Akeli ladki khuli tijori ki tarah hoti hai (a lone female is like an open safe) and even if she is not alone she is fair game. Street harassment is a common occurrence. Women have to deal with it on a daily basis. Women who face it would probably compare it to breathing in Delhi a day after Diwali with their lungs choked with smog. An ActionAid survey conducted in […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that National Anthems must be played in all the cinema halls across the country. ANI reported that SC ordered for playing of National Anthem before the film starts accompanied by the showing of National Flag on screen. SC also stated that everyone present in the cinema halls must rise at the time of National Anthem playing and show respect towards it. The full version […]
In his celebrated treatise, the Kautilya Arthashastra, Chanakya has delved at length on why and how a conqueror should go to war. “To neutralise the enemy-in-the-rear, to help an ally or to subdue a small state, and the ultimate objective is to destroy the natural enemy who is an obstacle to the conqueror’s ambition,” he says. Cut to the present, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the conqueror with an […]
At a time when the central government is going all out to encourage cashless transactions across the country, it seems some government offices might have missed the memo. One of them is the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) in Mundhwa where, according to Wanowrie resident Deepika Sampat, there is no cashless facility for the public. Sampat, who had made an online payment prior to her visit to the passport office, said […]
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), a think tank affiliated with the finance ministry, has warned that the shock move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes could lead to “a contraction of economic activity in the economy” and social unrest. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to scrap high-value notes that accounted for 86% of the currency in circulation has triggered cash chaos. People have been […]
As the furore and protests against demonetisation continue I have come to realise that there is no place like whatsapp, when it comes to stirring up protests or support on a particular agenda. But I guess before forwarding such responses, readers should also think logically. There is a particularly popular(I am guessing since it was sent to me no less than 50 times in one day) forward that I seek […]
Amid the controversy over public sector lender SBI reportedly writing off loans worth Rs. 7,000 crore, including that of Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines, a sanitation worker in Nashik has written to the SBI, seeking a ‘similar’ waiver of his Rs. 1.5 lakh loan. Bhaurao Sonawane, a safai worker with the Tryambakeshawar municipal council in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, said he had written to the SBI, seeking waiver of his loan, “in […]
The income-tax department has issued notices seeking ‘sources of income’ of hundreds of individuals and firms who have deposited huge amounts of cash in banks after the government’s announcement to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on November 8. Officials said the department has initiated a country-wide enquiry under Section 133 (6) of the Income Tax Act (power to call for information). The notices were issued after banks reported […]
New Delhi: With more people than ever before migrating to cities, finding a toilet is not only a chore but a public health issue for hundreds of millions of people around the world, WaterAid, a sanitation charity, said on Thursday. Nearly one in five city dwellers, or about 700 million people worldwide do not have access to decent toilets, according to the Britain-based WaterAid. About 600 million people use […]
Two decades of diabetes has caused 64-year-old External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj’s kidneys to shut down. Admitted in the Capital’s premier medical institute, AIIMS, she will undergo a transplant soon. According to sources in the hospital, the minister’s creatinine levels, which measure how well the kidneys are functioning, were around 5 mg%; normally it should range from 0.80 mg% to 1.21 mg%. The higher the creatinine levels, the more damaged […]
