corruption

'Shiv Sena workers today assaulted and blackened the face of a Right to Information activist at Latur in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, after he "exposed" an illegal construction case. The activist Mallikarjun Bhaikatti had, through an RTI query, revealed that around 14,000 square feet illegal construction was carried out in a four-storeyed building and boys hostel on the Latur-Nanded road. Mr Bhaikatti had addressed a press conference at Latur yesterday to "expose" the illegal construction, police said.

"Yoga teacher Ramdev's company will soon market herbal supplements and food products developed by India's defence research organisation DRDO. The DRDO or Defence Research and Development Organisation yesterday finalized agreements with the yoga teacher's "Patanjali Yogpeeth", for the transfer of technology involving products made from Seabuckthorn at its high altitude research lab in Leh...

'...As the monsoons finally reached the capital last week, leading to cooler climes but also traffic snarls, a cloud also burst on the heads of the BJP and the Narendra Modi government. It has been raining scams for over a month now, but the darkest clouds have surely built around India’s most lethal one, Vyapam. This involves more than financial swindles, something the nation may be a little imm­­une to. With Vyapam, there is a human connect in the pile of corpses, all such ordinary people, and some so young.

'Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday stroked a controversy when he termed the ‘Vyapam’ scam as a “small scandal” even as the CBI took over the probe into the massive admission and recruitment scandal which has rocked Madhya Pradesh. “For us it (Vyapam) is a chutput (small) scam. It may be big for you,” Vijayvargiya, the national general secretary of BJP, told reporters in Bhopal. He was interacting with the media on the BJP’s “Maha-jansampark campaign” or mega membership drive.