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125th Birth Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru Today, 14th November 2014 is the 125th death anniversary of the Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India and visionary who laid out the fundamentals for the new India. He was the architect of modern India and also leader of the Non-Alignment movement. His ‘Socialist Pattern of Society’ could not survive him for much time, though. But the Congress and its leaders have forgotten the Nehru legacy and have moved far away in to the thick jungle of corruption and neo-liberal policies putting the people in to more and misery. On this occasion, I remember the day in 1956 or 1957 when I had the opportunity to see him and take his photo. It was when I was working as a teacher that he came to Tellicherry in Kerala. I wanted to get his autograph, but the security did not allow me to go nearby. I had a camera with me, presented to me by a foreign pen friend. (Cameras were not much in use at that time). After a few minutes with the camera I went near the PM. Security might have thought that I was from the press and allowed. I went nearby took a photo and got an autograph also. Respectful Homage to the Architect of New India!

14 Friday Nov 2014

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125th Birth Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru
Today, 14th November 2014 is the 125th death anniversary of the Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India and visionary who laid out the fundamentals for the new India. He was the architect of modern India and also leader of the Non-Alignment movement. His ‘Socialist Pattern of Society’ could not survive him for much time, though.
But the Congress and its leaders have forgotten the Nehru legacy and have moved far away in to the thick jungle of corruption and neo-liberal policies putting the people in to more and misery.
On this occasion, I remember the day in 1956 or 1957 when I had the opportunity to see him and take his photo. It was when I was working as a teacher that he came to Tellicherry in Kerala. I wanted to get his autograph, but the security did not allow me to go nearby. I had a camera with me, presented to me by a foreign pen friend. (Cameras were not much in use at that time). After a few minutes with the camera I went near the PM. Security might have thought that I was from the press and allowed. I went nearby took a photo and got an autograph also.
Respectful Homage to the Architect of New India!

FBI is a Dirty Hyena! ‘Suicide Note’ sent to Dr. Martin Luther King.

14 Friday Nov 2014

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It is well known that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of US is completely unethical and will use brutal force and any dirty trick to eliminate persons or group who are against the US imperialism. Hundreds of examples are there. The latest in this series is the revelation that it has sent a letter to Nobel Peace Prize Winner and well known Civil Rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, in the name of an unknown supporter of the latter, calling him an ‘evil abnormal beast’ and instigating him to commit suicide.
Dr.King and his followers might have understood or doubted about the hand of FBI in the letter. Anyhow the FBI managed that Dr. King is shot and killed. Communists and civil rights people were the targets of the FBI and might have eliminated many.
Of course FBI is a dirty hyena!

Acute Shortage of Cabin Crew delays Air India Flights.

14 Friday Nov 2014

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Acute Shortage of Cabin Crew delays Air India Flights.
Many air travelers are complaining that the Air India flights are delayed comparing to the private company flights. The main reason seems to be the shortage of cabin crews. There is acute shortage of cabin crews. While 700 cabin crew have been retired within the last two years, nobody has been recruited. It is reported that company is thinking of fresh recruitment.
It is not different in BSNL. During the last 14 years, about 1,40,000 employees, mostly in the non-executive cadres, who are mainly dealing with fault repair, Customer Service Centre etc. have retired. But there has been no fresh recruitment in these cadres.
BSNL Management should urgently think about fresh recruitment, failing which the service will further deteriorate.

British Parliament pays homage to Indian Soldiers of World war I

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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2014 is the centenary of the starting of the First World War which continued for 5 years. To defend the British Empire, lakhs of Indian soldiers fought not only in Europe, but in all parts of the world, wherever the British had to fight with their enemies.

The British Parliament paid tributes to these Indian soldiers and remembered their heroism and specially that of the Sikhs, whose number of soldiers was more than 1,30,000.

Britain mainly dependent upon the Indian Army in the WW I.

Successful Strike of the Bank Employees for Wage Revision

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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The 9 lakh and odd PSU Bank Employees went on one day strike today, 12th November 2014, completely paralyzing the bank services through out the country. The Bank workers have gone on strike demanding wage revision form 2012 onward, as per the call of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the umbrella organisation of the Bank Unions. While the unions demand 23% fixation, the Bank Managements are prepared only to give around 11%. The Unions have threatened to go on indefinite strike if the issue is not solved early.

Our Hearty Congratulations to the Bank Employees for their massive strike !

Membership Verification of Executive Associations Postponed

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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The Membership Verification of Executive Associations have been postponed from 12th December 2014 to the last week of May 2015 due to a pending case in Karnataka. The exact dates will be decided after the result of the court case.

Life Certificate for Pensioners through Digital Certification system.

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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The Central Government is proposing to introduce an Adhar based Digital Certification system through which the pensioners will be able to submit life certificate through online.

At present pensioners, Central, state, PSUs and other pensioners are required to submit a Life Certificate to the Post office, Bank etc., from where the pensioner receives the pension, in the month of November every year. For this, they have to present themselves before the concerned authority. This results in much hardship to the pensioners, who are ill or who are away in other places, foreign countries etc.

The present system, when introduced will benefit many pensioners. But the infrastructure including the bio-metrics and concerned software.

It is reported that at present there are about 50 Lakh Central Pensioners, 50 lakh State pensioners, 25 lakh Defence Pensioners as also lakhs of PSU pensioners.

Modi Government moves to disinvest AAI and Pawan Hans, Privatise Air India

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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The Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju has stated that both the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Pawan Hans Helecopter limited, both PSUs, will be disinvested shortly. The privatisation of Air India is also being considered.

Selling of the family silver has become the main agenda for the Nodi Government. Already the profitable airports like Delhi and Mumbai has been privatised. Aggressive plans were made by the UPA Government to privatise Chennai and Kolkata airports, but because of the general elections it was kept pending. Now the NDA government is planning to privatise not only these two airports, but many more.

The Airports Authority of India which controls the airports will be having only loss-making airports after some time. In the case of Air India, the Civil Aviation Ministers, one after another has been acting on behalf of the private airlines and against Air India to destroy it. And new minister has stated that the loss making Air India needs to be privatised.

Selling the family silver at throwaway prices ! Nothin less. Oppose and defeat these anti-national moves.

Crorepati Cabinet – 59 out of 64 Ministers Crorepatis.

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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The Prime Minister may have been a tea supplier and come from a poor family. But the Cabinet he presides is a cabinet of crorepatis.

According to the analysis by Association of Democratic Reforms and National Election Watch, 59, out of 64 central ministers are crorepatis. The average asset of these ministers come to Rs. 18.48 crore according to the report. Y.S.Chaudary, Rajya Sabha M.P. from AP, who has now been elevated to Minister and who is the richest, is having an asset of Rs. 189.69 crore followed by Jayant Sinha from Jharkhand with 47.37 crores.

Some of the ministers newly appointed are having serial criminal cases against them.

These crorepatis will save the nation and the people ? The answer is clear and loud – a big NO.

Office Bearers of BSNLEU Elected at Kolkata AIC

10 Monday Nov 2014

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OFFICE BEARERS OF BSNL EMPLOYEES UNION ELECTED AT KOLKATA ALL INDIA CONFERENCE
Patron : Com. V.A.N. Namboodiri
President : Com. Balbir Singh, Punjab
Vice Presidents : (1) Com. P. Asokababu, Andhra Pradesh
(2) Com. Animesh Mitra, West Bengal
(3) Com. K.R. Yadav, Uttar Pradesh (East)
(4) Com. B. Narayan, Jharkhand
(5) Com. Jagdish Singh, Madhya Pradesh
(6) Com. Om Prakash Singh, TF, Kolkata.
General Secretary : Com. P. Abhimanyu , Tamil Nadu
Dy . General Secretary : Com. Swapan Chakraborty, NE-1
Asst. General Secretary : (1) Com. J. Sampathrao, Andhra Pradesh
(2) Com. John Verghese, Maharashtra
(3) Com. S. Pratap Kumar, Kerala
(4) Com. M.C. Balakrishna, Karnataka
(5) Com. S. Chellapa, Tamil Nadu
Treasurer : Com. Saibal Sengupta, Kolkata
Asst. Treasurer : Com. Kuldeep Singh, Haryana
Org. Secretaies : (1) Com. R.S. Chouhan, NTR
(2) Com. Sunithi Choudhary, Bihar
(3) Com. Sukhvir Singh, Uttar Pradesh (West)
(4) Com. Vijay singh, Rajasthan
(5) Com. D.K. Bakutra, Gujarat
(6) Com. Sandya Gadgil, Maharashtra
(7) Com. M. Vijayakumar, Kerala
(8) Com. Gokul Bora, Assam
(9) Com. G.Q. Dandroo, J&K