Corruption: 51% Indians paid bribes in last one year, down from 56% in 2018, says survey

However, the figure for 2019 was higher than it was in 2017.

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· Nov 27, 2019 · 10:27 pm

Rajya Sabha passes amendments to anti-graft law that would make giving bribes an offence

The amendment bill had been first floated in 2013 by the Congress-led government at the Centre.

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· Jul 19, 2018 · 06:56 pm

Supreme Court scraps illegal Haryana land deals, takes the plots away from private builders

With ‘mala fide exercise of power’, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government had allowed various entities to make ‘unnatural gains’ from the Gurugram plots.

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· Mar 13, 2018 · 09:35 am

India slips two ranks – 81 among 180 – in Transparency International’s index on corruption in 2017

Countries with the least protection for the press and NGOs ‘tend to have the worst rates of corruption’, the report said.

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· Feb 22, 2018 · 11:20 am

Supreme Court asks Chhattisgarh government to show files related to AgustaWestland chopper purchase

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government allegedly got commissions for a helicopter deal in 2007.

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· Nov 16, 2017 · 03:50 pm

Get any investigation done against Robert Vadra, Congress tells government

The BJP had earlier asked the Congress to break its silence over allegations against the businessman.

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· Oct 17, 2017 · 09:16 pm

Anna Hazare sits on day-long hunger strike, criticises Narendra Modi for not acting on corruption

The social activist attacked the government for not enforcing the Lokpal and Lokayukta bills even after three years in power.

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· Oct 02, 2017 · 05:42 pm

CBI special court defers hearing in 2G spectrum scam to October 25

The court said the date of judgment will be finalised on the next date of hearing.

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· Sep 20, 2017 · 04:30 pm

Tamil Nadu starts seizing properties connected with Jayalalithaa’s disproportionate assets case

Collectors of six districts were instructed to take possession of 68 of 128 pieces of land.

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· May 30, 2017 · 08:13 pm

Coal scam: Former Coal Secretary HC Gupta and two others sentenced to two years in prison

Managing director of Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd PK Ahluwalia will have to serve a three-year jail term in the same case.

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· May 22, 2017 · 04:43 pm

Corruption on ‘definite decline’ in India, but Karnataka ranked the worst: Study

Of the households surveyed across 20 states, 43% believe that graft had reduced in the country’s public services, compared to 73% in 2005.

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· Apr 28, 2017 · 07:55 am

India improves marginally on transparency corruption index

The country’s consistent poor performance reiterates its inability to deal with graft and large-scale scandals, the report said.

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· Jan 26, 2017 · 10:01 am