-The Hindu Angry residents had initially refused to perform the last rites of the Mumbai acid attack victim Angry and distraught residents of Narela spilled onto the streets and refused to perform the last rites of local girl Preeti Rathi, whose body was flown back to the Capital early on Monday morning from Mumbai. Preeti had succumbed to acid attack injuries this past Sunday. However, following a day-long outrage over the incident, the...
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Ashok Gehlot govt favoured firm in dam project: RTI activist
-The Times of India JAIPUR: A local RTI activist has accused the Ashok Gehlot government of favouring a firm in allotting tender for the Kalisindh dam project in Jhalawar district. The activist has demanded a CBI probe into the matter and said that he will also file a public interest litigation in this regard. Ashok Pathak, the activist, addressing a press conference on Sunday said that the tender issued by the Vasundhara...
More »From Bofors to 2G, the same fate-Arun Kumar
-The Hindu The parliamentary committees on the howitzer scam and the stock market scandal protected the powerful and failed to fix accountability. The same is true in the spectrum case The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and...
More »Age of graft -CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the worst in India's post-Independence...
More »Govt forms GoM to insulate CBI from external influence- Sahil Makkar
-Live Mint The GoM findings, draft will be submitted to the Supreme Court before 10 July Taking a cue from last week's adverse comments by the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to draft a law that will eventually seek to insulate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from political influence. Finance minister P. Chidambaram, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, law minister Kapil Sibal and minister of...
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