समाचार

Goa is one such state which always gives hung assembly where parties with lower strength and independents dominate largest party of the alliance in ministry-formation. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (BJP) with 12 members of his party out of total 21 members of the ruling alliance had to induct two Deputy Chief Ministers from smaller allies with three members each. Number of BJP ministers is just five out twelve BJP MLAs while there are seven ministers out of rest nine MLAs of the alliance. Even norm of having maximum 15-percent ministers out of total strength of lower House is not implemented in ministry-formation. Alliance-politics thus in fact is a blackmail politics of unholy political bargain. Best is to elect Chief Minister by secret and compulsory vote of all MLAs through EVMs equip...

In the death of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, not only Goa but complete nation has lost a leading politician who had a reare quality of austerity and simplicity rarely seen in politicians of present era seen travelling in public-bus or scooter while being a Chief Minister even seen purchasing milk, newspaper for his family from street-booths, this being the reason of his running state-government despite his party BJP being in minority. He could even been seen in queues at airports setting aside usual protocol available for Union Minister or state Chief Minister. His lust for duty and responsibility is evident by his working whole heartedly with medical-tubes fitted on his nose while performing his task as state Chief Minister both indoor and outdoor. Even opposition could not rai...

At last long-pending petition of the year 2009 by Supreme Court registry against CIC-verdict after the registry losing at both stages of Delhi High Court has been listed for hearing by the Constitution-bench of the Apex Court on 27.03.2018 to decide if the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India were duty-bound under the RTI Act to give information in response to RTI applications filed by citizens with regard to administration of the top court. Interestingly Supreme Court registry provided information if Supreme Court judges were declaring details of their assets to Chief Justice of India after order of single-judge bench of Delhi high Court. Even Supreme Court judges sue-motto decided disclosure of their assets on website after CIC-verdict was highlighted prominently in the media. But...

There are routine statements by dignitaries posted on high posts on tragedies like happened when a foot-overbridge collapsed in Mumbai on 14.03.2019. Such usual statements expressing shock and deep regret include, a high-power committee will be set up to probe the tragedy, guilty ones will not escape punishment, compensation will be paid to kin of victims, free medical-treatment will be available for those injured etc. etc. But since public-memory is very short, no one comes to know about report of high-level committee set up to probe and punishment provided to guilty ones thus resulting in future such incidents. Even Mumbai witnessed such incidents earlier also. Since practically no remedial measures are seen to have been taken, it is better that persons seated on high posts may not...

In present era of austerity and national airliner already under heavy debt, Air India should curtail freebies to its Directors and staffers including free air-passes for family-members. Management and staff of public-sector Air India should get benefits according to rules of Union government and not at all in an arbitrarily manner decided by its own board-members who have a definite conflict of interest in such ant-public decisions for which they themselves are beneficiaries. Union government should also study facilities including of free air-tickets provided by private-sector national airliners for family-members of their staffers. It may be pointed out that facilities and benefits provided to staffers of national airliner can and must not be compared with those of international airliner...