Careul! Apes can guess what you are thinking...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/06/apes-can-guess-what-others-are-thinking-just-like-humans

A death knell for the National Military

Govt policies are increasing the the tension in civil-military relations. distancing the armed forces by lowering their status and salaries in comparison to other  depts of the state. ...this would replace patriotism with profiteering....to hand over many of the armed forces roles and  missions to (private military) corporations is an attack on the very idea of the nation state.

Economic & Political Weekly, July 30, 2016.
Defence Analyst Atul Bhardwaj

Make sure you are hired, not fired

Several Cos are applying Predictive Index (an Anaytical tool to predict employee behaviour). Make sure you know how it works!

Times of India Business Page, 17

Govt cuts Army's Disability Pensions just after surgical strikes

Just After Surgical Strikes, Indian Govt Made Huge Cuts In Army's Disability Pensions For Injured Soldiers: Report
A notification was issued by the Ministry Of Defence a day after India's surgical strikes,
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/…/just-after-surgical-strikes…/

Perpetrators and victims of Gujarat's 2002 carnage both badly affected

Ref the Gujarat 2002 carnage, Rakesh Sharma refers to a booklet brought out by Gujarat’s Jati Nirmoolan Samiti (Society for the Eradication of Caste) that shed light on a more arresting dimension. “It contained a few tables on the caste composition of the detainees in Sabarmati Jail booked on 2002-related charges. There were just two Brahmins, four Banias, some 17 Patels and 27 or 37 from other upper castes — hardly 100 in all. On the other hand, there were 746 OBCs and 797 Dalits.” He goes on to outline their present plight.

“Clearly, the ring leaders who plotted and conducted the large-scale violence got away except for a few...

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/chronicling-the-cost-of-carnage/article9202797.ece

Not the Govt but the Army calls the shots in Pakistan

The credibility of the govt in Pakistan has gone down so badly that US Vice President  calls on the Pak general when he visits the country and the Afghan President starts his visit with the General HQ in Rawalpindi...

Deccan Chronicle Page 9 Interview with Pakistan watcher Gopalaswami Parthasarathy

Superbug in India

The cost of cheap drugs? Toxic Indian lake is superbug hotspot http://reut.rs/2dEFJiF 

UN Sec General's resolve to fight injustice

UN Secretary General designate says he will serve victims of conflict, terrorism and injustice:


http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31809&articlexml=Guterres-Will-serve-victims-of-conflicts-terrorism-injustice-08102016016040

Police not following laid down procedures in Haryana

Which sections of the penal code and Criminal Procedure Code allow the police to enter kitchens of private citizens on information given by other private citizens? What if the complaint is found to be false? .......Where are the laws and standard operating procedures to make the erring police officials accountable for their crimes?

NB - We owe thanks to this serving IPS officer for reminding citizens at large and his fellow officers in particular that gazetted officials of the GoI are not servants of the government of the day, nor obliged to act as promoters of any ideology. They are servants of the constitution,


http://thewire.in/70485/indian-police-service/

Land Acquisition not helping farmers

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government is keen on rolling back some of the benefits that the central law  ( Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013 (LARR Act)    offers (to people..mostly farmers whose land is being acquired for 'public purpose)  Several States — Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Gujarat, among others — have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own, creating sui generis processes that permit takings even in the absence of a direct public purpose. In other States such as Telangana, plans are afoot to amend the land law in such a manner as to do away with the requirement of consent when acquiring property for private companies so long as the acquisition is for a public purpose.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-salience-of-the-singur-verdict/article9193546.ece?homepage=true

India to take up blocking of Brahmaputra tributary with China

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Blocking-of-Brahmaputra-tributary-India-to-take-it-up-with-China/articleshow/54721874.cms

US says it does not support declaring Pakistan a 'terrorist state'

PTI | Updated: Oct 7, 2016, 11.02 AM IST     
The US today said it does not support declaringPakistan a 'terrorist state' but will continue to work with the governments in the region to eliminate safe havens which also pose a threat to India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-says-does-not-support-declaring-Pakistan-a-terrorist-state/articleshow/54729952.cms

Harmful matter in leading soft drink bottles

A government study has found five different toxins — heavy metals antimony, lead, chromium and cadmium and the compound DEHP or Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate — in cold drinks produced by two major multinational companies, PepsiCo and Coca Cola.
The Indian Express.

"You don't bother when kids die" SC to governments

Drought Relief measures directed by Supreme Court ignored by governments.

Supreme  Court showed displeasure both to the centre as well as state governments for not  seriously tackling the drought fall out . “You don’t bother when kids die” Supreme Court tells Maharasthra

Deccan Chronicle. P 8, Oct 6,2016

Uri affects Make in India initiative aimed at SAARC biz leaders

Ind-Pakistan relations took a toll on PM's Make in India project and have pushed back India's Make in India special incentives to SAARC leaders
The Hindu. Oct 5, 2016.p 13

Pakistan's Road to Doom

CTimes of India  p 14.2016
Chidanand.Rajhatta
Conflict with a failed state that has no future will not be in New Delhi's interest

Pakistan is spreading false propaganda:befitting reply needed

Times of India. P 1. Oct 5, 2016
According to Arvind Kejriwal, CM of Delhi, Pakistan is claiming that no surgical strike took. The PM should give it a befitting reply.

India faces heavy job cuts in future

WASHINGTON: Automation threatens 69 per cent of the jobs in India, while 77 per cent in China, according to a World Bank research which has said that technology could fundamentally disrupt the pattern of traditional economic path in developing countries. 
Read more at:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/54687904.cms?utm_source=ETnotifications&utm_medium=autopush&utm_campaign=Jobs&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Poverty has nothing to do with manual scavenging

Magsaysay award winner Bezwada Wilson:Crores of rupees have been allocated for Swacch Bharat but manual scavengers deprived of promised amount. http://epaper.deccanchronicle.com/epaper_main.aspx#page1246883

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Cross border strikes have happened before

The Times of India Sept 30,2016:Political commentator Jyoti Malhotra
Cross border strikes have happened before, declaring  it this time was a political act

US defence firms may benefit from Pak tension

The Hindu, Oct 1
An expected increase in India's Defence spending due to the current tension has presented US companies with a 'tremendous opportunity' according to the US India Business Council President.

China blocks tributary of Brahmaputra in Tibet

As India mulls scrapping of Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan..Details: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/as-India-mulls-scrapping-of-Indus-Water-Treaty-with-Pakistan-China-blocks-tributary-of-Brahmaputra-in-Tibet-to-build-dam/articleshow/54622469.cms