-The Hindu Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan are taking steps to rewrite the unconstitutional law on beggary and decriminalise poverty According to the 1959 law on beggary, Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, anyone perceived as having “no visible means of subsistence” and “wandering about” can be branded a beggar and detained in certified institutions for a period of not less than one year and up to 10 years for second time offenders. For many...
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The Dark And The Sublime: The Story Of Rajat Gupta-Shaili Chopra
-Tehelka The sentencing of Wall Street wizard Rajat Gupta in the historic insider trading case has led to the fall of a one-time icon for many Indians “This is where destiny is taking me.” This is what former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, Rajat Gupta, told old friend Pramod Bhasin, as he sat with a glass of scotch in hand, in a mid-town bar in New York. Little did Gupta know how prophetic...
More »Government to sponsor officers to the world’s first Master’s degree in anti-graft studies-Vikas Dhoot
-The Economic Times Buffeted by a series of big-ticket scams, the Government is readying to sponsor sleuths and vigilance officers to the world's first Master's degree in anti-corruption studies, being launched in Vienna this December. The department of personnel and training has written to all ministries, state governments, Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Vigilance Commission, informing them that the government is willing to fund the candidates for International Anti-Corruption Academy's...
More »Politician Kejriwal losing friends in NGO world
-The Times of India As Arvind Kejriwal makes the shift from the NGO world to that of politics, he faces the tough task of keeping his civil society friends with him. NGO Vidharba Jan Andolan Samiti, which has been active in raising farmers' suicides and other problems in the parched belt, has accused Kejriwal of using it for his political purposes. Kishore Tiwari, who heads the NGO, said, "We were asked to...
More »Arvind Kejriwal and McCarthyism of the uncorrupted-Vivian Fernandes
-CNN-IBN A kind of McCarthyism seems to be operating in the country. Just as the US Senator who gave the term its name saw communists lurking everywhere in the early 1950s, Arvind Kejriwal sees corruption behind every deal. He wants electricity consumers in Delhi not to pay bills, claiming that they are over-stated. He cites the cut in tariff which the former chairman of Delhi's electricity regulatory commission, Berjinder Singh, had recommended....
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