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Why Tata still doesn’t get it? murali772 - 30-DEC-2009
Ratan Tata had this to say on the Singur debacle: “More often than not, conflicts related to land are promoted by individuals who do not belong to that area, but who have other political motives.” Quite so, but this, interestingly enough, was the exact position taken by British planters to stop Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India, the anti-indigo cultivation |
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murali772 - 30-DEC-2009
For the faint-hearted, young men hitting their backs with a bunch of knives, tied together with a rope, has always been a visual torture if they ever witnessed one. But that has been always a practice for Muslims during Muharram. |
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Empower CAG like Lok Ayukta with judicial powers to prosecute erring officials Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 25-JUL-2009
Many Government servants/officers are involved in some scam or the other - if proper examination and inquiries of Audit Paras are conducted and action taken to launch prosecution/criminal cases, without fear or favor, many may loose their jobs. But....? |
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Petition: Stop Amendment of EIA Notification 2006 indian - 30-MAR-2009
MoEF (Ministry of Environment & Forests) in a notification issued recently proposes to amend the EIA Notification in such a manner that it will negate the very purpose of the Notification, besides compromising human rights of hundreds of project affected communities and the ecological security of India. |
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Great grand-mother of all scams murali772 - 27-MAR-2009
The poll-eve race among political parties to promise foodgrains at cheap rates to poor people, when implemented, is counter-productive, warns the Justice D P Wadhwa Committee in its report submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. |
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Petition - Remove Criminals and Cash from Indian Elections indian - 26-MAR-2009
Please see my online petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/remove-criminals-and-cash-from-indian-elections |
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CPI(M) manifesto - misleading facts and too broad? silkboard - 22-MAR-2009
Writing this to point out what fact based means, this post is inspired by TN Ninnan's editorial in Saturday's Business Standard. He picked out a few statements from CPI-M's new election website, and argued that a few of them are not supported by facts, or even observations. Mr Ninnan has picked out certain statements from CPI-M manifesto (here), and taken objections to them: |
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Stop communal, divisive and hate politics - Petition indian - 17-MAR-2009
Moderator's Note #1: Not deleting this post to showcase it as an example of something that may not fit one or more of our posting guidelines. Praja posts should be fact driven (not opinions), and should be local in "real" sense. Local is something at the level of mains and crosses, or citizen's issues specific to a given city. We are not here to discuss nationwide issues or ideologies because we can't realistically do much about them, at least not right now. Also, posts should not be pure promotion of your favorite websites (please do that via your profile, or signature, but not posts). Remember, the philosophy we promote is "think and act local, really really local", that is how all changes begin. |
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idontspam - 26-FEB-2009
Stockholm and Hamburg became the first cities to be named European Green Capital on Monday, Stockholm was commended for beach improvements, high recycling rates, its congestion charging system, an extensive public transport system and carbon emissions that were half the national average. |
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Railway Time Table needs Correction for effective utilisation ajayrailway - 8-JAN-2009
Dear All We have one of the third class time table in world and we can say easily that one of the third class operational efficiency ( I AM TALKING ABOUT NEW DELHI -KANPUR SECTION ] ALLAHABAD JN FOR MUMBAI,varanasi AND SOUTH BOUND TRAIN, GAYA JN FOR PATNA BOUND TRAIN , THE OPERATIOnal effeciency of these station are very poor . |
