intolerant towards public protests?: "Dramatic scenes in Madhya Pradesh as the state used force to evict a group of villagers protesting in neck deep water."
Sep 12, 2012 Mulayam dubs Congress as scam-tainted: "Every day a new scam unfolds."
Sep 12, 2012 देखिए कोयला घोटाले का सबसे बड़ा सच...: "आजतक के हाथ लगी है सीबीआई की एफआईआर. इस एफआईआर के मुताबिक, कोल ब्लॉक के आवंटन में दर्डा और उनकी कंपनियों ने झूठ और फर्जी दस्तावेजों का सहारा लिया. सबसे चौंकानेवाली बात तो यह है कि तत्कालीन कोयला राज्यमंत्री संतोष बागरोड़िया को इन सबके बारे में पता था, फिर भी उन्होंने कोयला खदान का आवंटन इन्हें होने दिया."
Sep 12, 2012 Shocking defence, shocking inaction: "An absolutely bizarre defence by Jammu and Kashmir's Irrigation Minister Taj Mohiuddin after his bodyguards bloodied a cop for daring to do his duty. Traffic policeman Mohan Lal, said, "The PSOs got out of the vehicle and started fighting with my subordinate. One of the PSO tried to hit me with a rifle when I stopped him another PSO hit me with an AK 47 and I got injured.""
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India cartoonist Aseem Trivedi freed from jail on bail: "Mr Trivedi said his "battle against sedition law and oppressive behaviour by the government will continue". "
Sep 12, 2012 Coalgate: Another Jindal company under scanner: "Congress MP Naveen Jindal has claimed that he has nothing to do with the company that was served a notice."
Sep 12, 2012 Coal controller says de-allocate Jindal's block: "The coal controller report recommends the IMG to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel."
Sep 12, 2012 Coalgate: Criminal proceedings underway, probe gathers pace: "The coal controller report recommended the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) to de-allocate coal blocks to Jindal Steel and Bhushan Steel."
Sep 12, 2012 FTN: Are benami transactions bedrock of electoral politics?: "An exhaustive survey done by association for democratic reforms which shows how political parties are consistently increasing their wealth."
Sep 12, 2012 Can drawing a cartoon be seen as an anti-national act?: "Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi refuses bail till the sedition law is repealed, sent to jail till the September 24."
Sep 12, 2012 Watch: IAC members try to storm Scindia's meet: "The IAC members were denied intro into the venue of Jyotiraditya Scindia's press conference, following which they shouted slogans."
Sep 12, 2012 The Last Word: Should the sedition law be scrapped?: "The sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been dropped. But do we also need formal guidelines or regulations for the media?"
Sep 12, 2012 Modi sounds poll bugle, says Cong misusing CBI: "Narendra Modi also emphatically stated that Manmohan Singh has been a mute spectator, not raising his voice in the past eight years."
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India sedition cartoon: Court grants Aseem Trivedi bail: "In one of his cartoons, the customary three lions in India's national emblem are replaced with three wolves, their teeth dripping blood, with the message "Long live corruption" written underneath. Another cartoon depicts the Indian parliament as a giant toilet bowl."
Sep 12, 2012 BBC: India cartoonist Aseem Trivedi's arrest sparks outrage: "The arrest of an Indian anti-corruption cartoonist on sedition charges has sparked widespread criticism."
Sep 12, 2012 The Telegraph: Indian cartoonist jailed for mocking corruption: "A political cartoonist whose drawings mock Indian government corruption has been jailed in a sedition investigation that was widely condemned as evidence of political leaders' growing intolerance of criticism."
Sep 12, 2012 The Star: Indian cartoonist’s arrest on sedition charges sparks outcry
Sep 11, 2012 The Vancouver Sun: Political cartoonist who criticized Indian gov't corruption jailed in sedition investigation
Sep 11, 2012 Cartoonist who criticized corruption in India jailed
Sep 11, 2012 The Gazette: Political cartoonist who criticized Indian gov't corruption jailed in sedition investigation: "as evidence of political leaders' growing intolerance of criticism."
Sep 11, 2012 Survey: Indians disappointed with economy, gov’t
Sep 11, 2012 The Globe and Mail: Cartoonist jailed on sedition charges: "An Indian cartoonist detained on sedition charges for his satirical drawings highlighting widespread corruption among India’s political elite has been jailed for two weeks, rekindling a fierce debate on freedom of speech in the world’s largest democracy."
Sep 11, 2012 The Guardian: Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi jailed after arrest on sedition charges: "Satirist whose drawings highlighted corruption among India's political elite imprisoned for two weeks after refusing bail"
Sep 10, 2012 Ex-coal minister Bagrodia’s brother got hefty mining contract: "PSU power giant National Thermal Power Corporation awarded a coal mine contract worth over Rs 23,000 crore to a joint venture company in which 10% shares are held by the family of former coal minister Santosh Bagrodia."

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