Shameless people don't spend on buying right armour or weapons for cops, they can't offer relief to farmers committing suicide. But look at this expenditure...
Believe it or not, <b>babus spend Rs 7.9 lakh per day on travelling</b>!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rs 58.54 crore has been spent on the local conveyance of ministers and government officials of 44 ministries in the last three financial years.
They have spent Rs 27.67 crore on fuel for the 647 cars owned by them from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2008. Moreover, these ministries have spent Rs 30.71 crore on private taxis. Thus, these ministries have spent over Rs 7.9 lakh per day during last three years.
<b>These figures are an eye-opener at a time when the Centre is continuously talking of cost cutting and austerity on various heads.</b> If we go with the expenses made on fuel of the vehicles owned by the ministries, it reflects that these vehicles have travelled over 7.54 crore kilometres (considering the average rate of diesel at Rs 33 per litre, the average mileage of Ambassador cars at nine kilometres per litre and 247 working days in a year). The ministries have an insignificant number of vehicles run on CNG and petrol, but since most of the vehicles are run by diesel, calculations have been made using diesel prices as the benchmark.
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Sometimes I wonder, Are people with bad Karma ever get punished in their life?
If so, all these Babus and their family should be suffering from AID, HIV, Cancer accident with spinal injury and lot of suffering in their life.
Lot of these crook babus just gets away. How and Why?
Why less suffering to them, they makes other people life really miserable and still able to eat food everyday.
VP Singh was diagnosed by Cancer just after Mandel Commission, Yes our regular curse did work, but that jerk lived for another 20 years on Indian citizens tax money. Where was suffering, jerk was having fun in London?
Sadhvi curse worked on ATS Chief.
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I hope those who are persecuting Sadhus like Kanchi Sankaracharya and those others elsewhere see the divine hand at play and abandon their cruel mischief.
<b>Corruption in India like Africa: WB official</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Berkman, who was an advisor to various project teams within the Bank on human resource issues and capacity building, retired from the Bank in 2002. He is the author of an expose on corruption in this multilateral institution titled, The World Bank and the Gods of Lending, based on his 16-year experience auditing Bank projects, including the $800 million loan to health sector projects in India.
<b>While most of his experiences were in Africa and Latin America, he said the corruption "I've seen there (in India) is no different than what I've seen in Africa and other places." </b>
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All because of Babus.
Yesterday, I met on Indian guy son of a IAS officer and other was son of Paki Army officer. Both have similar life style. Both are in final year of private MBA school without any scholarship with annual fee $70K +, so paid by Dad. One drive brand new M Series Benz and other BMW -Z series. Both party lot and lives in very trendy neighborhood.
Both are product of corrupt father and country.
Regarding, Indian guy, now I know his dad's name, so more investigation is required to find out source of income of his dad.
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Manish Kumar, a college student, explained how he had to pay Rs 50 to a local clerk for obtaining a certificate from the block office. A middle aged woman, Kalawati Devi, stunned the audience by saying her daughter's rapist was not only refusing to marry her, but also intimidating the family.
But it was Murari Shulka, a post- graduate student from Gorakhpur, who held the mirror to the CM with his plainspeak.
He told Nitish the government school, the venue of the chief minister's Janata Darbar, had only three teachers, including the headmaster, for 900 students.
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<b>Film financier Bharat Shah arrested</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mumbai Diamond trader and film financier Bharat Shah was arrested on Thursday by the city police after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him by a court in Silvassa. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Leaksâ start bleeding NHAI toll coffers</b>
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Nidhi Sharma | New Delhi
For the first time since the Golden Quadrilateral project connecting the nationâs metro cities was initiated, the toll collection on key highway sections from Delhi to Mumbai, including the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway, has dipped over the last three months.
A study conducted by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the prime implementing agency for highway projects in India, has revealed that key sections have reported fall in revenue from toll collection. Confirming the dip in revenue, NHAI member (administration) KS Money said:<b> âThere has been a decline in toll collection in certain sections on the Delhi-Mumbai route. We are trying to confirm the reasons.â </b>
The dip is 2-3 per cent in certain sections. The statistics might not sound alarming here, but revenue from toll always shows an upward trend because the number of vehicles and volume of traffic on the highways have been perpetually increasing over the last decade.
<b>Sources said that NHAI is suspecting leakage in the system by a handful of contractors. A senior NHAI official said: âThere is a possibility that contractors are allowing vehicles to pass by, charging them an amount less than the toll. Since they donât log the entry of that vehicle, they can easily pocket the money fro themselves.â </b>There is also the possibility of pilferage of software for not recording the passage of a vehicle at a toll plaza.
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The fall in collection is evident from the overall toll revenue statistics. T<b>he NHAI had a target of Rs 1,600 crore from toll revenue for 2008-09. However, till November 2008, it had been able to collect only Rs 890 crore. </b>
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It means, Police, Babus are taking their cut.
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<b>'Where did Amar Singh get Rs 48.5 crore from?</b>'<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Accusing Amar Singh of having donated more than $10 million (approximately Rs 45.8 crore) to the William [Images] J Clinton Foundation run by the former US President, Chaturvedi has pointed out, <b>"In his affidavit dated November 6, 2008, filed before the Election Commission, Amar Singh has disclosed net assets to the tune of Rs 37 crore, so where did he get Rs 48.5 crore from?"</b>
He has quoted the donation figure from the Clinton Foundation's published records.
The petitioner alleged, "Singh had neither disclosed the donated amount in his income tax returns nor did he take the mandatory permission of the RBI."
While the original complaint was made on January 30, 2008, Chaturvedi chose to release a copy to the media on Monday, following the Chief Election Commissioner's suggestion that such a complaint could be made only to the returning officer of the Rajya Sabha, since Singh is a member of the Upper House.
"I have sought to draw the attention of the CEC to the fact that the returning officer's role concludes once the election is over, therefore, the CEC must take cognisance of the complaint, which is of a serious nature," he told rediff.com.
Urging the CEC to suspend Singh's RS membership for making a 'false declaration' before the EC, Chaturvedi has also demanded the invocation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, which prohibits such action
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<b>IT Dept to reassess Mayaâs income</b>
When they will assess Sonia, Patil, Monthok Singh, Sarad Pawar, Bhardwaj and Sheila Dixit income.
My friend John Hick defines pluralism in many ways. You may read his books on this issue. But let me clarify what i mean by exclusive pluralism - First Pluralism is a stand point or condition in which numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are present and tolerated within a society. There are particularities to each religion which one has to accept. The problem with pluralism is that it tends to exclude or deform those particularities for the sake of coexistence. For me Christians may hold on to their faith which is strictly monotheistic. Just for the sake of living together with people of other faiths, they cannot be asked to give up their monotheistic faith. It cannot be told to them: Your faith is a problem for us so change your faith otherwise you cannot live together with us. It is like asking Hindus in US to give up their faith in Hinduism and to join in Christianity because we are majority. Monotheistic faiths have been exclusive and are learning to find space to live with people of other faiths. At the same time those who do not share monotheistic faiths should not expect those who share monotheistic faith to give up their faith to coexist either. This is where sometime pluralism can become exclusive in a sense of accepting diversity as part of their faith rather we need to find an existential pluralism which is each one will follow their own ways according their own gods (I quote from the Bible -
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Micah 4:5 All the nations may walk in the name of their gods; we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
) which may be particular and universal for them but without offending the other and respecting other's faiths as well without imposing one's own on others.
This is similar to what I interpret this verse in Gita
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Yuda yuda hi dharmashya Bavati Bharatha.....Aham
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Parithranaya sadunam...yuge yuge
wherever adharma succeeds I will raise age to age to destroy and establish dharma. Possibly in different times, in different forms and through different religions too. (my little knowlege of Samskrithi comes from Belur Ramakrishna mat training and so the interpretation - not to offend anyone). May there be other better quotes....
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âSay: O those who do not believe what I believe, I worship not what you worship and you are not worshiping what I worship nor am I worshiping what you have worshiped, neither are you worshiping what I worship. To you your religion and to me my religionâ. (The Koran, 109:1-6)
The Koran 5:48 in this respect. The verse goes as follows:
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"Unto every one of you We have appointed a (different) law and way of life. And if Allah had so willed, He could surely have made you all one single community: but (He willed it otherwise) in order to test you by means of what He has given you. Vie, then, with one another in doing good works! Unto Allah you all must return; and then He will make you truly understand all that on which you were wont to differ."
My intention is to go beyond the childish religious fantasies to a mature religious understanding where people would accept each other as they are. We do have serious problems with the use of religion by political and other groups to achieve their ends. They instigate the differences and hatred attitudes. But it is clear that no one should continue hurting the feelings of others while to sort of some of these old historical issues attacking is not the way nor imposing one's culture or faith on the other. Different religious communities can live together even in Kandhamal as long as we respect each other as they are rather than trying to pull people to one side or the other. Communities can come together and thus talk among themselves and know each other and thus find ways to live together in spite of their differences. Christians may have to abandom some of their missionary or educational or even developmental activities in those areas where there is tension and resistance due to misunderstanding or mistakes that a few made. May be rather than attacking Christians if some Hindu movements focus on development and education for the people who are marginalised and underdeveloped then no conversion would be possible through such means in those areas!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Govt tries its best to blunt RTI teeth</b>
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Nidhi Sharma | New Delhi
PMO, Finance Ministry among top three naysayers
The Right to Information (RTI) still remains a distant dream for the common man. The latest report of the Central Information Commission (CIC) reveals that 9 per cent of RTI applications are still rejected by several Ministries; with the Ministry of Finance, Personnel and Prime Ministerâs Office topping the list of Government departments throwing out most number of such requests.
This is not all. There is little hope for applicants knocking at the door of even the CIC, the final appellate authority for the RTI Act, 2005. <b>The annual report 2006-07 of CIC shows that its disposal rate of petitions is quite dismal, hovering just slightly above the half-way mark. On an average, only 55.6% of RTI petitions were disposed of by the CIC during 2006-07. The performance has actually dipped as it was above 90% in 2005-06 - the first year of RTI Act implementation. The commission had disposed of 97.8% of the appeals and 95.6% of the complaints in the previous year. However, in 2006-07, the corresponding numbers were 68.45% and 42.1% only.</b>
The pendency has also increased manifold in the CIC. The report reveals that it had only 486 pending petitions at the beginning of 2006-07. However, this balance increased six times over the previous year and the pendency was 3,251 in 2007-08. The report clearly identifies this challenge, stating: âEven though the disposal rate has increased over months, the challenge before CIC is how to improve this rate further.â On an average, public authorities disposed of barely 66% of the requests received.
There is also a growing reluctance among the public authorities to reveal their performance on the RTI front. Public authorities file âannual returnsâ before CIC, revealing how they fared in terms of RTI requests received, disposed of or rejected. While 89.2% of the public authorities filed their annual returns in 2005-06, the percentage dipped to 83.5% in 2006-07.
Experts have often pointed out that the CIC load is increasing because of the reluctance of appellate authorities to impose a penalty. This reluctance makes public information officers (PIOs) more brazen and they wrongfully reject requests using different clauses of the RTI Act. The CIC, however, has made only slight improvement on this front. While in 2005-06 not even a single penalty was imposed on errant PIOs, in 2006-07 this number increased to a mere 24, with only 13 penalties being recovered.
<b>The report notes that the number of requests rejected by the Ministries has come down slightly, from 14% to 9%. The worst performers on this criterion are the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and the PMO. While the Finance Ministry rejected 33% of the requests received, Personnel and PMO rejected almost 19% of the requests. The other Ministries who have made it to the top 10 list include the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Defence, Labour, Communications and Information Technology, Home Affairs, Railways and Urban Development</b>.
The RTI Act implementation, however, has a silver lining. With increasing awareness among people, the number of applications increased seven times in 2006-07 over 2005-06. This increasing load did not deter several departments, some of which disposed of 100% of the requests received. These best performers include the Cabinet Secretariat, Comptroller and Auditor General, Election Commission of India, Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region and the Ministry of External Affairs. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BJP must seek KGB papers</b>
Ashok Malik
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In arguing that an investigation into Indian slush funds in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other secret banking havens should be a priority for the next Government, the BJP has made a noteworthy recommendation. The quantum of Indian-origin money â political bribes, contractual paybacks, receipts against contraband taken out of the country, corporate embezzlement and so on â may be speculated upon. The modalities of finding it and claiming it on behalf of the law may be debated. Yet, the principle is unexceptionable.
There is, however, one other inquiry with international ramifications that the BJP must commit itself to, should it come to power on May 16. Indeed, it is the only party without the baggage and with the positioning to do this â to study the Indian links in the Mitrokhin Archive.
As is well known, the Mitrokhin papers are the largest repository of KGB documents ever removed from the Soviet Union/Russia. In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a senior archivist at the KGB who had copied and pilfered thousands of top-secret files over the years, defected to the United Kingdom with his treasure.
The Mitrokhin Archive is in the custody of MI-6, the British external intelligence agency. A small, extremely sanitised portion of the KGB papers was published after vetting by Londonâs intelligence and political establishment as the Mitrokhin Archive I (1999) and the Mitrokhin Archive II (2005).
The first book dealt with the KGBâs network of spies, agents and front organisations in Europe and the West. Volume II described the phenomenon in Asia, Latin America and Africa.<b> The second book devoted two chapters to India, which it called âthe Third World country on which the KGB eventually concentrated most operational effort during the Cold Warâ.</b>
<b>The KGB, Mitrokhin Archive II alleged, routinely bribed Left and Congress politicians, including Ministers in Mrs Indira Gandhiâs Government. It bought secrets and paid retainers. The KGB funded election campaigns of chosen candidates and parties, including supporting the Congress in its years out of power (1977-79), and operated through a network of recruits in the intelligentsia, the media and the civil service, in addition to, of course, political proxies. </b>
The Mitrokhin books were careful not to mention too many proper nouns, largely restricting themselves to naming people who were dead, or referring to KGB code names and broad descriptions of individuals and institutions. However, the chapters on India offer tantalising clues and often mention some names in other contexts, as if pointing the reader in the right direction.
Take this extract: â<b>The Indian Embassy in Moscow was being penetrated by the KGB, using its usual varieties of the honey trap. The Indian diplomat PROKHOR was recruited, probably in the early 1950s, with the help of a female swallow, codenamed NEVEROVA, who presumably seduced him. The KGB was clearly pleased with the material which PROKHOR provided, which included on two occasions the Embassy codebook and deciphering tables, since in 1954 it increased his monthly payments from 1,000 to 4,000 rupees.â </b>
PROKHOR is not identified. However, a pro-Soviet Indian diplomat who rose to the highest positions in South Block is quoted in the book in an otherwise harmless sentence. Old timers in Delhi have put two and two together and concluded that the gentleman â now dead â may have been PROKHOR.
Mitrokhin Archive II was published in September 2005, and much of what it contained in reference to India was reported in the media. So why is it relevant today?
The fact is the book was only a teaser trailer, all that was allowed to be shared with lay readers. MI-6 and the British Foreign Office have made it clear that friendly countries and intelligence agencies are free to request access to the Mitrokhin papers, or at least to those sections and dossiers that concern them.
The foreword to Mitrokhin Archive II says, âA report by the all-party British Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) reveals that a series of other Western intelligence agencies have also proved âextremely gratefulâ for the numerous CI (counter-intelligence) leads provided by Mitrokhinâs material.â
Aside from Britain, the United States, Germany and Italy are among the countries that have used the KGB papers to uncover spies and traitors among their own people, in their Government and security systems.
Consider the response in India. When the Mitrokhin details became public three-and-a-half years ago, the Congress, the CPI(M) and the CPI combined to disparage them. Parliamentary discussion was stonewalled. Mr Anand Sharma, then the Congress spokesperson and now the Minister of State for External Affairs, even said, âThere has been no precedent when fictional accounts are discussed in Parliament.â
Together as allies in 2005 â as they were as fellow travellers in the 1970s â the Congress and the Left joined forces to bury the Mitrokhin scandal. Among the major democracies, India is perhaps the only one that has not formally requested access to the Mitrokhin Archive and not asked MI-6 if the papers could help authorities in New Delhi identify those who were passing on information to Moscow, in return for monetary or other benefit.
Some of these people are gone but many may still be alive, living as respectable citizens, perhaps still attempting to determine the course of Indian public policy and diplomatic choices. It is also possible that most of them are just too old and living a quiet retirement. Either way, India deserves to know the truth â not necessarily to send every one of these people to prison, but to arrive at a proper closure to a disquieting chapter in its modern history.
A start can only be made if the Government of India writes to its British counterpart, asking it be allowed to study the Mitrokhin papers. There is, however, a conspiracy of silence. For obvious reasons, the Congress and the Left will not do it. The gaggle of opportunistic socialist and regional parties that straddle the UPA and the NDA will not be interested either. Only the BJP represents a political philosophy that had nothing to do with the KGBisation of Indiaâs polity in the Cold War years.
That is why the BJP must promise that, should it win the election, it will begin the process of unravelling the truth hidden in the Mitrokhin Archive.<b> Indian money needs to be redeemed from Swiss banks; so does Indian honour from KGB extension counters. </b>
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<b>Pricing the loot</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->What we are thus left with is a maze of figures, some concocted, others real, but sometimes quoted out of context. That doesnât mean the issue is unimportant. Some reasons for capital flight (administered and unrealistic exchange rates, foreign exchange controls, unrealistic and non-transparent tax rates) have become unimportant in post-1991 India and BOP (balance of payments) data suggest there has been some reversal of capital flight. How else does one interpret a net capital inflow of $17.7 billion in the âother flowsâ category in 2007-08? This residual category primarily means delayed export receipts and errors and omissions. Stated simplistically, the reserves position shows this forex has come in. But we donât know why it has come in. However, this reversal is restricted to situations where the push was unreasonable domestic economic policy. There are other unreasonable domestic policies too, including the political process and criminalisation of politics. These are issues we should talk about, not so much the pull of tax havens. But first, let us get the figures right. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Advani asks PM to release details of tax havens visited by his ministers</b>
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PTI | Aurangabad
Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to release the details of foreign destinations particularly Switzerland and countries which are known tax havens where his ministerial colleagues have visited during the UPA regime.
Advani told reporters that the UPA Government must respond to his charges of huge sums of black money being parked by Indian nationals in Swiss banks and tax havens around the world and and how it planned to bring back the "sovereign wealth".
Noting that statement of the leaders of the G-20 summit that they would take action against non-cooperative jurisdictions including tax havens, Advani said, "What is surprising is that the prime minister did not mention this point in his opening written statement to the Press on the conslusion of the summit."
In his lengthy remarks at the official dinner hosted by Britain' s Prime Minister Gordon Brown on April 1 on the eve of the G-20 summit, Dr Singh alluded to this matter in a "casual" one-sentence reference that said, "We should also endorse sharing information and bringing tax havens and non- cooperating jurisdictions under closer scrutiny."
Advani alleged that the prime minister failed to raise concerns over the huge amounts of sovereign wealth deposited in secret bank accounts abroad. Singh also chose not to express the Indian Government's resolve to bring the monies back through international cooperation.
The BJP leader said other members of the G-20 nations were "far more vociferous" than India in saying that the era of banking secrecy is over and in even demanding sanctions against tax havens.
"It was evident from the communique released after the (G20) Summit," Advani said, adding that OECD, a group of developed countries officially estimated that about USD 11 trillion was parked in tax havens.
It also released the "blacklist" of non-cooperative nations, and specifically mentioned Switzerland among them, Advani said.
"If developed countries in OECD have taken the issue of Swiss bank accounts so seriously, why does not a developing country like India show similar seriousness?
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I'm not sure if ppl here have seen this website. It's an effort to get people to not vote for politicians with criminal records. It's a good start IMHO.
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04-06-2009, 04:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2009, 04:24 AM by shamu.)
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Advani should also add that since MMS is an economist studied at best university of UKland, he should really show the concern he has about $1 trillion of Indian wealth locked outside of India in unproductive way. As an economist and PM of India, he should take every effort to bring them back to India.
MMS is spineless person, he works according to 10 Janpath mood swings.
Don't forget, Indian Babu class are corrupt to core, MMS is no exception.
My point was to take swipe at MMS' clean economist image.
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