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Lokayukta caught Supt. Of police accepting bribe and H.C grants bail The High Court granted bail to K P Puttaswamy, Superintendent of police, Kolar district who was trapped by the Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe from a constable for an official favour. While allowing the bail application of puttaswamy, Justice Hulvadi Ramesh granted bail with regular bail conditions. However, the Lokayukta objected to the bail being granted to Puttaswamy. The Lokayukta counsel said, "Puttaswamy was terrorising the people of Kolar by accepting bribes. In the matter of corruption, he is a walking ATM and he does not even spare his parents. If bail is granted to such accused, a wrong signal will be sent to the society," the Lokayukta counsel argued. The Lokayukta stated that Puttaswamy had accepted the bribe from PP Prakash, a police constable for an official favour. A departmental inquiry was pending against Prakash for not attending office regularly. Prakash pleaded that he could not ...

Saving the world from self-destruction First, a couple of definitions. What is a Greenhouse? A Green house is a building where plants are cultivated under a glass or plastic roof. Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation. The main greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere are water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. Greenhouse gases greatly affect the temperature of the earth. Increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can cause an unprecedented rise in global temperature leading to the melting of ice. Loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased three-fold just in the last decade. Snow cover is decreasing in the Himalayas that may ultimately hurt rivers like Ganga and Jamuna. Since about 1750, human activity has increased the concentration of carbon dioxide. Presently carbon dioxide concentrations are several score higher than at the start of the Industrial Revolution. The main sources of Greenhouse gases...

Friends, Yes, we are truly into the 10th year of our publication. This is the 2nd issue of the year. But we are not celebrating. Wonder why! Yes, you guessed right. Our paid readers, that is our subscribers are not as much to feel good. It is true that every month, the number of copies mailed increases. Some new subscribers, but some free mailed, to create awareness. Yes, it is the free mailed readers who are neither saying, that they are not keen to receive it nor they are becoming regular paid readers. While we must reiterate that this is an effort at awareness and there is cost implication in the exercise. This request is for all our readers, subscribers to help us sustain. Ours is a non-profit movement. For the larger good, do become subscribers. India is indeed a happening place, from heart warming to heart rending, from bizzare to incredible. Month began with the continuing Karnataka circus. "He who pays the piper has the right to call the tune" is an old English adage,...

Vandey Maataram and Mahanagar In fact some years ago, it was Shaista Ambar, a member of All Indian Muslim Women's Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB), had gone on record saying "There should be no objection in singing the song written in the praise of motherland. We love our country and we support the rendition of the song". Here it is very pertinent to note that this very news paper had relegated an important news during this raging controversy into the 7th page in an obscure corner, as if it is just another news. Then there was this remark by Salman Khurshid, a practicing Muslim and a Union Minister, "Fatwa against Vande Mataram unacceptable", published by the same news paper on page 11. Talking to Karan Thapar on the Devil's Advocate programme in the CNN/IBN, Salman Khurshid reportedly stated "The resolution in unacceptable. It is counter productive. It is not good for our Muslims!!" Why are our media friends being ostrich like? Or are some of them hav...

GANG LEADER FOR A DAY A Book by : Sudhir Venkatesh First Days on Federal Street J.T. was a little cool towards me the next few times I saw him. So to warm things up, I stopped going to the club and spent nearly all my time in and around J.T.’s building. I was unhappy to be missing the opportunity to see how autry worked with other people behind the scenes on important community issues, but I didn’t want to further anger J.T. I just told Autry that I’d be busy for a few weeks but I’d be back once I got settled in with my course work in the coming fall semester. Soon after the school years began, a young boy and girl in Robert Taylor were shot, accidental victims of a drive-by gang shooting. The boy was eight, the girl nine. They both spent time in the hospital, and the girl died. The shooting occurred at the border of Taylor A and Taylor B. J.T’s gang had been on the receiving end of the shooting, with several members injured. The shooters were from the disciples, who operated out of th...

Boy dies after being beaten up by principal Varnasi: stepping out of school during lunch time proved deadly for an eight-year-old boy who w as brutally beaten up by the school principal. The incident that took place in Vindhyachal area of Mirzapur district heerre triggered protests by locals who staged demonstrations outside the school and made the institution shut down. ASP Mirzapur Sripati Mishra said the principal of Pt Ramchandra Mishra Inter College Sunil Kumar Dube allegedly beaten up class II student Ajay Majhi when he was going out of the school premises during lunch time. The child suffered multiple fractures due to the beating and was sent home by college authorities. The child was then taken to Mirzapur district where he succumbed to injuries. An FIR has been lodged against the principal who is absconding.

SACHIN TENDULKAR- WHO IS HE?! This article was published in the Sept. 2003, edition of ISSUES & CONCERNS. On completion of his 20 years in cricket there have been justifiable brouhaha. One English news paper dedicating its editorial on his spendid blemishless record as a cricketer, qualified it by stating, quote "The one black hole in Ten dulkar’s otherwise glittering career is his two brief stints at captaincy". However, this article was written at different point of time for its relevance at that time. We request the readers to take it in the same spirit. This reproduction is certainly not to take away from him his multi faceted greatness. -Editor Sachin Tendulkar, who is he? What a stupid question to ask? That too in India where he is almost a demigod, every young cricketers dream and the dream man of every young girl and not to so young, but young at heart. A talent in batting that not many can match, even remotely, either in India or in the entire cricketing world. H...