-The Times of India PATNA: Call it the AAP effect. The Bihar government has decided to wage a war on corruption and 576 officers and employees are likely to be dismissed from service within two months over graft allegations. Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday reviewed the progress in the investigation of corruption cases against these officers and employees. Since departmental proceedings against 187 of the 576 government employees are in the...
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Empty belly: Kids seek stale food from trains
-The Times of India VARANASI: In an extremely cold and shivering night, a man with torn clothes was eating something picked up from a dustbin at platform number 4 of Charbagh railway station of Lucknow. Some passenger may have thrown the leftover eatable. But, finding it insufficient to satiate his hunger the man started looking for some more stuff in other dustbins at the platform. When this correspondent tried to interact with...
More »Maximum complaints against cops, municipal Staff: AAP helpline -Faizan Haider
-The Hindustan Times New Delhi: Nearly half of the operations launched by the anti-corruption branch based on complaints lodged by residents on the Delhi government's anti-corruption helpline are against the police. According to sources in the helpline, the Staff of the three municipal corporations is the second most 'corrupt' group. In nearly 30% of the cases, civic officials are under the scanner of anti-corruption sleuths. "There are 350 cases that require a sting...
More »Out of Jayanthi’s office, house, over 350 files, a couple from 2011-Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express As new Environment Minister Veerappa Moily took charge at Paryavaran Bhavan, nearly 350 files were found to have been held back by predecessor Jayanthi Natarajan and her office. Documents accessed by The Indian Express show that as many as 180 of these files, returned from her residence on December 22, 23 and 24, were unsigned. But 119 were signed files which were still held back by the minister for...
More »Is India ready for non-profit media?-Sevanti Ninan
-The Hoot We can either spend another year discovering how much the old model is disintegrating or we can explore alternatives. But India has not developed a tradition as yet of not-for-profit journalism, says SEVANTI NINAN. Two recent developments at the New York Times and at Time Inc. which publishes Time magazine underscore the fact that financing has and will remain become the number one issue for the future of journalism as...
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