It’s bad enough that sexual deviance has become a regular occurrence, now sex crimes are getting perverse, cruel and just unbelievable. It’s not just the severity of the crime but also the age of the perpetrators. In the past week alone we heard two nauseating cases of sexual abuse. On November 22nd, the Hyderabad Police…
KPME Muddle 3: An Eventful Week and a Frightening Future!
November 24, 2017By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The week that has gone by may have been a harbinger of much joy and satisfaction to the thousands of private doctors in Karnataka who were protesting against the tabling of the amendment to the KPME Act in the ongoing Assembly session. Thanks to their rare show of solidarity…
Pet Talk
November 22, 2017By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells what can be done to ensure the well-being of stray dogs in winters? What are the ways in which we can provide first aid to birds injured due to kite strings? Kite flying injures and kills thousands of birds. If you find an injured bird,…
India has broken its own traditions by joining US-led strategic group. This will restrict Delhi’s options
November 21, 2017By T.J.S. George Did India gain from last week’s Southeast Asia summit? The big takeaway, as admitted by our External Affairs spokesmen, was a “deepening of engagement” with the US. This is useful upto a point. America is the only power with the capacity to checkmate an increasingly assertive China. But America’s interest in using…
Chief Minister Siddharamaiah Man for the Age of Reason: Appointing Astrologers in Hospitals. Howzat?
November 18, 2017I do not know what the stars foretell about Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s political future in 2018 Assembly elections. But I do know what the people of reason, the rationalists, foretell about his contributions to gullible people to live in dignity. They foretell a place in Karnataka’s history for Siddharamaiah as a redeemer of superstitious people…
Netas profiting from faailed govt. services ?
November 18, 2017For the past five days most of us were worried sick wondering what if we should fall sick. The reason — there were no doctors to treat us. The doctors were on the streets instead of in hospitals saving lives. They were busy trying to save themselves from harsh amendments to the Act that governs…
Birth of Kannada Sahitya Parishat
November 18, 2017Kannada Sahitya Parishat has a history of its own and has passed through various stages to come to its own as we see it today. An organisation called Sampadabhyudaya Samaja organised a conference in 1914 and its annual conference discussed the issues relating to the development of Kannada. In that conference it was decided that…
Gone Away: To Germany & Austria 8: A pictorial tour of Oktober Beer Festival
November 17, 2017(Continued from Nov. 12) Tuesday 19th September 2017 was the day we were waiting for. Attending the Munich Beer Festival. We took a taxi from our hotel and as arranged, our German friends were already there at the entrance waiting for us. There is no need to remind ourselves that Germans are known for their…
KPME Muddle-3: Can private healthcare survive in this scenario?
November 17, 2017By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The ongoing state-wide agitation by private doctors and medical establishments against the proposed amendments to the KPME Act of 2007 has now become an ugly standoff between them and the State Government which seems hell-bent on implementing a very illogical, if not completely insane, statute that it says is…
DeMo, GST, etc: How to create a mess, then make it messier; Now, link your Aadhaar number to your sambar-vada
November 14, 2017By T.J.S George It is difficult to imagine that a full year has passed since 1,000-rupee notes disappeared from our world. Champions and critics marked the occasion by bitterly attacking one another. The champions were high-pitched as they celebrated the anniversary and boasted about three lakh fake companies that were closed down and the detection…
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