-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...
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CM indicted for misuse of funds
-The Times of India New Delhi: The Delhi Lokayukta has indicted chief minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing public funds for an advertisement campaign in the run-up to the 2008 assembly polls. The ombudsman has recommended to the President of India to administer "caution" to the CM for the alleged misuse of funds and ask her to reimburse either herself or through her party a sum of Rs 11 crore as...
More »Four walls and the cry for help -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu Every hour 25 women fall victim to crimes; 11 suffer cruelty by husbands and other relatives; three are raped; and there is one dowry death. Horrific crimes against women have, in fact, continued unabated. What is worse is that there has been an acceleration of such crimes in recent years, with the annual rate rising from 5.9 per cent in 2006 to 7.8 per cent during 2006-2011. Cases of domestic...
More »Omar again presses for partial removal of AFSPA-Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu ‘Start with areas where the Army is no longer required to operate' Raking up the issue of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) again, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday hoped that the Centre would revoke the controversial Act from those areas in the State where it was not required. "We understand that you (the Centre) cannot take it (AFSPA) away overnight. It has to be a...
More »Srirangam farmers up in arms over land acquisition move
-The Hindu Government planning to set up paper board unit at a cost of Rs. 1200 crore TIRUCHI: Farmers of Mondipatti panchayat in Srirangam, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's constituency, are up in arms over the move to acquire their land for the setting up of a paper board unit. The farmers argued that the land identified for the State-owned project had been under cultivation for three generations, and the livelihood of at least 2,000...
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