Auto/taxi mafia is taking a toll on the drivers
Auto strikes are now an integral part of this highly unorganised transport industry. Every other month, some or the other city in India experience this blackmail from either the auto-rikshaw or taxi drivers.
Let the water flow!
Rivers have always been an agenda that has seen itself on the top of the list of political propagandas since time immemorial.
Race to race course road
With the general elections almost two years away speculation is rife. The favourite question doing the rounds is whether the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi will be able to defeat a NDA alliance led by Narendra Modi?
Democratise radio
To put an end to the years of government monopoly in radio services, the Supreme Court of India, in February 1995 decreed that "airwaves are public property†that allowed the operations of private radio stations, albeit under a number of conditions.
Happy Poverty!
The other day, I got talking to a colleague of mine, who belongs from the interiors of Bengal. While speaking with him, I realized that he is the only earning member of the family of eight.
The Dropping Immunity
The child mortality rate of 5 deaths in every 4 minutes is something that should have ideally given nightmares to any sensible policymaker. But forget that, what is more shocking is that nothing concrete is done even when these deaths are mostly caused by preventable diseases.
Outsource BPL housing
The Union government has set a mission to curb expenditure which is increasing due to cost escalation of its flagship housing programme for the BPL segment, Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) – thanks to inflation. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh hammering home the need for increased central funds for the programme has largely fallen into the deaf years of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) so far. The inflated allocation is Rs 75,000 per unit from the earlier sum of Rs 45,000, which as per the Rural Ministry is the need of the day, but the Finance Ministry finds its not as important and has kept the entire agenda at bay.
Sense of Censor
As a measure of policy upshot to censor non-news television programs, the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) that was formed in June last year, is already over the edge, with heaps of complaints pouring in against the free fall of moral content (that includes obscenity and violence) of the small screen programs.
Peace in the economy
Internal peace and economic development share an uncanny correlation.
Between the black and the white
The enduring legacy of Gaffar Market in Delhi’s Karol Bagh area is well-known to not only residents of Delhi but even to the people outside Delhi.
Are we being tested, rightly?
The Supreme Court of India most recently rapped the Union Government and the Madhya Pradesh Government over the knuckles for failing to save lives corroborated by clinical trials of drugs carried on rampantly and sometimes illegally.
Water Woes
Just as searing summer temperatures have taken toll on millions across the nation and household taps are almost running dry, the conniving water mafias are all set to make some quick bucks at the expense of the hapless consumers.
The lottery of BPL cards
The issue of access to food supplies at subsidised prices for people below the poverty line is being addressed by India’s federal government through their much touted Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards.
Tuning the tutor
Come new academic session, students across the nation would be found beelining outside famous tuition centres (who declared to have coached the board toppers) for admission.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
