New Delhi at last has its proud defining modern monument at the very point of entry to India — a massive, sparkling new Terminal 3, which alone is the sixth-largest airport in the world. Remarkably, too, it was built on time, in three years by a public-private partnership, and on a $3 billion budget.
Gone are the long snaking queues in sweaty air smelling of insecticide and worse: You can now get through immigration and customs in air- conditioned bliss at least as quickly as in Singapore, faster than in Hong …

The best engineering institute in our country has a dirty secret. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was secretly and illegally keeping aside a discretionary admission quota for children of its professors and staff members for over four decades, admitting dozens of students even though they had not fared well in the IIT-Joint Entrance.
This discovery was made by Hindustan Times after accessing certain documents using the RTI Act which showed that the country’s oldest IIT — started in 1951 — blocked 25 per cent of its seats in popular …

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 …

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 …

Article taken from http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-ranked-84th-in-corruption-index/376796/
India continues to be widely perceived as a highly corrupt nation, with Transparency International’s corruption perception index (CPI) 2009 ranking the country at 84 out of the 180 surveyed. There is no significant difference from India’s earlier standing at the 85th position last year.
India’s integrity score, a major component of the survey, stands at 3.4 out of the highest score of 10, which indicates that the country has a long way to go as far as eradicating corruption is concerned. However, the good news is that India’s …