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		<description><![CDATA[DISCLAIMER: I DON&#8217;T ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY.  NOR DO I ENDORSE ANY OF WHAT MAYAWATI IS DOING.  WAS JUST TAKEN ABACK BY RAHUL GANDHI&#8217;S HYPOCRITICAL COMMENT AT THE RECENT  FARMER AGITATION IN UTTAR PRADESH.
Rahul Gandhi: &#8220;I feel ashamed to call myself an INDIAN after seeing what  has happened here in UP&#8221;.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DISCLAIMER: I DON&#8217;T ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY.  NOR DO I ENDORSE ANY OF WHAT MAYAWATI IS DOING.  WAS JUST TAKEN ABACK BY RAHUL GANDHI&#8217;S HYPOCRITICAL COMMENT AT THE RECENT  FARMER AGITATION IN UTTAR PRADESH.</p>
<p>Rahul Gandhi: &#8220;I feel ashamed to call myself an INDIAN after seeing what  has happened here in UP&#8221;.<br />
PLEASE DON&#8217;T BE ASHAMED OF U.P. YET</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t be ashamed of Uttar Pradesh yet. Congress ruled the State for  the Majority of the duration Pre Independence to Post Independence.. from  1939 to 1989 ( barring the Periods of Emergency.. Thanks to your Grand Mom  Indira G. and a couple of transitional Governments)</p>
<p>8 out of the total 14 Prime Ministers of India have been from UP, 6 out of  those 8 have been from Congress&#8230;</p>
<p>I think your party had more than half a century and half a Dozen PM&#8217;s  to  build a State&#8230;</p>
<p>The Reason Mulayam Singh, subsequently came to Power is because your party  wasn&#8217;t exactly Gandhian in their dealings in the State.. So May be If you  look at in totality the present chaos in UP is the outcome of the glorious  leadership displayed by Congress in UP for about 50 years!</p>
<p>So Please don&#8217;t feel ashamed as yet Dear Rahul.. For Mayawati is only  using  the Land Acquisition Bill which your party had itself used to LOOT the  Farmers many times in the Past!</p>
<p>WHY DIDN&#8217;T YOUR PARTY CHANGE THE BILL WHEN IT WAS IN POWER  FOR SO LONG?</p>
<p>Not that I Endorse what Mayawati is doing.. What Mayawati is doing is  Unacceptable..</p>
<p>But the past actions of your party and your recent comments, puts a  question  mark on your INTENT and CONSISTENCY.</p>
<p>YOU REALLY WANT TO FEEL ASHAMED</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t be disappointed, I would give you ample reasons to feel  ashamed&#8230;</p>
<p>You really want to feel Ashamed..?</p>
<p>First Ask Pranav Mukherjee, Why isn&#8217;t he giving the details of the account  holders in the Swiss Banks.</p>
<p>Ask your Mother, Who is impeding the Investigation against Hasan Ali in  the  74,000 Crore tax evasion case ?</p>
<p>Rajiv Gandhi had a total of Swiss Franc 2.5 billion ($2.2 billion) in   secret  account In November 1991 [SEE ANNEXURE 10]</p>
<p>After his death, SoniaG was the sole beneficiary of that amount. And that  was 1991, Only She knows her account balance now.. Could that be the  reason  the Govt. of India is not releasing the list of account holders in the  Swiss  Banks ?</p>
<p>Ask her, Who got 60% Kickbacks in the 2G Scam ?</p>
<p>Kalamdi is accused of a Few hundred Crores, Who Pocketed the Rest in the  Common Wealth Games?</p>
<p>Ask Praful Patel who made Indian Airlines so Sick? Why did Air India let  go  of the Profitable Routes ?</p>
<p>Why should the Tax Payer pay for the Air India losses?</p>
<p>Also, You People can&#8217;t run an Airline Properly. How can we expect you to  run  the Nation?</p>
<p>Ask Manmohan Singh. Why/What kept him quiet all this while?</p>
<p>People say He is Honest. Honest to the Nation, or Honest to a PERSON?</p>
<p>THE CBI raided the vault of the Reserve Bank of India and found a huge  cache  of COUNTERFEIT INDIAN currency lying in the denomination of 500 and 1000.  IN<br />
THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA???</p>
<p>Why is the Govt. of India quiet on that ?</p>
<p>So, Could the reasons for sustained INFLATION be MORE related to POLITICS  than ECONOMICS?</p>
<p>Who let the BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY Accused go Scot Free? (20,000 People died  in<br />
that Tragedy)</p>
<p>Who ordered the State Sponsored Massacre of SIKHS in 84?</p>
<p>Please read more about, How Indira Gandhi pushed the Nation Under  Emergency<br />
in 76-77, after the HC declared her election to Lok Sabha Void!</p>
<p>(I bet She had utmost respect for DEMOCRACY and JUDICIARY and FREE PRESS)</p>
<p>I guess you know the answers already. So My question is, Why the Double  Standards in Judging Mayawati and members of your Family and Party?</p>
<p>I condemn Mayawati. But Is She the only one you feel Ashamed for?</p>
<p>What about the ones close to you? For their contribution to the Nation&#8217;s  Misery is beyond comparison.</p>
<p>You talk about the Land being taken away from the Farmers. How many  Suicides<br />
have happened under your Parties Rule in Vidarbha ? Does that Not Ashame You  ?<br />
THE 72,000 CRORE LOAN WAIVER</p>
<p>Your Party gave those Farmers a 72,000 Crore Loan Waiver. Which didn&#8217;t  even<br />
reach the Farmers by the way.</p>
<p>So, Why don&#8217;t you focus on implementing the policies which your govt. has  undertaken, instead of earning brownie points by trying to manufacture consent by bombarding us with pictures of having food with Poor  Villagers&#8230;.</p>
<p>You want to feel ashamed. You can feel ashamed for your Party taking  CREDIT<br />
for DEBITING the Public Money (72,000 crores) from the Government Coffers  and literally Wasting it&#8230;</p>
<p>You want to feel ashamed.. Feel ashamed for that&#8230;</p>
<p>WHY ONLY HIGHLIGHT THIS ARREST?</p>
<p>Dear Rahul, to refresh your memory, you were arrested/detained by the FBI  the BOSTON Airport in September 2001.</p>
<p>You were carrying with you $ 1,60,000 in Cash. You couldn&#8217;t explain why  you<br />
were carrying so much Cash.  Incidentally He was with his Columbian girlfriend Veronique Cartelli,  ALLEGEDLY, the Daughter of Drug Mafia.</p>
<p>9 HOURS he was kept at the Airport.</p>
<p>Later then freed on the intervention of the then Prime Minister Mr.  Vajpayee.. FBI filed an equivalent of an FIR in US and released him.</p>
<p>When FBI was asked to divulge the information, by Right/Freedom to  Information Activists about the reasons Rahul was arrested &#8230; FBI asked  for  a NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE from Rahul Gandhi.</p>
<p>So Subramaniyam Swami wrote a Letter to Rahul Gandhi, &#8221; If you have  NOTHING<br />
to HIDE, Give us the Permission&#8221;</p>
<p>HE NEVER REPLIED!</p>
<p>Why did that arrest not make Headlines Rahul? You could have gone to the  Media and told, &#8220;I am ashamed to call myself an INDIAN?&#8221;.</p>
<p>Or is it that, you only do like to highlight Symbolic Arrests (like in UP)  and not Actual Arrests ( In BOSTON)</p>
<p>Kindly Clarify&#8230;..</p>
<p>In any case, you want to feel ashamed, Read Along&#8230;</p>
<p>YOUR MOTHER&#8217;S SO CALLED SACRIFICE OF GIVING UP PRIME MINISTER SHIP in  2004.</p>
<p>According to a Provision in the Citizenship Act a Foreign National who becomes a Citizen of India, is bounded by the same  restrictions, which an Indian would face, If he/she were to become a  Citizen  of Italy.</p>
<p>(Condition based on principle of reciprocity)</p>
<p>[READ ANNEXURE- 1&amp;2]</p>
<p>Now Since you can&#8217;t become a PM in Italy, Unless you are born there.</p>
<p>Likewise an Italian Citizen can&#8217;t become Indian PM, unless He/She is not  born here!</p>
<p>Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI (The Man who Exposed the 2G Scam) sent a letter to<br />
the PRESIDENT OF INDIA bringing the same to his Notice. [READ LETTER TO  THE  PRESIDENT IN ANNEXURE -3]</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OF INDIA sent a letter to Sonia Gandhi to this effect, 3:30 PM,  May 17th, 2004.</p>
<p>Swearing Ceremony was scheduled for 5 PM the same Day.</p>
<p>Manmohan Singh was brought in the Picture at the last moment to Save  Face!!</p>
<p>Rest of the SACRIFICE DRAMA which she choreographed was an EYE WASH!!!</p>
<p>Infact Sonia Gandhi had sent, 340 letters, each signed by different MP to  the PRESIDENT KALAM, supporting her candidacy for PM.</p>
<p>One of those letters read, I Sonia Gandhi, elected Member from Rai Bareli,  hereby propose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.</p>
<p>So SHE was Pretty INTERESTED! Until She came to know the Facts!</p>
<p>So She didn&#8217;t make any Sacrifice, It so happens that SONIA GANDHI couldn&#8217;t<br />
have become the PM of INDIA that time.</p>
<p>You could be Ashamed about that Dear Rahul!! One Credential Sonia G had,<br />
Even that was a HOAX!</p>
<p>THINK ABOUT YOURSELF.</p>
<p>You go to Harvard on Donation Quota. ( Hindujas Gave HARVARD 11 million<br />
dollars the same year, when Rajiv Gandhi was in Power)</p>
<p>Then you are expelled in 3 Months/ You Dropped out in 3 Months&#8230;. ( Sadly  Manmohan Singh wasn&#8217;t the Dean of Harvard that time, else you might have  had<br />
a chance&#8230; Too Bad, there is only one Manmohan Singh!)</p>
<p>Some Accounts say, You had to Drop out because of Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s  Assassination.<br />
May be, But Then Why did you go about lying about being Masters in  Economics<br />
from Harvard .. before finally taking it off your Resume upon questioning  by<br />
Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI (The Gentlemen who exposed the 2G Scam)</p>
<p>At St. Stephens.. You Fail the Hindi Exam.</p>
<p>Hindi Exam!!!</p>
<p>And you are representing the Biggest Hindi Speaking State of the Country?</p>
<p>SONIA GANDHI&#8217;s EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS</p>
<p>Sonia G gave a sworn affidavit as a Candidate that She Studied English at  University of Cambridge</p>
<p>[SEE ANNEXURE-6, 7_37a]</p>
<p>According to Cambridge University, there is no such Student EVER! [ SEE  ANNEXURE -7_39]</p>
<p>Upon a Case by Dr. Subramaniyam Swami filed against her,  She subsequently dropped the CAMBRIDGE CREDENTIAL from her Affidavit.</p>
<p>Sonia Gandhi didn&#8217;t even pass High School. She is just 5th class Pass!</p>
<p>In this sense, She shares a common Educational Background with her 2G  Partner in Crime, Karunanidhi.</p>
<p>You Fake your Educational Degree, Your Mother Fakes her Educational  Degree.</p>
<p>And then you go out saying, &#8221; We want Educated Youth into Politics!&#8221;</p>
<p>Letters sent by Dr. Swami to EC and then Speaker of Lok Sabha are in<br />
ANNEXURE 7_36 &amp;7_35 RESPECTIVELY</p>
<p>Contrast that with Gandhi Ji , who went to South Africa, Became a  Barrister,  on Merit, Left all that to work for South Africa, then for the Country&#8230;.</p>
<p>WHY LIE ABOUT EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS?</p>
<p>Not that Education is a Prerequisite for being a great Leader, but then  you  shouldn&#8217;t have lied about your qualifications!</p>
<p>You could feel a little ashamed about Lying about your Educational  Qualifications. You had your reasons I know, Because in India, WE RESPECT  EDUCATION!</p>
<p>But who cares about Education, When you are a Youth Icon!!</p>
<p>YOUTH ICON</p>
<p>You traveled in the Local Train for the first time at the Age of 38.</p>
<p>You went to some Villages as a part of Election Campaign.</p>
<p>And You won a Youth Icon!! &#8230; That&#8217;s why You are my Youth Icon.</p>
<p>For 25 Million People travel by Train Everyday. You are the First Person   to  win a  Youth Icon for boarding a Train.</p>
<p>Thousands of Postmen go to remotest of Villages. None of them have yet  gotten a youth Icon.</p>
<p>You were neither YOUNG Nor ICONIC!</p>
<p>Still You became a Youth Icon beating Iconic and Younger Contenders like  RAHUL DRAVID.</p>
<p>Shakespeare said, What&#8217;s in a Name?</p>
<p>Little did he knew, It&#8217;s all in the Name, Especially the Surname!</p>
<p>Speaking of Surname, Sir</p>
<p>DO YOU REALLY RESPECT GANDHI, OR IS IT JUST TO CASH IN ON THE GOODWILL OF  MAHATMA ?</p>
<p>Because the Name on your Passport(ITALIAN) is RAUL VINCI.<br />
Not RAHUL GANDHI..</p>
<p>May be if you wrote your Surname as Gandhi, you would have experienced,<br />
what  Gandhi feels like, LITERALLY ( Pun Intended)</p>
<p>You People don&#8217;t seem to use Gandhi much, except when you are fighting<br />
Elections. ( There it makes complete sense).</p>
<p>Imagine fighting elections by the Name Raul Vinci&#8230;</p>
<p>It feels sadly Ironic, Gandhi Ji, who inspired Icons like Nelson Mandela  ,Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon, across the world, Couldn&#8217;t  inspire  members of his party/ Nehru&#8217;s Family, who only seem to use his Surname for  the purposes of FIGHTING ELECTIONS and conveniently use a different name  on  their PASSPORT.</p>
<p>You could feel ashamed for your Double Standards.</p>
<p>YOUTH INTO POLITICS.</p>
<p>Now You want Youth to Join Politics.</p>
<p>I say First you Join Politics.</p>
<p>Because you haven&#8217;t Joined Politics. You have Joined a Family Business.</p>
<p>First you Join Politics. Win an Election fighting as RAUL VINCI and Not  Rahul Gandhi, then come and ask the youth and the Educated Brass for more  involvement in Politics.</p>
<p>Also till then, Please don&#8217;t give me examples of Sachin Pilot and Milind  Deora and Naveen Jindal as youth who have joined Politics..</p>
<p>They are not Politicians. They Just happen to be Politicians.</p>
<p>Much Like Abhishek Bachchan and other Star Sons are not Actors. They just  happen to be Actors (For Obvious Reasons)</p>
<p>So, We would appreciate if you stop requesting the Youth to Join Politics  till you establish your credentials&#8230;</p>
<p>WHY WE CAN&#8217;T JOIN POLITICS!</p>
<p>Rahul Baba, Please understand, Your Father had a lot of money in your  Family  account ( in Swiss Bank) when he died.</p>
<p>Ordinary Youth has to WORK FOR A LIVING.</p>
<p>YOUR FAMILY just needs to NETWORK FOR A LIVING </p>
<p>If our Father had left thousands of Crores with us, We might consider  doing  the same..</p>
<p>But we have to Work. Not just for ourselves. But also for you. So that we  can pay 30% of our Income to the Govt. which can then be channelized to  the  Swiss Banks and your Personal Accounts under some Pseudo Names.</p>
<p>So Rahul, Please don&#8217;t mind If the Youth doesn&#8217;t Join Politics. We are  doing  our best to fund your Election Campaigns and your Chopper Trips to the  Villages.</p>
<p>Somebody has to Earn the Money that Politicians Feed On.</p>
<p>NO WONDER YOU ARE NOT GANDHI&#8217;S. YOU ARE SO CALLED GANDHI&#8217;S!!</p>
<p>Air India, KG Gas Division, 2G, CWG, SWISS BANK Account Details&#8230; Hasan<br />
Ali, KGB.</p>
<p>Then Sonia Gandhi proclaimed &#8216;zero tolerance&#8217; to corruption at a party  rally  in Allahabad in November 2010. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!</p>
<p>You want to feel ashamed..</p>
<p>Feel Ashamed for what the First Family of Politics has been reduced to&#8230;</p>
<p>A Money Laundering Enterprise.</p>
<p>NO WONDER YOU ARE NOT GANDHI&#8217;S BY BLOOD. GANDHI is an adopted Name. For Indira didn&#8217;t marry Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s Son.</p>
<p>For even if you had one GENE OF GANDHI JI in your DNA. YOU WOULDN&#8217;T HAVE  BEEN PLAGUED BY SUCH &#8216;POVERTY OF AMBITION&#8217; ( Ambition of only EARNING  MONEY)</p>
<p>You really want to feel Ashamed.</p>
<p>Feel Ashamed for what you &#8216; SO CALLED GANDHI&#8217;S&#8217; have done to MAHATMA&#8217;S<br />
Legacy..</p>
<p>I so wish GANDHI JI had Copyrighted his Name!</p>
<p>Meanwhile,  I would request Sonia Gandhi to change her name to $ONIA  GANDHI,  and you could replace the &#8216;R&#8217; in RAHUL/RAUL by the New Rupee Symbol!!!</p>
<p>RAUL VINCI : I am ashamed to call myself an Indian.</p>
<p> Even we are ashamed to call you so!</p>
<p>P.S: Popular Media is either bought or blackmailed, controlled to  Manufacture Consent!</p>
<p>My Guess is Social Media is still a Democratic Platform. (Now they  are trying to put legislations to censor that too!!)<br />
Meanwhile, Let&#8217;s ask these questions, for we deserve some Answers.   For we are all Gandhi&#8217;s. For Bapu is the Father of the Nation!</p>
<p>To know more, Try looking for Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI. He is the reason  today  2G SCAM is being Investigated!!! He also happens to be a FORMER UNION LAW  MINISTER.</p>
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		<title>Corruption and Corporate Governance in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sachinthegreat</dc:creator>
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Satyam Computer Services Limited was nationalized in January 2009 after its executive Chairman, Ramalinga Raju, confessed to overstating profits. It later emerged that more than $1.5 billion was illegally transferred from Satyam to Raju&#8217;s personally owned firms; these included a property firm, Maytas Infra Ltd as per copyright, that owned a $3 billion contract to [...]]]></description>
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<p dir="ltr">Satyam Computer Services Limited was nationalized in January 2009 after its executive Chairman, Ramalinga Raju, confessed to overstating profits. It later emerged that more than $1.5 billion was illegally transferred from Satyam to Raju&#8217;s personally owned firms; these included a property firm, Maytas Infra Ltd as per copyright, that owned a $3 billion contract to build the Hyderabad Metro Rail system.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It appears clear that Satyam Computer Services Limited&#8217;s independent directors did not fulfill their duties. For instance, at a board meeting on December 16, 2008, to vote on a resolution to approve the acquisition of the Rajus&#8217; property firm by Satyam Computer Services Limited at short notice, none of the independent directors questioned why only that firm was being considered for acquisition rather than any of the other property firms in the market (given the depressed state of the property market at the time, this should have been an obvious question). All the directors voted for the resolution.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The collapse of Satyam Computer Services Limited, India&#8217;s fourth-largest IT firm, shocked its clients (whose list included 185 of the Fortune 500 companies) and industry generally. It also challenged the usefulness of two pillars of Indian corporate governance laws – that listed firms employ an independent auditor and that the board should have a majority of independent directors.<sup>1</sup> It also raised questions about corporate governance and corruption generally in India, the scope and effectiveness of the laws on corporate governance, the scope and endemism of corporate corruption, the causes, and underlying trends.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Corruption in India is neither new nor limited in scope. India ranks 85th among the 180 countries in a recent study by Transparency International on political corruption.<sup>2</sup> The World Bank ranks India in the 25th to 50th percentile on the ability to control corruption.<sup>3</sup></p>
<p dir="ltr">Economic corruption in India arose due to state controls of production through licenses and quotas. To gain access to licenses, corporations paid bribes. To gain access to goods and services in short supply, the public paid bribes. Thus, in the public mind, corruption, slow growth, inefficiency, and poor quality became inextricably linked.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A second source of corruption was the misuse of state power. The state has misused power in various ways. These include overstaffing public departments with favored voting groups, reallocating property rights to favored business groups and dispensing privileges in return for campaign contributions. The third source of corruption was inadequate disclosure and enforcement of corporate actions. With a few exceptions, listed companies were run as family firms that viewed their firms as hereditary fiefdoms.</p>
<p dir="ltr">India began reforming its laws from 1991. Licensing for production was eliminated in the 1991 reforms, thus solving the problem of inefficient production and short supply of goods and services.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The state has also shifted from governance by quota to independent regulation. Regulators in finance, insurance, and telecommunications, among others, have been empowered with the right to enforce global best practices and given independence from other organs of the state.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However, corruption in state patronage remains, particularly in land and civic infrastructure allocation, patronage recruitment, and election finance, despite reforms in these areas.</p>
<p>In summary, it appears that while Indian laws are better than in most developing countries, corruption is rampant due to the forces of patronage and lax enforcement. It is widespread enough to be considered endemic. The Satyam Computer Services Limited episode is symptomatic of a wider problem rather than a one-off.</p>
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		<title>A high profile sex trade business is booming in the city</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malvika</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Service providers using Internet search engines in big way; cops can do little as website hosts are usually based abroad. Just as some call it the ‘crime city,’ there is another label that Pune is beginning to be known by — ‘sin city’. With its large floating population of students and youngsters, who form the bulk of staff in call centres, BPOs and other backroom operation hubs, a high profile sex trade business (under the euphemism “escort services”) is booming in the city.</p>
<p>And it is not difficult to find — one merely needs to click “sex service in Pune” on internet search engines and all sorts of links, complete with cell phone numbers of several such service providers pop up. Some escort services also advertise through newspaper classifieds. The demand is not just for females but for male “escorts” as well.</p>
<p>Police sources say that safe lodging facilities and a good climate in the hinterlands has made Pune a prime spot for such activity. Even the youth from rich families in Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and other upcoming cities flock to Pune to avail of these services.</p>
<p>Adding another dimension to the racket is the sudden proliferation of girls from Uzbekistan in Pune. According to intelligence agencies, given that Pune is home to a number of defence establishments, there is a danger of espionage rackets building around these girls and posing a security threat to the nation.</p>
<p>Police Inspector Rajendra Bhamre of Pune police’s Social Security Cell said that escorts service providers are aware of the huge population of youngsters in the city, who are staying away from their families for jobs or education and are willing to pay high sums for pleasure. “The police can certainly crack down on these websites. But there are limitations because foreign countries host these website,” he pointed out.</p>
<p>Last November, the Pune police arrested three female models and their agents on charges of promoting the prostitution business through an Internet website called chamadi.com. But the accused were soon released on bail and the website is now back in business — offering escort services in Pune at even higher costs.</p>
<p>When they were contacted by posing as a customer, a woman who runs the website said, “We would provide attractive college girls for two hours. Charges vary between Rs 8,000 and Rs 15,000. Customers should first book a hotel and then inform us. The money should be paid in cash at the hotel.”</p>
<p>Explaining why sex rackets were being run so openly, a senior police officer said that the girls and agents who are arrested for promoting prostitution through websites easily get bail in court. “Sex between consenting adults is not an offence. The modus operandi of escort services is fashioned in such a manner that the arrangement between the customers and escort girl looks like that between two consenting adults. Thus, it becomes difficult to book the suspects under sections of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA), which is non-bailable,” he pointed out.</p>
<p>Pune Police Cyber Committee Chief Coordinator Sudam Choure said that a major joint awareness campaign by social activists and the police is needed to control such escort services. The Pune police have also received complaints from some men, who were lured through newspaper advertisements like “make female friends” published in the classified sections.</p>
<p>In March 2008, the Bund Garden police arrested two men in Mumbai for cheating a Major from the Armed Force Medical College, who had solicited a “good looking female friend” after reading an advertisement carried in a city newspaper in November 2007.</p>
<p>And invariably, there are bogus ayurvedic massage centres. Just a couple of months ago, residents of Pimpri busted a sex racket operated in a bungalow in the guise of a massage parlour. However, with escort services taking over big time — where the services of young, educated men and women are on offer to visiting executives and those from the city who want a night (or maybe a day) out in Pune — clearly the days of old style massage parlours may be numbered.</p>
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		<title>With corruption, everyone pays</title>
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Corruption hurts everyone, and it harms the poor the most. Sometimes its devastating impact is obvious:

· A father who must do without shoes because his meagre wages are used to pay a bribe to get his child into a supposedly free school.
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<p>Corruption hurts everyone, and it harms the poor the most. Sometimes its devastating impact is obvious:</p>
<ul>
<li>· A father who must do without shoes because his meagre wages are used to pay a bribe to get his child into a supposedly free school.</li>
<li>· The unsuspecting sick person who buys useless counterfeit drugs, putting their health in grave danger.</li>
<li>· A small shop owner whose weekly bribe to the local inspector cuts severely into his modest earnings.</li>
<li>· The family trapped for generations in poverty because a corrupt and autocratic leadership has systematically siphoned off a nation’s riches.</li>
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<p>Other times corruption’s impact is less visible:</p>
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<li>· The prosperous multinational corporation that secured a contract by buying an unfair advantage in a competitive market through illegal kickbacks to corrupt government officials, at the expense of the honest companies who didn’t.</li>
<li>· Post-disaster donations provided by compassionate people, directly or through their governments, that never reach the victims, callously diverted instead into the bank accounts of criminals.</li>
<li>· The faulty buildings, built to lower safety standards because a bribe passed under the table in the construction process that collapse in an earthquake or hurricane.</li>
</ul>
<p>Corruption has dire global consequences, trapping millions in poverty and misery and breeding social, economic and political unrest.</p>
<p>Corruption is both a cause of poverty, and a barrier to overcoming it. It is one of the most serious obstacles to reducing poverty.</p>
<p>Corruption denies poor people the basic means of survival, forcing them to spend more of their income on bribes. Human rights are denied where corruption is rife, because a fair trial comes with a hefty price tag where courts are corrupted.</p>
<p>Corruption undermines democracy and the rule of law.</p>
<p>Corruption distorts national and international trade.</p>
<p>Corruption jeopardises sound governance and ethics in the private sector.</p>
<p>Corruption threatens domestic and international security and the sustainability of natural resources.</p>
<p>Those with less power are particularly disadvantaged in corrupt systems, which typically reinforce gender discrimination.</p>
<p>Corruption compounds political exclusion: if votes can be bought, there is little incentive to change the system that sustains poverty.</p>
<p>The conclusion – Corruption hurts everyone.</p>
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		<title>Unlimited free tickets for Air India CMD&#8217;s family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s usually lonely at the top but not for the chief executive &#8212; and his predecessors &#8212; of the now critically ill Air India-Indian</p>
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<p>Airlines combine. As the airline fights for survival, an RTI application filed by activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal has revealed how over the years the definition of family has been expanded generously &#8212; and it&#8217;s now a big Hindu undivided family &#8212; for the purpose of getting free tickets.</p>
<p>While employees make do with two free tickets a year, CMDs get an unlimited number of tickets for their families even in this time of avowed austerity.</p>
<p>The airline, which is now trying to cut costs, says the freebies would soon be plugged. &#8220;There&#8217;s a proposal to prune this policy drastically. How can children, grandchildren, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law be allowed to fly at the cost of the exchequer when we are asking for money from <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/business/india-business/Unlimited-free-tickets-for-Air-India-CMDs-family/articleshow/5082010.cms#" target="_blank">government</a> to keep the airline afloat?&#8221; said a top government official.</p>
<p>What was essentially to be a policy of free journeys for the CMD and his or her spouse, has over the years come to include whoever the chief wants to be considered as his family for the purpose.</p>
<p>Ironically in 1995 &#8212; when private airlines had started threatening its monoply &#8212; IA decided to free air travel &#8220;on an &#8216;as required&#8217; basis to CMD and their families while they are in service&#8221;. This basically meant unlimited free flights. Then, even as it kept losing market share to new players, IA decided two years later to expand the definition of family.</p>
<p>The memorandum of an Indian Airlines meeting in January 1997 says that the definition of family for an employee includes &#8212; &#8220;spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, dependent relatives and dependent in the household.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since the last terms led to confusion, the memo sought to replace this definition with &#8220;spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, son-in-law/daughter-in-law&#8221; ostensibly to include the last two categories. AI on the other hand is magnanimous enough to allow CMD&#8217;s discretion in including any relative of an employee as eligible for free travel on &#8220;compassionate grounds.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reply also contains a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/business/india-business/Unlimited-free-tickets-for-Air-India-CMDs-family/articleshow/5082010.cms#" target="_blank">copy</a> of a letter written by the ministry of civil aviation last January to the Central Vigilance Commission which admits that &#8220;the definition of family in case of &#8216;as required basis&#8217;, perhaps, needs to be pruned.&#8221; This admission came following reports how an incumbent IA CMD had taken 161 free passages for self and family. Interestingly, in his reply to the government on this issue, the CMD listed how this had been a common practice with previous CMDs as well! He cited three predecessors who had taken between 173 and 15 tickets for their family&#8217;s use in their tenures.</p>
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		<title>Resumes of the some of The Corrupt Heads of Indian Nationalized Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raj</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>India has a population of more than One Billion. India is the<br />
biggest democratic Country in the world. India&#8217;s economy is seems to be<br />
sound. India&#8217;s GDP is also improving. <span style="border-bottom: #003366 1px solid;padding-bottom: 1px;line-height: 1em;background-color: transparent;width: auto;color: #003366;margin-left: 0px;font-size: 1em;cursor: pointer;text-decoration: underline">Share</span> Market is also booming day<br />
by day.Foreign Direct Investments are increasing too. But we should<br />
also see the other side of the <span style="border-bottom: #003366 1px solid;padding-bottom: 1px;line-height: 1em;background-color: transparent;width: auto;color: #003366;margin-left: 0px;font-size: 1em;cursor: pointer;text-decoration: underline">Coin</span> also.</p>
<p>The Credentials of some of the Heads of these Nationalized Banks are as<br />
follows.</p>
<p>Punjab National Bank</p>
<p>Mr. S S Kohli, the Chairman Cum Managing <span style="border-bottom: #003366 1px solid;padding-bottom: 1px;line-height: 1em;background-color: transparent;width: auto;color: #003366;margin-left: 0px;font-size: 1em;cursor: pointer;text-decoration: underline">Director</span> of Punjab National<br />
Bank sanctioned and disbursed more than Rs. 30 Crores to an absconder,<br />
a Member of Parliament of Bhartiya Janta Party, Mr. Kanak Sinh<br />
Mangrola, MP of BJP could get loan on fictitious bills. During Police<br />
interrogation, he confessed of paying bribe to the Chairman Cum<br />
Managing Director of Punjab National Bank. Crores of Rupees have been<br />
sanctioned and disbursed to such cheaters and all accounts are either<br />
become NPA or will be soon.</p>
<p>Andhra Bank</p>
<p>Mr. Naraysami, the Chairman Cum Managing Director of Andhra Bank,<br />
sanctioned and disbursed crores of Rupees to fictitious Exporters. The<br />
case was registered by the Prime Investigative Agency, Central Bureau<br />
of Investigation, India and some of the officials have been arrested<br />
and suspended. During interrogation, they had confessed of involvement<br />
of Mr. Naryansami, the Chairman Cum Managing Director of Andhra Bank.<br />
Mr. Narayansami had <span style="border-bottom: #003366 1px solid;padding-bottom: 1px;line-height: 1em;background-color: transparent;width: auto;color: #003366;margin-left: 0px;font-size: 1em;cursor: pointer;text-decoration: underline">paid</span> crores of Rupees to officers of Finance<br />
Ministry and BJP leaders and hence is scot free, busy in more<br />
corruption and threatening this new channel every day. Mr. Naraynsami<br />
had sanctioned crores of Rupees to the cheaters, the money of which<br />
will never be returned back.</p>
<p>Bank of Baroda</p>
<p>Bank of Baroda tried to finance Terrorist Groups involving India,<br />
Pakistan, UK, Pakistan, USA and Kuwait. Bank of Baroda&#8217;s officers<br />
counter confirmed the Bank Guarantees of more than U.S. $ 80 millions<br />
on forge bills. Mr. P S Shinoy as Chairman cum Managing Director<br />
shielded the corrupt officers.</p>
<p>Bank of Baroda sanctioned Crores of Rupees to more than 100 numbers of<br />
fictitious, 100% Export Oriented <span style="border-bottom: #003366 1px solid;padding-bottom: 1px;line-height: 1em;background-color: transparent;width: auto;color: #003366;margin-left: 0px;font-size: 1em;cursor: pointer;text-decoration: underline">Units</span>. Central Excise and Customs<br />
Department of Government of India have arrested most of the owners of<br />
these units. Customs department have already issued crores of Rupees<br />
show cause notices to these units. The efficient finance minister of<br />
India had already suspended 46 officials of Central Excise and Customs.<br />
But Mr. P S Shinoy, as The Chairman Cum Managing Director of Bank is<br />
promoting these corrupt officials. On the top of them are Mr.<br />
Vaidanathan and Mr. Prabhu, their most trusted lieutenants in this<br />
corrupt scandal.</p>
<p>Unit Trust of India</p>
<p>Mr. M Damodaran, as Chief of Unit Trust of India and all its<br />
subsidiaries sold State Emblem of India for mere Rs. One Lac. (U.S. $<br />
2000.00), Unit Trust of India had made losses of more than Rs. 10,000<br />
Crores at a time when BJP was in power. There was a large scale<br />
corruption in Corruption in UTI and thus UTI had to made losses of more<br />
than Rs. 10,000.00. This Unit Trust of India made corruption in<br />
printing of PAN cards. Mr. R Damodaran promoted the officials<br />
responsible for such large scale corruption. Congress Government could<br />
show power and now UTI is relieved from M Damodaran. But no corrupt<br />
official have been punished till date. Mr. Damaodarn is still the chief<br />
of IDBI and any body can guess the fate of IDBI, another prime Bank of<br />
India having multiple objects in Indian economy.</p>
<p>Vijaya Bank</p>
<p>In day Light robbery, Mr. M S Kapoor, the Chairman Cum Managing<br />
Director of Vijaya Bank could manage to steal his file from Banking<br />
Vigilance Department. There were serious corruptions allegations<br />
against him and the enquiry was in the last stages. Only one or two<br />
officials were transferred from Banking Vigilance Department and the<br />
enquiry have been kept under abeyance with the orders of some higher<br />
authorities.</p>
<p>Central Bank of India</p>
<p>During Office Hours, from the office of Under Secretary, Mr. Dalbir<br />
Singh , Chairman Cum Managing Director of Central Bank took away his<br />
secret Vigilance file. This file was of highly confidential nature and<br />
enquiries were in the last stage about serious corruption charges<br />
against him. Indian Government has taken no action. Mr. Dalbir Singh<br />
was also the Chairman of Indian Bank Association. Under the umbrella of<br />
Indian Bank Association, all Indian banks work.</p>
<p>All what is written above is based on documentation available in Indian<br />
Government Files.</p>
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