समाचार

It refers to media-reports (TOI 04.10.2019) mentioning that as many as five judges of Supreme Court recused themselves from hearing a case. Recusal by judges from cases is not uncommon. Earlier also a Supreme Court judge recused himself from the bench hearing an appeal challenging closure of politically sensitive Bofors case. A judge of Delhi High Court once recused herself from hearing a case where she herself issued notice to former President Pranab Mukerji after admitting a writ filed by some individual urging some contents of the book authored by the former President to be deleted. Recusal by judges from cases is not uncommon. Only recently a Supreme Court judge recused himself from the bench hearing an appeal challenging closure of politically sensitive Bofors case. Such recusal of...

It refers to regretting aspect of Indraprastha Head Post Office (New Delhi) sending non-issuable spoilt and even multi-pieces currency-notes for issue to account-holders at Dariba Post Office in Delhi which presently also houses work-load of since closed Chandni Chowk post-office. It is significant that account-holders have to inform for cash-withdrawal one day in advance at Dariba post-office. I withdrew cash from my savings-account from Dariba post-office on 04.10.2019 after informing on the prior day. But I was shocked that badly spoilt currency-notes in smaller denomination of rupees 50 and 100 giving very bad smell were given to me out of which certain notes were taped because of being in two pieces. Even counting of such dirty notes was tough because notes were stuck with each oth...

Department of Economic Affairs (Union Government)  and Reserve Bank of India RBI regrettably did not make commemorative silver-alloy coins issued on 150th birth-anniversary of MK Gandhi on 02.10.2019 available for general public at face-value evidently because metal-cost in a coin was multiple times the face-value of just rupees 150, unlike on 02.10.1969 on occasion of Gandhi birth-centenary when such silver-coins were made available for general public at the then face-value since metal-value of a silver-alloy coin at that time was much lower than the then face-value of rupees ten. This is despite that fact that both RBI and Department of Economic Affairs were cautioned in advance through repeated submissions made in advance with last one posted at various portals on 26.08.2019. Silver-all...

Indian Railways deserves all compliments for connecting Vaishno Devi shrine (Jammu and Kashmir) with New Delhi with most modern and comfortable Vande Bharat Express with inaugural run from New Delhi on 03.10.2019 during auspicious Navratras. It will be a still better gift for devotees travelling through Vande Bharat Express if they are provided with added service of auto-booking of helicopter-service between Katra and Vaishno Devi for desiring passengers. Likewise collaboration can be made with some air-conditioned guest-house (private or government) for comfortable stay provided with bus-service between Katra railway-station and the collaborated guest-house for desiring passengers. Rather a package-tour between New Delhi and Vaishno Devi can be designed by IRCTC comprising of travel th...

Mother Dairy has given newspaper-advertisements on 02.10.2019 motivating people to buy Token-Milk to discourage use of plastic in poly-pack milk. Evidently Token-Milk is quite cheaper than poly-pack milk of same standard because of saving of packing-cost. But big question is that poly-pack milk is available in too many variants and qualities, while Token-Milk is available only in one variety that too only on selected Mother Dairy booths and not with private retailers selling poly-pack milk in all varieties and variants that too also of other milk-giants like highest-selling brand Amul. It is noted that since last few days, all milk poly-packs have print that packing is made of recyclable plastic Best way to conserve environment is that customers may be given bags of environment-friendly...

India, as per official claims and proclamations, is all set to become open defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, a day that marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. In the past four years, India has built 100 million toilets in about 0.6 million villages, and another 6.3 million in its cities. By all accounts, it is an incredible feat. As per a 2019 report of the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and sanitation, of Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2000 and 2014, open defecation decreased by some 3 percentage points a year, while between 2015 and 2019 it reduced at over 12 percentage points a year. According to government estimates, by February 2019, over 93 per cent of the country’s rural households had access to toilets; over 96...