-The Hindu blog   Data from the latest Transparency International report throws up few surprises as far as India is concerned. Virtually no key institution or sector in India is seen as being free from corruption in the latest survey of the international anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International, which, in its report 'Global Corruption Barometer 2013' states that Bribe paying levels remain "very high" worldwide. Data from the report offers interesting insights into global corruption...

-PTI Survey said 27% of respondents had paid a Bribe, the most direct experience of corruption for a person, with police the most often Bribed institution One in four people paid a Bribe in dealing with public services and institutions in the past year, according to a global corruption survey. In the world's largest assessment of public opinion on the subject, Transparency International found that political parties are considered the most corrupt institutions,...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Terming some of the answers provided by Walmart as "incomprehensible" and parts of the deposition by its just departed India boss Raj Jain as "ambiguous", a government committee set up to look into whether the US behemoth indulged in Bribery in India, has refused to give it a clean chit, complicating its efforts to draw a line under the episode. The one-man committee under Justice Mukul Mudgal...

-The Economic Times Anshu Prakash is worried about what he calls "mischievous propaganda" by "some people" who he thinks are misleading reporters. The joint secretary at the ministry of health and family welfare starts off by flatly denying that the joint monitoring mission (JMM) set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government of India (GoI) discussed the impending danger of a TB drugs stock-out in August 2012. "There was...

-Newsclick.in A few weeks back Fortune magazine and CNN carried a long online blog titled ‘Dirty Medicine' by Dinesh Thakur, a former employ of Ranbaxy, where he recounts how he came across several procedural and other lapses in the company's manufacturing facilities. Since then the Fortune blog has become one of the most widely circulated and commented upon business stories in the world. The story received attention as it came in the...