CJ Mangla Ram was attacked after he exposed discrepancies in Govt schemes like MNREGA. ...
02:45 PM, May 06, 2013
CJ Suresh Kumar Sharma's first person account on victimisation after exposing dubious of a gas agency in Amritsar. ...
02:39 PM, May 06, 2013
CJ Dhanajay Dubey talks about his brother Satyendra who was murdered for raising his voice against corruption. ...
02:32 PM, May 06, 2013
This week on the Citizen Journalist show we focus on the whistleblowers who have spoken out against corruption amidst threat and intimidation. ...
02:22 PM, May 06, 2013
Citizen Journalist Dhananjay Dubey shows pictures of his courageous brother Satyendra Dubey - who was brutally murdered in November 2003 for fighting corruption. Whistleblower Stayendra ...
05:02 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, an unusual twist in a case that has become a byword for Russian corruption and severely strained US relations with Moscow. ...
10:37 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Satyendra Dubey's brother Dhananjay spoke at a people's forum in Delhi, and pushed for the fast passage of the Lokpal and Whistleblower Bills in Parliament. ...
11:50 PM, Nov 27, 2012
In an exclusive interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he gives us an idea of how life has been at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange has been there since June, 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. When asked what is it like living in an embassy, Assange said, "It is like living in a space station, there is no natural light. My career and stuff - you can't go ...
08:33 AM, Oct 26, 2012
London: An Indian origin doctor in London went the Gandhian way to take on authorities at the Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge. He has claimed that they sacked him for blowing the whistle on healthcare malpractices in the UK. He carried out an unusual Gandhian outside the Department of Health in London, across from Downing Street. Dr Narinder Kapur was sacked from Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge for blowing the whistle on...
10:13 AM, Oct 04, 2012
Chief Engineer Water Resources Vijay Pandhare, who blew the lid off the Maharashtra irrigation scam, has said that the nexus between contractors and politicians exists in all states. In an interview to CNN-IBN, he said that while most were aware of the corruption levels within the state governments, most chose to overlook it out of fear. Below is an edited transcript of the interview. CNN-IBN: In response to the letter...
07:30 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appealed to the US to stop persecuting him and his website for releasing classified US files. Assange has been holed up in Ecaudor since mid-June to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama. "It is time for President Obama to do the right thing and join the forces of change - not in fine words, but in fine deeds." ...
09:47 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Mumbai: Whistleblower in the Maharashtra irrigation scam Vijay Pandhare has claimed unnecessary expenses worth Rs 20,000 crore in state irrigation projects. Pandhare wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Governor K Sankaranarayanan in May, 2012 exposing the scam. Vijay Pandhare had claimed at least Rs 35000 crore were siphoned off in 10 years in various projects. Pandhare is a chief engineer in Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The government is planning a whistleblower system, by introducing rewards to informers on adulterated food and ingredients, said Health Minister V S Sivakumar here on Saturday, inaugurating a seminar on Food Safety and Standards Act,2006. It has become clear that right from salt to meat, fish and vegetables, adulteration has become common. It is not the retail traders who are indulging in malpractices but wholesalers and those who are...
01:55 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bikaner: In a shocking case of cruelty against a child, some goons in Nokha in Bikaner attacked a four-year-old girl to get even with her whistleblower uncle. The kid was thrown against a wall suffering damage to her nervous system. The uncle of the child had tried to expose irregularities in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA). The doctors have told the parents of the child that...
07:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: After its passage in Lok Sabha sometime back, the much-talked about whistleblowers' protection bill is expected to be brought in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday but with certain amendments to keep national security matters away from controversy. An indication to this effect was given by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Monday. The move follows reports that the government and BJP have agreed to keep matters related to...
05:01 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: A possible setback may be on the cards for anti-corruption whistleblowers in the country. The government is likely to dilute the Whistleblowers' Bill by moving amendments that will empower government officials to not disclose documents of a sensitive nature. Sources say that the government is planning to move a Cabinet note to make changes in the Bill which is currently held up in the Rajya Sabha. The Cabinet...
08:01 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Mumbai: A former US employee has filed a lawsuit against Infosys Ltd, India's No 2 software services provider, saying he was harassed for pointing out possible misuse of US business visas, according to a copy of the lawsuit seen by Reuters. The case is similar to one scheduled to go to trial later this month. Employment visas are a politically charged topic in the United States, especially those related to...
02:12 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Bangalore: The police claimed to have cracked Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officer SP Mahantesh's murder case and arrested four in the contract killing. Mahantesh was a whistle-blower in a cooperative housing scam case. Murli, Aiyappa, Shivakumar and Kiran were arrested by Bangalore Police on Thursday. The police have also siezed a car which was used in the attack. Mahantesh was probing irregularities in Sahakar Nagar credit cooperative society. 48-year-old Mahantesh...
11:26 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Srinagar: The multi-crore scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association is getting murkier. The whistleblower of the scam has claimed that he has been receiving threats. "I am getting threats clearly by people who have been beneficiaries of the scam. I have also detected huge siphoning of money by the officials," whistleblower Manzoor Wazir said. This came even as an internal panel began its investigations in the case. Meanwhile,...
08:39 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Lucknow: A Provincial Civil Services officer, who was on a fast-unto-death in Lucknow against "corruption" in the social welfare department, was allegedly forcibly evicted from the protest site by the police who tried to admit him to the psychiatric department of a hospital. "In a late night operation, police and administration removed Rinku Singh Rahi staging fast unto death at dharna sthal and he was taken to hospital," Rahi's associate...
12:40 PM, Mar 27, 2012
