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The Narendra Modi Government has allowed the write off of the bad loans identified by the public sector banks to the tune of Rs. 5.55 lakh crore during its tenure which is 80 per cent of the total amount of Rs. 7 lakh crore during the last ten years. The figures revealed by the Reserve Bank of India repudiate the statement by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the UPA regime of Dr. Manmohan Singh was responsible for the bad loans and the write offs. The RBI data now reveals that out of this total of 7 lakh crore write off in the last decade, the contribution of the UPA2 regime was only 20 per cent.

BHOPAL: “I had nothing to do with the decisions related to e-tendering,” stated Kusum Mahdele, who held the Public Health Engineering Department in the ministry headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh.

Modi in 2019 is a study in contrast to his own self in 2014. In 2014, he was selling to the Indian people a new hope and dream. In 2019, he is peddling fear. In his first bid to the prime ministerial office, Modi was a lot more positive. Today he is negative to the extreme.

With time medical treatment pattern has seen drastic changes. Medical education too has moved from Gurukul to the modern medical colleges and hospitals. The present day medical student does not have to roam about in the jungles in search of herbs, shrubs or animals in search of medicines. Methods of treatment have gone sea change. There has been changes in relationship between doctors and patients. Even though personal examination of the patient remains the key to reach diagnosis, the investigations have given tremendous information in to the pathology of illness and in managing the treatment.

Election manifestos have become a ritual: political parties release them on the eve of poll, both at national level and in state election. So it was in the present general elections in which BJP and the Congress are main contenders. There are also alliances which make their own promises if elected to rule. A galore of attractive promises are made; some practical, some controversial and some difficult to implement. At the end of their tenures, from governments at the centre or states, few promises were fulfilled.

LUCKNOW: Desperation for Crucial muslim support forced BSP national President Mayawati to issue the appeal to community before polling of first phase for eight Lok Sabha seats. It would be worth mentioning that BSP national President Mayawati issued appeal to muslim community to support alliance of BSP-SP-RLD at first and then categorically said to muslim community not to waste their vote to Congress Party which was very weak as compared to her alliance.

Jharkhand is one of the highly rich states in terms of natural resources. Coal mining is a major trade in the state. More than one lakh workers and officers work in various coalfield areas of Jharkhand.

When in a rather unusual move the Madras High Court stayed on 6 March 2019 the dismissal of 294 workers by Pricol Industries of Coimbatore it attracted widespread attention. It might not be a landmark judgement in the sense breaking new grounds in labour jurisprudence. But it is significant enough in the backdrop of a scenario where malafide transfers, suspensions and outright dismissals—the time-tested methods of employers to break the workers’ morale and to disrupt their unity whenever they form a trade union or go on a strike even over their statutory rights—have become rampant of late across the country.

The first-time voter is 21st Century born. These are first general elections for them. And some have already voted. Those whose names figured in the voters-list of the 91 constituencies that went to polls in the first phase. And how have the experiences been? EVM-glitches confused many. In Andhra Pradesh, EVM for the Lok Sabha worked fine. But those for the Assembly acted funny! In Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana, a BSF soldier lost his head and fired in the air. Why?

This is unprecedented. This has never happened before in the last 72 years after Independence. More than one hundred and fifty retired officers of the three services including three former army chiefs, four navy chiefs and one air force chief, have sent a joint letter to the President of India complaining the manner in which the ruling party BJP is taking credit for military operations like cross border strikes and even going so far as to claim the armed forces as “Modiji ki sena”.