India's beleaguered government won some rare relief on Saturday when a court threw out a corruption case against one its top ministers ahead of crucial state elections next week. | The court dismissed a petition accusing Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram of signing off on the sale of telecoms licenses at below-market prices that may have cost the government up to $36 billion in lost revenues.
1 of 2. Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram speaks in Islamabad June 26, 2010. | NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government won some rare relief on Saturday when a Delhi court threw out the corruption case against Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram ahead of crucial elections in Uttar Pradesh next week.
4 (CNA) More than 80 percent of people in Taiwan think that government corruption has decreased since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in 2008, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said Saturday, citing two polls that it commissioned.
Tens of thousands of Russian political activists have gathered in Moscow for a series of rallies ahead of next month's presidential elections. | Supporters from both pro and anti-Putin groups were planning marches on February 4, in a show of solidarity and to campaign against alleged electoral fraud respectively. | Police estimates put the number of anti-government protesters at around 85,000, despite blisteringly cold temperatures of -17C.
The Anti Corruption Bureau, investigating an alleged land scam, has filed a charge sheet against a former Rajasthan minister and 29 others in a special court here.
Yeddyurappa's action comes against the backdrop of counselling by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders at Hubli last week asking him to wait for some more time and also advice by top Bhartiya Janata Party leadership to come clean from the corruption...
"Here have gathered people of absolutely different political views -- left, right, nationalists, everyone," anti-Kremlin corruption crusader and prominent activist Alexei Navalny said before the march. Opposition activists, many sporting white ribbons...
Editor: Sergei Guriev mentioned that prior to political events, Russia was falling into a political-economic trap, as there was no political demand for reform. He said that political demand was important for structural reform to be launched. The political demands of the middle class occurred unexpectedly and could stimulate demand for reform. However, the changes are likely to take place as an evolution, not a revolution.
File photo by AFP In the early years of his political career, Imran Khan would speak off a rolled cluster of scribbled notes in his hands. At one rally, in 1998, the first line on the first page read: “Believe in Pakistan.” His interviews...
"This verdict will not change the corrupt image of the government or the intensity of our campaign...The issue of political accountability of Chidambaram remains alive...We will continue to raise the matter of his accountability before the nation," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said in New Delhi. | Maintaining that "there is overwhelming evidence of corruption" in the grant of 2G licences, h...
At the head of the march, people pressed around the anti- corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny, shouting, “Aleksei, we are behind you!” and “We will follow you!” At first, the crowd was so tightly packed that the column could not move forward.
Michael Ofori Amanfo Boateng: A cursory look at the political climate in Ghana reveals that, job creation had been a top campaign message and the ability of a candidate to win an election depends to a very large extent, on his plans to reduce the level of unemployment among...
The abrupt transferral of a gang-busting police chief €“ due to be immortalised in film €“ has sent China's internet rumour mill into overdrive. | Wang Lijun became famous nationwide after leading a crackdown against organised crime in Chongqing launched by the region's high-profile party secretary, Bo Xilai.
Kuwait's opposition won a majority in the country's new parliament in elections that saw gains for Islamists and a defeat for liberals and women. | "It's beyond all expectations, we have extremism on all fronts and it's going to be very explosive," said Abdullah Al- Shayji, chairman of the political science department at Kuwait University. Islamists "will run the show, they will control the tempo."
KUWAIT CITY (AP) €” Opposition groups that include hard-line Islamists have taken control of Kuwait's parliament, according to election results Friday, in a rise that could limit the hands of pro-Western rulers in dealings such as U.S. plans to boost its military presence in the oil-rich Gulf nation. The outcome highlights the growing pressures on Kuwait's ruling family after months of political upheavals that included charges of high-level...
By Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian US Republicans are deploying a $100m election spending machine to savage Barack Obama's green agenda, with Karl Rove's political action committee releasing a new advert attacking the administration for funding...
Keywords:... (AHRC) appreciates the decision made by the Supreme Court of India, that set a timeframe for governments to sanction or refuse prosecution of public officers accused of offences punishable under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The outcome highlights the growing pressures on Kuwait's ruling family after months of political upheavals that included charges of high-level corruption and outrage over crackdowns on anti-government demonstrations and other dissenting voices.
It is madness that political and corporate leaders continue to escape accountability for their poor choices, budget management and from enforcement of policies and law. They blame others, retain their entitlements and continue to get richer via insider political connections. The politicians should be held to the same job performance accountability and reform of their health care and pension benefits as legislated for government workers.
Block, Gaston Savoi, Fernando Praderi, Patrick Lenyibi, Frank Mashilo and Nandipha Madiba are charged with fraud, corruption and contravening the Municipal Finance Management Act. The charges relate to alleged irregularities in the acquisition...
Every night on this newscast you can see the mass parties jostling for political standing with their fancy, forceful sometimes funny political ads. But you won't see the independent candidates caught up in that gallop. That's because they want to establish that for them, governance and politics is not business as usual. | Those independents have now formally come under one umbrella called the Belize Unity Alliance or the BUA.
As a result, political parties wielding considerable resources but lacking clear economic policies could easily end up in parliament. As of now, even an economist would find it difficult to define what economic steps and directions are being proposed...
I dare Mr Corbin to point to one example in ten years where I publicly criticized the political views of the PNC or AFC. On the contrary he will find several where I called for measures to reduce crime, corruption and poverty, which he has also called...
Keywords:... Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday prepared to charge the prime minister with contempt of court for his failure to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, breaking an uneasy calm of political tension with the judiciary.
Kuwaiti opposition candidates were expected to make gains in a snap parliamentary election being held on Thursday in the oil-exporting Gulf Arab state. | Kuwait's ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, called the vote in December after dissolving the chamber in response to a deepening political deadlock that has stymied reform and held up vital development projects. | "In the past years the parliament broke our hearts and let us down,"
Pakistan's Supreme Court is to charge Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani with contempt for failing to reopen corruption cases against the president. | The court ordered Mr Gilani to appear before it on 13 February. If convicted he could face six months in jail and would be barred from office. | The government has refused to prosecute President Asif Ali Zardari, saying he has immunity as head of state.
Pakistan's highest court is to charge the country's prime minister with contempt over his refusal to reopen corruption cases against the president, reigniting a threat that could bring down his fragile government. By Rob Crilly, Islamabad and agencies...
Development in Russia is hindered by political uncertainty, but the March 4 elections are hardly likely to result in the change needed to encourage foreign investors.
NULL: Swamy's fight is a political one. Amid the embarrassment for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, which oversaw the sale of the licences at below-market prices, the 72-year-old eyed his next target. "I will prove that Mr Chidambaram is a crook,"...
Keywords: €” Pakistan's Supreme Court vowed Thursday to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president, ramping up a destabilizing political crisis just as Washington seeks to rebuild a troubled anti-terror alliance with the country. | If convicted, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani could face six months in prison and the loss of his job.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to appear on February 13 to be indicted with contempt over his refusal to pursue corruption cases against the president. The announcement significantly escalated...
Web18: Talk of fiddling while the capital is burning! | This morning, the Supreme Court delivered a stinging rebuke of the UPA government€™s telecom policy, which is cloaked in layers of corruption in the sale of 2G spectrum.
Dhaka, Feb 2 (bdnews24.com)—BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia secured permanent bail on Thursday from the trial court in a case involving corruption in a charity fund in her last term as prime minister. As the anticipatory bail she had taken from the High...
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. — Dina Galassini does not seem to pose a threat to Arizona's civic integrity. But the government of this desert community believes you cannot be too careful. And state law empowers local governments to be vigilant against the lurking danger that political speech might occur before the speakers notify the government and comply with all the speech rules.
And it has caused a worry as to whether or not there is enough political traction in India to continue with needed and necessary economic reforms which both the countries (India and the USA) want so badly. It isn't the lack of will, though.
Many Malaysians are puzzled over why some people aspire to become political leaders, writes John Inbaraj: to serve the people with their God-given qualities? or to stash millions (nowadays, billions) for themselves? | My friends and I often meet in the evenings for some coffee-shop talk. Most of us are in our fifties and some in their sixties. All of us have lived through Malaysia under the tenure of all the Prime Ministers.
Levan Gelashvili: It was the first White House meeting between President Obama and President Saakashvili, who has strengthened defense and security ties with the United States, and undertaken anti-corruption and other reforms, in a volatile political environment at home. | Mr. Obama noted that the Oval Office talks marked the 20th anniversary of Georgia's independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the United States.
Pointing out the areas where the Church's efforts were most pressingly needed, the Archbishop of Mumbai cited the rampant corruption , ethnic and commercial violence, criminalization of politics and large scale internal displacement of citizens under...
Explosive and mysterious, a file named €œGorilla€ contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia€™s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? | The Gorilla file is a very public window into the bowels of Slovak politics that gives the impression that politicians are mere tools of businessmen, who allocate tasks to them and pay fees.