After Karnataka Elections there is a lull in political scene, it may hot up on after 15th may, when results will be announced of this poll. So my today’s blog is totally non political : Cabs in Mumbai City- About 3 decades back there were almost One lakh Public Taxis in Mumbai, popularly known as Kaali…
Author: Anil Malik
Weekend
I could not publish my last weekend blog, due to personal preoccupation, so continuing with my list of top 100 Hindi films. This weekend I am in the first decade of new millennium ie 2000-2009, and the top films of this decade were Lagaan(2001)– Produced (P) by Aamir Khan, Directed (D) by Aushutosh Gowarikar. This…
Thursday Post
Some interesting thoughts on this Thursday of May 2018: You all must have heard about the take over of Flipkart, an Indian company, by Walmart. Flipkart is an Indian e commerce company founded by two brothers Sanjay & Binny Bansal, who controlled the company by holding about 12% shares, and the other major holding was…
Wednesday Titbits
Few interesting items on this Wednesday : National Green Tribunal (NGT) has shown concern about depletion of ground water in Mumbai city and they say the main reason is the tanker water supply through out the city . It seems that the authorities have no control on ground water extraction from private wells in Mumbai…
CJI 2
In my blog of 23rd Apr 2018, I had written about the impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India (CJI), brought by Congress led opposition parties in Rajya Sabha. This motion was not accepted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Vice President Venkiah Naidu by giving the valid reasons, Congress had commented at that time that they…
Monday Thoughts
On the first Monday of May 2018, few thoughts which came to my mind , would like to share with you all. Jinnah Controversy at AMU- There has been such a hue and cry about Jinnah’s photograph adorning the wall of AMU. Some section of the society have protested about this and said this photograph…
Civil Prison
Friends, do you know that as per law there are two types of prison, one for criminal offence and other for civil offence, and many of the states do not have prisons for civil offences and Maharashtra state is also one of those states. This came into light during one of the civil case recently….
Petrol Prices
All over India there is hue and cry about rising petrol prices, which is about Rs 75.00 per Litre in Delhi and Rs83.oo in Mumbai. There are certain facts about Petrol prices, which most of the countrymen are unaware. The first and foremost is the price of petroleum products are not governed by Central Govt,…
Monday News
On this Monday, the last day of April 2018, some interesting news which I would like to share One great achievement for the govt, which is, that all villages of the country are electrified. A village is considered to be electrified if 10% of its households and public places such as schools, panchayat office and…
Weekend
I am continuing with the weekend Hatke topic of top 100 Hindi films, and today I will be briefing you all about the films released during last decade of last century ie 1990-1999. Agneepath(1990)- Directed (D) by Mukul Anand- story about a small boy who sees his poor & honest father being killed by the…