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In January 2015, US Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — one of Albany's most powerful men.
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In 2013, with growth halved and scandals mounting, the dragon-versus-elephant debate looked settled. A decade later, the race had a different leader.
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Pakistan won zero medals at London 2012 — and its own media joked the country could only sweep the medals if corruption were an Olympic sport.
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2G, coal, Commonwealth Games: India's corruption isn't a few bad apples — it's structural. How opacity got woven into how the country actually runs.
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Anna Hazare's 2011 fast electrified India's anti-corruption movement. But can one Anna — or a hundred — clean the desh? The harder question behind the slogan.
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Arrested before his fast could begin, Anna Hazare refused bail and stayed in Tihar — turning a protest into the defining political crisis of 2011.
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As CAG, Vinod Rai's 2G audit pegged the spectrum loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore — and made a quiet auditor the most feared man in Indian public life.
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In 2011, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy live-streamed his office 24/7 as an anticorruption experiment. Gimmick or masterstroke? We look back.
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2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes, Karnataka mining, UP foodgrain, the IPL franchise row — on the scandals defining India in late
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Pakistani journalist Jawed Naqvi's critique of Indian corruption provoked outrage — and uncomfortable recognition. On the messenger, the message, and 2010's
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The Radia tapes also captured the Ambani brothers' rivalry — Mukesh vs Anil over the KG Basin gas dispute — and the lobbyists, journalists, and politicians
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In November 2010 Ratan Tata revealed a fellow industrialist had told him to pay a Rs 15 crore bribe for the Tata-SIA airline plan.
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