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Tuesday, 19 February 2019
What is a JPC probe?
The Opposition has alleged irregularities in the deal. What is a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)? A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is set up to examine a particular bill presented before the Parliament, or for the purpose of investigating cases of financial irregularities in any government activity. The JPC, an ad-hoc body, is set up for a given period of time and is aimed at addressing a specific issue. In order to set up a JPC, a motion is passed in one House and supported by the other House. The committee's members are decided by Parliament. The number of members can vary. There are twice as many Lok Sabha members as the Rajya Sabha. A JPC is authorised to collect evidence in oral or written form or demand documents in connection with the matter. The proceedings and findings of the committee are confidential, except in matters of public interest. The government can take the decision to withhold a document if it is considered prejudicial to the safety or interest of the State. The Speaker has the final word in case of a dispute over calling for evidence. The committee can invite interested parties for inquiry and summon people to appear before it. In the usual course of proceedings, the committee does not summon ministers to give evidence. The committee gets disbanded following the submission of its report to Parliament. Demand for JPC probe into Rafale deal The Opposition has been demanding an inquiry by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the Rafale deal, which they also pressed for in the on-going winter session of Parliament. After the Supreme Court dismissed petitions seeking a probe into the Rafale deal, Congress president Rahul Gandhi reiterated his allegation of corruption and argued that if a JPC probe is conducted, the names of Modi and industrialist Anil Ambani will come out. Further, the 29-page ruling by the bench of the Chief Justice of India mentioned pricing details of the Rafale jets was shared with the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India which, in turn, shared its report with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). However, PAC chairman Mallikarjun Kharge denied having received any such report yet and 'neither does the CAG know about it'. setTimeout(function(){(function(id){var embedTag=document.getElementById(id).children[0]; if(embedTag){var width=embedTag.offsetWidth; var height=embedTag.offsetHeight; embedTag.height=document.body.offsetWidth * (height/width); embedTag.width=document.body.offsetWidth;}})("embed-brightcove-iframe-tag-0");},1000); Past JPC probes So far, the Joint Parliamentary Committees have been set up seven times to probe various matters including the Bofors Contract in 1987, irregularities in securities and banking transactions in 1992, 2G spectrum scam in 2011, VVIP Chopper Scam in 2013. The last time a committee was set up in 2015 for the purpose of examination of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill and was chaired by SS Ahluwalia. Dailyhunthttps://www.openlearning.com/u/utejjamsunsingh
Sonchiriya trailer launch: Sushant, Bhumi and team gather at the gala event
Directed by Abhishek Chaubey, Sonchiriya stars Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Ranvir Shorey and Ashutosh Rana. Sushant Singh Rajput looked dapper at the trailer launch. Sushant Singh Rajput and Bhumi Pednekar were all smiles at the trailer launch. Bhumi Pednekar looked very pretty in this blue dress at the trailer launch. Abhishek Chaubey with producer Ronnie Screwvala at the trailer launch. Abhishek Chaubey directorial Sonchiriya has created a lot of excitement amongst fans. In the gritty dacoit drama, Sushant Singh Rajput wil be seen as Lakhna, Manoj Bajpayee as Man Singh, Bhumi Pednekar as Indumati, Ranvir Shorey as Vakil Singh and Ashutosh Rana as Gujjar. Sonchiriya starcast at the trailer launch event. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala under his RSVP banner, Sonchiriya is slated for a March 1 release.Dailyhunthttps://www.vox.com/users/kunvindsee
Private guards at Ranchi's RIMS protest switch to ex-servicemen
eepak Munda, a resident of Chanho seen ferrying his injured friend on a trolley, said very soon patients at RIMS would have to arrange their own doctor. "Things are going from bad to worse at this government hospital that was once touted as a premier health institution. I had never thought I would have to push around a trolley in the emergency to ward," he added.Manager of private security agency Everest Human Resource Service Consultant Pradeep Singh said the strike was called off in the evening."The guards were worried about losing their jobs with immediate effect. I spoke to the RIMS management and was told that no one would be terminated from their service till March-end. A decision on how many retired servicemen will be hired will be taken after that," Singh said.Asked why the hospital failed to make alternative arrangement for trolley services, RIMS director Dr D.K. Singh insisted he had no information of "a serious problem"."People come here for treatment. Absence of a trolley attendant is not a major issue. Relatives and friends accompanying patients can do that. I did not receive any serious complaint. As far as security of RIMS is concerned, we sought additional number of retired army personnel," Singh said. Dailyhunthttp://langleygymnastics.ca/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/61/UserId/909926/Default.aspx
Karimnagar: Girl dies after running in police physical test
Tamil Nadu: AIADMK, NDA join hands for 2019 polls, BJP gets 5 seats
A confident Goyal, claimed that the alliance will sweep Tamil Nadu in 2019 and win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Tamil Nadu Deputy CM O Panneerselvam said the AIADMK and the BJP will have an alliance for Lok Sabha elections which will be a mega and winning alliance. The BJP-AIADMK alliance will contest the Tamil Nadu elections under the leadership of AIADMK and 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the name of PM Modi. Before announcing the alliance with BJP, the AIADMK announced its tie up with PMK and its seat sharing. ... Dailyhunthttps://www.openlearning.com/u/jeeneefeearree
She belonged to Velishala village in Ramadugu mandal and was the elder daughter among the three daughters in the family. Her father is an auto driver. Karimnagar police commissioner V.B. Kamalasan Reddy went to the Government Hospital where Mamatha's body was kept and inquired about the mishap and consoled Mamatha's family members and promised possible help to the family. ... Dailyhunthttps://justpaste.it/7plcw
Valentine's Day 2019: This World Radio Day, exploring love in the time of radio that used to be
How would I be cool if slept before midnight and woke up before the crack of dawn? Today on World Radio Day and a day before the day of love, Valentine's Day, I couldn't help but wonder where those days of innocent love have gone? The days we've heard of in stories from family members and probably watched in a few films too? It was probably the most romantic thing to have your fan mail and a song request chosen by a radio presenter and shared with the listeners who had tuned in. Think of a song like, Tu Mera Chand Main Teri Chandni, or Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni Mein Hum or a English classic like Unchained Melody or a Beatles song sent to you as a dedication. I'm getting a thrill even writing about it. This was in tandem with the age of the love letters and the excitement (and in some cases, the horror) attached to it. In the voice of popular radio presenter, Ameen Sayani, you hear a message and the name of the person who brings a smile on your face and the song you wanted to hear starts playing, leaving you mesmerised. Let's take a walk back down memory lane to the year 1993-94, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan pretty much found each other and 'magic' through Tom's onscreen son Jonah and the radio show. In Bollywood, the 2002 film, Naa Tum Jaano Naa Hum gave us a bit of a sneak peek into the era of love the old fashioned way through a book and a song that makes the always-around-yet-estranged-lovers meet. In the age when songs are available in more apps than your smartphones can support or a device that can host over 5000 songs; or advertisements and radio spots playing louder than any song (usually the same ones across stations) is it possible to bring love back like it was in the age of pure radio playback and a song dedication to announce your love? Dailyhunthttps://www.openlearning.com/u/feetengeener
India's school textbook content needs a rethink
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which takes stock of the learning levels of primary school children in India's State-run schools, reveals the depth of India's learning crisis. The 2018 report shows that students, especially those in elementary school (Classes 1-8), are not learning enough. To cite one metric, only half (50.3%) of all students in Class 5 can read texts meant for Class 2 students. 'Learning deficits seen in elementary school in previous years seem to carry forward as young people go from being adolescents to young adults,' the report said. The reasons behind such a disastrous report card, year after year, are not too hard to pinpoint. The lack of quality textbooks (not all states/schools use National Council of Educational Research and Training — NCERT — textbooks), and delays in reaching them to students, especially in the far-flung areas; the politicisation of syllabi; the lack of basic infrastructure in schools; and, untrained and overworked teachers, to name a few. In addition to these problems, there is also an increasing acceptance that our State-run schools, where scores of first-generation learners go, carrying the hope of their parents that education will give them a better life in the future, have become delinked from the local community they serve, and that the textbooks they use don't really reflect the local culture and social environment of the children, making it difficult for these young learners to relate to them. These shortcomings, educationists feel, affect the learning capabilities of students. Speaking at a recent education conference, Difficult Dialogues, NCERT professor, Srinivas Vadivel, said that such shortcomings can be probably tackled by developing curriculum material in local languages. An ideal situation would be for the NCERT to make guideline textbooks, which local teachers can then adapt and supplement to make them more suitable for the children they are teaching. Others at the conference pointed out that to make learning 'joyful', teachers must move beyond textbooks to use innovative teaching resources, educative toys and interesting do-it-yourself projects. If these sweeping changes are to actually happen, then the relationship between schools and students needs to be reviewed as well. Instead of forcing children to adhere to a school's inflexible curriculum and pedagogy, the institutions must strive to be children-ready. This means that teachers must be sensitised to the sociocultural background of the students to ensure better learning. Such steps could make India's State schools inclusive and positive spaces for quality learning. Dailyhunthttp://yarp.com/d83dae321304
Guest house 'assault': The 1995 infamous incident that had turned SP-BSP bitter foes
The two parties would contest 38 seats each out of 80 in the politically crucial state, leaving the two Congress bastions of Rae Bareli and Amethi, and keeping two seats aside for any future allies. While announcing the tie-up, BSP chief Mayawati said she was ready to 'rise above' the 1995 infamous guest house scandal-the incident that marked one of the grimmest chapters of UP politics. setTimeout(function(){(function(id){var embedTag=document.getElementById(id).children[0]; if(embedTag){var width=embedTag.offsetWidth; var height=embedTag.offsetHeight; embedTag.height=document.body.offsetWidth * (height/width); embedTag.width=document.body.offsetWidth;}})("embed-brightcove-iframe-tag-0");},1000); In 1993, then SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP founder Kanshi Ram had joined forces before the UP assembly elections to stave off the BJP, which was riding high on the Ram temple wave. The SP-BSP combine won a total of 176 seats and managed to form the government under Mulayam's leadership with the Congress' support. The BJP had 177 seats. : However, the government had collapsed after two years as Mayawati withdrew from the government and joined hands with the BJP. Irked by the withdrawal, angry SP workers attacked Mayawati when she was holding a meeting with her party workers at a Lucknow guest house on June 2, 1995. Her room was vandalised and she was allegedly abused and beaten up. When the BSP MLAs failed to protect Mayawati, BJP MLA Brahm Dutt Dwivedi stepped into the room and escorted her to safety. Subsequently, the BSP joined hands with the BJP to form the government in the state. Since that episode, two parties had remained bitter foes until 2018 when SP-BSP alliance trounced BJP in the parliamentary bypolls in Gorakhpur (vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) and Phulpur (Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya). Dailyhunthttps://www.vox.com/users/sikendergunm
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