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Why does India need Tatra Trucks?

Why does India need Tatra Trucks? Tatra is a Czech Republic truck manufacturing company which is in news recently when Indian Army Chief Vijay Kumar Singh alleged that a retired Lieutenant-General offered a sum of Rs. 14 crores for clearing a tranche of 600 Tatra trucks for use by the Indian Army. According to …

On Army Chief’s Bribe Row

Army Chief General V.K. Singh’s has revealed that he was directly approached with an offer of a Rs. 14 crore bribe to clear the acquisition of sub-standard vehicles.  It appears from the further updates that the offer was made by Lt General (retd) Tejinder Singh and bribe offer was for the …

Railway Minister Resigns because of Railway Budget

Coalition politics is doing the damage again. Union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi was asked to resign by his own party leader, Mamata Banerjee after his railway Budget, to expose another shameful face of coalition politics. The weak congress, strangled by its allies has nothing to do except to accept his resignation. The …

Indian Budget 2012-13: First Look

Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee has come up with the Budget for financial year 2012-2013. Many had expected a reform rich budget this year, as the next year budget has all probability of being a populist one in light of the coming elections. But Pranab has played different cards this time. …

New Year Resolutions

Another new year! What resolutions are you planning to make? How can you make sure that you stick on to your resolutions? A few tips for the same. The guideline for all New Year Resolutions should be Improvement – Improvement from what you were yesterday. So all resolutions should be …

Jan Lokpal – The Means and Demands

Corruption needs to be curbed. No second thoughts on that. But what is the right and practical step towards that? Jan Lokpal Bill? The main worries lie in creating a Draconian Law, enabling a few super-power individuals, who are not democratically elected by common people, controlling the Prime Minister, Judiciary, …

Lokpal Bill – Why Not PM?

It is the moral responsibility of the UPA government to clarify before the public, the disinterest shown in bringing the Prime Minister and Judiciary under the limits of Lokpal. Is the present Lokpal Bill the best bet that Indians can get? The present stand taken has severely tarnished the image …

Inflation Rate and Interest Rate

It can be inferred as the grand old method of hiking the interest rate to curb the rising inflation rate is not that helpful in the present Indian Economy. Eleven Interest hikes within last 15 months has not only put the corporate offices, but the middle and low income groups …

Education Loans

India is a country where education loans are costlier than car loans. While car loans are available for rates around 8 percent, educational loans can cost you around 12 percent. Reduce Educational Loan rates The rate of interest of Education Loan given by Banks should be reduced to 3% – …

Cash for Votes Scam – The WikiLeaks Side

With the release of India Cables by WikiLeaks-The Hindu’, there was a real overflow of the so called ‘confidential information’ to the Blind public regarding Foreign and Domestic policies and how the US embassy work with India.These cables had given fair chance to the public to get an unbiased thinking, …

Reservation – Time For Change?

It is high time for a better system or method which can uplift all the sections of the country, and the 1931 census based caste reservation is not clearly the solution. The easy way for government is to provide reservation for all those whose cry for it, but they should …

Online Elections for India???

Can we set up Online Elections in India? When can India go poll the online way? Can we start the setting up the process on trial basis at least on selected places? Also see related posts: Reservation – Time For Change? Jan Lokpal – The Means and Demands Achievements of …