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India Against Corruption, a powerful if flawed mass movement that put the government under considerable pressure last August with its demand that a long-delayed anti-corruption bill be passed, made two widely watched moves last week. They also happened to be moves in opposite directions.
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India’s government failed to reach an agreement with social activists asked to help draft an anti- corruption bill, prolonging a standoff over graft that has dented the government’s reputation and business confidence.
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India’s top court will hear on March 2 a suit that seeks to declare Vedanta Resources Plc’s $8.67 billion acquisition of oil explorer Cairn India Ltd. illegal.
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India’s Supreme Court today sought a response from government agencies, Telecommunications Minister Andimuthu Raja and the Central Bureau of Investigation on a public interest petition on the sale of wireless spectrum.
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India’s top judges delayed a lower court ruling on the ownership of land where the 1992 razing of a mosque by Hindus sparked nationwide riots, asking parties to the dispute to attempt reconciliation.
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Google Inc. will “continue to remove” in India content that is illegal or breaks the company’s terms of service, the owner of the world’s most popular search engine said, a day after a minister asked social media operators to better manage content on their sites.
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India’s government and civil society activists narrowed differences over the powers of a proposed law to fight corruption, the clearest sign yet of concessions that may end a nine-day hunger strike and street protests.
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India must ban politicians accused of serious crimes from contesting elections if it wants to eradicate the “root cause” of official corruption, the country’s chief election commissioner said.
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The leader of a campaign against corruption in India was today sent to jail for a week after being arrested at a house in New Delhi hours ahead of a planned hunger strike in the capital that police had banned.
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India’s Supreme Court gave the government 10 days to reply to a petition from Ratan Tata that seeks to prevent further disclosure of recorded phone conversations between him and a public relations executive.
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