The World Bank's allegations of fraud and corrupt practices in highway projects funded by the multilateral agency could just be the tip of the iceberg. The Bank's report has an annexure of "collateral" evidence showing how contractors produced fake invoices and certificates to get advance from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The investigation team of World Bank's Institutional Integrity Unit tracked down three companies supplying aggregates (construction material) in Nepal...
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It has been a slow but steady move to make scholarship freely available Most of us spend a few hundred rupees a year on the magazines we buy for leisure reading or for keeping abreast of current affairs. But if you are a scientist, you may be shelling out a few thousand rupees for the journal your professional society publishes for its members. Of course, if you are a serious researcher,...
More »Poor attendance record of most celebrities in Rajya Sabha-Vishwa Mohan
Celebrities readily accept government's offer to enter Rajya Sabha as 'nominated' members. But when it comes to attending House proceedings, they - barring a couple of them - prefer to keep themselves away from the very process which shapes country's fate. Poor attendance records of the celebrities including filmmakers, actors and singers during Parliamentary sessions present a grim picture of the practice of nominating those who are 'active' in their respective...
More »Gujarat HC quashes sedition cases against TOI
-The Times of India The Gujarat high court on Wednesday quashed the charges of sedition that former Ahmedabad police commissioner O P Mathur had filed against The Times of India's Ahmedabad edition in June 2008. The court quashed all five FIRs, which accused the resident editor and the correspondent of inciting people against the police. The FIRs had been filed after TOI ran a series of investigative reports on Mathur's suspected underworld...
More »This RTI reply is a case of serial lies
-The Deccan Herald The officialdom’s reluctance to part with public information sought under the Right to Information Act (RTI) is by now a well known fact. When nodal officers concerned disclose information, they hide more than they reveal, and often end up being penalised by appellate authorities. However, an RTI reply furnished to an applicant in Devanahalli Taluk near Bangalore is simply shocking as it exposes the utter callousness of the nodal...
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