CJI: Certainty of punishment can check corruption

New Delhi, September 12 Terming corruption as an insidious plague that has wide range of corrosive effects on societies including national threat, K G Balakrishnan, Chief Justice of India today said the menace could be checked if the public servant involved is certain of punitive action against him.

CBI director Ashwani Kumar (L) welcomes CJI KG Balakrishnan at a seminar on “Fighting Crimes Related to Corruption” in New Delhi on Saturday. A Tribune photograph

Arunachal Visit
India: Dalai Lama is free to travel anywhere
New Delhi, September 12
India appears to be in no mood to pay heed to China’s opposition to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s proposed visit to Arunachal Pradesh.

BJP spits fire on scribe friends
New Delhi, September 12
The BJP appears incensed with the current trend of journalists sympathetic to the party and the RSS being given “undue importance” by the leadership and has cautioned against journalists “who were (once) spewing fire in support of our ideology”.

Jet, pilots reach pact
Mumbai, September 12
The five-day-old stir by Jet Airways pilots that severely crippled the carrier’s services neared an end tonight as the airline management and the agitators were understood to have worked out a settlement.

Dirty rooms, mosquitoes greet 450 IRB cops from Punjab
Jammu, September 12
If you are coming on security duty in this highly sensitive state, arrange for your own cots, beddings, pay for new phone connections and be ready to sleep in the open or in dirty rooms without fans but full of insects and mosquitoes.

Punjab Sammelan
Manpreet fails to hold ‘vichar’ on subsidy
Shimla, September 12
Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal failed to raise the issue of ending agriculture and other subsidies during the two-day “Punjab Vichar Sammelan” after being specifically restrained to do so.

SAD flays move on UT
Shimla, September 12
The SAD has criticised the central government for taking a unilateral decision whereby the Punjab Governor will no longer remain the UT Administrator.