A convicted rapist out on bail has been arrested along with his cousin for brutally beating his own aunt and another widow to death in the name of family honour. Tension prevails in the area while the accused is unrepentant. The two women were attacked at Ranila village in Bhiwani district late Sunday night. The horrific crime was committed in front of at least 200 villagers, including dozens of women, but...
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Satyam auditing not the only slip-up in India, admits Price Waterhouse India by John Samuel Raja & Sangita Mehta
Five audit firms of Price Waterhouse India have admitted to the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that deficiencies in their auditing process were not restricted to Satyam Computer , but extended to other companies audited by them in India as well. This disclosure by PW India is in two documents released by the SEC on April 5 while concluding its findings on the Satyam accounting fraud case....
More »Blind Men Of Hindostan by Sheela Reddy
Do we, the Indian middle class, see the corruption within us? I was too busy being corrupt to join Anna Hazare’s camp last week. For four days, I heard nothing but stories of our Tahrir Square-like revolution against the corrupt unfurling right under our noses in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. But it was school admission time and I had some serious palm-greasing, document-fudging, string-pulling, weight-throwing and tout-chasing to do. I had...
More »Hazare's Lokpal campaign cost over Rs 50 lakh
Under attack from political parties over funding of Anna Hazare's campaign for the Lokpal Bill, India Against Corruption, the umbrella organisation that steered the crusade, has released details of expenditure and said all civil society members of the joint drafting committee will declare their assets and liabilities on Friday. Two days before the first meeting of the joint drafting committee, India Against Corruption issued a detailed press statement on the expense...
More »Left front candidate beats CM on asset count by Sukumar Debnath
Narayan Prasad Jain, CPI(M)’s candidate from Bhowanipore assembly constituency, filed his nomination papers on Wednesday and declared his individual assets to be worth Rs 2,41,63,447. The same came as a far cry from his comrade and chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who had earlier declared his personal assets worth at Rs 5,000. The combined assets of Jain, a masters in law and a practising advocate, filed before the Survey Building at Alipore...
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