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Friday, 6 March 2026

RTI Act should be allowed to assist in court

If a proper judgment is passed, it helps in the Rule of Law. The RTI Act should be allowed to assist the court of law to dispensing justice. In specific cases, with the permission of the court, the RTI application should be allowed to procure information as it helps in better and quicker delivery of a fair verdict.
Sharmista Banerjee
Much introspection and reforms needed in PSU.
A very much needed introspection and reforms to be undertaken in PSUs to eliminate squandering of public money . This introspection may be required in other areas of governance also.
K Srinivasa Rao
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Modi government will be remembered in history

The Modi government will be remembered in history forever. It has given life of dignity to the poorest of the poor ensuring food security, housing, toilets and peace. It has ensured fast growth of infrastructure and the economy. India is on its way to become a developed country. It has strongly attacked corruption and black money. Law and order has improved dramatically. BIMARU states have started growing fast because of excellent law and order. It has finished naxal terror. It has given fitting reply to terrorists from across the border. It has removed Article 370. It has always acted on its agenda of sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas. No wonder the corrupt and the enemies of the country are so much against Modi sarkar.
Vijay Kumar
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

A myth called international law

It has repeatedly been proved that the international law is nothing more than a myth. Briefly, the wisest had put it in writing long ago, “Samrath ko nahi dos Gusai”. It means the powerful can’t be blamed. The violence used for religion or proselytization produces dictators. It leads to wars or tyranny if it can survive. International law was created and used for the same purpose. Wasn’t the UNO dead decades ago? Only the weak speak passionately for international law. Law students spend more than 20% of the time on mastering this attractive topic. It can procrastinate conflicts but can never produce solutions. Wars and pestilence hit the mankind. History of the world for the last 100 years supports it. Those who neither anticipate nor change radically in time, fall! The Mahabharat presents the best lesson: Asvathama Hato, naro va kunjaro va. The change in India in the last one decade has brought about the most valuable change in Indian policy. The advocates of the dead policy are shouting hoarse. We are ready to face the challenge of the emerging neo colonialism. India stands as the only shining example of peace advocacy.
M L Gupta
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Geopolitical Crisis: The U.S.-Israel-Iran War

The conflict has escalated significantly following the confirmed death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on February 28.
Current Status: President Trump stated the campaign may last "four weeks or less." Israel has launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran, while Iran has retaliated with missile strikes against Israeli cities and U.S. assets in the Gulf.
Regional Impact: Major disruptions are occurring in the Strait of Hormuz; shipping giant Maersk has suspended crossings. Protests have erupted in cities like Srinagar, and India is closely monitoring fuel supplies and the safety of citizens in the UAE and Dubai.
Casualties: Reports indicate over 550 deaths in Iran and three U.S. service members killed in Kuwait.
Prakrati Singh
Monday, 2 March 2026

Kudos to Revenue Secretary

Kudos to the Revenue Secretary under whose expert guidance, the new Income Tax Act is being ushered in. Ever since he has taken office, Department of Revenue has been performing even better.
Vijay Kumar
Saturday, 28 February 2026

“NCERT’s thoughtless blunder”

The NCERT,an autonomous organisation under union education ministry is the main school curriculum designing authority in India for children taking exams under the CBSE.Its textbooks receive scrutiny by lakhs of students across the country. Education boards in many states and private schools also use their course material. The unsavoury controversy has reignited a debate on Executive-Judiciary tussle. After objections were raised by members of the legal fraternity, the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of the matter and issued notices to top bureaucrats to explain why they should not be held in contempt of court for including the "offending chapter".
The moot point is :Why single out judiciary and ignore rampant corruption that prevails in other dectors of bureaucracy,the local bodies,educational,banking etc? Worse, why corrupt the young minds of class 8 by teaching them about corruption in judiciary?
The CJI’s anger is justified.He has rightly questioned how such content could be published without the judiciary’s “permission.”
NCERT’s statement expressing "regret" over what it called an "error in judgement" that had "inadvertently crept" into the chapter, is not convincing.Responsibility for serious lapse should be fixed after judiciary-monitored inquiry and heads must roll.The process of syllabus designing should be transparent involving stakeholders’ consultation.
A K Saxena (Former civil servant)
Friday, 27 February 2026

NCERT controversy

The text of the Class VIII Civics book on corruption in judiciary makes no sense other than nonsense. It should not have been allowed to be published in the first place, but if it did get published injudiciously, the action taken after displeasure of the Hon’ SC could and ought to have been taken before the matter drew attention of the court. But a thorough vetting of every textbook is needed BECAUSE preparing textbooks is no child’s play. It is possible to do so provided the chief supervising the contents and language pays total attention to it. Leave it to others, and the product can prove toxic. There are appropriate fora to raise the contentious issue, parliament being one. Judicial reforms are overdue. Apply IA in a big way and pendency will come down drastically, example: the litigant need not be told after years and hundreds of hearings that the case is not maintainable or some such other excuse. This is not the time to issue testimonials, but textbook is certainly not the forum.
M L Gupta
Thursday, 26 February 2026

Whispers Forum — 26 Feb 2026

When vijay is having a massive fan base in tamilnadu why should he ally with the congress or dmk he has been criticizing DMK calling it a corrupt party why should he ally he should be solo and not ally with a national or state party we should see if vijay will succeed in state politics or not. Is the question .
Rohit Jonah
in my opinion H U khan is right and deserve person for coming hoff post. Mr HU khan is senior most ifs officer in Madhya Pradesh so as per senierioty he deserves for next PCCF and HOFF
Mohan Meena
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Tejasvi Surya

The guy is good but he needs more experience in handling local issues first. speaking in Parliament is not enough, work also matters.. BJP should let him work first. Just elevating him would not help build a party at ground level. people should work at ground level first then start heading chairs at National levels.
Vinay Maanya
Time is supreme
Once Anil Ambani was supposed to be future king of communication and finance. Time is supreme. Only one bad decision and kingdom collapse.
Varun Arora
Tuesday, 24 February 2026

No one can contest TATA capabilities

No one can contest TATA capabilities in quality and precision. TATA must adopt latest AI project Management tools to ensure ahead of schedule On Time .TATA must have a separate wing to monitor timely completion .Vijay 7760301983
Vijay Nayar
Banks transfer
Yes, this is bitter truth and if you speak on any platform about this they transfer you anywhere quoting individual is tearing down institution image.
Asha Shukla
Monday, 23 February 2026

Banks merger

Whether the previous merger is satisfactory. Are the Customers happy with the merger? I think staff may not be adjusted wholeheartedly. The cost of Merger is much much higher. Modi, Shah and Sitharaman just want to fulfill their unhealthy ideology. In real terms it is very difficult to cope up with the hardships faced at route level.
Kiritbhai Vitthalbhai Patel
Linguistic AI Gain
Claims V/s reality AI is going to help India in many ways undoubtedly. It is exciting to read promising success stories of Indian linguistic developer companies, but I am a bit hesitant at the moment. It seems like the claim of COVID-19 medicines by some Indian company. We are being told about use of IA for translation in multiple Indian languages, speech to text and vice versa. The exercise reveals foreign methodology, which has dominated the entire quarter of this Century. Their success is the English language, with millions of words in the corpora and scores of dictionaries, subject wise glossaries, and many other language aids. It helps with translation. Is/are our dictionaries comparable at all? Promising translation in Modern Indian Languages or other low-resource languages today and cutting sorry figures tomorrow like the case of the Covid medicine or the Robodog by a university will prove very, very costly later. Discretion, Shakespeare rightly said, is the better part of valour!
M L Gupta
Saturday, 21 February 2026

REC wins

Good encouragement for Good firm for doing Good thing, congratulations REC
B N S Subramanyeswara rao
People’s feedbacks against merger of banks
Merging nationalised banks on one side and giving permission to open private sector banks on the side, means madness.
Dilip Kulkarni
Merging banks, government motto is taking everything under grip, citizens of India not safe.
Rajesh Ranjan
Merge all the PSU banks for Jandhan Mudra loan and APY PMJJY etc and give license to private bank which will not sell / do these government financial inclusion products so that like BSNL all PSB will be dumped in the dust bin.
Nishant Dave
It will be very beneficial in all respects viz. cost cutting, larger capital, operational efficiency, participation in the global market etc.
Babu Ram Karjee