Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare has criticised the government for not bringing the CBI and CVC under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill. He said the government cheated on the public by not holding proper consultations. "I call it cheating because the government had issued a gazette and formed a committee which did not meet for even three months," Anna Hazare said. ...
03:18 PM, Feb 01, 2013
New Delhi: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday said social activist Anna Hazare's route is definitely going to bring a very powerful law on anti-corruption. "I believe that Anna Hazare route is definitely going to bring us a very powerful law on anti-corruption one day. But there is no place in jail as all the prisons would get filled up, do you want that?" he asked. Kalam was addressing...
01:20 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Defending his flip flop on Arvind Kejriwal, activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday said he had to change his views on his former aide as times changed and felt that there will be "more trouble" if he explains the reason. "It is because of the times. I will tell the reason for this change when the time comes...If I say the reason, it will create more trouble," Hazare told...
02:40 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Gurgaon: Activist Anna Hazare was on Friday admitted to a hospital after he complained of acidity but he is "doing perfectly fine", doctors attending on him said. Hazare, who was in the national capital, complained of acidity and weakness on Friday morning and was taken to Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon. "He is doing perfectly fine. No problem at all. He complained of acidity," a doctor attending on him said. He...
02:26 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Vowing to make Indians realise their power and ensure passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament, Gandhian Anna Hazare on Saturday said governments were afraid only of collapse and not agitations or dharnas. "Governments, be at the Centre or in states, are afraid of losing power. They know that people can bring them down. The people must realise that they are the real masters. I will make people aware...
01:46 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Jagatsinghpur: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Friday opposed entry of foreign companies in the country, including steel major POSCO, saying such investors were exploiting the country's natural resources for their own gain in the name of setting up industries. "A brake should be put on entry of all foreign companies including POSCO in the country as they come and exploit our resources and loot farmers' land for their gain," the...
07:29 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Social activist Anna Hazare will visit Odisha for three days, beginning Thursday, and attend several programmes in the state, an India Against Corruption (IAC) member said in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. "He (Anna Hazare) would be given a grand welcome here," IAC's national core committee member Akshay Kumar said. He said Hazare would be escorted from the airport to the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar by a motorcycle procession. Hazare is scheduled...
01:25 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: Launching his new team, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Saturday gave a call for Jan Andolan. "Our goal is not Jan Lokpal alone. There has to be a Jan Andolan, a mass movement. We will try and bring together many people's movements," said activist Medha Patkar, who along with Kiran Bedi, shared the stage with Anna. Reading out from a list, Kiran Bedi said that Akhil Gogoi, Akshay...
04:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Ralegan Siddhi: Veteran social crusader Anna Hazare will launch an 18 month nationwide tour for a citizens' movement against corruption from January 2013, an aide said on Thursday. "It was originally scheduled to kick off from Diwali. However, on account of Hazare's cataract operation last week, it had to be postponed by a couple of months," the aide, declining to be identified, said. The rescheduled tour will be taken up...
03:23 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Mumbai: The battle for Jan Lokpal and corruption-free India will commence from Patna in January, social activist Anna Hazare said on Wednesday. Hazare also said there was a delay in undertaking a countrywide tour as he had recently undergone a cataract surgery. "But now we have decided that the countrywide tour will begin in January, from the place where Jaiprakash Narayan launched his movement," he said. "The battle for Jan...
07:59 PM, Oct 17, 2012
In the early 1990s, when TN Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner was the flavour of the season, a packed Rotary Club meeting in South Mumbai ...
12:14 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Arvind Kejriwal has released a vision document for his political party. The document says that no MP and MLA will use red light cars meant for VIPs. The MPs and MLAs of Kejriwal's party will also not take bungalows and security. The document says it's not a political party but a political revolution. The vision document also says that if his party wins, the Lokpal Bill will be brought within...
02:46 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Activist Arvind Kejriwal is all set to make his his much-anticipated foray into active politics. He is expected to outline the vision of his party, its constitution, the selection of candidates and a party manifesto on Tuesday. Kejriwal chose Gandhi Jayanti to make his big announcement as he takes his fight against corruption to the next level. An internal Lokpal will also be appointed by the party to probe cases ...
12:54 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: 6:00 pm: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has said that his party may not be able to eradicate corruption, but the menace can be reduced. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Kejriwal said that there were as much as 30-40 per cent laws in the country on which the people must be given the right to decide. He said that referendum needs to be done on a number of...
10:19 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, just 11 days after parting ways with Arvind Kejriwal, seemingly made a U-turn after a surprise closed-door meeting with Kejriwal on Monday. But at the end of the veteran activist's two-day meet in Delhi to chalk out the future of his apolitical, anti-corruption movement, Anna clarified that even if he supported Kejriwal, he was firm on not endorsing his party. Anna Hazare also rejected...
08:27 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Maintaining strong opposition to entering politics as it is "full of dirt", Anna Hazare said on Sunday that he did not get answers from Arvind Kejriwal-led group on questions raised by him on how to organise a political alternative. Hazare, who arrived in the national capital on Sunday morning and met activists to chalk out the next course of action on an apolitical anti-corruption movement, said the path...
01:43 PM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will be in Delhi on Sunday for the first time after his split with Arvind Kejriwal for a meeting with his supporters and activists to chalk out the future course of action. Hazare's meeting comes against the backdrop of his blog posting in which he put the blame for separation squarely on Kejriwal-led pro-party group. The meeting is likely to be attended by activists Medha Patkar,...
08:30 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Pune: Anna Hazare has said that he will not resort to fasting any more to press for his demands, and will fight for his causes through agitations. "Now onwards I will not undertake fast. In future I will fight for my causes through agitations," Hazare said last night at a Ganesh mandal ceremony in Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial township near Pune. The anti-corruption crusader also said he would continue to work to...
04:17 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's new party, which is likely to be announced next week, will have youths in leadership position and will enter electoral fray with Delhi polls before contesting all seats in next Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a meeting of students and youths in New Delhi, Kejriwal said, "We will contest from across the country. But before that we will first fight the Delhi Assembly elections. People will select...
01:04 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Mumbai: Suresh Pathare, a close aide of Anna Hazare, on Saturday resigned from anti-corruption crusader's office citing personal reasons. "I have resigned from Annaji's office due to personal reasons," Pathare twitted on Saturday night. "I won't be able to work with Anna due to some personal reasons... that is why I have submitted my resignation," he said. Pathare used to be a permanent fixture during Hazare's anti-corruption movement. ...
10:56 PM, Sep 22, 2012
