Ex MP's view on their Pay Hike Demand

Pritish Nandy, 22 August 2010, 10:01 AM IST

I was a MP not very long ago. I loved those six years. Everyone called me sir, not because of my age but because I was a MP. And even though I never travelled anywhere by train during those years, I revelled in the fact that I could have gone anywhere I liked, on any train, first class with a bogey reserved for my family. Whenever I flew, there were always people around to pick up my baggage, not because I was travelling business class but because I was a MP. And yes, whenever I wrote to any Government officer to help someone in need, it was done. No, not because I was a journalist but because I was a MP. [More]

If corporate hospitals complain they are not getting much from the scheme 'Aarogya Sri', Government helps them with " 'Bar'ogya Sri ". If the state is suffering from Swine Flu attack, our Chief Minister and his visionary Cabinet controls it with 'Wine Flow' by amending G.O.723 which allows to open more liquor shops in the state of Andhra Pradesh based on the population.


It is like number of Bar shops per certain number of people. Have we ever heard of Government increasing the Government hospitals based on the population? or Government doctors per number of people? or Government schools or Government colleges?


Answer is NO, NO and NO. But for liquor shops and the revenue on the liquor, this Government came out with the 'needs analysis' which helps them to allow more number of liquor shops. Shame on them. [More]

controversies on how Indian Rupee Symbols are finalized. Uday Kumar proudly displaying with his selected symbol for Indian Rupee (congratulations to him) [More]

The Union Cabinet today approved the symbol for the Indian Rupee. This symbol will be used by all individuals/entities within and outside India after its incorporation in `Unicode Standard’, ‘ISO/IEC 10646’ and ‘IS 13194’. [More]

Indian rupee has a symbol now. It is a mix of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R'. It will be the fifth currency in the world to have unique identity. So far US dollar, UK Pound, Japanese Yen and Euro have the unique symbols and now Indian rupee is going to join them.

Today the Indian Cabinet has approved this new symbol which is designed by an IIT post graduate called Uday Kumar. [More]

It’s high time, that government constitutes a regulating body to restrict this growing malady in the name of Media. The Press Council of India (PCI) has long back recommended for the formation of Media Council incorporating both Print & Electronic Media. Mr Ganendra Narayan Ray former judge of Supreme Court and Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) in a recent Press meet at Kochi has reiterated the necessity for the formation of Media Council and the need of bringing the Electronic Media under the PCI. He strongly felt that atleast a peer group should be formed to regulate the mushrooming and ever growing electronic media. It would otherwise be against the spirit of Article 14 of the Constitution if the print media was treated in one way and electronic media in a different way. [More]

Tax Structure in India [More]

Lalit Modi tweeted. How can it be heard by Manmohan Singh who’s on visit to US, if it’s just a tweet? (and kicked out Dr Tharoor from Cabinet of India!) [More]

Lanco got approval for its new SEZ over 110ares in Chattisgarh. Indus Gene, Santha Biotechnics, and Suchirindia are three other from AP, who proposed for setting up Biotech-SEZs in AP. [More]

Lanco, Chattisgarh; Santa Bio, AP; Suchirindia, AP... [More]