If, by the wave of a magic wand, we had a squeaky clean bunch of people running the Commonwealth Games, would we be able to do a fabulous job? Would we be able to do what Beijing did with the Olympics? As the dirt flies around our Games preparation, this is the question that’s been bothering me. So I am digressing from the world of personal luxury to explore instead what would definitely be a luxury for the nation today: a beautifully organized Commonwealth Games.
I was in Beijing a couple …

If our government is so serious about corruption in the country, then it is advised to clean up its act first, and bring about an element of accountability to its millions of agencies and entities. Spank the corporates later. First, spank thyself.
Government is preparing a new Company bill, which will check out several other companies such as Satyam, said Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid.
Khurshid clearly stated that government with the new bill does not want to dominate the country’s industries but they just want to pull back …

Is Shalini Darbari, Director at CVC, the wife of TS Darbari? If yes, then the agency probing the charges, is headed by the wife of the guilty!

Information available on http://cvc.nic.in/pn0709.pdf

India’s most valuable company? The brains behind the famous, Jaago Re??
The “Tata Tapes” controversy was a political scandal in India that was the culmination of a series of allegations of anti-national conduct levied by the then Chief Minister of Assam, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, against the Tatas – their company Tata Tea in particular.[1] The controversy erupted when journalist Ritu Sarin of the Indian Express broke a story that involved the illegal tapping of the telephone calls of business tycoon Nusli Wadia and published, on October 4-5 1997, transcripts of …

Verbatim, as per the release (Full report never released by Press Council)
The Indian media, a pillar of the country’s vibrant democracy, is riddled with corruption that sees journalists report stories for cash in a phenomenon known as “paid news,” a probe has revealed.
The findings of an investigation for the Press Council of India, seen by AFP but yet to be released publicly, throw a damning light on an industry that is meant to serve as a bulwark against corruption in other areas of public life.
Regional newspapers in vernacular languages are …

Except for private players, such as harshad mehta and ramalinga raju, is there even one politician, involved in a scam, who has been punished? or worse still, found guilty and not yet punished? Lalu, despite everyone knowing he was involved in the fodder scam, has the guts to raise the issue of pay hike in the parliament! Jai Ho, India.
1900s
* Telecom scam (Sukh Ram)
* HDW Submarine
* Bitumen scam
* Tansi land deal
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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 …

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 …

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 …