समाचार

Delhi government deserves all compliments in taking supersonic decision to recommend rejection of mercy petitions filed by accused of infamous Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts. Now it is time that Lt Governor of Delhi clears file for rejection immediately forwarding to Union Home Ministry for further forwarding to President of India. All such formality of file-movement can be done even on a single day thus President of India creating a record for decision-taking on mercy petition held earlier by the then President Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma who decided to reject a mercy-petition in record six days of filing it. Supreme Court should also rise to the occasion by dismissing all petitions filed before it by Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts filed subsequent to an unmindful letter by some official having ...

It refers to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on 28.11.2019 informing Lok Sabha that Union Government will be encouraging use of honey-cubes to replace sugar-cubes with dual purpose of increasing job-opportunities for farmers and tribal, while giving a healthy alternative to replace traditional sugar-cubes. Central government should also consider replacing admittedly harmful cola-drinks with traditional Indian-styled soft-drinks with flavour of rose, kewra etc It may be recalled that almost half-century back, a famous rose-drink manufactured by a famous private confectionary company registered at Gwalior was a popular drink for persons of all ages. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) should take a lead in preparing concentrates for soft-drinks based on flavours of rose and kewra w...

It refers to opposition still not satisfied even after ruling BJP pulling out Sadhvi Pragya from Parliamentary Committee on Defence on her calling Nathuram Godse a true patriot. Even Rajyashree Choudhary, grand-niece of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose recently on 19.11.2019 paid rich tributes to Nathuram Godse in Gwalior. It has become a political ritual to worship MK Gandhi by politicians in general despite the fact that independence of the country was achieved because of great martyrs who sacrificed their lives for achieving freedom of country, and not because of any non-violence movement by a projected political god. British were forced to leave India because of terror created by Azad Hind Fauz established by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Post-independence problems in India including o...

It refers to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) launching campaign in interest of public-health whereby stress is given on greeting each other with folded hands (Namaste) rather than hand-shake as a preventive measure to avoid infections. Otherwise also hand-shake unhygienic because any one or both shaking hands may not have clean hands. Even American Journal of Infection Control had several years back published a report warning hand-shake to be even more infectious than kissing. Earlier also American health authorities had recommended greeting by folded hands instead of western style by shaking hands or kissing endorsing Indian style of sayingnamaste with folded hands for normal greetings. It is one of many such glorious aspects of Hinduism which are purely based on highly...

Department of Personnel and Training DoPT fixed a fees of rupees 4000 for lectures in conducting workshops for government-staff on various aspects including on handling applications filed under Right-To-Information Act. Surprisingly there is no provision of adding Goods and service Tax GST which is presently 18-percent on this amount fixed long back thus practically further reducing the fees to just rupees 3390 for those coming under GST network. DoPT should not only upgrade the fees reasonably, but also direct all departments, ministries and others to compulsorily add GST to newly fixed amount for those coming under GST network. Many departments and ministries spend exorbitantly to hire taxis for pick-up and dropping the persons delivering lectures, where these taxis are paid for ru...

It refers to Rajya Sabha on Constitution Day 26.11.2019 gifting transgenders by passing The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 which was earlier cleared by Lok Sabha on 05.08.2019. But more is required bring transgenders in main streamline and to ensure that transgenders may leave begging and singing-dancing as their profession for livelihood. An era should be there whereby transgenders may not separately in a society of their own, but may lead normal life in families of their birth. It is indeed an irony of the system that just 22 transgenders applied for under-graduate courses combinedly in thee universities in Delhi namely Delhi University, Jamia University and Ambedkar University. Union government should constitute National Transgender Commission. Unrestricted adm...

It refers to question raised in Lok Sabha on 20.11.2019 where some members said that they felt ashamed when they could not ensure railway-reservation on their recommendations. Big question is why priority in railway-reservation is given on recommendations of MPs thereby depriving ordinary people from extra reserved seats in rail-coaches. Also MPs should be reimbursed for rail-travel only on submitting proof of actual rail-travel verified by the TTEs to avoid multiple reservations in different trains for a single journey. Cost of un-availed reserved rail-berths or seats should be deducted from their salaries or pensions. Free entitlement of rail-travel including for Parliamentarians and those travelling at government-expense including for those in public-sector-undertakings should only b...

Present Chief Central Information Commissioner Sudhir Bhargav is going to retire on 11.01.2020. But still there is no clarity on new Chief Central Information Commissioner. It may be recalled that once this important post remained vacant for months before Vijay Sharma was appointed on the post. System may be formulated whereby normally senior-most Information Commissioner may be appointed as Chief Information Commissioner. Such a system will not only ensure the important post being always occupied, but will also auto-care for the peculiar situation developed due to recent amendment in RTI Act whereby service-rules for Information Commissioners are downgraded. No present Information Commissioner will like to apply for post of Chief Information Commissioner under new rules because of down...