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It is indeed unfortunate that the communities which have contributed maximum to the nation in many aspects are fast losing their share in population of India. Till now country was worried on fast diminishing population of Parsi community which is considered to be most talented in every aspect of life. Most admiring feature of Parsi culture is to live for the society and not for themselves. But now disturbing aspect of fast diminishing share of Jain population in the country has emerged whose share in population has declined to 0.37 percent in 2011-census as compared to 0.40 percent in 2001-census with fertility rate of just 1.2 against replacement rate of 2.1. This vegetarian community is the flag-bearer of nicest ancient Indian traditions in terms of religion, talent and tax-contributo...

It refers to video viral on electronic and social media wherein an MP and an MLA were openly seen engaged in scuffle with beating by shoes that too in presence of police and government officials at Sant Kabir Nagar in UP. Even though the ruling party is said to have taken a serious view on the matter by summoning both the involved noes immediately for enquiry and action, yet big question is why and how police-persons present at the meet failed to take immediate action as per provisions of law. UP police should immediately sue-motto register an FIR on the incident to punish the guilty law-makers. It is noteworthy that the scuffle started on faulty practice of putting names on the foundation-stone of some project. Practice of glorifying political leaders by putting their names on foundati...

It refers to a reputed brand Nova of milk vigorously advertising for sale of full-cream milk now at much reduced price of just rupees 45 per litre instead of earlier rupees 51 per litre. Patanjali is giving biscuit-pack worth rupees five free with one litre cow-milk priced at rupees 40 per litre against rupees 42 per litre by Mother Dairy. A new brand Namaste India made an alarming entry in marketing of packaged milk with very huge advertisement and sale-promotion expenses including providing free packs of milk on some initial quantity. Otherwise also heavy advertisement-expenses are being done for branded milk marketed by famous giants of co-operative sector like Mother Dairy and Amul. All this leads to doubt about extra-ordinary profit-margin on essential item of milk. There are also ...

It refers to Reserve Bank of India RBI warning that refusing to accept ten-rupee coins can end up in facing legal action. It is a common knowledge that people in general do not like having bulky ten-rupee coins also because fake ten-rupee coins are much in circulation. There must be a policy whereby coins and currency-notes in same denomination may not be simultaneously in circulation. Presently denominations of rupees one and ten are two such denominations for which RBI issues both coins and currency-notes. Minting of unpopular ten-rupee coins should be immediately stopped and plastic-notes of ten-rupee denomination having much longer life should be issued as was announced long back by the then Union Minister of Finance Namo Narain Meena on 12.03.2013 in a written reply in Rajya Sab...

It refers to media-reports about central government considering colour-coding of generic medicines like is done to distinguish vegetarian and non-vegetarian food-products for promoting sale of generic medicines which is considered to be cheaper than their corresponding branded medicines. Already steps like printing name of generic chemical on branded medicines in font-size double that of branded name, separate shelves for generic medicines in chemist-shops and making it compulsory for medical practitioners to print name of corresponding generic chemical in legible writing together with name of branded medicines have been taken by the government. But such steps other than printing of name of generic chemical on packs of branded medicines are not followed in practice. Moreover there is no...