-The Asian Age Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the CVC. New Delhi: Common Cause organisation has approached the Supreme Court regarding Bribes paid to prominent politicians by corporate groups, as revealed during the raids by income tax department and the CBI in 2013 and 2014. Advocate Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the chief...

-The Hindu Business Line How the women of Deoria challenged the public distribution system malpractices Women no longer have to return empty-handed from the fair price shops mandated to give rations under the government’s public distribution system in village Bandgunia in Uttar Pradesh. Not only is the full quota of rice, pulses and sugar given, the shopkeeper in this village in Gauri Bazar block of Deoria district also ensures the women are informed...

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The government wants to send people who pay Bribes to jail. But, it has refused to make a distinction between people who collude with officials and those who are coerced into paying up. This means people such as Sumita, too, can be jailed. Sumita lost her 10-month-old son on August 9 in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich hospital when the child did not get an injection. The staff delayed the injection...

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Taking action against corrupt officials could soon get harder. A parliamentary panel has backed a move to bar anti-graft agencies from probing Bribery allegations against public servants without the government’s approval. The government can take up to four months to decide if the police should register the Bribery case, and there will be no penalty if it takes longer. However, its sanction would not be required if the official...

-ANI “We are probing and registering an FIR, action will be taken against the culprits. We will also suspend the accused police officials,” Superintendent of Police told reporters. Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh): Two labourers in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district were allegedly beaten to death by policemen after they refused to pay a Bribe of Rs 100 on Saturday morning. According to one of the five labourers, the police officials on a daily basis...