The Scorpene deal scam was an Indian bribery scandal, in which Rs. 500 crores (about USD 10 million) were alleged to have been paid to government decision makers by Thales. Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee had approved a deal to build Scorpene-class submarines worth Rs 19,000 crore with Thales in October 2005. The investigating agency, Central […]
The Fodder Scam was a corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about Rs 9.4 billion (equivalent to Rs 25 billion or US$400 million in 2015) from the government treasury of the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Among those implicated in the theft and arrested were then Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, as
The Belekeri port scam relates to 3.5 million tons of confiscated iron ore that was exported illegally from Belekeri port near Karwar in Karnataka. After Deputy Conservator of Forests R. Gokul seized the ore and the high court refused to permit it to be exported, a large part of it was surreptitiously exported from the
The Bofors scandal was a major political scandal that occurred between Sweden and India during 1980s and 1990s, initiated by Congress politicians and implicating the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi and several other members of the Swedish and Indian governments who were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply
Gaza StripStatement before the General Assembly of the UN in New York January 17th 1957 I rise to make a statement on the problems of the Sinai Desert, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gaza Strip.On 3 December 1956, the Israeli forces withdrew from the Suez Canal area along the length of the Canal to
Eulogy for Rosa Parks Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers and this amazing choir: I—I feel it an honour to be here to come and say a final goodbye. I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was a hero to me long before I recognized and understood the power and impact that her life
What Is Patriotism?San Francisco, CA, 1908 Men and Women: What is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where
Gay Rights March on WashingtonApril 25, 1993 Hello lesbian and gay Americans. I am proud to stand before you as a lesbian today. With hearts full of love and the abiding faith in justice, we have come to Washington to speak to America. We have come to speak the truth of our lives and silence
A Left-Handed Commencement AddressMills College, Oakland, California, May 19, 1983 “I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women.I know there are men graduating, and I don’t mean to exclude them, far from it. There is a Greek
On the Death of Princess DianaSeptember 9, 1997 Since last Sunday’s dreadful news we have seen, throughout Britain and around the world, an overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana’s death.We have all been trying in our different ways to cope. It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is
Responding to LandminesJune 12, 1997 Ladies and Gentlemen,I must begin by saying how warmly I welcome this conference on landmines convened by the Mines Advisory Group and the Landmines Survivors’ Network. It is so welcome because the world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing
Nobel Lecture, The Chinese NovelDecember 12, 1938 Stockholm, Sweden When I came to consider what I should say today it seemed that it would be wrong not to speak of China. And this is none the less true because I am an American by birth and by ancestry and though I live now in my
Growth and Poverty ReductionFebruary 8, 1997 Admirably, our conference moderator, Jeff Sachs, wants to keep things simple by not adding to the list of what must be done in development. I do not want to add to that list either, but I must. Why? Frustration about Latin America— where growth in the 1960s and 1970s
Her Days as a SlaveYear 1925 “He saw my maw on the Kilpatrick place and her man was dead. He told Dr. Kilpatrick, my massa, he’d buy my maw and her three chillun with all the money he had, iffen he’d sell her. But Dr. Kilpatrick was never one to sell any but the old
Discovery Of RadiumVassar College in Poughkeepsie,NY—May 14, 1921 I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity and it would take a long time. But as we cannot do that, I shall only give you a short account of my early work about radium. Radium is no more a baby; it is more than