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Union government post-demonetisation of currency on 08.11.2016 to encourage use of cashless transactions had started giving several discounts for promoting use of credit and debit cards which also included 0.75-percent discount on purchase of petrol and diesel through credit or debit cards. Due to inadequate publicity, it is not clear which discounts are still prevailing which also included on on-line payment of insurance premiums. With all such discounts having since lost relevance after normalisation of currency-position, Union government should not burden exchequer with subsidy-loss through such discounts any more. Instead steps should be taken to ensure banking to be made least expensive including in respect of credit and debit cards. Concept of minimum-balance-charge for bank-accou...

Media-reports confirm about printing of rupees-2000 currency-notes by Reserve Bank of India RBI after about two years of launch to meet emergency situation subsequent to demonetization on 08.11.2016 of earlier notes of rupees 500 and rupees 1000. Ruppes-2000 notes worth rupees 6.73 lakh crores were there in circulation on 31.03.2018 which accounted for 37-percent of total currency worth rupees 18.03 lakh crores on that day. Since rupees-2000 notes not commonly seen are mainly hoarded as unaccounted currency and for illegal currency-circulation, even a currency-crunch developed in the country some time back. Even though demonetization on 08.11.2016 was a bold step for checking unaccounted deals, yet poor and unplanned implementation could not give the desired results with currency-cir...

शबरीमला मंदिर की सैकडों वर्षों की परंपरा खंडित करने के लिए हिन्दू विरोधी कम्युनिस्ट केरल राज्य सरकार ने जमीन आसमान एक करने का निश्‍चय किया है । गत अनेक महीनों से अय्यप्पा भक्त शांति से आंदोलन कर रहे हैं । उनकी भावनाआें का अपमान करने का प्रयत्न केरल राज्य सरकार ने किया है । ४० वर्ष की दो महिलाआें को एंबुलेंस के माध्यम से मंदिर के निकट ले जाया गया तथा काले बुरखे और पुलिस के पहरे में छिपकर मंदिर में प्रवेश करवाया गया । यह उजागर हो गया है कि ये महिलाएं श्री अय्यप्पा भगवान की भक्त नहीं हैं, अपितु कम्युनिस्ट दल की कार्यकर्ता हैं । किसी प्रकार की भक्ति न होते हुए ऐसा छिपकर प्रवेश करने से क्या साध्य होनेवाला है ? यह तो केवल हिन्दू धर्म, श्री अय्यप्पा भगवान और करोडों भक्तों का विश्‍वासघात है । ‘कुछ भी करें; परंतु हिन्दुआें के मंदिरों की धार्मिक परंपराएं नष्ट करें, हिन्दुआें के मंदिर भ्रष्ट करें’ ऐस...

Delhi Journalists Association (DJA), affiliated to the National Union of Journalist (India) is not amused at the use of adjective ‘pliable’ by Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi for the ANI interviewer who conducted a wide-ranging and long interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a joint statement issued today, DJA president Manohar Singh and General Secretary Pramod Kumar said badmouthing a journalist simply because she conducted an interview with a rival political leader is in poor taste and amounts to shooting the messenger; it’s unwarranted and unbecoming of a senior leader of a national political party. The DJA is of the opinion that journalists have a professional responsibility to seek information, ask questions and get answers. “All journalists everywhere kno...