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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicPrevention of Corruption Act

Topic: Prevention of Corruption Act

Over 50% population in 13 states paid bribes to govt departments in last one year: Survey

Unnati Sharma -
New Delhi: Over 60 per cent people paid bribes to various government departments in the last one year in eight out of 20 states,...

Incidents of bribery down by 10% since 2018, survey of 20 states finds

PTI -
The 'India Corruption Survey 2019', which received 1.9 lakh responses, was conducted by Transparency International India and LocalCircles.

Has Modi govt curbed corruption? Difficult to say

Bibek Debroy -
Speed of judicial processes, executive's limited degrees of freedom over it and time-lag in data access are some reasons why.

If govt has its way, CBI won’t be able to recommend penalties for bureaucrats

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
According to a proposal, the premier investigation agency should be stripped of the power to recommend penalties for those accused of small-scale graft.

Naveen Jindal further charged with abatement of bribery by special court

PTI -
Jindal denied having engaged in criminal conspiracy in the allocation of Jharkhand's Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block. 

Unhappy with ‘generalist’ tag, IAS body wants appointment based on qualification 

Sanya Dhingra -
Newly appointed IAS Association president says most officers are engineers, CAs and doctors and have technical knowledge.

Parliament amends anti-corruption act: Will it weaken the law or restore fairness?

ThePrint Team -
The Lok Sabha passed the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2013 Tuesday. Experts weigh in on the changes made to the original Act.

Prevention of corruption law amended to protect bankers & former bureaucrats

Apurva Vishwanath -
The law will now penalise bribe-givers as well, unless they have done so under duress and file a complaint within seven days of the incident.

MP Congress leader moves top court against CM Shivraj Chouhan in dumper scam

Ritika Jain -
In January, MP High Court dismissed K.K. Mishra’s revision plea challenging dismissal of criminal complaint against CM.

Government officials facing corruption charges won’t get passports

Ashwini Shrivastava -
The competent authority can, however, take a view wherein foreign travel is necessitated due to urgent situations like medical emergencies.
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