December 2008
NEWS AND VIEWS
News: Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Auraiya (UP) Shekhar Tewari, allegedly involved in the brutal murder of Manoj Kumar Gupta, Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department, was arrested on 24 Dec. 2008.
Views: What to say about the MLAs? Are they murderers?
News: India must provide of its allegation that elements in Pakistan were involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif said.
Views: Is it a joke?
News: Denying that the Bahujan samaj Party was a “laboratory of criminals,’ the Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Mayawati said that persons with criminal antecedents and victims of political conspiracy had to be given a chance to reform. She admitted that some BSP MLAs and Ministers had criminal antecedents.
Views: What a wonderful idea of reforming MLAs and Ministers!
News: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said the resignation of the Mangalore sitting member K. Selvam had not yet been accepted by Speaker since it was not written in accordance with the Assembly rules.
Views: Sitting members of the Assembly do not know even the Assembly rules!
News: Tamil Nadu has 1.06 crore vehicles and close to 3000 to 5000 vehicles were registered daily according to Transport Minister Mr. K. N. Nehru.
Views: What will happen to the road traffic?
News: Tamil Nadu Minister for Backward classes and Handlooms said that 1.5 crore dhotis and 1.5 crore saries would be distributed from 1 January 2009.
Views: Even after 60 years of Independence people do not have clothes to wear!
News: A journalist threw his shoes at U. S. President George Bush and shouted ‘it is the farewell kiss, you dog’ during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nurial-Maliki in Baghdad.
Views: Shame! Shame!!
News: “There are about 21 auditoria, including a few in schools, where music festivals are held in the Tamil month of Margazhi. Detailed instructions have been given on the dos and don’ts. We have asked them to engage trained security personal and install Door Frame Metal Detecors” said Mr. Mourya, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mylapore, Chennai.
Views: We are not safe even in a music festival!
News: An Inspector of Police who allegedly demanded and took Rs. 2 Lakh as bribe from an accused was arrested by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption police at Chennai.
Views: Everyone lives in one’s own way!
News: Police personnel in Puducherry deserted their posts and staged dharna before a court, protesting denial of bail to a Sub-Inspector arrested by the CBI in a corruption case of taking a bribe of Rs. 2000 from an advocate.
Views: Police protection for corruption?
News: The Coimbatore Rural Police arrested and remanded Dhanapal, Inspector of Police of Koilpalayam Police Station on charges of intimidating and robbing real estate broker Vasavan of Rs. 25 lakhs.
Views: Interesting Inspector of Police!
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– - Franklin P. Jones
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WORLD ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISES
Joseph Stiglitz, the eminent economist, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Columbia University recently said that the world is going into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Credit is contracting, output is falling, unemployment is increasing and most asset values are falling.
It is likely not only to be a long downturn, but also a deep one.
The crisis was predictable and...
NEWS AND VIEWS
NEWS: “Unprecedented security arrangements have been made for the India-England cricket Test match to be played at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium from 11 Dec. 2008. About 3000 police personnel have been deployed for bandobust!”
VIEWS: Is it needed to show a cricket match under bandobust? Can’t we wait till the commotion of Mumbai Mutiny is over?
NEWS: “The Supreme Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to take immediate steps to recover rental arrears of over Rs. 1 crore from 27 Civil Servants who are the unauthorized occupants of Government accommodation in the state.”
VIEWS: How do you rate these Civil Servants? Who has to control them?
NEWS: “Scotland Yard officers who shot dead an innocent Brazilian youth, Jean Charles de Menezes, at a London Underground Station in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings – claiming that they thought he was a terrorist – were absolved of unlawful killing, but their claim that they had acted lawfully was also rejected.”
VIEWS: Even it happens in UK but justice appears to be strong there!
NEWS: “Decades after his death, a caustic lette that Albert Einstein wrote to his first wife Mileva Marie in 1914 has revealed his domestic frustrations.”
VIEWS: No one is free of family problems in the world!
NEWS: Leon Flora Mary, manager of the noon meal scheme and Palanisamy, noon meal organizer were arrested at the Udumalpet taluk limits for allegedly taking bribe from a retired noon meal organizer.”
VIEWS: Bribing has become a common habit even at the noon meal scheme level in Tamil Nadu.
NEWS: G. K. Anandakumar, the Head master (in charge) of a Corporation Middle School was kept under suspension for collecting donations for school building and collected money from students for distribution of uniforms and text books supplied by free by Government of Tamil Nadu.”
VIEWS: What a wonderful teacher for a country like India!
NEWS: Officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) arrested the Chief Inspector of Factories, Chennai on the charges of demanding and obtaining Rs. 2 lakh allegedly as bribe, from a Tuticorin based private company.”
VIEWS: Shame on the part of a Chief Inspector!
NEWS: Several eminent Indian Americans are linked to the corruption scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attempt to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama reported by the Chicago Tribune.
VIEWS: Indians are everywhere!
NEWS: A group of farmers, environmental activists and educationists will take out a padayatra at Sirumugai in Matupalayam taluk on 15 Dec. 2008 in protest against the alleged pollution of River Bhvani by industrial units.
VIEWS: What the hell the Pollution Control Board is doing?
MUMBAI MUTINY
The two unforgettable events that occurred during November 2008 in India are historic in nature.
The first one took place on 14 November 2008 whereas the second one on 26 November 2008.
The first one was a success, the space scientists proudly showed to the world.
But the second one was a shame and security failure on the part of the State and Central Governments.
The Chandrayaan 1 mission to moon...
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NEWS AND VIEWS
News: “The terrorists want to destroy Pakistan, too” said the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari.
Views: - Then why don’t you destroy the terrorists and their camps in Pakistan?
News: “The Government of Pakistan asked India to furnish evidence to back its allegations that Pakistani nationals were involved in the Mumbai attacks in order to take its investigations forward.”
Views: Evidences are essential for a court of law. Isn’t it? Is there one in Pakistan?
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“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are,...”
– George Levinger