The RSS has never had it so good since its inception in 1925. It has a government that is dominated by the BJP at the Centre. At least half of the council of ministers in the Modi regime have either emerged from the Sangh or are its supporters.
And unlike another Sangh originate and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee---considered a moderate among hardliners--Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen as an unadulterated embodiment of all that the Sangh stands for. Could the Sangh ask for more?
BJP floor managers can pat themselves on their backs as they succeeded in overcoming brief adjournments and noisy protests from opposition benches to make the maximum on the first day of actual business in the Winter Session of Parliament.
The conduct of business and passage of some bills in both Houses of Parliament today proved that despite claims of unity, the opposition will have to work lot more harder to corner the government.
A couple from Britain has claimed that they are the most elderly married couple. This husband-wife is together since last 89 years and recently they celebrated their combined 211 birthdays.
The couple lives in West Yorkshire, Bradford near England but originally belongs from India.
Their relatives say that 89 years ago Karamchand met Kartari and they got married on December 1925. Recently on November 23 he celebrated his 109 birthday. Kartari is 102 years old.
Catching criminals on the airport is hard, and current methods aren’t helping us do any better.
International airports are a busy place to be. Nearly 200,000 passengers pass through London Heathrow Airport every day. The internal security of the country depends on effective airport checks.
All departing passengers pass through a series of security procedures before embarking their plane. One such procedure is a short, scripted interview when security personnel must make decisions about passenger risk by looking for behavioural indicators of deception.
When PM Narendra Modi announced the ‘Make in India’ initiative in September, the first thing that struck us was – How about a phone that is ‘completely’ built in India? Not the old assembled units that are sold by Micromax and the like. But a phone that is built from ground-up in India.
After all, in the last couple of years, the Indian mobile sector has evolved by leaps and bounds.With the increasing purchase power of the middle class and growing number of phone users, it has in fact, become a mining hub for phone ‘vendors’.
Domestic violence against dalit women has not caught the attention of social science researchers.
The National Family Health Survey 2006 showed that the prevalence of violence is much higher against women belonging to the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes as compared to women outside these categories.
This article is based on fieldwork done in parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Among the causes for domestic violence against dalit women were male alcoholism, the man's suspicious nature, dowry demands, husband's extramarital relations and the complex social situations related to inter-caste marriages. Dalit and tribal women, thus, end up facing caste discrimination and harassment outside the home and domestic violence inside.
The National Democratic Alliance government has constituted the IPR Think Tank which, among other things, is to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
India may not have a policy per se but it has a strong legislation on IPRs, a functioning patents office and mechanisms to grant patents as well as protect consumer interests. The Think Tank has other issues it needs to address, but is this talk of drafting an IPR policy the thin end of a wedge to dilute existing legislation?
With a recent drug sample report confirming the presence of rat poison in medicines administered to Chhattisgarh’s hapless tubectomy victims, it is yet another wake-up call for India to address the threats posed by its $4.25-billion fake drugs market.
In January this year, Dr R K Gupta was honoured by the Government of Chhattisgarh for performing 50,000 laparoscopic tubectomies. 10 months later, he was arrested under charges of causing death by negligence in the same procedure he was once lauded for. On 10 November, Gupta defied government medical protocol and conducted 83 laparoscopic tubectomies in just five hours in a mass sterilisation camp organised by the Government of Chhattisgarh. This fateful stint left 13 women dead and many others battling for their lives.
