Maruti 800, the iconic car of the Indian middle class will no more be produced. The production has been completey stopped from 18th January as per a Suzuki management statement. But the spare parts may be available for 10 more years.
It was a low cost vehicle which had been sold as number one.

The International Conference of the Pensioners and Retirees held at Barcelona, Spain has concluded successfully. The two days Congress was very effective since the delegates discussed all the matters connected with the issues of the pensioners.
The Congress elected office bearers with Comrade Dimos Koumpouris (Greece) as President and Com. Quim Boix (Spain) as General Secretary.
Detailed report will be published later.

The great difference between the capitalist countries and Socialist Cuba came very clear when the delegates spoke about their countries and the condition of the pensioners and retirees in their own country.
While in the capitalist countries and developed and developing countries, the rights of the workers and pensioners were being taken back or denied one after another, the same are improved and increased in Socialist Cuba. The health of the aged is a priority for Cuban Government. The senior citizens are given university education. The average health and age of Cuban people are much more than any other country. Many citizens about 100 enjoy good health.
Socialism is hundred times beneficial to the society. It is proved from the experience of the socialist countries.
Red Salute to the Cuban revolution which created a Socialist Nation!

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with the order of the telecom tribunal dismissing the pleas of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Loop and Idea for a stay on spectrum auction which is starting tomorrow and extension of their licences by another 10 years.

However, in an extraordinary urgent hearing on Sunday, a bench comprising justices A. R. Dave and S. A. Bobde admitted the appeals filed by Airtel and Vodafone challenging the January 31 order of the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).

“The appeal is admitted and hearing is expedited,” the bench said after the Centre opposed the appeals saying “any observation from you (apex court) can scare away other bidders and can take away the vibrancy of the spectrum auction”. (Courtesy: Business Line)

The Shah Commission has indicted Odisha govt. and others in powerful circle of causing loss of Rs 59203 crore by illegal minig allowed resulting in windfall gains to private companies.

One of our newly appointed BSNL comrades recently asked me why you are putting so many issued connected with the Central Government employees and particularly Postal workers?
The answer is simple. BSNL employees were earlier part of the Postal and Telegraph Department (P and T), which was part of the Central Government establishment. P and T was bifurcated in to Department of Posts and Department of telecom in 1985. Later service section of DOT was converted in to a corporation, BSNL.
As such, all the employees who got absorbed in BSNL from DOT remembers their close connection with the Postal and Central Government employees and the glorious struggles organised together.
The memory of the historic struggles of 1960, 1968 and many other struggles are part of this great past. We will never be able to forget them.

As expected, the private telecom companies have opposed the decision of CAG to audit their accounts to find out whether they are correctly accounting their revenues so that the government get the due revenue share etc.
Opposing the decision, the association of telecom companies, AUSPI has approached the Supreme Court to quash the High Court decision authorizing the CAG to audit the accounts. COAI, another organisation of private telecom companies may follow suit.
It is very clear that these private companies have been chea