Author: Anil Malik

Some news on this Thursday of April 2018: So in the end IPL blinked, and bowed down to pressure from political parties and announced shifting of Franchisee Chennai Super Kings (CSK) matches out of Chennai. The cricket lovers of this city which waited for two years to see the IPL matches, has been left disappointed. The…

There is a saying that if you start torturing numbers, they will do any thing as per your wishes.There are many experts in India who can always play with numbers, specially in financial analysis. Let us start with recent PNB/Nirav Modi scam, what does the number say Rs 12,646 Cr, this is the loan amount…

You all will recall that 2 years back  Maharashtra had a big water scarcity, and the politicians  from all the parties, to score the brownie points, ensure that IPL matches would not be played in any city of Maharashtra, and at that time there were 3 cities in Maharashtra namely Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur were…

In the city of Mumbai and surrounding areas now known as Mumbai Metropolitan area, as per recent reports there are almost 1.20 lakhs housing units(popularly known as flats) are lying vacant and  more than 90% of these units are unsold to any home buyers. the main reason being these flats remaining unsold are the high…

I am continuing with Hatke topic, which I started on the last weekend and that is 101 top Hindi films,and today I will brief you all with the movies from the list of 101 films, which were released in 1960s(1960-69) Chaudhavin Ka Chand (1960)- Produced (P) by Guru Dutt, Directed (D) by M Sadiq. After…

Within few hours of issuing new guidelines to govern the accreditation of journalists, the I & B ministry had to withdraw the same on behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention. Though the new rules would have affected only a small number of journalists, there were three broad problems with the new rules. First  one…

The Polity of our country is based on caste reservations system. Yesterday there was a Bharat bandh called by people from schedule caste ,  schedule tribes and other backward class communities and they were backed and supported by many opposition parties including Congress. The bandh was called against the Supreme Court order of March 20…

Few interesting news items on  the   first Monday of Apr 2018 : I do not understand these politicians, there is a news item that one Contractor who was awarded 26 small projects through E tendering process  in one of the ward of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), but afterwards group of Municipal Corporators along with few…

The Hatke topic  for the last weekend of March 2018. Sometime in last year before I started writing my blog, I had spent considerable time in researching on the subject of choosing top 100 films of Bollywood( Hindi ) films, the list which I finalised after giving them score in the field of Direction,Acting by…

So some interesting news items on this Thursday: So Cricket Australia (CA) have announced the punishment to be given to tainted cricketers who were involved in ball tempering case-                  Steve Smith (Captain)- He is banned for 12 months for playing Domestic & International Cricket, can only play…