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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Vice President in City
The Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari was in Pune today. He delivered 4th Convocation address at the ‘National Insurance Academy School of Management. He said that insurance is slowly moving beyond tax incentives and statutory insurance requirements towards becoming an effective risk mitigation instrument. The success of the transition and reaping of the fruits of insurance depends on the efficacy of regulation and timely innovation to cater...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Politics of Stupidity
Is the controversy in Uttar Pradesh a ploy to divert the attention from real issue? One is tempted to infer from what is being broadcasted, shown and reported in the last two days. Whatever Rita Bahuguna-Joshi might have said, that does not accrue that the focus should be shifted on her instead of the persons about whom she spoke.High handedness in the functioning of Mayawati is something not new to the Indian media nor to the public. Whoever knowing her name also knows what it signifies for. Rita Bahuguna is a novice comparatively whose main...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Problems Galore Even After Rains
The Pune city is getting satisfactory rains for the last three days. The dams supplying water to the city are filled sufficiently. Still the troubles are not yet over for the city as the rain is not so heavy today as previous two days. The water supply to the city was reduced by 40 percent in the first week of this month due to absence of the rains.The water situation in Pune district is satisfactory now as all the dams are filled more than 50 percent....
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Happy National Day, France
It is National Day in France today as the country celebrates 220th anniversary of Fall of Bastille. The event marked the start of the French revolution. I was in ninth standard when I first learned of French revolution. It was exactly 20 years ago and the lesson was incorporated in our textbook. That was the time when I first learned about Robespierre, Honoré Mirabeau and also Marie Antoinette. It was a coincidence that the same year marked 20th...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The name game starts again
As election nears, political parties resort to many games. In India and Maharashtra, the favorite pastime of political leaders is to give names to building, squares, roads, railway stations or whatever they can find. This has assumed such a proportion that nowadays, government plans projects later and anoints names before. As if to belittle the credit for erecting one of the great monuments in Maharashtra, a fresh controversy was started last week....
Friday, July 03, 2009
Railway Budget Off The Track
It Adopts Populist MeasureMamata Banerjee has doled out many sops in her first railway budget. But I am afraid whether much of those sops can actually be put to use. I myself is angered with the concession given to journalists.Banerjee today announced a new method of concessions to be given to accredited press correspondents. Under this method, the accredited journalists will receive photo identification cum credit card instead of coupons, which...
Thursday, July 02, 2009
More Water Cuts For Pune
Administration Cautious Over ScarcitySome water in the form of drizzle came in Pune city today even as the city reeled under water scarcity. The dams providing water to citizens are running dry. Guardian minister of Pune and state water resources minister Ajit Pawar today announced some measures to check the water scarcity, but in absence of sufficient rains, it is way far from satisfactory.Pawar held a meeting today in which officials from various...
