Archive for category Current Affairs
Parallel Government
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on May 21, 2013
The recent arrest of a Member of the Railway Board by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) on charges of “buying” his promotion by paying illegal gratification of 90,00,000 rupees to a conduit on behalf of the minister of railways makes a curious case of ruined public administration under the present government. It is greatly […]
The Doctrine of “Underperforming”
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on May 21, 2013
All government officers are paid for their services. Generally they get paid from the Consolidated Fund of India. These worthies must perform, if they want their wages paid in time, without the administrative tribunal or the court ordering otherwise. But the smarter lot have no hesitation in getting paid for “underperforming” from sources other than […]
State Is Obliged to Protect Mukesh Ambani
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on May 15, 2013
Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Group of industries sought and was granted Z-category security by the Government of India, on payment basis. Too many questions are being raised if it was appropriate for the government to provide such security. The issue is being confounded with security to the people at large, making a case […]
Rahul Gandhi To Replace Man Mohan Singh?
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on May 10, 2013
At the end, corruption has taken its toll : the Rail Minister, Mr. Pavan Kumar Bansal, caught in the tsunami of naked corruption, is reported to have resigned. That is really not the news. The impending resignation of the Law Minister, Mr. Aswani Kumar, who has abused his position to protect the guilty in the […]
Defying & Challenging the Supreme Court
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on May 1, 2013
The corruption scam in allocation of coal blocks to private entities by the ministry of Coal, Government of India, when the Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh held the charge of the coal ministry was first detected by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India more than a year ago. The loss to the exchequer estimated […]
Conceived In Deceit, Executed In Conning
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on April 25, 2013
They are credulous; they are gullible; they are vulnerable. They are decent people, more human than their exploiters, kinder than their cheaters, humble than their suckers. They are the poor of the human society. They have been cheated for ages in the name of religion. In modern times too their exploitation goes on unabated. Today […]
Gold or Equity?
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on April 21, 2013
In the last one week or so, this simple question has been discussed by valued experts on investment on television channels and eminent financial & economic writers in prominent newspapers in lengthy columns, giving 15 years of data on returns on investment in both gold and equity, and comparing the gains. It is said by […]
A Fine Brain, A Restless Soul: Dr B R Ambedkar
Posted by M.L Gupta in Current Affairs on April 14, 2013
Dr B R Ambedkar indeed was a great achiever! The qualities of his brain become clear by the academic success he made in his life: MA, PhD, DSc, Bar-at-Law, LLD, D Litt. It would look perfectly normal to achievers, excepting that Ambedkar overcame great impediments that might be unimaginable for others- he got admission in […]
