Navi Mumbai's oldest mandal highlights corruption menace

Shivchhaya Mitra Mandal in Turbhe, the oldest in the settlement city, is celebrate its 42nd Ganeshotsav by focus on the theme of growing dishonesty. The thousands who have been queuing up to catch a glimpse of the 12-ft-tall idol also get a glimpse of quite a few panel that pictorially highlight various controversy, including the Adarsh swindle, the Commonwealth Games, the 2G telecom swindle and Coalgate.. "We try to underline socially momentous......

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Bhopal activist targets Kudankulam plant

A tragedy at Kudankulam Nuclear control set will be more caustic than the Bhopal gas calamity of 1984, assumed Satinath Sarangi, one of the influential of the society looking for honesty for dead of the Bhopal natter misfortune. He was cry to TOI after interact with student at the Park Group of institution on Wednesday. Sarangi claim that influence foliage in India together with persons in Tarapur in Maharashtra and Rawatbhata in Rajasthan were......

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Navi Mumbai's oldest mandal highlights corruption menace

Shivchhaya Mitra Mandal in Turbhe, the oldest in the satellite city, is celebrating its 42nd Ganeshotsav by focusing on the theme of rising corruption. The thousands who have been queuing up to catch a glimpse of the 12-ft-tall idol also get a glimpse of several panels that pictorially highlight various controversies, including the Adarsh scam, the Commonwealth Games, the 2G telecom scam and Coalgate. "We try to underline collectively considerable......

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BJP threatens to scrap FDI in multi-brand retail if it comes to power

BJP on Wednesday issue a oblique danger that it may bit the conclusion to permit distant shortest savings in multi-product sell but it come to muscle, prompt the administration to rush to assure potential investors. "The BJP is opposed to FDI in multi-brand retail. It is not in the interest of farmers and diminutive retailers," BJP's chief presenter, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said at a meeting of the party's national exclusive, accumulation, "When......

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How Sonia Gandhi was persuaded to back reforms

 It had been a brutal August for the Congress party: economic growth was wilting, the monsoon rains were failing and the opposition had it cornered on yet another corruption scandal. In step Sonia Gandhi to breathe life keen on the self-worth of the judgment party's lawmaker, exhort them at a get-together to "stand up and fight, fight with a sense of rationale and struggle violently". It was a gorgeously forward speech from the by and large......

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Selection & Composition of Lokpal

The Lokpal Act should lay down an objective and transparent criteria such as competence, experience, qualification etc for the selection of candidates for appointment to the Lokpal. The selection committee should be broad-based consisting of members of the executive, leaders of parliament, members of the higher judiciary, jurists and academicians. The search committee constituted by the selection committee should also be broad-based. Composition:......

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Corruption in India

This article on Corruption in India relies on a poor legal and a weak statistical base relying on mere opinions and impressions in the website www.ipaidabribe.com. Any one who visits this website can make out that neither there is accountability of the person who reports a bribe nor there is any sort of verification such as voter's ID or driving license number or ration card number or any such thing provided. Also there is no punitive clause......

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A rotten state

INDIANS' irritation over rising dishonesty has reached agitated levels. What folks are calling a “term of scam” include the alleged theft of billions by officials behind last year's Commonwealth games in Delhi; $40 billion in revenues lost as of the warped sale of 2G telecoms licences; and over $40 billion stolen in Uttar Pradesh alone from schemes subsidising food and fuel for the poor. Foreign businessmen, who have slashed speculation over......

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A Brief History of Corruption in India

Merely shouting from the house tops that everybody is corrupt creates an atmosphere of corruption. People feel they are in a climate of corruption and they get corrupted themselves.’ The words of Jawaharlal Nehru, spoken shortly after India’s independence from British rule, seem particularly apt given the overtly Gandhian style of today’s anti-corruption crusader, Anna Hazare. But for most Indians, Hazare’s movement has produced few surprises:......

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The Top Scams in India

1) 2G Spectrum Scam We have had a number of scams in India; but none bigger than the scam involving the process of allocating unified access service licenses. At the heart of this Rs.1.76-lakh crore worth of scam is the former Telecom minister A Raja – who according to the CAG, has evaded norms at every level as he carried out the dubious 2G license awards in 2008 at a throw-away price which were pegged at 2001 prices. 2) Commonwealth Games......

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