Has India's battle against corruption become a contest between the tyranny of virtue and the tyranny of the state, as some analysts put it? The police have arRested anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare for pledging to go ahead with a hunger strike against a proposed new anti-corruption law. After nine meetings with the government, Mr Hazare and his supporters cobbled together their version of the Lokpal (Citizen's Ombudsman) bill. He insists that this...

The UP government has deepened the ongoing controversy over land acquisition in the state by bringing the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development (amendment) Bill 2011 which was passed by the Assembly on Thursday. The bill seeks to remove a provision that gave landowners the right to ask for Restoration of their acquired land if it was unused for five years. Section 17 of the UP Urban Planning and Development Act 1973...

While diversion rates still remain high, evidence seems to point to substantial improvements in the public distribution system around the country. It is well understood that a substantial proportion of the grain, mainly wheat and rice, that is meant to be distributed to eligible families under the Public Distribution System (PDS) ends up being sold in the open market by corrupt intermediaries, including some dealers who manage PDS outlets. The extent...

-The Indian Express   The UP government has deepened the ongoing controversy over land acquisition in the state by bringing the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development (amendment) Bill 2011 which was passed by the Assembly on Thursday. The bill seeks to remove a provision that gave landowners the right to ask for Restoration of their acquired land if it was unused for five years. Section 17 of the UP Urban Planning and Development...

-PTI   Stepping up pressure on the Uttar Pradesh government for better compensation, more farmers in NOIDA Friday decided to move court seeking to quash acquisition of their land. At a panchayat meeting in Sadullapur, farmers decided to file petitions to quash acquisition of their acquired properties. "Without court case, authorities do not agree for negotiations," farmer leader Surinder Bhatti said. At other panchayat meetings in Amnabad, Jewar and Dankore areas, farmers were of...