Category: Daily Happenings Blog

In our country for any big project including infra projects, it has become mandatory to get clearance from Ministry of Environment & Forest ( MOEF). And MOEF has become the most dreaded word in the development business. You will recall, when Ms Jayanti Natrajan was Environment Minister in UPA 2 govt, most of the big…

All of you must be aware that most of our states are trying to ban the use of plastic in any form, because it is harming the ecology system of the nature.As most of the food items are sold in PET bottles/jars/containers etc, and from these water bottles are the maximum in numbers , and…

Congress Party yesterday submitted a petition signed by ex PM Dr Manmohan Singh & other leaders to President Kovind mentioning that PM Narendra Modi is using menacing language to intimidate the leaders of their party.The petition further added that the President should caution PM Modi against behaviour that did not suit a Prime Minister of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….