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Only e-scooters and auto-rickshaws from 2025: Some measures also necessary to curb pollution by cars

Only e-scooters and auto-rickshaws from 2025: Some measures also necessary to curb pollution by cars

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It refers to welcome news that only e-scooters (two-wheelers) will be sold in the country after 2025 while in respect of three wheelers, the deadline is even earlier of 2020. Since two-wheelers constitute major portion of total vehicle-sale in the country, ban on two-wheelers and three-wheelers other than driven by pre-charged electric-engines will effectively check pollution. However till phenomenon of exclusively sold e-cars becomes a dream come true, cars should be allowed to be sold only with petrol-engines fitted with CNG-kit. Production and sale of cars driven by diesel-engines should be altogether banned with immediate effect. Production of diesel-driven cars is gross misuse of having price of diesel less than that of petrol only for keeping cost of public-transportation less. ...
Compulsion of dynastic tradition in Congress deprives India of two-party system

Compulsion of dynastic tradition in Congress deprives India of two-party system

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Election-results for Lok Sabha were on expected lines ever since Sonia Gandhi forced dynastic tradition in her party by making his politically-incapable son as Congress President. Evidently politics in parties with dynastic tradition is like a political industry where it is quite natural that owner of the political industry will hand over the party to his or her legal heir only irrespective of capability. Congress is not the only such party. There are many regional parties like Rashtriya Janta Dal RJD in Bihar where also less educated or even illiterate legal heirs of party-founder took charge of the party. Sonia Gandhi could crown Rahul Gandhi as symbolic President of the party with all financial powers but creating a post of Working President to carry on actual political work in the p...
Regulation of NGOs necessary

Regulation of NGOs necessary

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Intelligence Bureau’s report indicated about misuse of Indian NGO’s for any anti-national agenda by foreign-contributors where it was revealed that India’s GDP has been adversely affected to big extent of 2-3 percent through such foreign-funding to NGOs. Many NGOs are said to have been funded for cultural evasion in India. Foreign-funded NGOs spend in rupees and receive funds in dollars by sending these foreign-contributors exaggerated photos and videos of events dramatised to get huge foreign-funding. Many NGOs are tools to divert foreign-funds of individuals. Siphoning of government-funds for NGOs run by influential ones in political and bureaucratic circles in name of their family-members should be prevented by stopping any kind of direct or indirect funding of NGOs at public-expense...
Price-rise in Amul-milk deferred till elections are over? Likely to be followed by others

Price-rise in Amul-milk deferred till elections are over? Likely to be followed by others

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It refers to Milk-giant Amul raising price of milk by rupees two per litre with effect from 21.05.2019. It seems that price-rise was deferred till 2019-elections to Lok Sabha are over. But newspaper-advertisements by Amul announcing price-rise do not give price of its six-litre pack of Amul-Gold which was earlier priced illogically at rupees 312 while six-litre milk in packs of two-litres could be purchased at much lower price of rupees 297. Even with new increased price-rise six-litre Amul Gold will cost just rupees 309 (still lower than rupees 312) if purchased in packs of two litres. Still there are milk-products like buttermilk sold by milk-companies like Mother Dairy, Amul and others which are sold in irrational packs like 180, 250, 400 or 450 milli-litres rather than normal 200 or...
Failure to pay back home-loan makes mother-daughter commit suicide

Failure to pay back home-loan makes mother-daughter commit suicide

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It refers to shocking news about mother-daughter committing suicide on 14.05.2019 in a suburb of Thiruvanthapuram for not being able to repay home-loan. This loan-system is in sharp contradiction of ancient India culture which suggested _Save something out of which you earn for difficult times and future needs_. Now liberal economy has made people acting in reverse direction by taking easy loan with excessive luring done by Banks and Non-Banking-Financial-Companies NBFCs through unending mobile-calls through call-centres. Central government should impose a total ban on telephonic-calls by Banks and NBFCs luring potential buyers of loans. These Banks and NBFCs torture loan-takers in every manner psychologically and both civil and criminal cases filed in contradiction to normal procedures...
87-percent slash in prices of anti-cancer drugs

87-percent slash in prices of anti-cancer drugs

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Logic of companies allowed to mint money in past: NPPA should devise profit-formula for all drugs   It refers to National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority NPPA slashing prices of nine anti-cancer drugs by upto 87-percent. Big question is firstly why drug-companies were allowed to mint money in past with government-agency like NPPA in existence, and secondly why such price-slashing is not done for all drugs in one go with even World Health Organization WHO establishing that even essential drugs in India with lowest printed Maximum-Retail-Price MRP are exorbitantly priced over manufacturing-cost followed by abnormally high trade-margin between ex-factory price and MRP. High profit-margin is evident from the fact that many companies selling on-line medicines have emerged giving heavy d...
Time for newly charged BJP government at the centre to hit sixers of reforms and fulfilling promises made in poll-manifesto

Time for newly charged BJP government at the centre to hit sixers of reforms and fulfilling promises made in poll-manifesto

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Prime Minister Narender Modi ruling BJP led central government had a well-deserved all-round land-slide victory because of first-ever multi-cornered bold steps against terror-generating Pakistan targeting militants and separatists in Kashmir valley in every possible manner. Country does hope of immediate abolition of article 370 and 35A from the constitution as also promised in BJP poll-manifesto for permanent solution of Kashmir-problem created by wrong policies of our first Prime Minister. Country also has high hopes of immediate construction of Ram-temple at birth-place of Lord Rama at Ayodhya, a fact which is even acknowledged by other countries including Srlanka and Pakistan through admitted historical facts about existence of Lord Rama. It is noteworthy that Pakistan Tourism Devel...
Five-star luxury of transit-accommodation of new MPs gone: Should be done away for others also

Five-star luxury of transit-accommodation of new MPs gone: Should be done away for others also

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It refers to welcome news about Lok Sabha secretariat doing away with five-star transit-stay in hotels for newly elected Lok Sabha members who are not members of previous Lok Sabha thereby saving pubic-money of about rupees 35 crores. Earlier many newly elected members including appointed ministers misused the facility of transit-stay at five-starred hotels by not vacating even after allocation of regular government-accommodation. Now transit-stay will be done at luxuriously maintained state guest-houses and newly developed annexe at Western Court complex at New Delhi. It is noteworthy that the then Union Home Minister Indrajit Gupta used Western Court accommodation even holding the ministerial-post. But same should be system for others given luxury of stay at five-starred hotels at pub...
Metric unit of Time should be introduced

Metric unit of Time should be introduced

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Kilogram and three base units changed making all measures in base-units It refers to National Physical Laboratory of India introducing from 20.05.2019 (World Metrology Day) the redefined International System of Units (SI units) for four base-units including Kilogram (Weight), Ampere (Electric Current), Kelvin (Temperature) and Mole (atoms) which will now onwards be based on constant of nature (quantum standards) rather than earlier being based on physical artefacts as per decision taken at General Conference of Weights and Measures at Versailles (France) in November 2018 meaning thereby that now onwards values of these units will never change. It is noteworthy that other three base units Second (Time), Metre (Length) and Candela (Luminous Intensity) are already based on constants of nat...
New twenty-rupee note being sold at rupees seventy in Delhi

New twenty-rupee note being sold at rupees seventy in Delhi

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There was a news-item on 27.04.2019 about Reserve Bank of India RBI soon issuing new currency-notes in denomination of rupees twenty. Surprisingly the new note is openly being sold at huge premium at cost of rupees seventy in Kachcha Bazar market of new currency in Chandni Chowk (Delhi) right from the date of news-item. An enquiry from RBI New Delhi office revealed that the said new-designed note never reached at RBI New Delhi office, and was issued only from main RBI office at Mumbai. Otherwise whenever new-designed notes are issued simultaneously in different cities by RBI, usual premium is about 10-percent of the face-value of new note. Charging premium on new currency should be a punishable offence, and a raid should be conducted throughout pavements at Chandni Chowk (Delhi) and ...