-The Hindustan Times On 16 December, D, 25, a Kolkata resident, was returning home, from the fashion boutique he owns, when some people on the street threw eggs at him. A day or two earlier, a group of approximately seven men from the neighbourhood had blocked his way, demanding to know how much they would have to pay him in return for sexual favours. He was also groped on the street....
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31 Per Cent LS MPs Face Criminal charges: Report
-Outlook Some 31 per cent of MPs in the Lok Sabha have criminal cases pending against them, and their pay package is 68 times higher than the national per capita income, according to the National Social Watch Report on Governance and Development-2013 released here today. "The pay package of MPs in India is higher than that of their counterparts in Singapore, Japan, Italy, and Pakistan. In terms of the ratio of the...
More »All you want to know about Lokpal Bill
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday passed the crucial Lokpal Bill with the Lok Sabha adopting the measure as amended by the Rajya Sabha after a short discussion. Following are the salient features of the amended Lokpal Bill. 1. Lokayuktas: The new bill mandates states to set up Lokayuktas within 365 days. States have the freedom to determine the nature and type of Lokayukta. The old bill said the law...
More »Tehelka’s Goa ‘Thinkfest’ dogged by controversies
-The Hindu * Thinkfest sponsored by ‘dubious corporates’: Goan civil society * In 2011, Tehelka was criticised for killing a story on Goa’s mining lobby Mumbai: “Now you are in Goa; drink as much as you want,” Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was reported to have said in 2011 at the Goa ‘Thinkfest’ – an event the magazine marketed as India’s premier intellectual event. “Eat and sleep well with anyone you think of, but...
More »Kunal held in salary case
-The Telegraph Calcutta: Trinamul MP Kunal Ghosh was arrested this evening on the charge of non-payment of salary and other statutory dues to a section of employees of the media outfit of the busted Saradha Group. Ghosh is a Rajya Sabha MP but has been suspended from the Trinamul Congress. "He (Kunal) was the group CEO of the media operation. We have documentary evidence that suggests his involvement with Sudipto Sen (the arrested...
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