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Published: in New Indian Express, 17th December 2016 (Note: Who says there is shortage of notes in banks and ATMS? No, this is fake news created by yellow press. Now they are kept aplenty in cars for easy transportation in cities like...
Gulam Jeelani in Hindusan Times, Dec 16, 2i016 In the pic: A retired armyman (Nand Lal, a resident of Bhim Nagar, Gurgaon) in tears before an SBI branch. Face of India’s cash crunch woes talks of heartbreak (Note: Persons with no social...
(Note: Isaac Gomes gives a peep into the Kolkata Christmas Festival which is a collaboration between the Government of West Bengal and the Archdiocese of Calcutta. This Festival has been taking place for the last five years and is...
By Jerome D’Costa (Blogger of ‘Bangladesh Canada and Beyond’) When one hears the words “Vatican scandals,” his or her eyes pop up in surprise. Is it true? How can this be? The Vatican is in the centre of the Catholic...
Jayalalithaa, 1948-2016 – December 07, 2016, in the Hindu (Note: The moral of this article is that success and defeat are part and parcel of human life, but final triumph is only for the one who courageously confronts defeats as challenges...
New notes in hoard’s hands? – Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram He also questioned the seizure of Rs 2,000 notes in a Delhi lawyer's chamber. (Note: If hoarders and black marketers can get new notes in lacks and crores, who are...
IANS | Gurugram, December 13, 2016, in the Statesman Kolkatta (Note: The complaint we have been hearing so far has been that new currency in high or low denominations were not available through proper channels like banks and ATMs. Then comes this...
Published: 12th December 2016, in 'New Indian Express' (Note: “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you wish peace, prepare for war) says a Latin proverb. Look around and see what is happening. The nations of the world are busy doing war, not works...
Idukki’s Mar Mathew Anikuzhikattil – Dec 11, 2016, in Times of India Call for more birth control options (Eric Audras/Getty Images) (Note: Birth control issue has always been a bone of contention in the Catholic Church. It was made acute by...
Aayirathil Oruval – By T J S George, in New Induan Express, 11th December 2016 (Note: Jayalalithaa provided and still continues to provide a fertile topic for admirers and critics. Greatness and loneliness are near allied. She was a great lonely woman...
Express News Service | Published: 11th December 2016 Bank employees train Finance Ministry staff on mobile banking and cashless transactions in New Delhi on Tuesday | PTI (Note: “A very good idea very badly implemented, hurting the poor, the most” is the...
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service, 9/12/.2016 (Pic:Christmas tree is lit during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square) (Note: If there is a time to think of the migrants, refugees and homeless, it is the time of Christmas. What else is...
08 December 2016 | by Christopher Lamb, in the Tablet, uk A milestone birthday is approaching for Pope Francis. The focus of his pontificate has been that other milestone – the Second Vatican Council – and implementing its key principles. (Note: All...
(Article in The Hndu, December 9/2016) – If it fails, then I am to blame: Modi reportedly told Cabinet before demonetisation. (Note: No use crying over a spilt milk. Demonitisation is on its way cutting down the weeds among the wheat. In the...
Editorial | Published:December 9, 2016 in Indian Express Government, Opposition must heed President Mukherjee’s rebuke, L.K. Advani’s lament. (Arresting and hanging the deadly cancer of Black money is most commendable. Demonetization evidently is an effective tool of heart surgery. Modi and his...
In DECCAN CHRONICLE., Published Dec 7, 2016. As an administrator, she could arrive at a considered decision after poring over the issue and then stick to it, come hell or high water. (Note: There are more than two sides...
B Kolappan in the Hindu, December 6, 2016 (Note: Jaya must have been a reluctant actor, initially, both in film and politics. But people’s response to her performance in both the fields came as a natural mass outburst,...
PTI | New York, December 5, 2016, in the Statesman, Kolkatta (Note: Our honourable Prime Miniser Modiji has added another feather to his crown among world leaders. He has won the contest for the “TIME Person of the Year 2016,” by beating hollow Trump,...
Pushpa Narayan| (Dec 6, 2016, in Times of India – TN CM Jayalalithaa passes away…) (Note: “Homo humus, fama fumus, finis chinis!” goes a Latin saying to nutshell human life from start to finish. Rendered in English it means: “Man is mud,...
Joanna Moorhead, in the UK Guardian, Wednesday 23 November 2016 Pope Francis’s latest pronouncement on abortion is a step in the right direction but isn’t the spectacular move needed to show he takes women seriously. (Note: Popes tend to be...