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Citizen Anna and agent Prashant by Rashmee Roshan Lall

In fashionably liberal circles, Prashant Bhushan is an authentic modern hero, the people's advocate who uses the killer argument to avenge the aam admi on the bloodless battlefield of the Supreme Court. Among his lawyer peers, Bhushan is somewhat disdainfully seen as an "activist who takes up causes, not cases". Some politicians call him a "self-righteous" busybody with a penchant for the sensational storyline. Some others loathe the 55-year-old, who helped...

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The fatal flaws in the government's Lokpal Bill by Iftikhar Gilani

Anna Hazare’s fast puts into focus the government’s attempts to protect politicians India Against Corruption, a group formed by Anna Hazare and other social activists and former judges, has given 17 reasons why the Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by former Supreme Court judge Santosh Hegde, now the Karnataka Lokayukta, is far better than the Bill prepared by the union government. The Jan Lokpal Bill, hailed as a civil society initiative, provides for...

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Lokpal Bill: Government vs Anna Hazare

Veteran activist Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death gathered steam on its second day as he pressed for a stronger anti-graft Lok Pal Bill through greater involvement of civil society - a protest he has dubbed as the second Satyagraha. Hazare wants equal representation from civil society in drafting the Lok Pal Bill. The debate on some of the proposals put forward by both Hazare and the government on the contentious bill that has been...

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CBI only spent Rs 5cr on Bofors probe: RTI

Even as the CBI managed to get the case closed against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in Bofors payoff scam stating that the agency spent over Rs 250 crore in its efforts to get him extradited, a reply to an RTI application gives a different picture altogether. In a startling revelation, the RTI application reveals that CBI spent a total of Rs 4,77,29,210 on investigation in the Bofors case. The figure includes...

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Samajwadi Party seeks CBI probe into MGNREGA irregularities

The Samajwadi Party, Balangir unit, on Friday demanded a CBI inquiry into the irregularities in MGNREGS and PDS in Khaprakhol block of Balangir district. The party citing how thousands of people from this region migrate due to irregularities in wage payments and bungling in PDS, submitted a memorandum to Governor M C Bhandare. Led by the party's district president Arun Mishra, thousands of people gathered at the block office and demanded a...

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