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Full preparations for National Convention on Revival of BSNL

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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Full preparations are going to make the National Convention of BSNL Employees on Revival of BSNL to be held on 3rd August at Mavlankar Hall at New Delhi. Eminent leaders including Dr.Sanjeeva Reddy, M.P., President INTUC, Com. Gurudas Dasgupta, M.P.General Secretary CITU, Swadesh Dev Roye, Secretary CITU, Shri Baidyanath Rai, General Secretary, BMS, Shri Udit Raj, Confederation of SC/ST, Shri T.K.S.Elangovan, M.P., LPF and other leaders will address the Convention.
A Declaration will be adopted by the National Convention on the Revival of BSNL and providing a better service to the nation.
More than 1,000 delegates from all over India, belonging to the various unions will participate, The General secretaries of the BSNL Unions/Associations will also address.
Let us make the National Convention a historical Convention by taking important decisions and plans to make BSNL financially viable and strong.

More Fraud by the rich – Dy. Governor RBI

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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It is a well known fact that the culprits behind the Non-Performing Assets (NPA) ie. the loans to be returned, are the rich. Thousands of crores of loans are not paid by the corporate houses to the banks which are treated as NPA and never recovered. But in the case of small loans taken by the ordinary people, the banks are very harsh and take all aggressive measures to recover the money.

It is the same with the frauds on banks. During the last 10 years, 1,76,547 frauds have been reported in the banks according to K.C.Chakraborty, Dy. Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Only 61 fraud cases involved a whopping amount of Rs. 13,000 crore. And who are the culprits? They are all the rich and affluent, according to the Dy. Governor. These are mainly wrong sanctions at the highest level of banks , meaning that the top officers in the banks are also involved.

We are happy that a top authority himself has opened the lid open on the frauds being committed by those in power with the rich.

TDSAT stays Rs. 650 crore penalty on Airtel

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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The Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has stayed the orders of DOT slapping a penalty of Rs. 650 crores for manipulating STD/ISD calls in to local calls and thus cheating the government in paying the taxes. This relates to the period of 2002-03, when Bharti Airtel provided a service called Subscriber Local Dialling facilitating this manipulation.

In many earlier cases of penalty also the private companies avoided payment by going to TRAI, TDSAT and also courts and getting relaxation or full favourable judgement.

Mass MNP for corporates

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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The TRAI has made amendments to the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Rules to allow the corporates to change mass numbers at the same time with one request. This will facilitate the companies to shift 50 numbers with one request.

Nationalisation of Suez canal in 1956

26 Friday Jul 2013

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The Nationalisation of Suez Canal by the President of Egypt Abdul Gamal Nasser on 26th July 1956 was a historic event of a developing country challenging the might of the European imperialist powers, France and Britain.
Britain and France, of course, attacked Egypt assisted by Israel to capture Suez Canal and to oust Nasser from power. But the world opinion was on the side of Egypt. The support of the Soviet Union and the intervention of the UN saw that Britain and its allies had to go back.
It was a big victory not only for Egypt but for the entire developing countries. It inspired other countries stand on its own legs.

“Save Democracy and to Defeat the violence and terror”

26 Friday Jul 2013

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The CPI(M) has decided to call for a countrywide campaign to “Save Democracy and to Defeat the Violence and Terror in West Bengal”. All Party units will conduct this campaign on August 7, 2013. This campaign will inform the people about the murder of democracy in West Bengal and mobilize support to demand a halt to the violence and terror. The Polit Bureau appealed to all democratic forces in the country to condemn the TMC’s violent campaign to suppress the Left Front and the opposition in West Bengal.

Cuba Celebrates 60 th Anniversary of National Day

26 Friday Jul 2013

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Havana, Jul 26; Cuba is commemorating the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s attack on the Moncada army barracks that is considered the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
President Raul Castro is expected to give a speech at today’s ceremony in the eastern city of Santiago. The July 26 holiday is sometimes used to make major announcements.
Raul Castro is in the midst of pushing a series of social and economic reforms including relaxed restriction on foreign travel and a limited opening for small private and cooperative enterprise on the island.
Several heads of state from friendly nations are in Cuba for the anniversary including Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Uruguay’s Jose Mujica and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.

Was Pablo Neruda murdered by Pinochet Government?

26 Friday Jul 2013

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The world famous revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda who supported the Allende government in Chile died under mysterious circumstances after Dictator Augusto Pinochet took over toppling the elected government. Salvador Allende, who was President of Chile from 1970 was murdered in 1973. Pablo Neruda died a few days after Dictator Pinochet took over.

Now the Chilean Communist Party has demanded exhumation / DNA test of the human remains of Allende to verify whether the poet was murdered through poisoning. A report in the press in this connection is given below:

Santiago de Chile, July 25 (Prensa Latina) The remains of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda will be subjected to a DNA test to determine if his death was caused by natural causes or he was a victim of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Chilean Judge Mario Carroza said the Legal Medical Service was asked to identify the corpse. If the results are not positive, the DNA tests will be conducted on the bones of Neruda’s parents buried in the southern part of the country.
The poet’s remains were exhumed on April 8. The DNA test is being conducted in response to a criminal lawsuit by the Communist Party of Chile, an organisation of which Neruda was a member. He was also a member of its central committee, senator and candidate for the presidency of the republic.
The investigations began in 2001, after Neruda’s driver Manuel Araya revealed that a strange injection was administered to the winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Price, while he was at the clinic Santa Maria.
Neruda suffered from cancer and died on September 23, 1973, 12 days after the coup against President Salvador Allende.

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Cuban National Day on 26th July

26 Friday Jul 2013

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Today, 26th July is the National Day of Cuba. It was on this day in 1953, about 160 revolutionaries under the command of Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada Garrison in Santiago of the dictator Batista. Though this attack failed, this started a series of revolutionary activities, which ultimately resulted in the revolution succeeding and Cuba was declared independent from the imperialists on 1st January 1959. The Socialist government under the leadership of Fidel Castro was established. Che Guevara, the Revolutionary leader was one of the Ministers, who later resigned and went to Bolivia to lead the guerrilla struggle, where he was murdered.

On this National Day of Cuba, I convey Revolutionary Greetings to the people of Cuba, who have kept the red flag high, despite the prolonged economic blockade by the imperialist countries led by US.

BSNL employees oppose FDI increase

25 Thursday Jul 2013

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BSNL Employees all over India expressed their strong protest against the government decision to increase FDI in Telecom from 74% to 100% and in Defence from 26% to 49% (case to case basis in the latter), by wearing badges and organising lunch hour demonstration.

The decision of the UPA government to increase the FDI in these two sectors is full of security risk. Telecom is the second line of defence and naturally if 100% FDI is allowed, not only all the Indian companies will be taken over by the foreign MNCs, but the entire system of security will be under threat.

If the government continues with mortgaging the communications system to the MNCs, further struggle will erupt.