1. Who was India's first Home Minister . Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who played a major role in integrating the entire nation.
2. Who is India's Food and Agriculture Minister now ? Sharad Pawar
3. Recently a news item published - GoM to go into aviation fuel prices .
What does GoM stand for ? GoM - Group Of Ministers
4. BCCI is fighting against the WADA . What is WADA and where is the point of controversy in it ? WADA is World Anti Doping Agency and BCCI has raised the question of the "whereabouts" clause to the Attorney General of India now.
5. UNCIRF - what does it stand for ? United Nations Commission on International Religious Freedom. They have kept India under the "watch list" for not promoting religious and communal harmony and urged the Central Govt to take further steps in this regard.
6. Recently India signed a FTA ( Free Trade Agreement ) with ASEAN ( Association of South East Asian Nations ) , in Bangkok.
For the countries under ASEAN , see this link
Want to read something about Swine Flu , read this article from Hindu , click here . Absolutely brilliant ! !
Till the next time ...bbyee
Aug 15, 2009
The Hindu paper ...
Nowadays am reading into a lot of articles in the Hindu Newspaper ( started it recently , unable to tolerate the Times Of India , which has deteriorated like anything in the last one year ) . I have had enough of those last page pictures ! ! !
Every day in the Hindu paper , in the middle section , there are absolutely wonderful articles. Let me give you example of one .
There was an article on National Security . it said that India as a country is now buying defence stuff etc from foreign countries and spending huge amount of money on it . Mainly to protect us and our borders from any outside threat.
But the author of that article , pointed out quite a different picture for "terror" . Today India gets all its seeds for production of food grains from outside. So we are totally dependent on them for our food supplies , so assume that they stop supply to us.
Is our Govt able to ensure self sufficiency in the country in respect of food.
Inspite of large scale development in cities and metros, we still have people in our very own country who die out of starvation as they cannot fulfill one of the very basic and fundamental necessities of Human Life ..ie Food.
Agriculture is the backbone of the large number of people in this country, but still we are heavily dependent on rain , why ? Have you ever heard of a Drought in places like Australia , US. I guess never.
Our Govt gave Loan waiver to many farmers in Maharashtra and Vidarbha region , but was the problem actually solved. Or was it a election gimmick. They will fall into debts again , commit suicides , few horrifying pictures will come up , and the cycle repeats. Govt invested its money once before the elections and nothing now.
Quota system - In another 10 years , the application forms for any examination will ask - are you a General candidate or not ? Instead of starting economic/financial status based reservation , the Govt is calmly playing the vote bank politics. It is like giving more and more fish to the persons and never teaching them "fishing" .
Our country with its vast population and different degrees of population is on the verge of a civil revolution if the attitude of the Govt is not changing in some very very basic areas like agriculture , food production , removal of poverty etc.
I think that there is a more major threat in this country brewing inside and waiting to Explode ! ! !!! Its high time Govt takes note of it . It is true that the problems are many , and maybe we have to take up the mantle to fight it .
Happy Independence day !! ! today is our country's 52nd year of independence. Surely our freedom fighters could not have imagined the condition of India as it is now , 50 years ago.
Every day in the Hindu paper , in the middle section , there are absolutely wonderful articles. Let me give you example of one .
There was an article on National Security . it said that India as a country is now buying defence stuff etc from foreign countries and spending huge amount of money on it . Mainly to protect us and our borders from any outside threat.
But the author of that article , pointed out quite a different picture for "terror" . Today India gets all its seeds for production of food grains from outside. So we are totally dependent on them for our food supplies , so assume that they stop supply to us.
Is our Govt able to ensure self sufficiency in the country in respect of food.
Inspite of large scale development in cities and metros, we still have people in our very own country who die out of starvation as they cannot fulfill one of the very basic and fundamental necessities of Human Life ..ie Food.
Agriculture is the backbone of the large number of people in this country, but still we are heavily dependent on rain , why ? Have you ever heard of a Drought in places like Australia , US. I guess never.
Our Govt gave Loan waiver to many farmers in Maharashtra and Vidarbha region , but was the problem actually solved. Or was it a election gimmick. They will fall into debts again , commit suicides , few horrifying pictures will come up , and the cycle repeats. Govt invested its money once before the elections and nothing now.
Quota system - In another 10 years , the application forms for any examination will ask - are you a General candidate or not ? Instead of starting economic/financial status based reservation , the Govt is calmly playing the vote bank politics. It is like giving more and more fish to the persons and never teaching them "fishing" .
Our country with its vast population and different degrees of population is on the verge of a civil revolution if the attitude of the Govt is not changing in some very very basic areas like agriculture , food production , removal of poverty etc.
I think that there is a more major threat in this country brewing inside and waiting to Explode ! ! !!! Its high time Govt takes note of it . It is true that the problems are many , and maybe we have to take up the mantle to fight it .
Happy Independence day !! ! today is our country's 52nd year of independence. Surely our freedom fighters could not have imagined the condition of India as it is now , 50 years ago.
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