समाचार

Mega-star Amitabh Bachchan once disclosed at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmadabad about his not advertising for cola-drinks after a school-student at Jaipur drew his attention about harmful ingredients in cola-drinks. It is significant that cola-companies voluntarily stopped selling cola-drinks in schools worldwide in view of increasing obesity in school-going children. Indian government should also not only ban advertisements but even sale of cola drinks in the country. Earlier also, soft-drink manufacturers were asked to remove an oil from their products which was found to be harmful for health. It is time that Union government, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and soft-drink manufacturers should revive drinks like old and famous rose-flavoured ones, which can n...

 Delay in public-utility government-projects involving civil-work like of fly-overs, bridges, buildings etc is mainly due to a modus-operandie between contractors and authorities in various government-departments. Contractors get delayed projects by bribing other concerned departments to delay supplies of construction-material to be supplied by public-authorities or shifting of system-lines like of sewage, water or electricity. Even courts are approached to give authenticity for such dramatic delays. Contractors then claim damages instead of being penalised. They get government-officers of their choice to arbitrate on exaggerated claims by colliding with such arbitrators. Union and state governments should look into such malpractices involving concerned ones of all ranks, and should tak...