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…
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Daily Happenings Blog
Weekend
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…
Thursday Titbits
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…
Hospital Malpractices
The healthcare services in our country have become so money minded that it has become impossible to get genuine doctor or any hospital whose first aim is about patient’s welfare and not commercial profits.Every second day one hear about the malpractices in hospital and sub standard medical services, which makes you wonder what has happened…
Heat Wave
Mumbai experienced a unprecedented heat wave for last 2 days. This type of heat wave is rarely experienced by Mumbaikars in the month of March, when suddenly temp shot up to 41 deg C on Sunday 25th Mar , and first time in my life, while sitting at home I could feel warm air coming…
Gentlemen’s Game
Cricket was once known as Gentlemen’s game, but where it has landed today. Some of the present day players do not play the game in the spirit with which game was started and over the years winning only matters and with the involvement of big big bucks in the game, and so many format of…
Weekend
For this weekend, the hatke topic for my blog is as follows: There is a an old proverb which says” that change is inevitable, and who does not change with the change is left behind” During my life time I have seen so many changes that it will be difficult to count even on my…
Data Theft
Yesterday BJP govt alleged that Congress Party had been in touch with controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica(CA). BJP spokeperson Ravi Shankar Prasad asked the Congress to explain its link to CA, which is accused of attempting to manipulate polls from the US to Kenya. He also targeted Face Book’s (FB) Mark Zuckerberg and said, that…
Wednesday Coverage
Today I am covering a topic , which happened 2 days back, and is quite disturbing. I do not understand that how our politician can go to such a low level for votes. Two days back congress govt in Karnataka move on grant of religious minority status for Lingayat-Veerashiva community. This motion was passed in…
Plastic Ban
Effective 18th March 2018, Maharashtra govt has banned the use of plastic bags and bottles of any form. Only temporary exemption given is for Plastic pouches for Milk and PET bottles for water. The main reason given is the plastic waste is spoiling the environment and most of the plastic produced and then used is…