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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...
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...
Lokayukta Fervour
BIHAR & MP MAKE NEWS
By Insaf
New Delhi, Dec 10, 2011: The Lokayukta fervour is catching up. Bihar is the latest State to heed to Anna’s war cry against corruption, even as the nation anxiously awaits the Centre’s Lokpal Bill....
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...
Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), Oct 4
Taking on the Congress, social crusader Anna Hazare said here Tuesday that he would resume his movement for a strong anti-graft Jan Lokpal bill after Dussehra and begin with the Oct 13 Lok Sabha by-election in...
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...
New Delhi, Sep 23
Members of Team Anna Friday began a campaign in government offices across the capital to motivate employees against accepting bribes.
“The first event in this series would be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the District Commissioner’s...
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,...
New Delhi, Aug 29
Congress MP Praveen Singh Aron Monday said the situation arising out of Anna Hazare’s fast for a strong Lokpal bill had not been handled well by the party in the absence of party chief Sonia Gandhi.
“The persons responsible...
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...
New Delhi, Aug 28
Anna Hazare ended his 12-day fast Sunday morning before tens of thousands of cheering supporters at Ramlila Maidan by sipping a glass of coconut water with honey offered to him by two girls.
The nation, particularly the government...
New Delhi, Aug 27
After 12 days of fasting for an anti-corruption law that galvanized tens of thousands across India, Anna Hazare announced Saturday night that he will call off his protest at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Looking weak but sounding jubilant, Hazare,...
New Delhi, Aug 27
The eight-hour long extraordinary debate on the Lokpal issue Saturday ended with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressing “a broad sense of the house” resolution that includes an in-principle acceptance of three key...
New Delhi, Aug 27
The government has agreed to adopt by a voice vote fasting Anna Hazare’s demands on the Lokpal bill, sources said Saturday.
The debate in parliament on Hazare’s demands will be followed by a resolution that will reflect...
New Delhi, Aug 27
Doctors attending on Anna Hazare term the 74-year-old a “rare man” and are flummoxed at how the social activist has been subsisting on plain water for the past 12 days and, though visibly weak, still manages to infuse...
