Most analysts agree that a government that spent most of the last four years fighting corruption charges is wounded as it prepares for the coming poll battle. New Delhi: Corruption scandals past and present have cast long shadows on the Manmohan Singh led UPA government that completes four years of its second term May 22, amid [...]
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy goes to New Delhi later Wednesday amid dissidence and increasing demands within the Congress party to drop tainted ministers. He is likely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad and other leaders to discuss issues facing the [...]
Meerut: The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today said here that corruption is India’s biggest problem and it is making the country weak. “Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi sacrificed their lives for country’s independence but today politicians are misusing their powers. Common people are facing corruption in there daily life,” the Tibetan leader said. Addressing a [...]
Hyderabad: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare today said he would tour the entire country for the next one and a half years to campaign on his demand for the Jan Lokpal Bill. Hazare, who launched his ‘Janatantra’ movement in Patna on January 30 to fight for changing the system, expressed confidence that he would be able [...]
New Delhi: With the government ordering a CBI probe, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) may also register a criminal case of money laundering to probe allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal from an Italian defence and aerospace firm. The agency has already been conducting a probe since last year for alleged [...]
New Delhi: Outgoing BJP President Nitin Gadkari today alleged that there was a “political conspiracy” to tarnish his image and, therefore, in the interest of the party, he proposed the name of Rajnath Singh for party’s top post. “As far as the election for the second term is concerned, there had been a political conspiracy [...]
New Delhi: Rajnath Singh was Wednesday elected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president. He succeeds Nitin Gadkari, who decided against contesting for a second term following charges of alleged corruption.
Is Sonia Gandhi on the defensive or offensive when it comes to the corrupt government? Her recent remarks on “public being rightly fed up” on corruption levels, and the pompous display of wealth by leaders, might leave one wondering why politicians charged on various grounds of corruption and crime and still in her party. Is [...]
Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) member K. Ripunjaya Reddy after raids on his house and that of his friends and relatives led to unearthing of disproportionate assets worth Rs.4 crore, officials said Thursday. The anti-graft agency picked up Ripunjaya late Wednesday, making him the first APPSC member [...]
Criminalisation and corruption, the twin evils, have been eating into the vitals of India for some time and successive ruling parties have made no effort to rein in this scourge. UPA’s rule has taken India up on the ladder of corruption. Transparency International, a world watchdog, has placed India 94th among 174 countries surveyed in [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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