CORRUPTION

Delhi seems ( Modi  )to have taken chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's decision to re-launch 24x7 anti-graft helpline with open arms. The helpline received as many as 12,731 calls in 24 hours with most of them inquiring about the process to register a graft case. Read more: Anti-corruption

Ignoring denials issued previously by the Ambanis, Aam Aadmi Party's Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday reiterated allegations that they held Swiss bank accounts and 'revealed' their alleged account numbers. "A few days ago, I exposed that Anil and Mukesh Ambani have Swiss bank accounts. They have not admitted their fraud. I have the Swiss bank account numbers of Anil and Mukesh Ambani here with me. Shall I read them?" Kejriwal asked a packed hall at the Times of India Literary Carnival on Sunday. "5090160983 and 5090160984, HSBC Bank," he said. A spokesperson for Anil Ambani rejected the allegations. "Mr Anil D Ambani had no bank account with HSBC in Geneva. It is regrettable that such baseless allegations are being made at the behest of vested interests," the spokesperson said. A Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) spokesperson rejected the allegation against Mukesh Ambani, reiterating a statement made by RIL earlier in November.

  The Lady with a Gun Naxalites have a history of 40 years and across these years, women have played various roles within the circuit. Some working as bodyguards to maoist commanders, others just keep a vigil at the male counterparts who may harass villagers (the ideology afterall has to be served). One of the maoist rebels provided a different, rather unsettling angle to the women recruitment,"In effect, almost half the rebel fighters are women now. Most of the men and women fighters cohabit either as married or unmarried couples." She further reveals how women play a tactical role in operations and are always placed at the front to 'distract' the security forces. The gender politics is prevalent from a 2010 Times of India report which reveals how a young Maoist woman was being raped by Maoists and then shot at when she filed a complain. Rampati Gunju, a former rebel commander from the eastern state of Bihar said,"We had women from 16 to ...

An Indian-origin Gujarati woman working at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina was shot in the face in an attempted armed robbery and succumbed to her injuries on Saturday. Mradulaben Patel was the co-owner of a store at a gas station in Powdersville. An unidentified man is believed to have shot Patel in the face Thursday night. Police has asked for help to identify the assailant. She died today, succumbing to her injuries, sources said.

Brand India is in trouble. Corruption and rape have put a serious dent in our shiny global image. That's the conclusion of a new BBC World survey conducted by Globes Scan Inc. and and the Program on International Policy Attitudes in 25 countries. Over the 8-year span that the poll has been conducted, the pollsters observes, "For the first time this year, those negative views (35%) slightly outnumber those with positive views of India (34 percent)." The other country to share this fate is China, whose ratings have plummeted to the lowest level. This has not been a good year for either the elephant or the dragon.

Former CAG Vinod Rai said that the big-ticket corruption scandals are a thing of the past and the recent auction of coal blocks and spectrum stand a "test of transparency".  "The big-ticket corruption scandals are a thing of the past and we may not have cases of such occurrences now," the former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said while delivering the annual Kilachand Memorial Lecture at the Indian Merchants Chamber here.  Read more at:  Education Sector