Popular Articles About Corruption
NEWS
January 16, 2013 |
NEW
YORK: 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. You saw
many many scandals of corruption and allegations on the Prime Minister
within India also very recently and...
NEWS
January 17, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar told a public
audience in the United States that India's Prime Minister has also faced
allegations of corruption. She was responding to a question about
pervasive corruption in her country in the context of a Tuesday ruling
by the Pakistan Supreme Court to arrest prime minister Raja Pervez
Ashraf on bribery charges. "The problem of corruption plagues
many countries within South...
NEWS
November 6, 2012
Kiran
Karnik, Independent Strategy & Policy Analyst It is better to
try and plug the leak in a sinking boat rather than to keep bailing
water, especially if the hole is getting bigger. It is wiser to root out
the cause, instead of tackling the symptoms. Yet, much of the
movement against corruption has focused only on the symptoms, the
manifestation, and not on how to eradicate the cause itself. Thus, there
are daily exposes and a cry to act against...
NEWS
January 20, 2013 |
JAIPUR:
Newly-appointed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi gave an
emotionally-charged speech Sunday at the Birla auditorium here while
addressing the All India Congress Committee session on the last day
of the 'Chintan Shivir'. Some of the highlights: - The Food Bill
will ensure that no mother sees her child go hungry at night. Right to
Information allows every Indian to take on the battle against
corruption. - There are people in high positions with no
understanding of issues -...
NEWS
January 17, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar told a public
audience in the United States that India's Prime Minister has also faced
allegations of corruption. She was responding to a question about
pervasive corruption in her country in the context of a Tuesday ruling
by the Pakistan Supreme Court to arrest prime minister Raja Pervez
Ashraf on bribery charges. "The problem of corruption plagues
many countries within South...
NEWS
January 9, 2011 |
Thanks
to its functional institutions of democracy, India will become a
very desirable kind of superpower, free of corruption; entrepreneurial
and resource and energy efficient, says Anil K Gupta Within
two decades or less, a rapidly rising India will very likely become the
world's third largest economy - after China and the US . It
would be appropriate to start speculating now on what kind of a
superpower ...
NEWS
January 29, 2011 |
As
the Congress readies for its annual meeting next month, public interest
is running high. An online survey by www.people.com, an influential
news portal, showed that corruption is the issue netizens want the
Congress gathering to address most. Other issues netizens want the
session to tackle are the widening gap between rich and poor, the
skyrocketing cost of housing, the health system, pensions and education.
In another online poll, 70% of respondents urged officials to...
NEWS
October 20, 2006 |
At
its recent annual meeting, World Bank officials spoke extensively about
corruption. It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends
to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances
some contractors' luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted,
not more prosperous. James Wolfensohn, the Bank's previous
president, and I are widely credited with putting corruption on the
Bank's agenda, against opponents who regarded...
NEWS
December 10, 2008
Apropos
of 'Tackle corruption to fight terror' (ET, Dec 9), the author has
narrated the facts on corruption nicely. His examples of corruption in
passport offices, regional transport offices, property registration
offices and customs are quite appropriate. The author's belief that
corruption is at the root of terrorism is also quite correct.
But like many other experts who have studied corruption in detail, the
author has not offered any solutions to root out corruption in the
society.
NEWS
September 7, 2003 |
Everyone
who participates in the state's political system is inevitably
corrupted by it, or so it would seem. How else could a judge say with
impunity that wine and women couldn't be seen as cor-ruptive influence
since they didn't involve monetary benefit. Or a chief minister turn a
blind eye to rioters outside his palace gates. Like Ayn Rand in Atlas
Shrugged, he might just say --"we are on strike against martyrdom -- and
against the moral code the demands it. We are on strike against those
who believe that one man must...
NEWS
January 17, 2013 |
BELGAUM
(KARNA): Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare today said he would
continue his fight against corruption and goondaism till his last
breath. "I have been fighting corruption and goondaism throughout
without bothering about my life and will continue to do so till my last
breath," he told reporters here en route to Bijapur . He
recalled the influence of Swami Vivekananda's teachings on him,saying he
had once tried to end his life in desperation but...
NEWS
January 16, 2013 |
NEW
YORK: 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. You saw
many many scandals of corruption and allegations on the Prime Minister
within India also very recently and...
NEWS
January 15, 2013 |
Walmart
is investigating its Indian joint venture for possible violations of
the US anti-corruption law it is governed by. ET narrates the
inside story of how things came to pass in India for the world's largest
retailer When Walmart dispatched Greta Jacobs to India in April
2011, the staff at the Bharti Walmart office in Gurgaon assumed her to
be one of the usual legion of visitors from the retailer's global
operations. However, the assignment Jacobs undertook over...
NEWS
January 15, 2013 |
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on Tuesday plunged into a fresh political crisis with the
Supreme Court ordering the arrest of Prime Minister Raja
Pervez Ashraf for allegedly receiving bribes in power projects.
Already rocked by fiery cleric Tahirul Qadri's ongoing protest seeking
dissolution of provincial and national assemblies, Pakistan appeared
headed for uncertainty with the court setting a 24-hour deadline for
authorities to...
NEWS
January 14, 2013 |
ISLAMABAD:
Thousands of Pakistanis converged on the capital Islamabad on Monday to
back a Sufi cleric's call for an indefinite delay to elections and a
crackdown on government corruption. The cleric, Muhammad Tahirul
Qadri , has shot to fame since he returned home from Canada weeks ago
and demanded an interim government to root out corrupt and incompetent
officials blamed for chronic energy shortages, stunted economic growth,
flourishing...
NEWS
December 26, 2008
Corruption
and inefficiency amongst public servants, especially among security
personnel, are the root causes for terrorism in India. While
India is trying its best with Pakistan and Bangladesh to curb terrorism
diplomatically, it will be difficult to contain terrorism unless
bureaucratic corruption and inefficiency are strongly dealt with.
C R Bhattacharjee Kolkata, December 25
NEWS
January 11, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: There was "no plan" to amend Right to Information (RTI) Act,
Union Minister V Narayanasamy on Friday said, asserting that the Centre
was taking various measures to ensure transparent governance.
Addressing a conference here, Narayanasamy also said there was a need to
protect whistle blowers exposing corruption in governance. "There
was a need to protect the persons making a public interest disclosure
related to an act of corruption. With this objective in mind, the
Whistle...
NEWS
January 10, 2013 |
NEW
DELHI: A Supreme Court-appointed panel has recommended that the
above-poverty-line (APL) families should not be given subsidised food
grains and the government agencies should undertake their distribution
directly instead of doing so through Fair Price Shops run by private
persons to check corruption in PDS. Justice D P Wadhwa Committee
said there is undoubtedly nexus between the Fair Price Shop (FPS)
owners, transporters, bureaucrats and politicians which...
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