Sociologist and political psychologist Ashis Nandy on Saturday made a controversial statement at the Jaipur Literature Festival claiming that Dalits and other backward castes were responsible for the corruption in the Indian society today. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 26, 2013
A day after Rajnath Singh took his place as the Bharatiya Janata Party President, Nitin Gadkari is out but not down. In an open threat, he has in fact warned Income Tax officials of consequences when the BJP comes to power. "I know the names of the officials who are trying to target me. They are trying day and night to frame me. But they should know that the Congress...
02:25 PM, Jan 24, 2013
In a dramatic twist to the battle for the next president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former party chief Rajnath Singh has emerged as the frontrunner for the post. According to sources, current president Nitin Gadkari has told RSS leader Bhaiyaji Joshi that he favours the former party chief if there is no consensus on his name. ...
09:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
BJP has accused the ruling Congress in Assam of being involved in "siphoning off" money allotted for development projects under the 'Panchayati Raj' system during the past 11 years. Though the Panchayati raj system is for the rural development, it has not happened during the last 11 years of Congress regime as the ruling party indulged in mismanagement and corruption instead of undertaking projects, state BJP President Sarbananda Sonowal claimed....
05:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The newly-appointed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday made an emotional pitch to the Congress in Jaipur and proclaimed his love for the people of the country and his party. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 20, 2013
A senior Pakistani investigator probing graft charges involving Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his official accommodation in Islamabad on Friday, with his relatives alleging that he may have been murdered. Kamran Faisal, an Assistant Director of the National Accountability Bureau, was found hanging from a fan in his room at the Federal Lodges in Islamabad, police officials said. ...
04:28 AM, Jan 19, 2013
It is a chilly winter morning in Chandigarh. Pramod Kumar is in deep discussion with retired judge KS Grewal and Additional Director General of Police SK Sharma at a roomy office in the Institute for Development and Communications on how to stop harassment of women in public places. "Perhaps," he suggests, "we should suspend driving licences of those who harass women, or deny police verification for passports." Justice Grewal says...
12:28 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday said he would continue his fight against corruption and goondaism till his last breath. ...
08:18 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The Pakistan government has constituted a high-powered four-member committee to hold talks with Sufi cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri. This came as Qadri's deadline to the government to act on his demands came to an end. ...
03:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused an order by the country's top court to arrest the prime minister in a graft case on Thursday, saying he did not have sufficient evidence. The government and the Supreme Court have repeatedly clashed over the last year, and the chief justice's demand on Tuesday that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf be arrested set the stage for a new round of political crisis in Pakistan, a ...
01:55 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused an order by the country's top court to arrest the prime minister in a graft case on Thursday, saying he did not have sufficient evidence. ...
12:25 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The recent outcry of middle-class men and women, many of whom not associated with any political party or developmental organisation, is an important phenomenon that ...
12:21 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, facing arrest in a corruption case, has convened a meeting of coalition parties of the government to discuss the politician situation in the country. ...
12:17 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Do you think conviction of the Chautalas in the recruitment scam sends out the message that the law does work and spares no one? CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Jyoti Kamal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
04:33 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Even as corruption charges threatened to topple Pakistan's second Premier in a row, the country's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar drew a parallel with India, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also faced "very big" allegations. "The problem of corruption plagues many countries within South Asia and elsewhere also," Khar said. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan government has been trying to decide its course of action after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in a power project corruption case. Pakistan's apex court took the extreme step of calling for the prime minister's arrest despite the fact he has not been convicted. ...
10:05 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The Pakistan Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Ashraf for allegedly receiving bribes in power projects. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Thousands of Pakistanis shouting slogans like "we want change" thronged the streets of Islamabad in support of Sufi cleric Muhammad Tahir-Ul-Qadri's anti-government demonstrations on Monday. Flag-waving citizens braved tear gas shells fired by the police and called for a crackdown on corruption, backing Qadri's call for an indefinite delay in elections. ...
09:05 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided top Customs and Directorate of revenue officials over bribery charges. CBI raids are on at 24 places in four states following the charges. ...
11:40 AM, Jan 09, 2013
A member of the Dental Council of India has been arrested red-handed for taking bribe by the Central Bureau of Investigation. DCI member Dr Murugesan was arrested when he was taking the bribe of Rs 25 lakh from Dr Rambhadran, administrative officer of a dental college. ...
03:33 PM, Jan 08, 2013
