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Election Commission really autonomous:  Admits electoral bonds against transparency

Election Commission really autonomous: Admits electoral bonds against transparency

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Election Commission of India has risen to the occasion by opposing at Supreme Court, the decision of central government to introduce electoral bonds for funding of political parties where names of contributors are hidden. These bonds have become source of undisclosed funding to ruling party getting 95-percent of total funding done through electoral bonds in the year 2017-18. It is evident any ruling party will be getting major share of such opaque contribution because of contributors getting favours from the ruling party by themselves remaining anonymous. Contributions made to political parties should be perfectly transparent and cashless. Electoral bonds must carry names of contributors to prevent these as indirect and legalised bribing to ruling party. With central government motiv...
Central government should regulate pricing of printer-cartridges of computers and standardise for drastic cut in prices

Central government should regulate pricing of printer-cartridges of computers and standardise for drastic cut in prices

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Newspaper-advertisements have appeared wherein a leading multinational brand has come out with original ink-cartridges for its laser-printers available at just rupees 846 MRP with average print-cost for a paper-sheet just 33 paise using original cartridge. But the largest-selling multi-national company of computer-printers in Indian market Hewlett-Packard HP has still Maximum-Retail-Price printed on ink-cartridges exorbitantly high even though its original cartridges available in wholesale markets of Nehru place and Nai Sarak in Delhi at much-much less than printed MRP. Even wholesale price for its ink-cartridges of laser-printers remains much higher around rupees 3000 making some Indian manufacturers marketing re-filled cartridges at around rupees 700 or so. Even re-fill can be done at...
Save India from being economically bankrupt for vote-bank politics

Save India from being economically bankrupt for vote-bank politics

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Make people work hard rather than making them beggars dependent on freebies Congress President has come with big pre-poll announcement to give rupees 72000 per annum to five crore families covering about 25 crores population in case his party comes in power. Poll-promise is gimmick in itself because Congress President has said that the scheme is planned to be introduced in phased manner without any elaboration of the term phased-manner. India would have been a developed nation if such allegedly pro-poor gimmick schemes would not have been allowed distributing free items or providing money without or nominal work just on paper like MNERAGA. Useless subsidies have tend to eaten up Indian economy like termites where most such subsidies in name of poor are misused by affording ones like ...
Disciplining JNU students necessary: Norms be revised for appointing teachers

Disciplining JNU students necessary: Norms be revised for appointing teachers

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It refers to ever-controversial Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) at Delhi once again in news on 25.03.2019 with several students entering house of Vice Chancellor where his wife lonely in the home had to be hospitalized because of mental trauma caused by forced entry of agitating students. Earlier also such an unhumanitarian act on 15.02.2018 made certain officials of the University sick being required to be even hospitalized. Demand of students against enforcing rules is ingenuine. Universities should be for education and not for playing politics. Central government should evolve permanent solution to make JNU an ideal institution for education rather becoming a hub for political activities many of which are at times even against national and public interest. Procedure for admission o...
CJI should summon a conference of judges of higher courts to discuss liberal culture of ex-party stay-orders and frequent adjournments in court-cases

CJI should summon a conference of judges of higher courts to discuss liberal culture of ex-party stay-orders and frequent adjournments in court-cases

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Biggest weakness of our justice-delivery-system is liberal ex-party stay-orders followed by frequent adjournments in courts which the main and foremost reason of ever-increasing huge pendency of cases in courts resulting in justifying the proverb Justice-Delayed-Is-Justice Denied. This is despite the fact that several Division Benches of Supreme Court have including the one comprising of Justices RV Ravindran and JM Panchal in January 2009 observed and rightly too of the bitter reality that at times those having taken ex-party stay-orders seeking frequent adjournments ultimately lose the cases. Even the then Vice President Hamid Ansari once also desired liberal adjournments in courts need to be taken seriously by the judiciary for reforms within.Supreme Court also in the case Shiv Cotex...
IOC advertisement of 10-percent payback on petrol through digital payment

IOC advertisement of 10-percent payback on petrol through digital payment

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Presently TV-advertisements by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) are in plenty about 10-percent pay-back on purchase of petrol-diesel through digital mode of payment. Central government had earlier started .75-percent pay-back if petrol and diesel are purchased through credit or debit cards from every petrol-pump of any public-sector oil-company to encourage cashless payments after demonetisation of old currency notes of rupees 500 and 1000 on 08.11.2016. It is beyond understanding why and how IOC alone can provide 10-percent pay-back rather than .75-percent by other oil-companies. Now with people already adopting card-payments at petrol-pumps, incentive for cashless payments at petrol-pumps should be totally withdrawn. Or else it should be same for all public-sector oil-companies rather tha...
गरीबों को गुमराह करने का षड़यंत्र

गरीबों को गुमराह करने का षड़यंत्र

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सत्तर साल से गरीबी एवं गरीबों को मजबूत करने वाली पार्टी कांग्रेस के अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी ने दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी न्यूनतम आय गारंटी योजना से गरीबों के हित की बात करके देश की गरीबी का भद्दा मजाक उडाया है। इस चुनावी घोषणा एवं आश्वासन का चुनाव परिणामों पर क्या असर पड़ेगा, यह भविष्य के गर्भ में है, लेकिन इस घोषणा ने आर्थिक विशेषज्ञों एवं नीति आयोग की नींद उड़ा दी है। इस योजना को बीजेपी सरकार द्वारा किसानों को सालाना 6000 रुपए देने की घोषणा का जवाब माना जा रहा है। कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी के अनुसार, अगर उनकी सरकार सत्ता में आई तो सबसे गरीब 20 प्रतिशत परिवारों को हर साल 72,000 रुपए दिए जाएंगे। इस सहायता राशि को सीधे गरीबों के खातों में हस्तांतरित किया जाएगा और 5 करोड़ परिवार अथवा करीब 25 करोड़ लोग इससे लाभान्वित होंगे। क्या यह घोषणा सीधे तौर पर पच्चीस करोड़ गरीबों के वोट को हथियाने का षडयंत्र है? रा...
Driving a Dangerous Feat on Indian Roads

Driving a Dangerous Feat on Indian Roads

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If you drive safely on roads of Indian cities it is a feat for you. A newspaper report says that in Delhi one out of ten road accidents happen in night due to headlight glare that almost blinds driver coming from the opposite direction. The Motor Vehicle Act prohibits use of headlight at night in city driving. But who cares for the driving rules and for that matter the law of the land. There is far more dangerous driving in day time in Delhi. At a Global Conclave of the IISSM on safety and security held in Delhi in November last one of the topics discussed was ‘Defensive Driving’ by a panel which included distinguished road safety experts. There is a tendency to unfasten the seat belt as you slow down your car before bringing it to a halt. One expert suggested that this practice is not go...
गुड़ी पड़वा या नववर्ष क्या है?

गुड़ी पड़वा या नववर्ष क्या है?

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गुड़ी पड़वा-नवसंवत्सर-नववर्ष-वर्ष प्रतिपदा चैत्र मास की  शुक्ल प्रतिपदा को गुड़ी पड़वा या नववर्ष का आरम्भ माना गया है। ‘गुड़ी’ का अर्थ होता है विजय पताका । ऐसा माना गया है कि शालिवाहन नामक कुम्हार के पुत्र ने मिट्टी के सैनिकों का निर्माण किया और उनकी एक सेना बनाकर उस पर पानी छिड़ककर उनमें प्राण फूँक दिये। उसमें सेना की सहायता से शक्तिषाली शत्रुओं को पराजित किया। इसी विजय के उपलक्ष्य में प्रतीक रूप में ‘‘षालिवाहन शक’ का प्रारम्भ हुआ। पूरे महाराष्ट्र में बड़े ही उत्साह से गुड़ी पड़वा के रूप में यह पर्व मनाया जाता है। कष्मीरी हिन्दुओं द्वारा नववर्ष के रूप में एक महत्वपूर्ण उत्सव की तरह इसे मनाया जाता है। इसे हिन्दू नव संवत्सर या नव संवत् भी कहते हैं। ऐसी मान्यता है कि भगवान ब्रह्मा ने इसी दिन सृष्टि की रचना प्रारम्भ की थी। इसी दिन से विक्रम संवत् के नये साल का आरम्भ भी होता है। सिंधी नववर्ष चेटी...
है अंधेरी रात, पर दीवा जलाना कब मनाना है

है अंधेरी रात, पर दीवा जलाना कब मनाना है

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करोङों हिंदुस्तानियों की तरह नाना ने भी सूखे का संत्रास देखा; आत्महत्या कर चुके किसानों के परिवार वालों के दर्द भरे साक्षात्कार सुने। मैने भी सुने। मेरी हमदर्दी कलम तक सीमित रही, किंतु नाना ने कहा कि टेलीविजन पर देखे दृश्यों से उनका दम घुटने लगा; उनकी नींद उङ गई। उन्होने सोचा - ''जो किसान कभी राजा थे, उनके पास आज न अपने मवेशी के लिए चारा-पानी है और न अपने लिए। मैं जो कर सकता हूं; वह करूं।''  जो मुट्ठी भर धन नाना के पास था, उसे लिया और मकरन्द के कहने पर 15-15 हजार रुपये करके 250 विधवाओं में बांट आये। लेकिन नाना इससे संतुष्ट नहीं हुए; सोचा कि यह उपाय नहीं है। असली उपाय है कि पानी के खो गये स्त्रोत को ढूंढ निकालो और उसे जिंदा कर दो। लोगों को साथ जोङकर खुद श्रम करो; पसीना बहाओ। महसूस करो कि कैसे कोई किसान तपती धूप और सख्त मिट्टी से जूझकर हमारे लिए अन्न पैदा करता है। नाना ने इसके लिए 'नाम फाउण...