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Rationalisation of postal-tariffs not done in Union Budget for the year 2018-19

Rationalisation of postal-tariffs not done in Union Budget for the year 2018-19

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Presently mail-tariff for post-cards and registered newspapers is decades old and is in paises where coins below rupee one are now totally out of circulation. It is senseless to have mail-tariffs in paise. Sale of post-cards has sharply declined, and mostly extra-ordinary heavy subsidy on post-cards is largely misused by chit-fund companies and other business-houses. Listeners of Akashwani also misuse extra-ordinarily subsidised post-cards to listen their names on radio by sending post-cards indicating ANY SONG as their choice. Production-cost of newspapers has risen multi-folds in last several decades, therefore it is senseless to continue with mail-tariff in paises in name of benefitting small newspapers. Minimum postal-tariff should be rupee one for postal-articles requiring subsidy ...
BJP should also include permanent solution of Kashmir problem by abolition of articles 35-A and 370

BJP should also include permanent solution of Kashmir problem by abolition of articles 35-A and 370

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BJP leaders cheered 10-percent reservation to economically weaker section from unreserved categories by saying that it is first pre-election sixer, which was followed by too many welcome features in Union Budget for the year 2019-20 which made Congress President totally speechless. It is also well understood that a bold announcement towards construction of Ram Temple at Ram=Janmbhoomi at Ayodhya is expected any time. It is time that a big sixer to permanently solve Kashmir-problem may be hit by central government by abolition of articles 35-A and 370 of Constitution to make Kashmir like all other states of India without any special status so that desiring persons from other parts of the country may be able to settle in Kashmir by getting right to purchase properties there. It will provi...
Introduce sponsored postal-stamps on lines of sponsored postal-stationery to increase revenue-earning for postal-department

Introduce sponsored postal-stamps on lines of sponsored postal-stationery to increase revenue-earning for postal-department

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Department of posts should come up with idea of sponsored postal-stamps on sponsors paying some sponsorship-fees per printed stamp apart from mandating purchasing some stipulated percentage of total print-order to be sold on face-value of stamps. When department can accept commercial advertisements on postal-stationery, there is no reason that revenue may also be raised by introducing concept of sponsored postal-stamps. Design of sponsored stamps can be approved by a department committee to avoid controversial designs of such stamps. It will further raise revenue because sponsoring companies will be shifting to postal-service from private courier-service in order to use their sponsored postal-stamps on mailed articles. Only sponsored meghdoot postcards may be sold by postal-departmen...
Congress itself responsible for CBI affairs by exempting it from RTI Act

Congress itself responsible for CBI affairs by exempting it from RTI Act

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 However for future opposition party should be given option of three names for final selection of CBI Chief It refers to Congress now crying foul on selection of Rishi Kumar Shukla as new CBI Chief, a person who was very recently ousted as Director General of Police after Congress formed government in Madhya Pradesh. But Congress is itself responsible for all affairs in CBI witnessing bitter fight between two top-persons in CBI leading to selection of new CBI Chief because of the great sin done by Congress in its UPA regime by making CBI out of purview RTI Act for narrow political thinking. Even though central government is fully justified to select new CBI Chief by 2-1 majority in the high-powered selection-panel where CJI vote in favour of government-choice made Congress isolated o...
Union Budget for the year 2019-20

Union Budget for the year 2019-20

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It refers to the Union Budget for the fiscal-year 2019-20 with so many welcome features for every section of society including farmers, labourers and especially usually-ignored middle-class and salaried people with doubling of exemption-limit for Income Tax directly to rupees five lakhs to the fullest expectation of people. But it would have been better if the budget would have incorporated some important features aimed to simplify long pending reforms. Till the new Income Tax Act being presently drafted comes into force, various deductions like investments in PPF, NSC etc, Mediclaim, NPS could have been merged into a single one with consolidated deduction of total rupees two lakhs. Long-pending issue of change in fiscal-year from present April-March of British legacy to systematic c...
How will global warming affect El Niño in the 21st Century?

How will global warming affect El Niño in the 21st Century?

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El Niño remains the largest climate phenomenon that occurs frequently producing droughts, floods, wildfires, dust and snow storms, fish kill, and even elevated risks of civil conflicts. The theater of action for El Niño is the tropical Pacific Ocean but its global reach costs the global community tens of billion dollars each time. El Niño’s occur every two-to-seven years with very strong El Niño’s occurring about every 15 years. How the its frequency or the time between two events and strength will change because of global warming remains a grand challenge for climate models. This also impacts projections of future climate since El Niños redistribue the heat gathered by the ocean between two El Niño events to cause a mini global warming. The most recent projection of global warming imp...
अलविदा जॉर्ज साहब!

अलविदा जॉर्ज साहब!

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पूर्व रक्षा मंत्री जार्ज फर्नांडिस का निधन हो गया है. वे 88 वर्ष के थे. कर्नाटक के ईसाई परिवार में जन्में जार्ज को उनके पिता एक पादरी बनाना चाहते थे. लेकिन जार्ज की इसमें कोई दिलचस्पी नही थी. स्वन्त्रता के पश्चात रोजगार की तलाश में वे मुंबई पहुँचे और समाजवादी मजदूर यूनियनों से जुड़ गए. कुछ वर्षों के भीतर वे मुम्बई के बड़े मजदूर नेता बन गए. 1961 में वे बॉम्बे नगर निगम में पार्षद बने। 1967 के आम चुनाव में जार्ज ने कांग्रेस के धाकड़ नेता सदाशिव कान्होजी पाटिल (एसके पाटिल) के खिलाफ दक्षिण बॉम्बे लोकसभा सीट पर पर्चा भरा. एसके पाटिल तब बॉम्बे के बेताज बादशाह माने जाते थे. पाटिल ने चुनाव से पहले खुद ही कहा था कि मुझे भगवान भी नही हरा सकते. जार्ज ने इसी वक्तव्य पर पूरा चुनाव लड़ा. नतीजे आये तो पाटिल 46 हजार वोटों से हार गए थे. सहसा किसी को यकीन नही हुआ कि बॉम्बे के सबसे बड़े नेता को एक नगर निगम ...
We need to rethink everything we know about global warming

We need to rethink everything we know about global warming

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For a while now, the scientific community has known that global warming is caused by humanmade emissions in the form of greenhouse gases and global cooling by air pollution in the form of aerosols. However, new research published in Science by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Daniel Rosenfeld shows that the degree to which aerosols cool the earth has been grossly underestimated, necessitating a recalculation of climate change models to more accurately predict the pace of global warming. Aerosols are tiny particles that float in the air. They can form naturally (e.g., desert dust) or artificially (e.g., smoke from coal, car exhaust). Aerosols cool our environment by enhancing cloud cover that reflect the sunlight (heat) back to space. As for the first, clouds form when ...
फिर आया मौसम ईवीएम में मीख-मेख निकालने का

फिर आया मौसम ईवीएम में मीख-मेख निकालने का

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लोकसभा चुनाव की तारीख नजदीक आते ही ईवीएम यानी इलेक्ट्रानिक वोटिंग मशीन की विश्वसनीयता पर तरह-तरह के सवाल खड़े किए जा रहे हैं। इस तरह की आशंका भी की जा रही थी कि आम चुनाव से पहले ईवीएम में मीने-मेख निकाली जाने की एक बार फिर मुहीम चलने लगेगी। जो इन मशीनों में छेड़छाड़ या गड़बड़ी के दावे कर रहे हैं, वे  देश के महान वैज्ञानिकों का सीधे तौर पर घोर अपमान भी कर रहे हैं। वे जाने-अनजाने में यह भूल रहे हैं कि सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के उपक्रम भारत इलेक्ट्रोनिक्स लिमिटेड (बीईएल) के वैज्ञानिकों ने कड़ी मेहनत करके दिन रत खून-पसीना बहाकर ही इस ईवीएम मशीन को ईजाद किया था, ताकि चुनावों में होने वाली धांधलियों और गड़बड़ियों को रोका जा सके। इन मशीनों का सीधे ही इस्तेमाल लोकसभा या विधान सभा चुनावों में नहीं किया गया । पहले ईवीएम मशीनों से मजदूर संघों के सफल चुनाव संपन्न कराए गए। वहां पर इनके सफल प्रदर्शन के बाद...
छत्तीसगढ़ : भ्रष्टाचार, जाँच और राजनीति

छत्तीसगढ़ : भ्रष्टाचार, जाँच और राजनीति

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बोफोर्स मामले में भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप के बाद तत्कालीन राजीव गांधी सरकार को सत्ता से हाथ धोना पड़ा, तब से भ्रष्टाचार के मामले राजनीति में विरोधी पक्ष का सत्ता पक्ष के विरुद्ध एक प्रमुख चुनावी हथियार बन गया है।छत्तीसगढ़ प्रदेश में भी पिछले 15 वर्ष के दौरान भारतीय जनता पार्टी की सरकार के विरुद्ध विपक्ष कांग्रेस पार्टी ने भ्रष्टाचार के अनेक आरोप लगाए। अब जब कांग्रेस पार्टी लगभग तीन चौथाई बहुमत से सत्ता पर क़ाबिज़ हो गयी है, रोज़ किसी न किसी अनियमितता के प्रकरणों पर जाँच के आदेश दिए जा रहे हैं। ऐसा सत्ता बदलने के बाद हर राज्य में होता है, लेकिन कुछ अपवाद छोड़ दिए जाएं तो भ्रष्टाचार के आरोपों में घिरे किसी पूर्व मंत्री या उच्च अधिकारियों के मामले किसी निष्कर्ष तक पहुचे हो या फिर उन्हें सज़ा मिली हो, नहीं देखा। इसका मतलब क्या यह है कि भ्रष्टाचार के मुद्दे केवल चुनावी लाभ लेना या जनता में सत्तारूढ़...