Lone absconding accused arrested Co-accused produced in juvenile court As 15 lakh State government employees and gazetted officers went on strike on Thursday to protest the gruesome killing of Additional Collector of Nashik Yashwant Sonawane, the State government cracked the whip on the oil, sand and milk mafia in the State. “In the last 36 hours, we have arrested 170 persons in raids conducted across the State,” K.P. Raghuvanshi, Additional Director-General of Police,...

Amit Jethwa had just left his lawyer’s office after discussing a lawsuit he had filed to stop an illicit limestone quarry with ties to powerful local Politicians. That is when the assassins struck, speeding out of the darkness on a roaring motorbike, pistols blazing. He died on the spot, blood pouring from his mouth and nose. He was 38. Mr. Jethwa was one of millions of Indians who had embraced...

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre on a public interest litigation seeking disclosure of all taped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia . A bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and SS Nijjar on Monday sought a response from the government on why the tapes containing conversations between Radia and various Politicians, businessmen and journalists should not be made public. It posted the matter for further...

The CNN-IBN-Outlook State of the Nation poll on corruption in the run up to Republic Day does nor bring good news for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government.   The poll has found Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to have been rather weak in his tackling of the numerous scams and corruption cases that the UPA -II has been facing.   The corruption-hit UPA is facing an image crisis and 57 per cent say they...

According to Transparency International, India ranks 87 in the 2010 corruption index in a list of 178 countries, ranked from very clean to highly corrupt. Ranked with India at 87 are Albania, Jamaica and Liberia. India slipped from 84 in 2009. In our country kickbacks, bribes, public swindles and land-grabbing is now virtually institutionalised. Clean Politicians, bureaucrats and police officials are now seen as a rare, endangered species. And it’s...