Beijing, March 26 (IANS) The Nehru-Gandhi family, which has dominated Indian politics for over 50 years, is now facing a severe challenge from the main opposition BJP in the general elections next month, a leading Chinese daily said. The Indian middle-class is moving away from the scandal-ridden Congress Party and pinning hopes on BJP’s prime ministerial […]
President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said that corruption was a cancer and noted that fault lines in democracy were handiwork of those who had made power a gateway to greed. In his address on the eve of Republic Day, the president said that democracy has never been betrayed by people. “Some cynics may scoff at our […]
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Monday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has “forfeited the moral right to speak against corruption” after taking Congress support to form a government. “In the Delhi assembly, Kejriwal has taken the support of the corrupt Congress to win the vote of confidence. If he now talks about sweeping out […]
China has investigated as many as 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, a report said Sunday. The officials were allegedly involved in 27,236 cases, 21,848 of these being major and important, reported Xinhua citing a statement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Major and important cases accounted for 80.2 percent of […]