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Apr 17, 2012 Trinamool's latest party rule: Don't marry CPM members, don't even talk to them: "he state minister said: "Our workers must make sure that nobody in their family enters into any marital relationship with any CPM leader or supporter.""
Apr 17, 2012 'We Are Stuck With A Nut': "The arrest of a professor and his 72-year old neighbour in Calcutta for forwarding an e-mail with a cartoon revives the demand for the annulment of the Internet Rules 2011", "Professor Ashis Nandy said, inter alia: "I would advise Ms Banerjee to seek the help of psychiatrists in Calcutta. I would diagose her as suffering from incipient paranoia."
Apr 17, 2012 Contrast shows personal liberty is enslaved by masters of FIR: "Nothing illustrates the threat that the FIR raj poses to personal liberty more starkly than the arbitrary manner in which two complaints in the cartoon case were pursued."
Apr 17, 2012 Communal politics to the fore in UP after Assembly poll: "Delhi’s Shahi Imam wants a slice of the pie which SP leader Azam Khan wants all for himself. The pie, of course, is the vast and rapidly increasing Muslim constituency of the State"
Apr 17, 2012 Embarrassment for Andhra Congress: "the Andhra Pradesh High Court today asked it to reconsider the transfer of the Anti-Corruption Bureau(ACB) officer who was heading the probe into the dealings and links of the liquor syndicate."
Apr 17, 2012 नेताओं को मिलते हैं गहने, स्कॉच, आईपैड...: "स्कॉच शराब की बोतलों से लेकर सोने चांदी के आभूषणों तक, पेन ड्राइव से लेकर महंगे आईपैड, नोट और मोबाइल फोन तक. भारत के नेता और उच्चाधिकारी जब विदेशों में दौरों पर जाते हैं तो उन्हें 200 रुपए से लेकर 50,000 रुपए तक की कीमत के तोहफे मिलते हैं."
Apr 17, 2012 Outrage over Mamata's intolerance: "A number of scietists from across the country and some parts of the world have written to Singh voicing concern on the "crack down on human rights activists and citizens who are attempting to raise issues of concern"."
Apr 17, 2012 Review transfer of SIT chief: Andhra HC to govt: "IPS officer K Sreenivasa Reddy had busted the liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh involving several politicians."
Apr 17, 2012 Maharaja can’t rule: "Instead of using taxpayer money to bail out Air India again, read the writing on the wall"
Apr 17, 2012 Lokayukta orders probe against former Karnataka CM Dharam Singh: "this 10 acres 17 guntas, 2 acres 20 guntas was sold to Kavita for Rs 50 lakh for which the sale deed was executed on December 9, 2005. Kavita in turn sold this to Sobha developers on August 1, 2006 for Rs four crore."
Apr 15, 2012 Serving people or own interest?: "BBMP council now wants honorary membership for all 198 corporators and other top officials to sports associations in Karnataka. The Karnataka Hockey association hits back, saying that it will prefer giving membership to the Mayor only. The secretary of the K'taka Hockey Association has said that membership for corporates is asking for too much."
Apr 14, 2012 We Are The Higher-Ups: "Using discretionary powers, the government gives away hillsides to the rich and powerful ", "Priyanka Gandhi Owns more than an acre in Charabra, on the outskirts of Shimla, not far from the presidential retreat"
Apr 14, 2012 The spectre of FIR raj Proxy device easy to plant and detonate to settle scores: "The manner in which a professor and a retired engineer were arrested and locked up for over 16 hours in Calcutta has blown the lid off a tactic increasingly being employed in Bengal to intimidate or settle scores with dissenters."
Apr 14, 2012 A shocking violation: "She has already done enough to damage that prestige. It may be recalled that during the days when the UPA Government was on a much-publicised austerity drive, Ms Patil had gone on a foreign trip in a luxury airliner with almost 100 persons on board, including some six cooks — all at the tax payers’ expense. Moreover, her performance as a constitutional head of the state has been far from satisfactory."
Apr 14, 2012 State delays IAS officer’s suspension order: "It has been almost three weeks since the Lokayukta police sent a report to the State government recommending suspension of IAS officer Shamla Iqbal, but the government seems to be dragging its feet over it."
Apr 14, 2012 Kripashankar booked under Arms Act now: "Special Investigating Team (SIT) found nearly 400 live rounds of ammunition from Singh’s house in March last month."
Apr 14, 2012 Cartoon row: Mamata banning free speech?: "A significant section of the urban intelligentsia feels that the situation in WB is moving from abnormal to scary."
Apr 14, 2012 15 former BSP ministers under lens for funds fraud: "a probe was on into charges of corruption against 15 former ministers in the Mayawati government and 37 ex-MLAs in this and several other schemes."
Apr 14, 2012 Pratibha’s Pune home a break from tradition: "there have been five instances when retiring presidents left Delhi, but in none of the cases a new house was asked to be built."
Apr 14, 2012 2G Wireless Spectrum Scam now for Presidential Reference – Congress @ its Worst
Apr 14, 2012 Daily Mail UK: Corruption confession: Government paper admits institutionalised graft plagues entire bureaucracy and plays havoc on the citizen: "'At senior levels, it (corruption) is usually a result of strong nexus between politicians and civil servants and, at lower levels, it is a result of poor systems and ill-defined public service levels,' the government paper points out candidly."
Apr 14, 2012 'India must remove nightmarish rules to attract investments': "Lord Swraj Paul today said India should get rid of its "nightmarish" rules and regulations and hasten the decision-making process to attract more investments."
Apr 14, 2012 High Tide: From MTN Denials To College Campus Corruption: "Selective raids by the Indian anti-corruption bureau are irking ministers."
Apr 13, 2012 Mamata Banerjee defends arrest of professor over cartoon, political parties slam her: "flay the Mamata Banerjee government for setting a "dangerous trend of silencing cartoonists"", ""Are we really heading for a party-sponsored emergency?""
Apr 13, 2012 President's son defends extravaganza
Apr 13, 2012 The Last Word: Is the govt doing enough to secure Air India?: "The Govt's plans to restructure AI involves re-structuring Rs 18,000 crore by converting Rs 10,500 crore into long-term debt with a lower interest rate.", "30,000 crore can be usefully used for a whole lot of other things rather than building up Air-India. Why not shut down Air-India and say good-buy to it? we have got other airlines, they can do the job equally well, why do we need Air-India at all?"
Apr 13, 2012 Mamata faces open rebellion from intellectuals: "Kabir Suman, a TMC MP accused his party chief of flouting the very same principles on which she had ridden to power."
Apr 13, 2012 President Pratibha Patil lands in new row: "While an RTI plea showed that a defence land was allotted to President Pratibha Patil, her office denied any land grab.", "Prez violated land rules?"
Apr 13, 2012 Controversy over defence land allotted to Prez: "President in land row", "Taint on prez again?"
Apr 13, 2012 Bengal professor arrested for anti-Mamata toons: "Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher at the Jadavpur University, reportedly sent derogatory images of the WB CM to 65 people."
Apr 13, 2012 Mamata cartoons: Outrage in West Bengal, CM defends action, Congress unhappy: "and the academic community saying the police action is "highly atrocious" and a "clear assault" on the minimum democratic right of freedom of expression."
Apr 13, 2012 President Pratibha Patil grabs 2,61,000 sq ft of land meant for soldiers and officers: "Col Suresh Patil (retd) remarked, “Dr Rajendra Prasad donated his land to Vinoba Bhave and here we have Pratibhatai Patil taking away the land for of her own men", "States commander Ravindra Pathak, member of the IESM and who invoked the RTI, “taking away more than 2.5 lakh sq ft of defence land is sheer looting by Ms Patil. We are sending a letter to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to take up the case suo moto. We have no money to pay for lawyers’ expenses.”"
Apr 13, 2012 Pratibha Patil grabs 2,61,000 sq ft of land meant for soldiers and officers
Apr 13, 2012 President Pratibha Patil's brush with controversy: "An RTI disclosure has revealed that President Pratibha Patil has been allotted defence land, the size of which is six times more than she's eligible for, in Pune to construct a bungalow."
Apr 13, 2012 President's retirement home or resort?: "reports of the President being allotted a defence land, the size of which is six times more than she is eligible for as per an RTI disclosure."
Apr 13, 2012 मुख्‍यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार से भी अमीर हैं राबड़ी देवी: "राबड़ी के नाम पर एक करोड़, 47 लाख, 73 हजार, 589 रुपये की चल सम्पत्ति है जबकि लालू के नाम पर 76,89,361 रुपये, तेज प्रताप के नाम 25,53,427 और तेजस्वी के नाम पर 20,27,728 रुपये की चल सम्पत्ति है. इसके अलावा राबड़ी के पास दो करोड़, 18 लाख से ज्यादा की अचल सम्पत्ति है"
Apr 13, 2012 President Pratibha Patil lands in 'land' controversy: "Two bunglaws have been ranscaked"
Apr 13, 2012 Prez allotted land meant for defence personnel: "The President has been allotted 2,61,00 sq ft of defence land which is 6 times more than she is eligible for.", "President lands in new row", "Protestors say president has illegally constructed on govt land"
Apr 10, 2012 Raja Bhaiya offers cool comfort in UP jails: "Singh, who had around two dozen criminal cases against him at one time and has spent several years in jail."
Apr 10, 2012 MNS creates ruckus demanding better facilities: "Activism through vandalism"
Apr 10, 2012 Chhattisgarh: Gadkari's aide in coal scam?: "The CAG report states that a coal block was given to Sancheti's company at a throw away price of Rs 129.60 per metric ton."
Apr 10, 2012 FTN: Should politicians stay out of re-writing history?: "A state government appointed committee has proposed to restructure higher secondary history syllabus removing what it calls an overemphasis on communist thinkers."
Apr 10, 2012 Is govt indifferent to the plight of sailors held hostage?: "The Somali pirates have hijacked a merchant oil tanker, MT Royal Grace, with 17 Indians on board."
Apr 10, 2012 A quick march to anarchy: "Institutions are under attack, be it the defence establishment, the judiciary, the media or specific organisations like the CAG"
Apr 10, 2012 Denied free IPL 2012 passes, Bangalore's civic body refuses to clear stadium garbage: "After being refused VIP passes for corporators to watch IPL ties, the BBMP has declined to lift garbage piled up in Chinnaswamy Stadium."
Apr 9, 2012 President's last foreign trip: 12 days in Africa: "spending such a huge amount by the president, who happens to be just a symbolic head, on such trips each time with about 100 trip-members on a Boeing 747 can by no means be held justified.""
Apr 9, 2012 Mihir S Sharma: As bad as it gets?: "Everyone is either corrupt or ineffectual, rapacious capitalists cart off our natural resources unimpeded in large trucks marked “swag”, the world’s laughing at the India growth story"
Apr 9, 2012 IT Dept sends list of 15 MLAs to EC: "15 MLAs whose roles have been found violating the commission’s rules during the Rajya Sabha polls."
Apr 9, 2012 Madhu Koda gets bail in one case, but still in jail for others: "Jharkhand High Court granted bail to former state Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who has been in prison after his arrest over two years in connection with illegal investments and hawala transaction case."
Apr 9, 2012 CBI arrests ex-Rajasthan Minister: "CBI on Thursday (April 5) arrested BJP MLA Rajendra Rathore in connection with the fake encounter of local liquor smuggler Dara Singh in 2006."
Apr 9, 2012 Bangalore Corporators armtwisting IPL franchises?: "The Corporators openly demand passes for IPL matches to be played in the city. In fact, they have demanded 450 passes for the matches in Chinnaswamy Stadium. It is also said that they are planning to discuss the same in council meet and impose additional taxes on KSCA, if their demands are not met."
Apr 9, 2012 CAG indicts Vilasrao Deshmukh?: "Opposition parties on Thursday (April 5) demanded a probe in allegations of Vilasrao Deshmukh getting land at concessional rate. The demand comes a day after the CAG indicted former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preferential allotment of a plot in Mumbai."
Apr 9, 2012 Maharashtra land row: CAG report names Vilasrao: "The CAG report on the land row also puts several serving Maharashtra ministers in the dock."
Apr 9, 2012 Maharashtra land row: CAG report names Vilasrao: "The CAG report on the land row also puts several serving Maharashtra ministers in the dock."
Apr 9, 2012 AP liquor scam: Officer heading probe transferred: "Police sources have alleged political pressure to scuttle probe in the Andhra Pradesh liquor scam."
Apr 9, 2012 Maharashtra land row: Oppn guns for Deshmukh: "The CAG report, which is yet to be released, names five politicians for alleged irregularities in land allotments."
Apr 9, 2012 Maharashtra Cong leaders in new land row: report: "A CAG report indicting 5 senior politicians for alleged irregularities in land allotments has been leaked."
Apr 9, 2012 News 360: Is there a trust deficit between Army and govt?: "The Indian Express carried a report on Wednesday saying that 2 Army columns marched towards the capital in Jan without notifying the govt."
Apr 9, 2012 SC asks Ghai to return film institute land: "The Supreme Court quashed the state government's decision to allot 20 acre land to his film institute."
Apr 9, 2012 Trouble for Vilasrao Deshmukh: "Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was today pulled up by the Supreme Court for giving 20 acres of land to film producer Subhash Ghai in 2004 for his film institute, saying he cannot treat anyone as a "blue-eyed boy" and bend or bypass rules"
Apr 9, 2012 No action against Meghalaya MLA: "Bruised and battered journalist Walton Lyton, moments after he was assaulted by a Meghalaya MLA, Founder Strong Cajee."
Apr 9, 2012 More trouble for Kadapa MP Jagan?: "Days after Jagan Mohan Reddy got the first major jolt in the illegal assets case against him with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chargesheeting him in the illegal assets case, the YSR Congress Chief may well be bracing for another."
Apr 9, 2012 Police officer who solved Kolkata rape case demoted: "Sen has now been made Deputy Inspector General of Police (Training), Barrackpore, considered a garage posting for an Indian Police Service officer till now entrusted with solving the complex crime cases in the metropolis."
Apr 9, 2012 Adarsh scam: more high-profile arrests to follow?: "The heat is on three former Maharashtra Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde."
Apr 9, 2012 SC asks Subhash Ghai to return land, pulls up Vilasrao Deshmukh: "alleging "gross abuse of power" by Deshmukh in allotting the land."
Apr 9, 2012 Raghuram Rajan critical of governance issues
Apr 9, 2012 Akhilesh guns for alleged 'scams', Mayawati in hot water: "The CAG report indicts Mayawati of misusing Rs 66 crore in building parks and memorials."
Apr 9, 2012 Asset case: SC to hear Mayawati's plea in May: "her declared assets of Rs 1 crore in 2003 had gone up to Rs 50 crore in 2007."
Apr 9, 2012 Akhilesh transfers 1,000 bureaucrats in 24 days: "more than 1,000 officials from the police and administrative services have been shunted from here to there, reportedly based on their "loyalty tilts"."
Apr 8, 2012 Beset by a New Set of Scams, the Indian Government Struggles to Function
Apr 8, 2012 An age of dirty money and dirtier politicians: "India ranked 95th out of 178 countries in corruption rating last year"
Apr 8, 2012 Jakarta Globe: Heavy Mix of Crime and Politics in India: "the most controversial is the appointment of the infamous Raghuraj Pratap Singh as prisons minister. Popularly known as Raja Bhaiyya, Singh spent 26 months behind bars some years ago on charges of terrorism, after assault rifles and explosives were found in his house."
Apr 8, 2012 AP liquor scam: Probe team chief transferred: "Opposition parties allege that the investigating officer was under tremendous pressure from ministers accused in the scam."
Apr 6, 2012 Did MLAs fake income for prime property?: "Even as the noose tightens around Vilasrao Deshmukh, there's more trouble for the Congress government in the Maharashtra. A leaked CAG report in Maharashtra has pulled up the government for the land it allotted to the Ashirwad cooperative housing society, promoted by current and former ministers and legislators. The CAG report says that the MLAs on the list have declared their income to be between 2500 and 12 thousand rupees"
Apr 6, 2012 Corporators justify demanding IPL freebies: "Bangalore Corporators demanding free tickets for IPL games. This morning (April 6), the civic body representatives rejected 250 tickets offered per game to them by the Karnataka State Cricket Association and stuck to their demand of 450 tickets,"
Apr 6, 2012 WB: Mamata's move to 'rewrite' history?: "After an attempt to gag the media, Mamata Banerjee Government it appears is trying to remove any and all traces of Marxism in the state. An attempt is being made through a Committee that has made a proposal to alter history books for higher secondary Government schools. The move will exclude works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from state-run schools in West Bengal."
Apr 6, 2012 Vilasrao evasive on CAG report: "Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh evades TIMES NOW's questions on CAG report that indicts him. Deshmukh says wait till April 16, when the CAG report will be tabled in State Assembly."
Apr 6, 2012 Maharashtra land row: CAG report names Vilasrao: "The CAG report on the land row also puts several serving Maharashtra ministers in the dock."
Apr 6, 2012 97 per cent of India's air defence guns are obsolete: "The network, set up to protect the Army field formations and vital installations from air attack, has been called vintage."
Apr 6, 2012 How serious is the shortage of ammo for our defence services?: "that ammunition levels could last only 10 days in a war situation."
Apr 6, 2012 Kolkata IPS officer's transfer mere reshuffling?: "Many believe that the transfer will deepen the mistrust between the police and those in power."
Apr 6, 2012 Benami land deal may cost MP minister his job: "A report has exposed how a key minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government is involved in a 15 crore benami land deal."
Apr 6, 2012 HC axes UP numberplate deal scam, CBI to probe: "Such was the quantum of the scam that state vehicle owners would have ended up paying a whopping `800 crores extra over 15 years for procuring these numberplates."
Apr 6, 2012 Three minor girls raped by peon at government orphanage in Allahabad: "three minor girls were raped by peon in Rajikiya Shishu Grih, an orphanage run by the government, for children below 10 years of age in Allahabad district. The victims are said to be between 6 to 9 years of age were subjected to physical and mental trauma for last few months."
Apr 6, 2012 Maharashtra legislators fudged income for acquiring govt flats: CAG: "Eleven Maharashtra legislators indicted in the yet-to-be-released CAG report, had declared their monthly income ranging from Rs 2,500 to Rs 12,500 to acquire large flats under the government quota in Ashirwad Co-operative Housing Society in suburban Mumbai."
Apr 3, 2012 Sweet Sound of Scams: "the name of their second album comes as no surprise, Topiwalleh, conjuring images of politicians."
Apr 3, 2012 Will Meghalya speaker take action?: "The attack came after photographs showing the MLA sleeping through an assembly session were published. Beaten black and blue, Walton had to be hospitalised.", "lawmaker or lawbreaker?"
Apr 3, 2012 5 star treatment for Bibi Jagir Kaur in jail?: "Even as Bibi Jagir Kaur, a SAD MLA, is currently lodged in the Kapurthala Jail after being convicted for forceful abortion and abduction of her daughter, she still enjoys VVIP treatment that she enjoyed as a minister. An LCD TV was installed in Bibi's ward and even the police officials don't object to her using a mobile phone.", "Authorities touch Bibi Kaur's feet as she arrives in jail"
Apr 3, 2012 NRHM scam: UP buys Rs 1,200 eye chart at Rs 21,000: "the Central Bureau of Investigation has discovered that most of the medical equipment were bought from Delhi’s Sadar Bazar for peanuts and were sold off at astronomical prices to the Mayawati-led UP government under the NRHM scheme.", "Not even once any medical nurse or officer sat in that shabby building. This building is abandoned right from its inception in 2009. It was used as barat ghar twice, but now its roof leaks during rains.”"
Apr 3, 2012 Yashwant Sinha seeks CBI probe into RS seat sale: "Jharkhand Rajya Sabha polls, which was scrapped following the seizure of Rs 2.15 crores from the relative of an independent candidate."
Apr 3, 2012 'Defence Ministry kept all Army chiefs in the dark': "General (Retd) Shankar Roy Chowdhury claimed the Army Chief was not informed about the pricing in the Tatra deal."
Apr 3, 2012 ‘Inspector raj’ haunts as gold jewellers intensify strike: "another threat that looms large over the industry is that of rampant corruption. "We have no problem about the introduction of the excise duty but its procedure is very complicated and impractical and jewellers cannot maintain all records,""
Apr 3, 2012 CBI court extends judicial custody of Janardhana Reddy: "A CBI court today extended till April seven judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan, arrested in connection with an illegal mining case."
Apr 3, 2012 Bibi Jagir Kaur gets LCD TV, dish antenna in jail; inquiry ordered
Apr 2, 2012 NY Times: Newswallah: A Brief History of Corruption in the Ministry of Defense: "Corruption in India’s Ministry of Defense runs deep and wide"
Apr 2, 2012 'India fairs badly in regulating money in politics'
Apr 2, 2012 Political system mired in corruption: Kiran Bedi: "Highlighting the increasing criminalisation of politics, Bedi also alleged that out of every three lawmakers in the parliament, at least one had a criminal background."
Apr 2, 2012 A Surprising Case of Shareholder Activism in India: "The fund has accused Coal India of willfully manipulating the price of coal, on the orders of the government, pricing it at a 70% discount to international market prices. This action coincides with yet another corruption scandal in the country"
Apr 2, 2012 The globe and mail: Global business groups warn India over new tax plan: "International trade groups representing more than 250,000 companies have told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a letter that his government’s new retrospective tax proposals have led foreign businesses to reconsider their investments in the country."
Apr 2, 2012 With UPA in terminal decline, India is closed for business: "India, which was never an easy place to do business in, is now well and truly closed for business."

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