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LIC should change name of IDBI Bank to LIC Bank of India

LIC should change name of IDBI Bank to LIC Bank of India

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It refers to reports about market-share of LIC of India in life-insurance first time falling below 70-percent. But remedial steps can raise market-share of important Public-Sector-Undertaking considerably apart from reducing overheads to increase profitability. LIC of India having acquired 51-percent stake in public-sector IDBI Bank should change name of the Bank to LIC Bank of India with merger of several small public-sector banks in this newly suggested Bank, like public-sector Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank are to merge into another public-sector Bank of Baroda. Then newly named LIC Bank of India can be yet other anchor-bank where other public-sector banks are planned to be merged in future. It provide a single window to customers for banking and insurance which may make suggested LIC ...
Kerala government and NCW should interfere in transfer-order of four nuns out of state

Kerala government and NCW should interfere in transfer-order of four nuns out of state

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It refers to shocking news about the Jalandhar-based Missionaries of Jesus asking four nuns to comply with transfer order and move out of the congregation-premises in Kottayam after they staged a protest demanding the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused of rape by a nun. It is noteworthy that the protest by nuns had led to of Franco Mulakal removal as bishop of Jalandhar. While the four nuns have been issued transfer-orders to four different states, another one Neena Rose also having participated in protest has not been issued transfer-order. Such transfer-posting of nuns is a punishment for standing for justice in favour of their colleague. Kerala government and National Commission for Women NCW should intervene in the matter to ensure that four nuns may not be punis...
Sharp decline in small savings is a cause of worry: Safeguards necessary for senior citizens

Sharp decline in small savings is a cause of worry: Safeguards necessary for senior citizens

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Latest data released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows a sharp decline in small savings in first eight months of financial year 2017-18 when small savings schemes amounted to just rupees 40,429 crore, a seven-fold dip from Rs 2,75,682 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. Evidently it is at cost of more investment in mutual-fund schemes where political and other factors can suddenly harm the investors like happened in investment in properties. A sharp decline in interest-rate was anticipated post-demonetisation when Jeevan Akshay pension-plan of LIC of India for the reason witnessed maximum investment in that period. But with currency-circulation crossing what it was before demonetisation, reduced interest-rate in government savings-schemes should be restored with t...
Controversy again on appointment of Supreme Court judges

Controversy again on appointment of Supreme Court judges

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It refers to media-reports about fresh controversy erupted in appointment of judges at Supreme Court where new collegium formed with induction of Justice Arun Mishra subsequent to retirement of Justice Madan Lokur from Supreme Court on 30.12.2018 is said to have changed earlier recommendation for elevating Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Rajendra Menon now for elevating Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Sanjeev Khanna to Supreme Court Report further suggests about now-retired Justice J Chalmeshwar having written on 21.03.2018 some letter to the then Chief Justice Deepak Mishra and other judges about alleged impropriety of Justice Dinesh Maheshwari having made direct communication with the central government. All such happenings tend to create wrong image amongst members of pub...
Supreme Court should announce reserved verdicts in time-bound period

Supreme Court should announce reserved verdicts in time-bound period

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It is quite often that judgements by benches including Division and larger ones at Supreme Court are kept reserved for several months. System should be that various benches of Supreme Court may compulsorily announce judgements in a time-bound period of say within three months after last date of hearing or before retirement of any bench-member having heard the case. Delayed judgements after competition of hearing add fuel to fire of notorious aspect -Justice Delayed is Justice Denied. At times, such delayed judgements result in costly and time-consuming re-hearings in case any of the bench-member retires from the post. Supreme Court website must have a link providing list of reserved judgements clearly mentioning last date of proceedings in the case. Since supreme Court has several long vac...
Keep Crowd Under Control at Kumbh

Keep Crowd Under Control at Kumbh

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The Kumbh festival begins on Sankranti day. Come January 15, the sound of conch and slokas would reverberate on the banks of ‘Sangam’, the confluence of Ganga, Jamuna and Sarswati at Prayagraj. Hundreds of thousands of devotees and pilgrims would take the Holy dip that day to herald the Kumbh this year. Pilgrims would converge at the Kumbh from all over the country and from abroad. Many will come as ‘tourists’ to watch the humongous assembly of people at one place. The legend has it that anyone who with pious thought takes  three dips in Sangam attains the ‘Moksha’ , freeing onesdelf from the cycle of birth and rebirth. Organising a religious congregation of this scale where millions of people gather is big challenge for any government and administration.  Preparations for Kumbh begins y...
कठिन है राजनीतिक उजालों की तलाश

कठिन है राजनीतिक उजालों की तलाश

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आगामी लोकसभा चुनाव के परिप्रेक्ष्य में गठबंधनों की राजनीति के नित-नये रंग उभर रहे हैं। सभी राजनीतिक दल चुनाव परिणामों की संभावनाओं की समीक्षा के पश्चात गलतियों को सुधारते हुए जीत को तलाशने में जुट गये हैं। अनेक विरोधाभासों एवं विसंगतियों के बीच राजनीतिक उजालों को तलाशा जा रहा है। सभी दलों के बीच राजनीति नहीं, स्वार्थ नीति देखने को मिल रही है। साझा सरकार के सभी दलों की सोच है कि सरकार में भी रहें और आगामी चुनाव में भी हमारा स्वतंत्र अस्तित्व बना रहे, ठीक इसी तरह विपक्षी महागठबंधनों में भी ऐसी ही मानसिकता देखने को मिल रही है, इसलिये वे गठबंधन से अलग रहकर या छोटे गठबंधन बनाकर चुनाव लड़ने की तैयारी कर रह हैं। लखनऊ में समाजवादी पार्टी और बहुजन समाज पार्टी के बीच ऐसे ही गठबंधन के ऐलान ने आगामी लोकसभा चुनावों की लड़ाई का अनौपचारिक आरंभ कर दिया है। ढाई दशक के शत्रुता एवं कड़वाहट...
सपनों की सुन्दरता पर यकीन करें

सपनों की सुन्दरता पर यकीन करें

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सफल जिंदगी के लिये चुनौतियां होना जरूरी है। कुछ चुनौतियों से आप आसानी से पार पा लेते हैं, पर कुछ आपसे खुद को बदलने की मांग करती हैं। कामयाबी इस पर निर्भर करती है कि आप कितने बेहतर ढंग से खुद को बदल पाते हैं? चुनौतियों से पार पाने के लिये जीवन में सहने का अभ्यास जरूरी है। इसके बिना किसी का भविष्य उज्ज्वल नहीं हो सकता। जेन मास्टर मैरी जैक्श कहती हैं, ‘अपनी उलझनों का सामना करते हुए अनजान चीजों को गले लगाना हमें विकास की ओर ले जाता है। हमें आगे बढ़ाता है।’ जीव-विज्ञान बायोलोजी के अनुसार जीव-जंतुओं की वे ही प्रजातियाँ अपना अस्तित्व सुरक्षित रख सकती हैं जिनमें हर परिस्थिति और चुनौती को झेलने की क्षमता होती है। ‘सरलाईवल आॅफ दि फिटेस्ट’ डार्विन के इस सिद्धांत का भी यही तात्पर्य है। हर व्यक्ति को अपने जीवन में कठिनाइयों और समस्याओं का सामना करना होता है। यह एक सार्वभौम सत्य है। कोई घटना हो, व्यक्ति...
Social Justice for Weaker Section

Social Justice for Weaker Section

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With the Gazette notification of the 124th Constitution Amendment providing 10% reservation in jobs and in educational institutions for weaker section of the upper caste the Bill is now an Act of Law. Within 24 hours of the official nodification, Gujrat became the first State to implement the job reservation policy. Jharkhand was the second state to declare that it has started giving job reservation to economically weaker section of upper caste as per the new law. Both States have BJP Government. I would like to remind the critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who finally accepted and implemented the long standing demand of ‘reservation’ for upper castes in government job and education. It was much needed to end the inequality and lack of opportunity to the weaker section in the name ...
पंजाब के पेयजल में मिला यूरेनियम का गंभीर स्तर

पंजाब के पेयजल में मिला यूरेनियम का गंभीर स्तर

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भारतीय वैज्ञानिकों के ताजा अध्ययन में पंजाब के मालवा क्षेत्र के भूजल में यूरेनियम का गंभीर स्तर पाया गया है। पेयजल के 24 प्रतिशत नमूनों में यूरेनियम की मात्रा विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) के निर्धारित मापदंड से अधिक पायी गई है, वहीं नौ प्रतिशत नमूनों में यूरेनियम का स्तर परमाणु ऊर्जा नियामक बोर्ड (एईआरबी) के मानकों से अधिक पाया गया है। पंजाब के फजिल्का जिले में किए गए इस अध्ययन के दौरान निहालखेड़ा, डांगेरखेड़ा, खुईखेड़ा, चूड़ीवाला, पंजकोसी, किल्लियांवाली, गोबिंदगढ़, कुंदाल, मामूखेड़ा और दानेवाला समेत कुल 20 गांवों के भूमिगत जल के नमूनों का लेजर-फ्लुरोमेट्री तकनीक से परीक्षण किया गया है। वेवलेन्थ डिस्पर्सिव एक्स-रे फ्लूरोसेंस तकनीक की मदद से इन गांवों की मिट्टी का परीक्षण भी किया गया है। विभिन्न क्षेत्रों के प्रति लीटर भूजल में यूरेनियम की औसत मात्रा 26.51 माइक्रोग्राम पायी गई ...