Corruption in India


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Total Scam Money (approx) Since 1992: Rs. 73000000000000 Cr.(73 Lakh Crore)

Scams:

India’s biggest scams 1, Ramalinga Raju, Rs. 50.4 billion
India’s biggest scams 2, Harshad Mehta, Rs. 40 billion
India’s biggest scams 3, Ketan Parekh, Rs. 10 billion
India’s biggest scams 4, C R Bhansali, Rs. 12 billion
India’s biggest scams 5, Cobbler scam
India’s biggest scams 6, IPO Scam
India’s biggest scams 7, Dinesh Dalmia, Rs. 5.95 billion
India’s biggest scams 8, Abdul Karim Telgi, Rs. 1.71 billion
India’s biggest scams 9, Virendra Rastogi, Rs. 430 million
India’s biggest scams 10, The UTI Scam, Rs. 320 million
India’s biggest scams 11, Uday Goyal, Rs. 2.1 billion
India’s biggest scams 12, Sanjay Agarwal, Rs. 6 billion
India’s biggest scams 13, Dinesh Singhania, Rs. 1.2 billion

1992 -Harshad Mehta securities scam Rs 5,000 cr

1994 -Sugar import scam Rs 650 cr

1995 -Preferential allotment scam Rs 5,000 cr
Yugoslav Dinar scam Rs 400 cr
Meghalaya Forest scam Rs 300 cr

1996: -Fertiliser import scam Rs 1,300 cr
Urea scam Rs 133 cr
Bihar fodder scam Rs 950 cr

1997 -Sukh Ram telecom scam Rs 1,500 cr
SNC Lavalin power project scam Rs 374 cr
Bihar land scandal Rs 400 cr
C.R. Bhansali stock scam Rs 1,200 cr

1998 -Teak plantation swindle Rs 8,000 cr

2001 -UTI scam Rs 4,800 cr
Dinesh Dalmia stock scam Rs 595 cr
Ketan Parekh securities scam Rs 1,250 cr

2002 -Sanjay Agarwal Home Trade scam Rs 600 cr

2003 -Telgi stamp paper scam Rs 172 cr

2005 -IPO-Demat scam Rs 146 cr
Bihar flood relief scam Rs 17 cr
Scorpene submarine scam Rs 18,978 cr

2006 -Punjab’s City Centre project scam Rs 1,500 cr,
Taj Corridor scam Rs 175 cr

2008 -Pune billionaire Hassan Ali Khan tax default Rs 50,000 cr
The Satyam scam Rs 10,000 cr
Army ration pilferage scam Rs 5,000 cr
The 2-G spectrum swindle Rs 60,000 cr
State Bank of Saurashtra scam Rs 95 cr
Illegal monies in Swiss banks, as estimated in 2008 Rs 71,00,000 cr

2009: -The Jharkhand medical equipment scam Rs 130 cr
Rice export scam Rs 2,500 cr
Orissa mine scam Rs 7,000 cr
Madhu Koda mining scam Rs 4,000 cr”
SC refuses to quash PIL against Mayawati in Taj corridor scam
Orissa mine scam could be worth more than Rs 14k cr
CORRUPTION, MONEY LAUNDERING SCAM, Koda discharged from hospital, arrest imminent


Scams year wise:

1, Jeep Purchase (1948) :- Free India’s corruption graph begins. V. K. Krishna Menon, then the Indian high commissioner to Britain, bypassed protocol to sign a deal worth Rs 80 lakh with a foreign firm for the purchase of army jeeps. The case was closed in 1955 and soon after Menon joined the Nehru cabinet.

2, Cycle Imports (1951) :- S.A. Venkataraman, then the secretary, ministry of commerce and industry, was jailed for accepting a bribe in lieu of granting a cycle import quota to a company.

3, BHU Funds (1956) :- In one of the first instances of corruption in educational institutions, Benaras Hindu University officials were accused of misappropriation of funds worth Rs 50 lakh.

4, MUNDHRA SCANDAL (1957):- It was the media that first hinted there might be a scam involving the sale of shares to LIC, Feroz Gandhi sources the confidential correspondence between the then Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari and his principal finance secretary, and raised a question in Parliament on the sale of ‘fraudulent’ shares to LIC by a Calcutta-based Marwari businessman named Haridas Mundhra. The then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, set up a one-man commission headed by Justice M.C.Chagla to investigate the matter when it becomes evident that there was a prima facie case. Chagla concluded that Mundhra had sold fictitious shares to LIC, thereby defrauding the insurance behemoth to the tune of Rs. 1.25 crore. Mundhra was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The scam also forced the resignation of T.T.Krishnamachari.

6, Teja Loans (1960):- Shipping magnate Jayant Dharma Teja took loans worth Rs 22 crore to establish the Jayanti Shipping Company. In 1960, the authorities discovered that he was actually siphoning off money to his own account, after which Teja fled the country.

7, Kairon Scam (1963):- Pratap Singh Kairon became the first Indian chief minister to be accused of abusing his power for his own benefit and that of his sons and relatives. He quit a year later.

8, Patnaik’s Own Goal (1965) :- Orissa Chief Minister Biju Patnaik was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had favoured his privately-held company Kalinga Tubes in awarding a government contract.

9, Maruti Scandal (1974) :- Well before the company was set up, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s name came up in the first Maruti scandal, where her son Sanjay Gandhi was favoured with a license to make passenger cars.

10, Solanki Exposé (1992) :- At the World Economic Forum, Madhavsinh Solanki, then the external affairs minister, slipped a letter to his Swiss counterpart asking their government to stop the probe into the Bofors kickbacks. Solanki resigned when India Today broke the story.

11, Kuo Oil Deal (1976):- The Indian Oil Corporation signed an Rs 2.2-crore oil contract with a non-existent firm in Hong Kong and a kickback was given. The petroleum and chemicals minister was directed to make the purchase.

12, Antulay Trust (1981) :- With the exposure of this scandal concerning A.R. Antulay, then the chief minister of Maharashtra, The Indian Express was reborn. Antulay had garnered Rs 30 crore from businesses dependent on state resources like cement and kept the money in a private trust.

13, HDW Commissions (1987) :- HDW, the German submarine maker, was blacklisted after allegations that commissions worth Rs 20 crore had been paid. In 2005, the case was finally closed, in HDW’s favour.

14, Bofors Pay-Off (1987) :- A Swedish firm was accused of paying Rs 64 crore to Indian bigwigs, including Rajiv Gandhi, then the prime minister, to secure the purchase of the Bofors gun.

15, St Kitts Forgery (1989) :- An attempt was made to sully V.P. Singh’s Mr Clean image by forging documents to allege that he was a beneficiary of his son Ajeya Singh’s account in the First Trust Corp. at St Kitts, with a deposit of $21 million.

16, Airbus Scandal (1990) :- Indian Airlines’s (IA) signing of the Rs 2,000-crore deal with Airbus instead of Boeing caused a furore following the crash of an A-320. New planes were grounded, causing IA a weekly loss of Rs 2.5 crore.

17, Securities Scam (1992) :- Harshad Mehta manipulated banks to siphon off money and invested the funds in the stock market, leading to a crash. The loss: Rs 5,000 crore.

18, Indian Bank Rip-off (1992) :- Aided by M. Gopalakrishnan, then the chairman of the Indian Bank, borrowers-mostly small corporates and exporters from the south-were lent a total of over Rs 1,300 crore, which they never paid back.

19, Sugar Import (1994) :- As food minister, Kalpnath Rai presided over the import of sugar at a price higher than that of the market, causing a loss of Rs 650 crore to the exchequer. He resigned following the allegations.

20, MS SHOES SCAM (1994) :- Anyone who war old enough in 1994 to read will remember the advertisements- tens of them intriguingly headlined: ‘Who is Pawan Sachdeva?’ For the record, it was the peak of the public issued-led advertising boom and the ads were created by the Delhi branch of Rediffusion. Sachdeva, the promoter of MS Shoes, allegedly used company funds to buy shares (of his own company) and rig prices, prior to a public issue. He is alleged to have colluded with officials in the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and SBI Caps, which lead-managed the issue, to dupe the public into investing in his Rs. 699-crore public-***-rights issue. Sachdeva was later acquitted

21, JMM Bribes (1995) :- Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Shailendra Mahato testified that he and three party members received bribes of Rs 30 lakh to bail out the P.V. Narasimha Rao government in the 1993 no-confidence motion.

22, In a Pickle (1996) :- Pickle baron Lakhubhai Pathak raised a stink when he accused former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and godman Chandraswami of accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from him for securing a paper pulp contract.

23, Telecom Scam (1996) :- Former minister of state for communication Sukh Ram was accused of causing a loss of Rs 1.6 crore to the exchequer by favouring a Hyderabad- based private firm in the purchase of telecom equipment. He, along with two others, was convicted in 2002.

24, Fodder Scam (1996) :- The accountant general’s concerns about the withdrawal of excess funds by Bihar’s animal husbandry department unveiled a Rs 950-crore scam involving Lalu Prasad Yadav, then the state chief minister. He resigned a year later.

25, Urea Deal (1996) :- C.S. Ramakrishnan, MD, National Fertiliser, and a group of businessmen close to the P.V. Narasimha Rao regime fleeced the government and took Rs 133 crore from the import of two lakh tonne of urea, which was never delivered.

26, Hawala Diaries (1996) :- The scandal surfaced following CBI raids on hawala operators in Delhi in 1991. But it was S.K. Jain’s diaries that had heads rolling.

27, CRB SCAM (1997) :- Another scam forged by greed and discovered through accident. Chain Roop Bhansali, a smart-talking entrepreneur, created a pyramid financial empire based on high-cost financing. At its peak, his Rs. 1,000-crore financial conglomerate had in its ranks a mutual fund, a financial services company into fixed deposits, and a merchant bank. That Bhansali knew how to work the system became evident when he also managed to secure a provisional banking license. Then his luck ran out. An executive in the State Bank of India Inadvertently discovered that some interest warrants issued by Bhansali were not backed by cash. The bubble finally burst in May 1997, but by that time investors had lost over Rs. 1,000 crore. This was among the first retail scams in India and it was played out, in smaller avatars, across the country-especially in the South where financial services companies promised returns in excess of 20 per cent and decamped with the principal. Bhansali was arrested for a few weeks and released later on bail.

28, MEHTA’S SECOND COMING (1998) :- The Big Bull returned to the bourses. This time, he allegedly colluded with the promoters of BPL, Videocon International, and Sterile Industries to rig the share prices of these companies. The inevitable collapse happened sooner than planned, Harshad Mehta orchestrated a cover-up operation that included a high=jinks effort by officials of Bombay Stock Exchange to (illegally ) open the trading system in the middle of the night to set things right, but the damage had been done. SEBI finally passed its ruling on the scam in 2001, banning the three companies concerned from tapping the market-BPL, for two years. Mehta was debarred for life form dealing in Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) in October 2001

29, VANISHING COMPANIES SCAM (1998) :- A passing remark heard by then Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram resulted in a furore over what was badly-kept secret on Dalal street. Chidambaram was told that hundreds of companies had disappeared after raising moneys form the public. An informal scrutiny revealed that perhaps over 600 companies were missing. Chidambaram ordered a probe by SEBI. The SEBI probe conducted in May 1998 revealed that while many companies are not traded on the bourses at least 80 companies that had rises Rs.330.78 crore were simply missing. Later that year, the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) was asked to probe and penalize these companies. DCA still investigating. Investigations continue to this day.

30, PLANTATION COMPANIES SCAM (1999) :- It was as innovative a swindle as any effected in the world. Savvy entrepreneurs convinced gullible investors that given the right irrigation and fertilizer inputs, teak, strawberries, and anything else that could be grown, would grow anywhere in the country. The promoters could afford to collect money from investors and not worry about retribution (or returns, for that matter). For, plantation companies fell under the purview of neither SEBI nor Reserve Bank of India. Indeed, they didn’t even come under the scope of the Department decided to change things in 1999, enough investors had been gulled: 653 companies, between them, had raised Rs. 2,563 crore from investors. To date, not many investors have got their principals back, just another affirmation of the old saying about money not growing on trees.

31, Match Fixing (2000) :- Mohammed Azharuddin, till then India’s cricket captain, was accused of match-fixing. He and Ajay Sharma were banned from playing, while Ajay Jadeja and Manoj Prabhakar were suspended for five years.

32, KETAN PAREKH SCAM (2001) :- Ketan Parekh’s modus operandi wasn’t very different from Harshad Mehta’s. If Mehta used banker’s receipts, then Parekh used pay orders to ramp up the prices of his favourite scrips (the K-10). Apart from money form the banking system Parekh also rerouted money from corporated like HFCL (Rs. 425 crore), and Zee (Rs. 340 crore) to good effect. He was caught when pay-orders issued by Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank bounced. Although the total amount involved in the scam was just Rs. 137 crore, the impact was far greater.

Apparently, when a bear cartel sensed Parekh was in trouble, it stepped in and leveraged a dip in the NASDAQ to bear down stock prices. The resultant slump in the markets happened soon after Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presented what he considered his best budget ever. Under pressure from the government, SEBI investigated the scam and heads began to roll. Among them: the entire management team of BSE, including its president Anand Rathi, CSFB, First Global, and, in an indirect connection, P.S.Subramanyam, the Chairman of UTL Evidently, for the 18 months that PSS was Chairman of UTI, the Trust had mirrored the actions of the bull cartel. The result? When the market tanked, so did the NAV of its holy cow, the US-64.

33, Tehelka Sting (2001) :- Tehelka, an online news portal, used spycams to catch army officers and politicians accepting bribes, in their sting operation called Operation Westend. Investigative journalism turned another corner in the country.

34, Stockmarket Scam (2001) :- The mayhem that wiped off over Rs 1,15,000 crore in the markets in March 2001 was masterminded by the Pentafour bull Ketan Parekh. He was arrested in December 2002 and banned from acccessing the capital market for 14 years.

35, Home Trade Scam (2002) :- Under the pretext of gilt trading, Rs 600 crore was swindled from over 25 cooperative banks in Maharashtra and Gujarat by a Navi Mumbai-based brokerage firm Home Trade. Sanjay Agarwal, CEO of the firm, was arrested in May 2002.

36, Stamp Paper Scam (2003) :- The sheer magnitude of the racket was shocking-it caused a loss of Rs 30,000 crore to the exchequer. Disclosures of the mastermind behind it, Abdul Karim Telgi, implicated top police officers and bureaucrats.

37, Oil-for-Food Scandal (2005) :- K. Natwar Singh was unceremoniously dropped from the Cabinet when his name surfaced in the Volcker Report on the Iraq oil-for-food scam.


Corruption in India (TI 2010 report)

1. India this year is ranked at 87 among 178 countries, down three spots from 84 in 2009.

2. Marginal decline in India’s integrity score to 3.3 in 2010 from 3.5 in 2007 and 3.4 in 2008 and 2009 on a scale from zero (perceived to be the highly corrupt) to 10 (low levels of corruption).

3. Somalia is considered the world’s most corrupt country with a score of 1.1 followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan, while Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are perceived to be the least corrupt with scores of 9.3.

4. China is at the 78th position, indicating it is less corrupt than India. While Pakistan is shown as just a notch worse off than India, the US ranks fairly high at 22nd and is perceived to have relatively low levels of corruption. In Asia, Bhutan is perceived to be the least corrupt country.

5. India’s ranking has consistently dipped since 2006 when it was ranked 70 among 163 countries.

Report: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/res…


Corruption in India (TI’s Global Corruption Barometer survey-2010

1. About 54% Indians paid a bribe in the past year. Extent of corruption in India is at levels comparable with Cambodia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Senegal, Uganda and Liberia.

2. India is the ninth most corrupt country in the world, in a ranking of 86 countries, with 54% of people reporting having paid a bribe. War-torn Iraq (56%) and Afghanistan (61%) suffer worse levels than India, as do nations such as Liberia (89%), Uganda (86%), Nigeria (63%), Sierra Leone (71%), Senegal (56%) and Cambodia (84%).

3. The world average is 25%, while the Asia Pacific average is 11%. The European Union enjoys an average of 5%, as does North America (Canada is marginally less corrupt than the United States), while Latin America and North Africa reported an average of 36%. Sub Saharan Africa has an average of 56%, compared with India’s 54%.

4. Indians perceived political parties to be the most corrupt, ranking them 4.2 on a scale of one to five. Political parties are followed by Police (4.1), Parliament/legislature (4) and civil servants (3.5). Private sector, NGOs and judiciary are all seen to be similarly corrupt (3.1), with the media enjoying a marginally better rating at 3. Military (2.8) and religious bodies (2.9) enjoy better public confidence.

5. Seventy-four percent Indians believed that levels of corruption has increased during the last three years, compared with a world average of 56% and Asia-Pacific average of 47%.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7073774.cms

Report: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/gcb/2010


Corruption is hogging the headlines in Media for past few months. Right from judges to journalists have been accused of improprieties. Common man and tax payers are at the receiving end of scams.

On International Anti-corruption Day (9th December), TCN is launching “Stop Corruption” initiative.

We are striving to keep readers informed about the corruption and ways to stop it.

Central Vigilance Commission helpline:

Toll Free No: 1800-11-0180/// 011-24651000


CVC has also launched VIGEYE project.

The important features of Project Vigeye are:

Citizens have multiple channels to air their grievances and complaints to CVC

a) Through their mobile phones: by downloading the mobile application from the CVC website. The complaints can be better articulated with additional data like audio/ video/ photo evidence from their mobiles directly.

b) Through the internet: by filling up the complaint form online they can attach audio/video/photo evidence.

c) Through telephone: help line have been setup

The entire complaint processing is done online, in digital form, enabling fast and accurate processing of complaints.

The concerned CVO will interact with the complainant directly over phone/email or in person, as the case may be, to take it forward.

Status of the complaint is communicated back to the complainant – the communication loop becomes complete

Project Vigeye (Vigilance Eye) is a citizen-centric initiative, wherein citizens join hands with the Central Vigilance Commission in fighting corruption in India.Project Vigeye is the platform through which vigilance information flows freely through common public, the government agencies and the vigilance commission, making it possible to achieve a step jump in improving the corruption index of the nation.

You can send an empty SMS or “VIGEYE” to 09223174440 to get an SMS containing the registration link in your mobile.

Link: http://182.18.181.234/vigeye/


Raise Complaint online

List of Central Vigilance Officers

http://blowyourwhistle.in/


Corruption News

Adarsh Society Scam

India will ratify UN convention against corruption: Patil

BJP, CPI-M flay PM on corruption, price rise

Government dead serious about tackling corruption: PM

Adarsh demolition order challenged in court

Prosecute Deshmukh, Shinde for Adarsh scam, demands BJP

Medha Patkar protests against Adarsh Society

CBI grills three main accused in Adarsh Society scam

Ashok Chavan made undue recommendations in Adarsh, says FIR

Ashok Chavan named as accused in Adarsh scam

CBI raids offices, residences of Adarsh promoters

No guilty will be spared in land scams, says Pallam Raju

Adarsh Society: High rise of mystery and suspicion

Adarsh demolition order made in hurry: Lawyer

Demolish Adarsh building in three months: Environment ministry

Adarsh scam: Maharashtra wants information commissioner to go

Adarsh scam: Maharashtra rights panel member resigns

India: HC seeks report on actual occupancy in Adarsh Society

Congress chief ministers should set example against corruption: Sonia

Sonia attacks corruption, seeks fast-tracking of graft cases

Indian Army awaiting CBI inputs on Adarsh probe

‘Strong action’ against Adarsh wrongdoers: Antony

After Adarsh, satellite mapping of prime properties in Mumbai

Environment ministry issues show cause notice to Adarsh society

‘Many Adarsh-like encroachments in Mumbai’

Scam-hit Adarsh Society denies encroaching defence land

Adarsh plot belongs to state government: Prithviraj Chavan

Congress keeps distance from Adarsh controversy over Chavan

BJP accuses Congress of cover-up in Adarsh scandal

CBI registers enquiry in Adarsh housing scam

Adarsh Society: CBI probing flat owners’ fund source

2G scam

Graft, 2G scam dominate debate in Rajya Sabha

This is victory of democracy: BJP on JPC

Manmohan Singh agrees to JPC on 2G spectrum scam

Manmohan Singh weak-kneed: Jayalalithaa

Internalisation of corruption and scams

Parliament session begins Monday; JPC announcement likely Wednesday

Balwa sent to Tihar Jail till March 3

Raja stands in queue, attends roll call in Tihar Jail

Decision on JPC before Wednesday, says Bansal

Raja goes to Tihar Jail, to get homecooked food

Was told telcos sold stake to finance roll-out: PM

PM expressed helplessness in dealing with corruption: BJP

2G loss calculation depends on methodology: PM

Hope to break parliament deadlock: Manmohan

2G spectrum issue didn’t come to cabinet: PM

Wrong to say no loss in 2G spectrum scam: CBI chief tells PAC

PM has to break silence on 2G, S-band, inflation: BJP

Moily blames Shourie, Mahajan for 2G mess

Top Congress leaders discuss budget session amid JPC indications

Raja, Balwa’s CBI custody extended

2G scam: Shourie to appear before CBI Feb 21

JPC more essential after Raja’s arrest: BJP, Left

Shourie claim of talking to PM on 2G scam baseless: Congress

Raja, Balwa sent to CBI custody till Feb 14

Raja did what Sonia and Karunanidhi ordered: Subramanian Swamy

Balwa innocent, claims DB Realty

Balwa taken to Delhi, company says ‘wrongly implicated’

Government agreeable to JPC to end parliament logjam?

Court extends A. Raja’s CBI custody

2G scam: Telecom company official’s plea disallowed

BJP seeks probe, response from PM in new spectrum controversy

Karunanidhi sends legal notice to Subramanian Swamy

Spectrum policy deviations began under NDA in 2003: Sibal

Raja in jail for making mobile phone accessible: Karunanidhi

More people involved in 2G scam, says Raja’s lawyer

Raja, aides in five-day CBI custody

Raja’s arrest to fool people: Jayalalithaa

DMK backs Raja, says arrest doesn’t make him guilty

Raja, aides to be produced in court Thursday

If Sibal was right, then why Raja’s arrest, asks Yechury

What is the 2G scam all about

Raja’s arrest won’t affect ties with DMK: Congress

Our demand for JPC on 2G scam still stands: BJP

CBI arrests Raja, two aides

CBI quizzes Raja in 2G spectrum case

Radia tapes’ leak: Government trying to track source

‘Centre’s action on 2G issue subject to outcome of petition’

Panel on 2G spectrum submits report, names errant officials

Pranab calls all-party meet Feb 8

Apex court, BJP question CVC’s appointment, Moily meets PM

Expecting positive steps from government on JPC: Nitin Gadkari

Will demand JPC but also want parliament to function: Karat

Ahluwalia defends Swan, Unitech on stake sale after spectrum allocation

Re-auction 2G spectrum, restrain Sibal: Subramanian Swamy

Supreme Court issues notice to government on 2G scam

UPA has given a scandal a day: BJP

Sibal says $40 bn spectrum loss estimate ‘utterly erroneous’

PM offered to appear before PAC on his own: Pranab

JPC logjam: Meira Kumar hosts lunch for non-BJP parties

No compromise on joint parliamentary probe: BJP

Raja returns to Chennai, says he cooperated with CBI

PM offers to appear before PAC, BJP’s Joshi says will decide

Speaker may call all-party meeting to break JPC impasse

We demand JPC probe despite PM’s offer, says BJP

PM writes to Joshi, says ready to appear before PAC

CAG chief appears before parliamentary panel

CAG to discuss 2G report before parliamentary panel

2G spectrum scam of Himalayan proportions: Jayalalithaa

DMK begins spectrum outreach meetings in Tamil Nadu

Meira Kumar concerned over corruption at higher levels

JPC or PAC – the argument continues

CBI action against Kalmadi, Raja very late: BJP

Raja at CBI office for questioning

PAC invites opinions on 2G spectrum allocation

Don’t want debate, we want JPC, says BJP

Looking forward to allocate more spectrum, says Sibal

Remove corrupt UPA government: Gadkari

PM keeps awaiting word from 10 Janpath: Advani

Face JPC or quit, BJP tells prime minister

DMK to counter negative media on spectrum scam

NDA demands PM’s resignation over 2G scam

Sibal meets Ambani, Tata, Mittal on spectrum, telecom issues

CBI team at Radia’s residence for questioning

Arrest Raja, says Jayalalithaa

I will meet CBI, says Raja

Opposition unimpressed by PM’s offer, sticks to JPC demand

CBI summons Raja

I will be happy to appear before Public Accounts Committee: PM

No person guilty of corruption will be spared: PM

Raja’s predecessors too are not saints: Jayalalithaa

Tamil NGO denies links with spectrum scam

Opposition demand for JPC cheap and political: Congress

Evidence of wrongdoings in 2G spectrum grant: apex court

CBI raids may not create immediate rift between Congress, DMK

Swamy moves court to make Raja prime accused in 2G scam

CBI raids Radia, Raja’s relatives over spectrum row

NDA to launch nationwide protests against corruption

Advani hits out at PM over spectrum row

Parliament adjourned sine die

Divided on JPC, MPs unite against terror

NDA stages sit-in outside parliament over JPC

Sonia slams BJP for parliament logjam, corruption

Something rotten between Raja and Judiciary

India: Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK meet on December 30

MPs frustrated over parliament logjam, but toe party line

Parliament adjourned again, BJP vows protests

Business war hits spectrum row, parliament still crippled

2G probe from 2001 welcome, but want JPC: BJP

Raja resigns over spectrum row, DMK relents

Raja’s ouster fails to break parliament logjam

Demanding parliamentary probe, BJP says Raja has to go

Top law official suspended, Raja denies wrongdoing

CBI raids Raja, family and aides

DMK will act against Raja if found guilty: Karunanidhi

DMK stands firm on Raja

Raja raids mere eyewash, says opposition

Demanding parliamentary probe, BJP says Raja has to go

CWG scam

Bhanot, Verma arrested in CWG scam

Wrongdoers behind CWG scam will not escape: PM

Jayachandran gets bail in CWG scam case

CWG scam: Hearing on Jayachandran’s bail plea Wednesday

Kalmadi aide Darbari gets bail in CWG scam case

CBI questions Kalmadi on CWG

CBI questions Kalmadi’s close aide Shekhar

I am innocent, says Kalmadi

Kalmadi’s Mumbai residence also raided

CBI raids Kalmadi’s Delhi, Pune residences, Games office

CWG organisers have no sense of national pride

CWG scams: Eminent citizens lodge FIR against Kalmadi, 2 ministers

Why is Trinamool silent on 2G, CWG, asks CPI

PM responsible for CWG fiasco: Former Delhi mayor

Gadkari’s questions to PM on CWG

CBI arrests two CWG OC officials

Government trying to cover criminal culpability: BJP

Others

PF scam: court adjourns hearing till March 14

Wrong to say India is scam-driven country: PM

PM has thrown up his hands on corruption, price rise: CPI-M

Scams biggest regret, says PM

Orissa assembly adjourned over pulses scam

PM to respond to scam charges in press conference

BJP planning JP-like agitation against corruption, inflation

Ministers favour fast-tracking cases of corrupt officials

Rights group accuses Kamat, Congress MLA of land scam

Jayalalithaa asks PM to break silence on scams

BJP demands Patnaik’s prosecution on pulses scam

Karunanidhi trashes Swamy’s allegations in land allotment

Pune land scam probe may be given to CBI, says court

Corruption dents India’s global image: PM

Gogoi admits corruption under his rule

Opposition, ruling MLAs allege major mining scam in Goa

Draft Lokpal bill disappoints, parties cagey

Corporate mafia fuelling corruption: Prashant Bhushan

Thousands march against corruption in Delhi

Bangaloreans rally against corruption

TDP marches against corruption

Hundreds join anti-corruption march in Agra

Thousands march against corruption in Pune, Aurangabad

Lyngdoh, hundreds march against corruption in Hyderabad

INLD seeks judicial probe into Haryana land scam

Yeddyurappa’s corruption, nepotism on record: Moily

Army court finds Lt. Gen. Rath guilty in Sukna land scam

Army to get vigilance wing to curb scams: Gen. Singh

PF scam: Judges plead illness against appearing in court

Congress holds rallies to counter opposition’s corruption tirade

Goa minister booked for land scam

CVC Thomas to face trial in palm oil corruption case

Goa court directs FIR against minister in land scam case

Land scam, illegal mining rock Karnataka assembly

CBI plea on Bofors case upheld

Hero Group official held in Rs.300 crore Citibank fraud

Assocham proposes national poll fund for parties

Shivraj Singh Chouhan gets clean-chit in dumper scam

Rosaiah booked in land deal

Achuthanandan, Chandy spar over lottery scam

Ulema open front against corruption

Will strengthen rural bodies first, industrialisation later: Jharkhand CM

Corrupt ministers’ list given to Yeddyurappa: Governor

Advani urges parties, people to confront corruption

Sonia slams ‘disease’ of corruption, outlines 4-point agenda

Don’t ignore corruption charges, governor tells Yeddyurappa

Assertive not downcast, Congress to get combative at plenary

Jharkhand parties demand Nitish formula to fight corruption

Corruption on rise worldwide: Transparency survey

After reports of corruption, Maharashtra Wakf Board CEO transferred

Boycott Swiss products to get Indian money back: citizens call

Arrest Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi: Former Tehelka Editor

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Aiyar takes another dig at Games

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Ramdev flays government for turning blind eye to corruption

‘Corruption as much a problem in Indonesia as in India’

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Sonia proclaims ‘zero tolerance’ to corruption

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