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Civil Society’s Role
REFORMING DEFUNCT SYSTEM
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
New Delhi, Jan 23 : Times are indeed changing for the better. The civil society’s role in seeking to reform the system has yet again come to the forefront. It has emerged...
The Road Ahead
CAN ANNA SUSTAIN MOMENTUM?
By Dr.S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
New Delhi, Aug 10 : Social activist’s Anna Hazare’s announcement disbanding his team and entering the political fray has led to a big debate across...
New Delhi, Aug 2 Anna Hazare and his team members Thursday announced they were calling off their indefinite fast against corruption at 5 p.m. Friday and said they would seek a referendum on forming a “political alternative”.
Hazare, who has...
Anna’s Voice
PRICKING NATION’S CONSCIENCE
By Mithun Dey
New Delhi, Jan 11, 2012: The recent murky controversy over the non-passage of the Lokpal Bill and a complete failure of Anna’s third innings, has led to an unnecessary debate picking winners...
New Delhi, Dec 31: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said that a delegation of senior leaders will meet President Pratibha Patil Jan 3 to register the party’s protest against the Lokpal bill fiasco in parliament.
The party’s core group,...
New Delhi, Dec 28 President Pratibha Patil Wednesday gave her nod to the amended Lokpal Bill, as approved by the Lok Sabha Tuesday, paving the way for its introduction in the Rajya Sabha.
It is now up to the government to decide if it wants to introduce...
New Delhi, December 26 Team Anna member and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan reiterated Monday that if the CBI remained under the government control, the entire objective of the Lokpal bill would be defeated.
“The ojective of the Lokpal is to have...
New Delhi, Dec 26 Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday the government was aware of some sticking points in the Lokpal bill opposed by social activist Anna Hazare but the “final shape” of the contentious anti-graft legislation would be...
New Delhi, Dec 12 Keen to silence criticism by the opposition and Team Anna over Lokpal, the government may accept the demand for including the prime minister within its ambit with some conditions, as also group C employees, Congress sources said.
A Congress...
New Delhi, Dec 11 Leaders of various political parties Sunday came out strongly in support of social activist Anna Hazare, who was on a day-long fast for a strong anti-corruption Lokpal that would include the prime minister and entire bureaucracy under...
New Delhi, Dec 9 Recommending statutory status for the institution of the ombudsman, the standing committee on the Lokpal Friday tabled its report in both houses of parliament.
Panel chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi (Congress) tabled the report in the Rajya...
New Delhi, Oct 08
Anna Hazare and his band of merry men are back. After a spell of rest and recuperation in his native redoubt of Ralegan Siddhi, the crusader is back on the road to fight the corrupt.
But it is possible that he will find the latest round...
Mumbai, Sep 2
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare seems set to take the virtual world by storm. He Thursday became a blogger and even joined social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.
The blog, with posts in English, Hindi and Marathi, is titled...
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), Sep 21
A three-member Pakistani delegation Wednesday met social activist Anna Hazare at his village to seek his opinion on starting an anti-graft drive in their country.
Former Pakistan law minister Iqbal Haider, Pakistan...
Panaji, Aug 30
The nationwide anti-graft movement of Anna Hazare would not have packed the same punch had social networking media such as Facebook not been around, a marketing expert said Tuesday.
Kunal Kishore, director of a brand managing firm Value360,...
Islamabad, Aug 30
An Anna Hazare is needed in Pakistan to lead the struggle against corruption if the country’s political parties continue to be averse to taking decisive measures against graft, a Pakistani paper said, commending the Indian activist...
New Delhi, Aug 28
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday met President Pratibha Patil and discussed parliament’s consensus resolution on the Lokpal bill as demanded by Anna Hazare to end his fast.
Hazare broke his 12-day fast Sunday following the...
New Delhi, Aug 28
He drove a truck for the army during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, but when Anna Hazare broke his fast on day 13 Sunday after the Indian parliament agreed to his three demands for a stronger anti-graft legislation the school dropout...
New Delhi, Aug 28
He has only “suspended” his fast not ended it, Anna Hazare said Sunday and added that his campaign for a strong Lokpal institution would continue till parliament passed the anti-graft bill.
“I have just suspended...
New Delhi, Aug 27
There is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi. Yet they have been bound together by a common link called Anna Hazare.
Prasad has...
