NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian activist who ended a 12-day hunger strike Sunday after pushing Parliament to consider his anti-graft demands promised his jubilant supporters that his battle against endemic corruption would continue. “It’s the end of my fast but it’s not the end of my fight. I will be back,” Anna Hazare, 74, [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — The scion of India’s most powerful political family praised a reform activist for galvanizing anger against corruption but said Friday that using a hunger strike to force lawmakers to adopt an anti-corruption bill set “a dangerous precedent for a democracy.” The comments by top ruling party lawmaker Rahul Gandhi were his [...]
NEW DELHI, India — Gary Kirsten, the coach of India’s cricket team, has some advice for his players: Have sex before matches, boys. And if no partner is available, then “go solo.” It says so, right in the team’s training manual leaked to Indian media. “From a psychological perspective, having sex increased testosterone levels, which [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister seized control of a national anti-corruption debate Thursday, calling on Parliament to discuss protesters’ reform proposals and appealing to a weakening 74-year-old activist to end his nine-day hunger strike. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address to lawmakers was his most direct attempt at ending the stalemate between the government [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — The government called Tuesday for India’s political parties to reach consensus on drafting anti-corruption legislation, as an activist leading anti-graft protests entered the second week of his hunger strike. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government scheduled an all-party meeting for Wednesday to discuss details of setting up an anti-corruption watchdog. The move [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — A news report says suspected communist rebels have killed 11 police officers in an ambush in eastern India. The Press Trust of India news agency quoted senior police official Ram Nivas as saying that the rebel attack took place Friday in Bijapur district of troubled Chhattisgarh state. The police officer could [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lashed out at India’s most prominent anti-corruption crusader Wednesday, accusing the fasting activist of trying to circumvent democracy by demanding Parliament pass a reform bill he supports. Hundreds of demonstrators chanting “down with corruption” and “hail Mother India” gathered in a show of support at the jail [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting slogans of support have gathered outside a prison in India’s capital where an anti-corruption activist is holding a hunger strike protest. Police arrested Anna Hazare on Tuesday as he planned a public fast to push the scandal-embroiled government to frame tougher anti-corruption laws. Hazare began fasting behind [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — An anti-corruption activist arrested Tuesday for planning a public hunger strike began his fast behind bars as his supporters held protests across the country, with thousands detained by police. Anna Hazare’s demand for tougher anti-corruption laws has tested the beleaguered government and galvanized Indians fed up with seemingly endless scandals exposing [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — A prominent anti-corruption activist who had announced plans to go on an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher anti-corruption laws was detained early Tuesday morning, police said. Anna Hazare had said that he would start fasting Tuesday and would gather along with supporters in a public park in New Delhi despite [...]
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