SC backs Madras HC order quashing TN appointments

January 31, 2016:  --- 11 TNPSC. (Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission) members were appointed.

December 22, 2016: -- Madras High Court quashed their appointment alleging that some of them were unqualified and proper procedure was not followed.

January 9, 2017:  -- Supreme Court of India upheld the order of Madras High Court and observed that the manner in which the state used its prerogative to make the appointments was "nothing but arbitrary, with no due deliberation". 

Such an arbitrary act was a normal phenomenon of state government working under the leadership of former chief minister J.Jayalalithaa. No official or non official had the guts to 

point out the correct procedure before the CM.

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Drought-hit Tamil Nadu

The state received 168.4 mm since October 1, a deficit of 62 percent compared to the season's average of 441 mm. The situation this year is even worse than 1974 (60 percent). Weather experts noted the the state had experienced a drought in 1974 and 1938. But a drought has not been officially declared this year so far.

As per the report the state has recorded the worst rainfall this year after 1876. 40 farmers have died in a district in Cauvery delta region so far. Daily 5-6 farmers are dying as reported in the media. Farmers Associations are up in arms seeking intervention both from Central and state governments.

Drinking water scarcity in an acute form is a certainty in the ensuing months unless rain gods change their routine formula and bring rains for the state.

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India

India

& its

Constitutional Constituents

The Legislative

The Executive &

The Judiciary

The legislature utilises less of it time on creative works but wastes much of its energy and resource for animal behaviour.

The executive looks after its own interests at the cost of public expense and forgets its commitment to the common man.

The judiciary expresses its inability to control litigations and dispenses a costly justice to the citizens of this country.

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A Roadmap for the CBI

It is a timely suggestion by a former CBI Director contained under the above caption is certainly a thought provoking article dealing with the present condition of the Agency, its credibility currently in the eyes of the commander man, it's competency vis-a-vis it's dishonesty in handling sensitive cases pending for long, it's inadequate jurisdiction in starting an investigation on its own leading to prosecution, it's requisite expansion in terms of adequate as well as own staff in the near future etc. (by R.K.Raghavan, The Hindu December 5, 2016)

The present incumbent in the post of Director, whoever he or she may be, will have to be honest to the core financially and impartial to the hilt in decision making despite political and bureaucratic  pressures. Only then the Agency would be worth its salt. A perfect understanding between the Prime Minister and the Director in its day to day functioning would certainly lead to its ultimate utility in Indian democracy!

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Leaders (politicians) are made in India but great leaders are born elsewhere!

Cuba honours Castro's wishes, passes law to ban naming of places after the leader.

Hats off to such heroes on this planet. Now there wouldn't be any place named after Fidel Castro or any other leader in that country. What an initiative in the right direction! 

On the contrary in India the politicians are keen to name a few places, roads and other public assts after their names and statues erected in their own lifetime!! We the citizens of this country expect Modi Government to pass a similar law sooner or later.

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Sarkari India

"To further its own well-being, the government is forever in an expansionist mode, launching a variety of schemes, be it Jan Dhan or Swachh Bharat, which will create more and more jobs for itself. And ensure that the government of the Sarkar, by the Sarkar and for the Sarkar does not perish from this earth" - Jug Suraiya (TOI dated December 28, 2016)

One should agree with the above observation with no reservation or doubt because most of the government budgets are spent on the government establishment itself with less funds left for development of the country.

Salvation lies in reducing the government force by nearly half by 2030, if the governments have guts and will power.

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One can rebuild ageing muscles

Marcas Bamman, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has found in his studies that men and women in their 60s and 70s who began supervised weight training developed muscles that were as large and strong as those of your average 40-year old!

Skeletal muscles are composed of various types of fibres. If one doesn't exercise and follow sedentary work style he is bound to lose 30 to 40 percent fibres in their muscles by the time he reaches 55.

So better be clever and ensure regular exercise and keep the muscles in tact to reduce the  ageing process.

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