Rs. 1,000/- denomination coins will be in the market shortly.
The Parliament on Thursday, 11th August 2011, passed the Coinage Bill 2009 allowing minting of Rs.1,000 coins which will be legal coins in future. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill in March and the Rajya Sabha adopted the same yesterday.
The decision is in continuation of another decision to withdraw the 25 paise coin which was taken some time back by the Government. Eventhough 50 paise coin is legal, its use also is coming down.
All those coins less than 50 paise withdrawn from the market were once very important for transacting small purchases etc. Now they have become part of the collection of the coin collectors.
Earlier there was a demand that the Rs.1,000 notes should be withdrawn as a means of catching black money. Now, Rs.1000 coins are also being minted. It will not be far away that Rs.10,000 notes will be printed.

For the third consecutive day, rioting has been reported in UK protesting against the killing of a youth by the police. Shops have been looted offices have been put on fire and goondas are ruling the streets.
While the riot started as a protest against the killing the youth in an alleged fake encounter, the dissatisfaction of the workers on various counts may also be another reason.

One TV news channel has reported that DMK Minister Azhagiri has grabbed temple land by paying almost only one tenth of the market price. It is also alleged that Santiago Martin, rich businessman but of doubtable deals, has facilitated the deal. Is the third DMK Minister also to be charged for corruption.
How many more ministers of the UPA II government are going to be exposed for corruption?

Massive preparations are being made for bringinbg maximum number of casual and contract workers to Delhi for organising the dharna on 26th August 2011.
Intimate the CHQ about the number of comrades coming from each circle so that suitable arrangements can take place.

After the end of the second world war, 66 years have passed. Berlin, the head quarters of Nazi Germany was captured by Soviet Army on 2nd May 2011. The Japanese held out for some time. But the 2 atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August speeded up the surrender of Japan. The final surrender was declared on 10th August 1945 and the Second World War ended.
Crores of military personnel and common people died in the war. There is no limit to those who were maimed and had to live in pain their entire life. crores of families lost their bread-winner.
Two cities were completely burned out. This was one of the worst war that was fought.
Let us hope that such a catastrophe never repeat again.

The UPA II government and the Congress leadership is in the dock on corruptions, one after another. After the 2G scam a series of scams emerged including Antrix-Dewas, Adarsh, Coomon Wealth Games etc. Now the report of the CAG on the CWG has slammed the Delhi Government as also CWG chief Suresh Kalmadi as also PMO. In the 2G scam, former Minister Raja made a statement in the court that Prime Minister was in the know of each and every decision. In the Antri-Dewas deal, the ISRO was directly under the PM. Now the CWG also the PMO is clearly in the picture.
And the political parties have mentioned that PMO is directly involved indicating that the PM is aware.
Will there be an end to these scams? Will the people of this country allow such scams got unpunished.

Quit India movement started on 9th August 1942 was one of the major agitation of the great Independence struggle. The Bombay session of the Indian National Congress in 1942 decided a major change in the strategy and decided to start the Quit India movement. This had a great impact and inspired the people of India to continue with the struggle.
India got independence on 15th August 1947 ending the British imperialist rule . Now the UPA II government is trying to be the subordinate ally of the United States, the leader of the capitalist powers in the world. History is forgotten by the present rulers. Or they have not forgotten and want history to be repeated?

What will be the future of the Rs.1,83,000 crore ( $ 4100 crore ) deposited in the USA by the Reserve Bank of India. Now that the US economy has been down graded from AAAto AA+, what will happen to this money? Whether it will be withdrawn or deposited elsewhere or keep it there?

Government of France has handed over to the Government of India a list of 700 people who have deposited money in the HSBC Bank in Geneva. This is the first time that a list of such large number of depositors in foreign countries have been known. It is reported that many powerful politicians and corporates are in the list. But the Government has not released the names. It is only reported in the press that tax evasion issue will be enquired.
In the case of the 17 people whos have deposited in the LGT Bank, the government has so far not released the list.
It is somewhat clear from the reports that the government do not want to release the names since many are political bigwigs or people supporting them.
It is the duty of the government to release the list and take legal action against them for cheating the government and the nation.

The Joint Action Committee has been insisting on the management for the last few years to ensure that all the rented buildings taken by BSNL be vacated and accommodated in the BSNL buildings only. The reply given by the management was that there are very few rented accommodations and that also will be vacated soon.The wrong information given by the management is exposed now. According to a reply given in the Parlaiment by Murali Deora, State Minister for Communications and IT, the rent paid by BSNL for rented accommodation for the last four years is Rs. 1023.9 crore!It means an amount of Rs. 256 crore annually. This is not a small amount.
After the new CMD has joined, once again we took up the matter. Now orders have been issued to vacate these rented buildings at the earliest. Despite these instructions many officers at the local level are trying to continue the rented buildings due to their vested interests.
The Circle/District Secretaries should identify the rented buildings and compel the management to vacate the same at the earliest. In almost all places BSNL has now got suficient spaces for accommodation and there is no need for rented accommodation.