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CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY
Trump, do keep a leash on IsraelRecent Israeli strikes in Beirut have unexpectedly advanced a US-Iran deal. This agreement, set to be signed soon in Switzerland, faces cha...
Mexico City protests: Horrific video shows officer beaten with bolt cutter as violent mob tries to storm National Palace after Gen Z–led protest in Mexico City eruptsMexico City witnessed a large Gen Z-led protest against crime and corruption, escalating to clashes with police and an attempt to breach th...
Haiti now needs up to 5,000 police to help tackle 'catastrophic' gang violence , UN expert saysLast July, William O'Neill said Haiti needed between 1,000 and 2,000 international police trained to deal with gangs. Today, he said the si...
TMC terms Kejriwal's arrest breach of MCC, BJP says Bengal too will witness similar scenesThe arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has sparked political reactions in West Bengal, with state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar suggesting...
Over 1,300 killed in Democratic Republic of Congo violence: UN Volker TurkThe Islamist-aligned Allied Democratic Forces, a notorious militia called CODECO, and M23 insurgents, along with the Zaire and Nyatura arme...
Sons of Panama ex-president released from US jail, family bannedOdebrecht admitted in 2016 that it and affiliated entities had paid $788 million in bribes in efforts between 2001 and 2016 to win contract...
More questions than answers as EU corruption scandal unfoldsNo one answers the door or the phone at the offices of the two campaign groups linked to a cash-for-favours corruption scandal at the Europ...
Indian social activist Anjali Bharadwaj among 12 anti-corruption champions announced by Biden adminThe 48-year-old activist is also the founder of the Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS), a citizens' group with a mandate to promote transparency...
PM slams 'dynastic corruption', says it had become part of political culture in some statesHis remarks came ahead of the first phase of voting in the Bihar assembly election, where the BJP-JD(U) alliance has been targeting Tejashw...
US lambasts Pak lack of accountability in addressing human rights violation“There was a lack of government accountability, and abuses often went unpunished, fostering a culture of impunity among perpetrators, wheth...
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's party wins over two-thirds in Maldivian ParliamentThis could give him and Md Nasheed who also won a seat in Parliament a free hand in efforts to restore political freedoms and tackle corrup...
No compromise on corruption, even CM won't be spared: Sarbananda Sonowal"There will be no compromise on corruption. Stern action will be taken against anyone involved in taking black money," warned Sonowal.
Sri Lanka opposition challenges Mahinda Rajapaksa's corruption chargesSri Lankas's main opposition party UNP today challenged President Mahinda Rajapaksa's claim of having files of corruption details by his de...
Imperative to reform political funding and bring transparency in the processTill this basic reform is done, it would be impossible to raise India’s ranking in ease-of-doing-business surveys or end crony capitalism.
Congress manifesto a document of 'deceit': BJP"This is not a manifesto, but it is a document of deceit. It is a rank insult to the people of the country," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad...
Digvijay alleges large-scale corruption in MPAddressing a public meeting at the Gandhi Square here, Singh said various 'panchayats' held at the Chief Minister's residence reflected cor...
- BJP to hold nation-wide protests against scams in UPA
BJP will now take to the streets on May 4 and 5 by holding country-wide programmes and demonstrations to "expose" the scams and graft in th...
- US report cites police abuses, extrajudicial killings in India
US castigated India's human rights record citing "security force abuses", "extrajudicial killings", as major issues to contend with.
- BJP attacks Sonia, says democratic right to expose government deficiencies
Attacking Sonia Gandhi for her remark that it had become "fashionable" to criticise the govt, BJP said it was their "democratic" right to e...
- RTI calls for systemic reform as followthrough
We condemn the killing of Shehla Masood, a public-spirited woman of Bhopal who used the Right to Information Act extensively.