There is now a fourth lokpal draft that the standing committee may need to consider. A delegation led by Udit Raj, chairman of theAll India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations, will meet Abhishek Singhvi, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice to hand over a copy of the Bahujan lokpal Bill - their version of the legislation for an anti-corruption ombudsman. The bill, according to Raj, will address...

-The Telegraph   Anna Hazare has returned to his village in Maharashtra but the Left seems to be taking his struggle forward. Four Left parties will tomorrow march to Parliament Street to press for measures to tackle graft. The issues they plan to raise are similar to what Hazare had voiced when he broke his fast at Ramlila Maidan. The five issues on which the comrades will march are: an effective lokpal, separate mechanism...

After his successful campaign for the Jan lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare is now targeting electoral reform to curb corruption. While politicians were his main target, few realised that it was the bureaucrats who had enabled the politicians to abuse the system. The war on corruption needs drastic administrative reforms to curb the enormous power of the petty babus. The good intentions of prime ministers, the commitment of good officers and...

At a time when the Anna-tide has swept the people across the country against the anti-corruption campaign, sadly, the agrarian crisis continues to take a heavy toll on farmers in Vidarbha. Unable to put up with crop failure, crippling debts and not getting remunerative price for their produce, six more distressed cotton-growers have committed suicide in Vidarbha over the last 48 hours. Reports reaching Nagpur on Thursday said six cotton growers...

-The Indian Express   The controversial compact disc containing purported conversations between noted lawyer Shanti Bhushan and political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh “is not not doctored or tampered with”, the Delhi police told a court here. The Special Cell of Delhi Police has said the opinions of Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), New Delhi and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) suggest there was no editing or tampering...