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Timings of news-bulleting and other programmes presented by News Services Division of All India Radio (Akashwani) were last revised more than five decades ago when Television-network had insignificant presence. Then timings were revised in a manner that Hindi bulletins may be broadcast just before English news-bulletins like shifting main Hindi bulletin from then 8.15 pm to now 8.45 pm. But such placement deprived Samayaki important time-place just after main Hindi bulletin like is there for Spotlight relayed at 9.15 pm just after main English bulletin. All India Radio should go for a total new time-schedule for all its news-bulletins and other programmes presented by News Services Division. Main evening Hindi news-bulletin should be advanced to 8 pm followed by Samayaki at 8.15 pm just...

Great success of issue of IRCTC shares, a miniratna public-sector-undertaking doubling money of investors overnight calls for issue of long-term bonds by IRCTC for setting of large-scale production-units in every district of the country for packaged-water, confectionery items and other food-products to replace cooked meal in trains and schools (mid-day meal programme feeding 12 crore school-children) where complaints of sub-standard food in unhygienic conditions are quite common. Apart from such complaints of finding deal lizards, rats etc are also not uncommon. Such setting of big units in large number by IRCTC with help of long-term bonds will provide huge employment in public-sector apart from giving profit-earning for public-exchequer. Even products can be sold in open market also t...

Five-member Constitution Bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi completed hearing of long-pending case-numbers WPC 32855 and 32856 of 2009 in April 2019. But the verdict on these cases filed by registry of Supreme Court against CIC-verdicts on various aspects with regard to the administration of the top court is still awaited. Hearing of the cases may lapse in case verdict does not come before retirement of Chief Justice on 17.11.2019. There should be a set mechanism whereby verdicts by courts may compulsory be in a time-bound period of say three months after competition of hearing, but definitely before retirement of any of the bench-members. Practice may also be that verdicts on cases where hearing might have completed before long vacations (like summer vacations)...

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan conferred the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s awards for excellence in biomedical research on Wednesday. The ICMR awards recognise the contributions of Indian biomedical scientists undertaking pioneering work in various fields of health sciences and finding solutions for the health problems of the country. A total of 39 awards were presented to 46 scientists including 14 women scientists for 2017 and 2018.  The awardees belongs to institutions of ICMR, CSIR, AIIMS, PGI, Chandigarh, SGPGI, Lucknow, IITs, JIPMER, Puducherry, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, State and Central Universities and other reputed Institutions across the country. Dr. Harsh Vardhan congratula...

Indian cities Bombay, Madras, Allahabad have since been renamed as Mumbai, Chennai and Prayag respectively long time back. But High Courts located in these cities are still officially named after old names of these cities. System should be that names of High Courts may get auto-changed with change in names of cities. It is significant that except for some High Courts, all other High Courts are named after states of their jurisdiction. An RTI response had revealed that while all the High Courts constituted after independence were named after respective main states of jurisdiction, High Courts constituted by British regime in pre-independence era continue to be named as per British legacy on basis of cities of their existence even after 70 long years of independence. Union government s...

It refers to data that a vast majority of 86-percent candidates in 2019-elections to Lok Sabha lost security-deposits. Most of security-losing candidates know themselves even before filing nominations that they would be losing security. Many of such candidates are either vote-splitters or file nominations in hope of getting money from rival candidates to withdraw names in favour. Such mockery of poll-process must be stopped by making it one of the measures for much-needed and most awaited massive and consolidated poll-reform. Also all those getting votes less than NOTA should be disqualified for life to contest any election. Such a provision may pave way for an ideal two-party system which is essential for heathy democratic system. A sitting MLA, MLC or MP must resign first from earlier...