The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the provisions of a Maharashtra law providing reservation to the Maratha community, which took the total quota in the state above the 50 % ceiling set by the court in its 1992 Indra Sawhney (Mandal) judgment. “The 50% rule…is to fulfill the objective of equality as engrafted in…
Category: Daily Happenings Blog
Daily Happenings Blog
Wednesday Post
1 Now IPL’s bubble has burst, and many players and support staff have been found Covid +, therefore BCCI has indefinitely postponed the balance matches of the current IPL tournament. In the first BCCI should not have started the tournament knowing that the pandemic in the country is becoming a serious issue, but they…
Tuesday Brief
It looks as if Courts are ruling our country. Any decision/policy announcement either by state govt or central govt is either challenged in High Court (HC) or Supreme Court (SC). It looks like our courts have no other work than to look into the decision taken by govt/legislature. This has increased after NDA govt took…
Weekend Blog
In today’s weekend blog, I am writing about one female singer of Bollywood who never got her due and recognition. What was her fault her voice sounded like Lata Mangeshkar and Lata was at the top during her singing career, so she was always known as poor man’s Lata, and if Lata is not available…
Thursday Brief
1 In a year marred by the Covid pandemic, which resulted in the cancellation of most of the sporting events across the world, sports sponsorship in India dropped by about 35%. According to the report, India’s sports sponsorship for the year 2020 fell to Rs5894 Cr from Rs 9109 Cr in the preceding year. The biggest…
Wednesday Post
This Covid pandemic has brought so many changes in the work culture that in the future we do not know how the system will operate. Most of the companies now have realised that the certain category employees’ presence is not essential in the office, and these employees can do the work from home. I know…
Tuesday Brief
Some interesting development happened in the Madras High Court, where a petition was being heard on 26th April 21, which was filed by AIADMK leader and Tamilnadu Transport Minister MR Vijayabhaskar seeking directions for the Election Commission to implement strict measures during counting on 2nd May 21 at his Karur constituency , where 77 candidates…
Monday Post
For the last 3 days, the political news is regarding Covid 19 pandemic, especially on the issue of vaccination shortages, Oxygen gas in short supply to hospitals across the country, and more so in affected states. Now the politics have started happening on both these issues, I fail to understand these politicians why are only…
Weekend
My, today’s weekend blog is on the greatest actor ever to grace Bollywood. He was very selective about the roles, which he enacted on the silver screen. In his career spanning more than 5 decades, he acted only in just 60 films, and in his hay days, cine-goers would wait for his film to be…
Thursday Post
So India achieved a dubious distinction when daily cases crossed the figure of 3.16 Lakh cases yesterday. Earlier this record with 3.07 Lakh daily cases was with USA. Now Covid pandemic has really become a very serious matter. Just in 17 days the daily figure crossed from 1 Lakh cases to 3 lakh cases, which…