Category: Daily Happenings Blog

Recently there have been hue and cry in the print and TV media regarding death of more than  60 children in some hospital in Gorakhpur due to non availability of Oxygen cylinders. The primary report suggested that due to non payment of his bills for more than 3 months the supplier of the oxygen cylinders…

For the last few years awareness on organ donation is slowly getting momentum, and people are coming forward for donating the healthy organs of dead or brain dead relatives. It is really surprising that both Central and State Govts  are not keeping pace with this awareness and are still not coming with desired guidelines for…

Yesterday half of Mumbai city was brought to halt due to Maratha community of Maharashtra holding a rally in Mumbai city for demanding reservations in govt jobs , educational institutions etc etc. I do not know where this issue of reservations is going to lead our country. Our founding fathers of constitution recommended reservations for…

Goods & Service Tax (GST) was launched with much fanfare by the Central Govt along with all State govts on 1st July 2017. There was indication given by govt that few things will become cheaper and some of the things will become slightly expensive. But till date, ie almost 40 days after the introduction of…

Today’s Times of India, Mumbai  paper carried a news item which really surprised me. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh admitted openly that Congress is facing existential crisis and said that party leaders should make collective efforts to overcome the challenges the Congress party  faced  from PM Modi and BJP Chief Amit Shah. He further stated that…

Few days back there was a news item that the woolen blankets which are provided by Railways with the bedding to AC  sleeper class are not washed/dry cleaned for 3 months. There were enough comments from the all sections of society that this is very unhygienic and railway must do some thing about this problem….

Bharat Ratna is highest civilian honour of our country. This award along with Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan were started by Govt of India in early  50s. The idea behind these awards was to honour Indian people for their service to mankind and nation. Slowly these awards and specially Bharat Ratna started taking…

You are all aware that Kashmir is facing militancy for almost last 3 decades. I still remember that it started in a very small way , in 1989 summer when I visited Srinagar with my family in 1989 the locals used to say that this problem of small blasts in city and protest bandhs are hurting…

Today I am not writing on any particular topic, there are some small general thoughts floating in my mind  regarding recent  happenings , which I want to share with you. Nitish Kumar, who has formed an alliance with BJP to run the Bihar govt  has kept on making statement that  he is against corruption in…

In April 2017, State Bank of India (SBI) merged its subsidiaries like State Bank of Mysore(SBM), State Bank of Travancore (SBT) , State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur(SBBJ) with the parent bank ie SBI. That time it was announced that the branches of subsidiaries’ bnaks will operate as it…