-The Times of India   In what is expected to be an action-packed day, Parliament will discuss on Tuesday the CAG indictments of the Prime Minister's Office and Delhi CM Shiela Dikshit under the garb of a debate on the privilege motion which the BJP has brought against sports minister Ajay Maken for allegedly misleading the Houses by blaming Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as CWG boss on the NDA government. The Congress had...

After the brutal murder of Azad, is there any hope for well-meaning routine calls for “dialogue” and “peace talks”? What can the "civil society" do as a serious, real intervention? It is reported that the decades-old talks with Naga insurgent groups has made some progress recently (See “Differences ‘narrowed’,” Times of India, July 19, 2011). One reason why talks have a chance in these cases is that separatism comes in...

-NDTV   The report of the government's auditor - the Comptroller and Auditor General - has been tabLED in Parliament. Among those it faults for mismanagement are Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna. These are the highlights of the 800-page report:     * There are 33 audited entities; 33 chapters, 743 pages       * The unique challenge of monitoring activities of multiple agencies should have been met...

-The Times of India   Showcause notices will be issued to road contractors as well as civic engineers for the potholes and bad stretches remaining on city roads following the meeting chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had with senior officials of various government agencies on Saturday. Chavan also told newspersons after the meeting, "The material used for road work will also have to be tested compulsorily in laboratories before use. The contractor will have...

-The Hindu   Anti-graft legislation has to be backed by a concerted people's movement to effectively check the escalation of corruption in a neo-liberal regime, economist Prabhat Patnaik said on Friday. Delivering the W.R. Varadarajan Memorial lecture on “Neo-liberalism and corruption” organised by the Indian School of Social Sciences, Mr. Patnaik said the move to a neo-liberal regime, which, it was believed, would get rid of corruption, had actually expanded the scope...