He lived with humiliation for a quarter of a century, lost his wife and saw his career going down the hill. But M.U. Kini, a bank executive accused of corruption charges in 1986, was finally cleared of all alleged crimes after fighting an agonizing legal battle for 24 years.
78-year-old Kini served as executive director of the Union Bank of India (UBI) during 1986-1989. Despite the major legal victory, Kini betrays no emotion but is bitter about how his future prospects in the banking industry were sabotaged by a handful of …

The issue of alleged large-scale corruption in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) projects on Friday rocked Lok Sabha with the entire Opposition uniting to attack the government and accusing it of allowing “loot” of public money.
Members of the BJP, JD(U), Left parties and Samajwadi Party targetted the government on the issue, with the Left demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe charges of corruption in the games projects.
Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy was not allowed to respond to the charges by an angry Opposition, which wanted the reply only …

DEFENCE: The Bofors case has been one of the highest-profile and longest-running criminal investigations in India. In the 1980’s, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several other officials were accused of receiving kickbacks from Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors for winning a bid to supply India with 400 howitzers. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before, and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections.
HEALTH: In January 2008, the World Bank …

There’s unrest, revulsion, confusion in the Indian youth, and the masses in general. They’re quite sure of what ails us, and how the common man gets taken for a ride, almost every minute, by a system so insanely inefficient and corrupt, but at the same time, they are quite helpless, not knowing how to attack it. Where to start.
Our society is quickly degenerating into chaos. There are police officials who molest the unsuspecting victims visiting their offices. There are religious gurus who molest their devotees. There are judges who influence …

The good news, says Alexandra Wrage, a specialist in combating corruption, is that the pattern of Indian graft is pyramid-shaped: It chiefly comprises of vast numbers of small payments changing hands at the lowest levels but there is (some) aversion to bribe-taking among government officials higher up the chain. Some, though by no means all, officials “grow out of” corruption as they climb the bureaucracy.
Ms. Wrage, the founder and president of Trace International, a U.S. nonprofit that provides compliance advice and training for companies, was in New Delhi last week …

Bull Shit
main sirf bhaashan nahi doonga, raashan bhi doonga
peene ka saaf paani bhi doonga
sarrkon ka jaal bicha doonga
koi ghareeb nahi hoga
koi foot path pe nahi soega
hindustaan ki chaand par ponhcha doonga
uhuh uhuh…
what happened?
i’m alergic to bull shit
bull shit… bull shit… bull shit…
i’m alergic to bull shit (x3)
[repeat]
mantri jee ka bhaashan (bull shit)
de ga sab ko yeh raashan (bull shit)
piyenge ham saaf paani (bull shit)
bull shit (x4)
[repeat]
apne haath mein dam hai re
apni laat mein dam hai re
ham kya kisi se kam hain
kisi se kam hain, kisi se kam hain re?
tu sun …

In Bhopal, more than 25 years after one of the biggest industrial disasters in the World, 20,000 people are still drinking poisoned water; 10,000 gas victims who were promised jobs remain jobless; medical treatment for the indigent victims remains elusive; the site and its surroundings are polluted, and the culprit – Dow Chemical – is freely doing business in India.
On December 3, 1984, a union carbide pesticide producing plant leaked highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate into the air of a densely populated region of …

The commonwealth games were bagged by Delhi in 2003. About 7 years back. While considerable progress has been made since then to make Delhi a world-class city, quite obviously, things could have been speedier. An increasing number of projects have got delayed or shelved, as the realization sets in that the Games are just a few months away. The Yamuna cleanliness has gulped a few thousand crores. The intelligent traffic management system has been shelved due to paucity of time. The buses will be a mix of low floor and …

PATNA: Former Bihar DGP D N Gautam on Sunday said that it might be a subject of research whether God exists or not, but corruption is definitely omnipresent. Gautam described corruption as a universal phenomenon and advocated for people’s active involvement to check it.
Addressing a seminar on `People’s Participation in Eradicating Corruption’ organized by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Gautam said that corruption was rampant at government level.
“A few powerful people have taken the government as hostage,” said Gautam, adding that society in general should …