A report by international agency Oxfam on Monday flayed rich countries for using World Trade Organisation
'Never pretend to know the answer to something you have no clue about!' says Rhodes Scholar Swati Mylavarapu.
'The absence of any meaningful law to monitor the funding of political parties has been a glaring limitation in the Indian electoral/political system,' the study says.
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
India on Thursday decided to write-off dues worth Rs 95.44 crore (Rs 954 million) of seven heavily indebted poor countries.
India topped the World Bank's list of workers' remittances at $10 billion, which is over 13 per cent of the total $72.3 billion flowing to all developing countries during 2001.
It switched places with France, which is now in the third place in the latest rankings published on Wednesday.
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