After facing flak from various quarters, the Maharashtra Government has finally decided to buy new bullet proof jackets. It will procure around 2,000 bullet-proof jackets as part of efforts to modernise the police force in the backdrop of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Home Minister R R Patil has directed the authorities to initiate the process for buying the jackets from an agency certified by the Centre. The agency supplies these jackets to the...
Friday, December 25, 2009
BJP Shares Congress Drink
When it comes to money, there are hardly any difference between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. The fact was demonstrated today by the statement given by Gopinath Munde, deputy leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. Talking to PTI, Munde saidBJP was not opposed to the Maharashtra government's move to make wine from rotten grains. Munde was in Aurangabad for the felicitation ceremony on his appointment as deputy opposition leader in the Lok...
Puneites To Pray To Stop 'Flight' of Public Money
Puneites are gearing up to stop flights by relatives of the ministers. After the decision to allow even relatives of the ministers to allow free travel in aeroplanes, an organisation in the city is planning an agitation against the decision. According to Jansamvedana Jagruti Abhiyan, the activists of the organisation along with public pray at the Shaniwar Wada. The people will pray that the planes taking the relatives should remain grounded. Manoj...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Can Doordarshan Regain Its Glory?
Think of it. 66 studio centers spread all over the country, out of these 23 centres are either already digitalised or being digitalized, 39 studio centers, 91 percent area covered all over India. Still Doordarshan is often called poordarshan because of its style of functionning. It seems it likes to work as just another government organ. Ambika Soni, the minister for information and broadcasting informed the Lok Sabha yesterday through a written...
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Storm In the Session! Really?
December 06, 2009
BJP, Congress, elections, government, Maharashtra, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, politics, Shiv Sena
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Before the advent of each session of legislature, it is a kind of ritual now to carry the stories on possible issues testing government. Accordingly, this time the media is saying that Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance government is said to be pushed to corner over some issues. These are `leakage' of the Pradhan Committee report on 26/11 terror attacks and farmer suicides. The question is : will it really?The winter session of Maharashtra...