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
New Delhi: After a brief bout of illness, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare was back in action on Sunday. This time ostensibly fighting for protection for whistleblowers as he shared stage with families of those who lost their lives fighting corruption. Hazare also demanded that FIRs be registered against 14 "corrupt" Cabinet ministers of the UPA by August failing which a 'jail bharo' agitation will be launched. The anti-corruption crusader said...
10:49 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare set 2014 deadline for the government to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill. Anna, who was on a protest fast on Sunday at the Jantar Mantar said that if people supported him, very soon he would force the government to bring the Jan Lokpal Bill. "Government's intention is not clear on removing corruption and that is why they are not bringing Jan Lokpal Bill," claimed...
06:09 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: With Anna Hazare observing a one-day fast at Jantar Mantar demanding justice for whistleblowers, Congress on Sunday said while the activist has every right to sit on fast, the authority to make laws lies with Parliament. "Anna ji has a right to fast. However, what kind of law will be framed, how it will be framed are issues which will be decided by Parliament, and not by an...
04:47 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare announced on Friday that he would start another agitation throughout the country from 2014 if the Central Government failed to create a strong Lokpal. Addressing a press conference soon after the all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to arrive at a consensus on the Lokpal Bill, Hazare announced that he along with his supporters would sit on 'dharna' (protest) on March 25 at...
02:15 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna on Friday demanded enactment of a stringent law to protect whistleblowers and asked government to ensure adequate security for those fighting against corruption after a 30-year-old IPS officer was brutally killed allegedly by mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh. "Strong whistleblower protection law is needed, not the one presented by the UPA government. The government's law seeks to protect the corrupt and victimise the whistleblowers...No more of...
02:46 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Washington: Denouncing the disclosure of its emails by Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, as "deplorable breach of privacy", the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor cautioned that some of them may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies. In a video message to Stratfor subscribers, founder and CEO, George Friedman said that his resignation email was forged. "Emails sent to many people about my resignation were clearly forged," he said. Friedman said in...
09:41 AM, Feb 28, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes, a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion. Australian-born Assange, 40, became a worldwide celebrity and infuriated the US government in 2010 when WikiLeaks released secret video footage and thousands of US diplomatic cables about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then,...
08:28 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Defending expelled BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha's induction in the party, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Friday said Kushwaha has come to the BJP as a whistleblower. "He (Kushwaha) was a part of Mayawati's corrupt government. Now he will bring to light all the wrong that was being done," said Sinha. Sinha's bizarre defence comes after induction of Kushwaha in the BJP and subsequent raid on him...
02:36 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: All three major anti-corruption bills - Lokpal, Judicial Accountability and Protection of Whistleblowers could not be passed in the Winter Session of Parliament as the government was not able to muster support from its allies and the Opposition. While the Lokpal Bill met with an anti-climax on Thursday midnight in the Rajya Sabha after passage from the lower house, the protection of the whistleblower bill could not even...
07:31 AM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The winter session of Parliament, which was scheduled to end on Thursday, has been extended by three days from December 27 to discuss Lokpal Bill and other legislations. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said this in the Lok Sabha while tabling the 33rd report of the Business Advisory Committee. The Lokpal bill is expected to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and would be taken...
06:06 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: The UPA government, facing flak for not taking strong actions to curb corruption, has decided to extend the winter session of Parliament has for three days till December 29 to pass four crucial anti-graft bills - the Lokpal Bill, the Citizens' Charter Bill, the Judicial Accountability Bill and the Whistleblowers' Bill. The Citizens' Charter Bill was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, even as Team Anna wanted the Citizens'...
03:29 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire for being soft on corruption the cabinet on Tuesday cleared three key anti-graft Bills ahead of the all-party meet on Lokpal on Wednesday. The Judicial Accountability Bill, Citizen's Charter Bill and Whistleblower Bill were cleared by the cabinet. But the Civil Society is cautious about commenting on it yet. While Team Anna has been demanding that the Judiciary, a Citizen's Charter and a Grievance Redressal mechanism...
06:14 AM, Dec 14, 2011
The Cabinet cleared Citizen's Charter, Judicial Accountability and Whistleblower's Bills in a key meet on Tuesday. ...
11:17 PM, Dec 13, 2011
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