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It is observed that many TV serials continue for years after years with even change in generations of the characters shown in such TV serials. It makes viewers TV-addicted with unimaginable number of total man-hours viewing TV-serials only adversely affecting studies of students and proper attention to children by mothers who are victims of such addiction. Already social media has ruined life-style and working-efficiency of all including office-goers. Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting should regulate maximum number of episodes in a normal TV serial to say 52 (one year). However such a restriction may not be there on epic-serials. Even TV serials with single story in each episode can also be exempted.   MADHU AGRAWAL

It was only after Supreme Court intervened that Election Commission ECI took action, though very mild, against two top politicians of UP banning them to campaign for 48 and 72 hours respectively for alleged hate-speeches. But there is still no news of ECI taking cognizance of sting of about 20 present and former Parliamentarians coming from different political parties as telecast by a newly launched Hindi news-channel on 03.04.2019 despite official complaint made through e-mail to ECI. ECI should have reacted instantly just after first time news broke about an ugly anti-woman comment by another politician Azam Khan of UP. ECI has not even taken instant action against TMC Chief Mamta Banerjee for inducing a Bangladeshi artist in election-campaign. If ECI starts reacting instantly a...

पिछले पांच मार्च को राजधानी दिल्ली में जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय और काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय के करीब 30 प्रोफेसरों ने मिल कर “एकेडमिक्स फॉर नमो” अभियान शुरू किया जो बुद्धिजीवी समुदाय में मोदी सरकार के मायने और मोदी सरकार के काम से आये बदलाव को लेकर गुणवत्ता पूर्ण बहस शुरू करने और इस वर्ग में उनकी स्वीकार्यता को बढ़ाने के लिए शुरू किया है। एकेडेमिक्स फॉर नमो का मानना है कि विगत 5 वर्ष में मोदी ने बहुत ही अच्छे काम किए हैं और इस वजह से उन्हें एक और मौका मिलना चाहिए | एकेडमिक्स फॉर नमो अभियान के सूत्रधार और दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय में राजनीतिशास्त्र के प्राध्यापक डॉ. स्वदेश सिंह का कहना है कि अगर मोदी के विरोध में प्रबुद्ध समाज का एक हिस्सा कुछ कारणों से खड़ा हो सकता है तो वहीं उन लोगों को जिनको ऐसा लगता है कि नरेंद्र मोदी ने 5 वर्ष में कई अच्छे काम किए ह...

The National  Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 1266 out of 1279 candidates, who are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase I. There are 13 candidates who have not been analysed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits, at the time of making this report. For the complete report, please go to :  https://adrindia.org/content/lok-sabha-elections-2019-phase-i-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-0   Summary and Highlights   Criminal Background Candidates with Criminal Cases: 213(17%) out of 1266 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 146(12%) out of 1266 have declared serious criminal case...

New Delhi Railway Station is set to have new look. But whole exercise is just part-utilization of heavily-spent funds till a space occupied by UP Roadways in vicinity of the area is handed over to railways for developing prime-most railway-station of capital city of India really an international look. UP Roadways can be given alternate plot in vicinity of some inter-state bus-terminal in the city. Even now buses of UP Roadways run empty to the area occupied by it in vicinity of New Delhi Railways Station after emptying the passengers at some inter-state bus-terminal. Such a shift will be advantageous to UP Roadways itself because of saving of diesel and staff-hours in uselessly running empty buses to a place most needed to Railways for development of New Delhi Railway Station. Such removal...

We, the National Alliance of women, are writing this to express our deep dissatisfaction with the meager allotment of tickets to women candidates by major political parties in the lists put out by them. It is our contention that political parties that don’t have an adequate representation of women within their organization are not truly representative of our democracy. Moreover, it is incumbent on all who are in a position of responsibility to create a just social order. These precedents of unfairness in ticket allotment serve to perpetuate the gender imbalance in opportunities available to men and women in India. National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill (a platform with members from many women’s organizations), has met with the previous election commissioners. We have, on several...