Officials involved with the ‘power from waste’ project say they can’t handle two unions, the bureaucracy, and their woes. It’s a sad saga of democratic freedom misused. The well-meaning work of making wealth from waste contracted with Ramky Engineering Company in 2009 now suffers from union woes. Translated crudely, it means the new TRS-affiliated union [...]
Has the budget session been postponed just to spite the BJP?
The temperature is rising in the GHMC building. All the drama the ruling MIM created during the GB meeting on February 2 was a cover to enable it to get a possible stay from Supreme Court on the HC order declaring the BJP winner of Langer House.
Congress has started to grapple with its civic political woes where its partner MIM does sparring motion and on the other YSRC luring them.
There were no special delivery requests in hospitals and maternity homes for Wednesday. Hype generated by the Western media on the greatness of December 12, 2012 had failed to bait people of Hyderabad. Reports that maternity wards of the city hospitals will be packed with pregnant women demanding delivery on 12.12.12 proved false. A reality [...]
The APSRTC plans to introduce 500 new buses, but it has no means to assess people’s needs. In spite of the high court giving a charitable boost to the city bus service by staying additional licensing of 20,000 auto-rikshaws, the APSRTC has no methodical way to improve the passenger comforts. The court had expressed the view [...]
The move to equip forest guards with firearms and intensify vigil along problem areas has effectively reduced the number of smuggling cases this year.
Of the 10,000-odd people pulled up for drunk driving, most of them were bigwigs.
Traffic cops credit the success of the campaign against drunk driving with improving the behaviour of drivers. Those caught say they want to see an impartial police. The legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit is fixed at 30mg per 100ml blood. Any person testing more than 30mg per 100ml blood is booked under the first [...]
Women who visit pubs during the weekend to unwind have proven smarter than men as only a negligible number of women drivers were caught for drunk driving in this year.
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No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
The inglorious case of Sreesanth
It may be said there was something amiss about the way S Sreesanth’s career spanned out. He was the hope of a whole state that had never seen any of its cricketers hold their place in the national team. Once there was time when vernacular papers and sports magazines debated deeply about why Kerala could [...]
Reforming the Cockatoo Bureau of Investigation
Of all the acronyms that Indian public associate with investigation, CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) is the most common. However, if its functioning is anything to go by, the motto ‘Industry, Impartiality, Integrity’ would be one of the longest-running jokes in the history of the country.
Don’t fall for Sharif’s charisma
Political pundits of our country are already in La-La Land airspace over the great opportunities the return of Nawaz Sharif presents. The intelligentsia still seems to be buying the explanation that Sharif was actually serious about peace with India — and unaware of Kargil intrusions. We forget that Sharif was, at that time, facing serious threats [...]
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