corruption

"A two-decade-old controversy over housing society plot allotments to some of the most prominent members of the Indian judiciary has become relevant once again as Supreme Court judge HL Dattu assumed the most powerful judicial office in the country on Sunday. New Chief Justice of India Justice Dattu, and two of his Supreme Court colleagues – TS Thakur and V Gopala Gowda – are among the judges who accepted the plots in defiance of a 1995 ruling by the Karnataka high court that judges were ineligible to participate in the land scheme.

"In politics, as the saying goes, perception is reality and the truth is negotiable. However true the charges against Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his son Pankaj Singh, spread by anonymous BJP leaders, are, it is now clear that Rajnath's image has been tarred by these unproven claims despite the PMO's clarification...

"Not just BJP MPs, their assistants are also attending classes run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS. They begin a six-day training course today to earn a certificate in "political assistantship". Among the skills they will be taught is to watch out for sting operations and suspicious visitors. Some 100 private secretaries and assistants on the staff of parliamentarians are participating in the course at Rambhau Mahlagi Prabodhini, an RSS training institute. The fee of Rs. 5,000 each comes from the MPs' pockets.

'The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the state of Gujarat highlighted grave financial irregularities in the administration of the state. The report, which was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly on Friday, showed that irregularities of as much as Rs 25,000 crore were noticed which included Rs 1,500 crore worth of undue benefits to companies like Reliance Petroleum, Essar Powar and Adani Group.