Loss to the exchequer due to the grant of 122 LICences to new entrants in 2008 was Rs.1.24-lakh crore Government lost Rs.36,000-crore in grant of dual-technology LICences The government must get exact loss calculated instead of washing its hands of it The draft report of the PubLIC Accounts Committee on the 2G scam has come out with yet another figure for the loss to the exchequer, putting it at Rs.1.90-lakh crore in the...

The three-day Tarapur-to-Jaitapur yatra hit another roadblock on Sunday, as the poLICe continued detaining activists. Interrupting a rally at Pen in the morning, the poLICe detained 22 protesters of the National Anti-Nuclear Plant Yatra for violating prohibitory orders imposed on Saturday night. “They were detained under Section 68 of the Bombay PoLICe Act. Prohibitory orders were put in place last night. [We were told] the demonstrators would come, and there would be...

“There is a clear conspiracy on the part of some people which appears to have the blessings of many powerful people in the country” Barely a day after the first meeting of the joint drafting committee on the Lokpal Bill, the process has come under stress with the civil society members on the panel alleging a “clear conspiracy” to not only derail the anti-corruption movement but also to subvert the...

Two renowned forensic experts have established that the Shanti Bhushan tape where he purportedly asks for money to fix a case was fabricated, vindicating Prashant Bhushan and his colleagues in the India Against Corruption campaign who had maintained that the CD was spLICed. Armed with reports from US-based acoustic phonetics expert George Papcun and S R Singh, former director of Central Forensic Science Laboratory who is now with Hyderabad-based Truth Labs,...

There can be little question that the news media, print as well as television, have contributed significantly to bringing the issue of corruption to political India's centre stage. The focus on the corruption of elections through ‘cash for votes' comes in tandem with the proactive intervention by the Election Commission of India during the April-May elections to State Assemblies. There can also be little doubt that the U.S. Embassy Cables,...