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Opposition should not insist on Prime Minister responding to big lie of US President Donald Trump for diplomatic reasons

Opposition should not insist on Prime Minister responding to big lie of US President Donald Trump for diplomatic reasons

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Both House of Parliament on 23.07.2019 witnessed noisy scenes by opposition-members demanding personal appearance of Prime Minister to give clarification on yet another big lie of Donald Trump out of about 12000 he has so far spoken as US President. Opposition-demand apparently looked justified because habitual liar Donald Trump named specifically Prime Minister Narender Modi having asked Donald Trump to mediate with Pakistan on Kashmir issue. But US President is biggest powerful person in the world, and for all diplomatic reasons, clarification by Prime Minister Narender Modi personally would have annoyed Donald Trump which would have cost India heavily in many aspects. Not only Government of India through late-night instant press-release followed by categorical denial by Indian Foreig...
Justified demand to re-spell Delhi: All re-spellings and re-naming of cities and states should be in one go

Justified demand to re-spell Delhi: All re-spellings and re-naming of cities and states should be in one go

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It refers to justified and logical demand raised by BJP Parliamentarian Vijay Goel in Rajya Sabha on 24.07.2019 for re-spell British-distorted spelling of Delhi as Dilli. But re-spelling should be Dehli which means entrance, and was a common household name till several decades after independence. Even Dilli is the distorted name. Many other countries like Bangladesh and China have already respelled names of their capitals as per actual pronunciation. Central government should also accept resolution by West Bengal state-assembly to re-name the state to remove confusing pre-fix West and to have a name in Bangla rather than English. Only old-timers know that since western part of pre-independence undivided Bengal came to India, the state was named as West Bengal, and East Bengal turned int...
IB enquiry necessary for self-acclaimed intellectuals joining hands with anti-national and communal elements in provoking minorities and Dalits against majority community

IB enquiry necessary for self-acclaimed intellectuals joining hands with anti-national and communal elements in provoking minorities and Dalits against majority community

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Central government should refer names of those self-acclaimed intellectuals who have written to Prime Minister on mob-lynching etc allegedly on minorities and Dalits (and not on those many from minority section who brutally killed people from majority community) to Intelligence Bureau for finding their real motives. Intention was clear when convenor of press-conference on 24.07.2019 declined to respond to media-persons on incidents of Hindus having been brutally killed by Muslims. Such people are not less guilty than elements like Akbaruddin Obassi always provoking Muslims against Hindus through his poisonous speeches. Enquiry should also be made and public-land snatched from NGOs who were liberally granted huge pieces of land and funds by earlier UPA and Congress governments because of...
No Tears for fall of Karnataka Govt.

No Tears for fall of Karnataka Govt.

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Many tears will not be shed over fall of the Karnataka Government headed by H D Kumarswamy. Right from the beginning the coalition arrangement between the JD (S) and the Congress was on shaky ground. Congress which had 65 seats in the House of 225 supported Kumarswamy whose Party the JD (S) had won only 34 seats. The coalition managed to form government with the support of some independents and the lone member of the BSP. The move was to stop BJP from forming government which had won 105, the single largest Party in the state assembly. The natural course of action on part of the Opposition parties in Karnataka should have been to let Congress head the government. But overambitious Kumarswamy supported by his father H D Devegowda bargained with Congress to claim chief minister’s chair. If ...
PCI Chairman Seeks Report about Restrictions on Media persons

PCI Chairman Seeks Report about Restrictions on Media persons

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Press Council of India Chairman Justice Shri Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has sought the response of the Finance Ministry over the complaint of restricting the entry of media persons. He is also seeking the response of the state governments where the entry of media persons has been restricted. Justice Prasad told this to a joint delegation of the National Union of Journalists (India), Delhi Journalists Association (DJA) and Delhi Chapter of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ) that called on him at his office. The delegation comprised of NUJ (I) National President Shri Ashok Malik, DJA President Shri Manohar Singh, DJA general secretary Shri Pramod Kumar; and Shri Rajeev Ranjan Nag, Ira Jha and Habib Akhtar from the IFWJ. “We have received representations from various med...
Media-reports indicate that surcharge on Income Tax may hit investments

Media-reports indicate that surcharge on Income Tax may hit investments

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It refers to media-reports indicating that estimated rupees 12000 crores proposed to be earned by imposing surcharge on tax-payers in higher slabs may adversely affect investment in India. India tuned up with most other countries in the world when Raja Challiah committee report was implemented by bringing highest Income-Tax slab down to 30-percent. Tax-system should be simple-most abolishing concepts of cess, surcharge and subsidies to the extent possible. In present system with persons having assessed income upto rupees five lakhs per annum totally exempted from Income Tax, a person having income say rupees 501000 will evidently try to evade rupees 1000 from income because otherwise he would be getting exemption only on income upto rupees 250000. Basic exemption-limit should be same fo...
Remedial measures necessary in GST with rupees 45683 crores frauds detected in GST since its inception on 01.07.2019

Remedial measures necessary in GST with rupees 45683 crores frauds detected in GST since its inception on 01.07.2019

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It refers to government-reply in Parliament that a total of 9385 cases of tax fraud involving amount of rupees 45683 crore has been detected by the tax authorities under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime since its rollout from July 1, 2017 out of which, 1,593 tax fraud cases involving an amount of Rs 6520.40 crore have been detected in April-June. It has become a common practice to sell GST-invoices to those availing false Input Tax Credit (ITC) when consumers do not insist on taking invoices or leave these invoices by getting some petty discount. These unused GST invoices are purchased by manufacturers to avail false ITC further leading to creation of unaccounted money thus evading even Income Tax also. ITC should be available only for trading purpose, and not for manufacturin...
Supreme Court should take sue-motto cognizance of strange verdict of Ranchi court directing distribution of Quran as pre-condition of bail

Supreme Court should take sue-motto cognizance of strange verdict of Ranchi court directing distribution of Quran as pre-condition of bail

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It refers to strange-most decision of a Ranchi-court wherein the concerned judge granted bail to a young Hindu girl on pre-condition of distributing five copies of Islamic Quran. Such a decision is not only a forced court-attack on religious freedom of Hindu girl, but even has unnecessarily developed a religious disturbance when several Hindu organizations have stood in full support of the girl who has boldly decided not to abide with the court-order and to challenge the verdict in higher court. But big question is who will be responsible for mental torture and cost involved in challenging such a religiously-designed court-order. Judges are also human-beings and should be treated like others for giving such disturbing verdicts not only hurting religious sentiments of the ordered person ...
Silver-alloy commemorative-coins should be issued on face-value

Silver-alloy commemorative-coins should be issued on face-value

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Silver-alloy commemorative coins for first time after independence issued on 02.10.1969 to commemorate Gandhi Birth Centenary at face-value of rupees ten at a time when value of silver-content in the coin was much lower than face-value of rupees ten. Moreover these coins and their coin-sets were issued to general public right from date of issue on 02.10.1969. But system has now been changed when face-value of silver-alloy coins is much-much less than the silver-content of the coin, evidently doing away with system of providing commemorative coins at face-value to general public. Now only coin-sets in plastic-packs in two different categories of Proof and Uncirculated categories are sold at much exorbitant price through a cumbersome booking-procedure making these reach to those having bo...
Welcome move of central government to bring Mother Dairy under RTI Act

Welcome move of central government to bring Mother Dairy under RTI Act

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It refers to reply in Parliament by government that it has advised National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to abide by CIC-decision 15.04.2011 upheld by single-bench of Delhi High Court by its order dated 02.02.2015 to bring Mother Dairy under RTI Act. Presently Mother Dairy has filed an appeal at Division Bench of Delhi High Court. Rather all NDDB subsidiaries should be covered under RTI Act. Most people and even public-authorities are unaware of the fact that NDDB has to provide information about its subsidiaries including Mother Dairy under section 2(f) of RTI Act with NDDB being the regulatory body for its subsidiaries. Best is to put all Public-Private-Partnerships PPPs, sports-bodies, cooperative-societies and other such bodies affecting lives of millions to be directly under RTI ...