Monthly Archive: January 2017

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Same-sex unions? Belgium’s Cardinal Danneels Okays it!

In Vatican Insider World News– 07/06/2013 Sparks fly following a statement the cardinal made recently, saying: “I think it’s a positive development that states are free to open up civil marriage for gays if they want, but such unions should...

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Meryl Streep rips the ‘bully’ in Trump

In the Guardian UK, Monday 9 January 2017… (Note: Important to keep in mind and reflect are her words: “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence invites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose…… This instinct to...

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Demonetisation unplanned both RBI, government clueless

  Robert Vadra lashes out –  IndiaToday.in | Posted by Kritika Banerjee The businessman, who is married to Priyanka Gandhi, took to Facebook to lash out at the government for "its experiment" on people Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, today...

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One man one party show in India?

Will politics shrink in 2017? By Rajdeep Sardesai, in 'Breaking Views', 06 Jan, 2017 (Note: Rajdeep Sardesai as usual raises some sharp pointed questions, the outstanding being: Will our politics shrink into a one man, one party show? It could and if...

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Five states go to polls

From February 4 to March 8, results  on March 11 – DECCAN CHRONICLE Published Jan 4, 2017 Punjab, Goa on February 4, Uttarakhand Feb 15, UP February 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, March 4, 8; Manipur March 4, 8. (In the...

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India should follow France, Switch to a presumed consent system

Organ donation in France  – Rudroneel Ghosh in Times of India,  January 5, 2017 In France every citizen is organ doner on presumed consent from Jan.1/17 (Note: A detailed two-part article: “Gift of Life, Gift of Sight”,  Donating  Eyes and Body; SORT (Society for...

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Russia to dominate world stage in 2017

Harsha Kakar,January 3, 2017, in Statesman, Kolkotta (Note: Syria today has become the world’s laboratory of shadow fighting between various warring nations, big and small for various vested interests pure and symple. The powers involved are: 1. the Syrian president Bashar...

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PM must be made to pay for a cruel joke on people

This speech after note ban? – Prasenjit Bose, Hindustan Times,  Jan 01, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that lakhs of crores of cash being deposited to the banks itself marks a success of demonetisation is ridiculous, since deposits are banks’...

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To make India corruption free, catch them to make 2017 Safe!

“The only Indians with vast stashes of unearned, untaxed money are politicians and bureaucrats. Catch them Prime Minister because they are the real crooks.  Most ordinary Indians are honest and very hardworking and  have suffered much in 2016.” Tavleen Singh (in Indian Express January 1, 2017)