Author: Anil Malik

Some news items, which caught my eyes today, would like to share with you with my observations. 1 Indian Army has an authorised strength of 50,028 officers but it is 7300 short of that figure, plus another big number seeking premature retirement every year. So to combat this shortage in the ‘fighting ranks’ of Lieutenants,…

   EXIT POLLS The polling for the general Elections ended yesterday, and today all the print media and social media is full about the news regarding the results of the Exit Polls done by various agency and the reactions of the various political leaders on these Exit Polls. All the exit polls have shown that…

On this weekend, I am trying to cover entirely hatke topic. It is  a story of  one consumer product, and I  think in India there will be hardly  any person who has not heard about this product or should I say not tasted/eaten this product in his/her lifetime. Friends can you guess the name of…

Some interesting news item on this Thursday of May 2019.   After they exited from Fast Moving Commercial Goods (FMCG) business, nearly 3 decades back, Tata Group has announced that they are once again entering the FMCG market. They plan to give once again competition to Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL). Initially they will start with…

In recent times, friends all of you must have come across the word ‘Meme’.  I had never come across this word before and so started wondering what is this word suppose to mean, and I  went on to search for the same in Google, and found that Meme means “ an image, video, piece of…

IPL 2019 So after 50 days IPL  2019 tournament ended and what  a tournament it was. So first time in the league matches three teams had the  same points, and their ranking was decided on the net run rate, and it was first time also that team which won only 6 out of 14 matches…

In this weekend’s blog, I am ending the Filmfare awards with the write up on the Comedian & Viliain awards. It was first time in 1966 that Filmfare started giving separate award for best comedian, earlier comedian  was considered as supporting actor. In 1958 Johny Walker won the best supporting actor (M) award for Madhumati…

Some varied thoughts on this 2nd Thursday of May 2019.   1 I do not know what ails Congress, as they do not have any faith in constitutional bodies like Election Commission (EC). They were the first party from the opposition ranks who started blaming EVMs and for every decision of EC is being challenged…

VVPAT   During this General elections, one item which has been in constant news is VVPAT. What is this VVPAT (Voters Verified Paper Audit Trail). A VVPAT is intended as an independent system for Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) designed to allow voters to verify that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud…

My varied thoughts on this first Tuesday of May 2019.   A As expected Supreme Court (SC) panel clears Chief Justice of India (CJI) in sexual harassment complain. A in house committee  comprising  three SC judges, dismissed a  complaint by sacked SC woman employee against CJI. The in house committee has found no substance in…