A Delhi court has asked the CBI and the Delhi police to file a detailed report on the action taken by them so far on the complaints about alleged corruption in the Commonmwealth Games-related casess. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal, on a petition filed by RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal, Swami Agnivesh, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and others, has directed the CBI''s Anti-Corruption Branch and the...
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Greater Noida farmers abduct govt officials
Agitating farmers abducted two senior government officials - one from the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority - from a village here on Friday. The officials could not be traced till late Friday night.Deputy chief executive officer RK Singh and deputy collector SP Singh had gone to attend a meeting with the farmers, who had been agitating for higher compensation for their land acquired by the state government for development work,...
More »India: Environment under attack by Praful Bidwai
India’s rulers have found a new vocation – maligning environmentalists and questioning the very idea of regulating industry for pollution. Thus, faced with criticism of Lavasa, an artificial gated city of the super-rich near Pune, in which his family has invested crores, Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, lashed out at well-known activist Medha Patkar and other “vested interests” for obstructing this “pioneering” project. Lavasa’s promoters built the project without seeking environmental clearance...
More »Centre asks states not to harass Kashmiris by Vishwa Mohan
In order to protect Kashmiris from being unnecessary harassed and faced humiliation, the Centre - on advice of the group of interlocutors on J&K - has issued an advisory to all States/UTs (except J&K) to exercise utmost sensitivity while making inquiries about residents of J&K living in different parts of the country. "It has also asked the States to issue appropriate instructions to all Police Stations that they should not...
More »Honesty is indivisible by Arun Kumar
Illegality in India today touches almost every economic activity. It is both systemic and systematic. The Indian ruling class faced its severest crisis of credibility in 2010. Its past caught up with it and skeletons and scams were spilling out of its closets. The scams have a symbiotic relationship with the black economy. The number of scams is growing and so is the size of the black economy, which has reached...
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