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The British and the Dutch had combined to defeat a drive out the Portuguese.They succeeded ,but there was little love between the victors, and they quarreled with each other frequently.

Why Dr Swamy is against America based Indian scholars ?
If sources are to be believed, BJP and many in the govt have failed to understand as to why Dr Subramaniam Swamy is against those Indian Scholars who are based in America. First Raghuram Ranjan then Dr Arvind Subramaniam. Questions are being asked that who is behind Dr Swamy's campaign?

Progress of Skill India Mission
The Skill Mission launched by the Prime Minister on 15 July 2015 has gathered tremendous steam with the team of Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Secretary Rohit Nandan during the last one year. The target to train more than a crore fresh entrants into the Indian workforce has been substantially achieved for the first time. 1.04 crore Indians were trained through Central Government Programs and NSDC associated training partners in the private sector. If one was to include trainings imparted by the States and industry, then nearly 1.25-1.30 crore people were skilled. This showed a jump of nearly 38% over the previous year 14-15 when 76 lakh people were skilled. The skilling capacity in the country too registered a dramatic increase during the period. The seats in the Industrial Training Institutes increased from 15 lakhs to 18Lakhs which was the highest recorded in Indian skilling history. The number of training centres for short term skilling too increased from 1700 to nearly 8500 to fulfill the objective of skilling with scale and speed.As a part of the Mission tremendous emphasis has been laid on improving the quality of training and to enforce national occupational standards prescribed by industries. Standards have been laid down 1600 jobs which constitute 80% of the popular jobs in the country. An attempt has been made to match the Indian standards of skills with transnational benchmarks specially UK, Australia and Canada which will make Indian youth globally employable. Overseas Employment Training Centers are being established to impart skills to youth desirous of seeking jobs abroad. For the first time Model Curricula has been formulated for 251 courses which represent majority of popular jobs. Course content for these jobs are being developed to be released by 15 th July.%0 such courses have already been released. This would go a long way to bring about standardization and uniformity in Trainings across the country. A single Assessment and Certification Authority is in the offing to impart credibility to the entire system of assessments and certification. As part of an exercise to make skilling aspirational, a historic decision has been taken to provide academic equivalence to ITI passouts with regular courses. Thus a trainee who does two year's training in an ITI after 8 th standard shall be deemed equivalent to 10 th provided he passes a couple of bridge courses prescribed by the National Institute of Open Schooling. Similarly, an ITI trainee doing a two year training in an ITI shall get equivalence to 12 th after passing the bridge exam. This will open pathways to ITI trainees to undertake higher studies as well as acquire qualification for Government jobs. High end training centers are in the process of being established in all district headquarters of the country to be known as the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras. Approval to 230 centers has already been accorded. Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics too have been allowed to undertake short term skilling courses as part of the Mission to bring high quality infrastructure in the fold of training for entry level jobs.

DEBATE

In world's biggest democracy- Who can be termed as dictator and why ?

In India - world's biggest democracy - Who can be said to be dictators from among the following. Narendra Modi (Prime Minister), Ms. Sonia Gandhi (AICC Chief), Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi Chief Minister), Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan Chief Minister), J Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu Chief Minister), Mamta Banerjee (West Bengal Chief Minister), Naveen Patnayak (Orissa Chief Minister ), K Chandrasekhar Rao (Telangana Chief Minister), Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed (Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister) and Nitish Kumar (Bihar Chief Minister).
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BUREAUCRACY

Sanjeev Nandan Sahai to be new Chief Secretary of Goa ?
Sanjeev Nandan Sahai is likely to succeed R K Srivastava as Chief Secretary of Goa on July 1. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

More than 60 IAS officers not empanelled as JS in GoI
According to sources, about 65 IAS officers of three batches- 1996,1997 & 1998 - have not be empanelled as Join Secretary in Govt. of India. It is said that those left out are seven from 1996, 24 from 1997 and 33 from 1998 batch .

No IAS officer out of three from CG empanelled as Addl Secretary in GoI
No IAS officer out of three belonging to 1986 batch from Chhattisgarh cadre has been empanelled for Additional Secretary level posts in Government of India.

Ravi Mittal empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
Ravi Mittal has been empanelled for holding Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Cadre of Ms Anjali Yadav transferred to Jharkhand
The cadre of Ms Anjali Yadav has been transferred from Nagaland to Jharkhand on the grounds of marriage to Bhor Singh Yadav, a 2014 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Alok Kumar to return to parent cadre or get extension ?
Alok Kumar, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will return to his parent cadre or get extension? His tenure is coming to an end on June 29, 2016. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre.

Sharma to get additional charge of LIC Chairman ?
In case resignation of LIC Chairman S K Roy is accepted by the Government on June 30, senior most MD V K Sharma may be given additional charge till the appointment of new Chairman.

Lt Gen Bipin Rawat to be new Vice Chief of Indian Army !
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, is all set to take over as the new Vice-Chief in July. Present Vice Chief Lt Gen MMS Rai is retiring .

Who will be GOC Western Command ?
Who will succeed Lt Gen K J Singh as GOC Western Command ?. Names of Lt Gen D R Soni and Lt Gen Surinder Singh are in circulation.

Lt Gen Ashwini Kumar is GOC Ten Corps
Lt Gen Ashwini Kumar, an Army Air Defence Corps officer will take over as the General Officer Commanding, 10 Corps. He will succeed Lt Gen Soni.

New posting likely in 21 Corps, Bhopal
New posting is expected next month in place of Lt Gen PS Mehta, GOC, 21 Corps in Bhopal. He is likely to get a staff appointment.

IRCTC CVO returns to parent cadre
Dharmendra Prakash, Chief Vigilance Officer, Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC), has returned to his parent cadre. He is a 1989 batch IFS officer of Nagaland cadre.

Ms Mala Iyenger returns to parent cadre
Ms Mala Iyenger, Chief Vigilance Officer, Prasar Bharti, has reportedly returned to her parent cadre. She is a 1991 batch IDAS officer.

File of Saifuddin Fidvi sticks to Ministry
The file of Saifuddin Fidvi, CGM, RCF, for the appointment as Director (Marketing), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (RCF) is reportedly stuck to the Ministry itself as vacancy of this post is arising on July 1, 2016.

Why orders of A K Choudhury for MD, IRFC delayed ?
Why are the orders of A K Choudhury, ED, RVNL, for the appointment as Managing Director, Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) getting delayed as vacancy of this post is arising on July 1, 2016?

58 officers of Air India promoted to Sr Asst GM grade
As many as 58 officers have been promoted to the grade of Senior Assistant General Manager in Air India Limited (AIL). The officers are: B R Sharma, Saket Saran, N S Chand, Ms V G Sagalgile, Mrs Alka Arora, S Roy Choudhary, D Djeakumar, S K Srivastava, M N Chaudhary, Ms Jaya Sharma, T Raghu Babu, Mrs M S Samudre, N Kannan, M L Patel, Raju N Mansukhani, Patrick Zavier, Kalyan Chatterjee, Arpan Sanayal, Pankaj David, Kishore Joshi, H S Sawhney, Mrs Anuradha Sharma, Ranjan Chakraborty, Abhijit Sengupta, Firoz Khan, Nitan Paul, Tejbir Singh Kohli, Mrs Sunitga Samaria Singh, B P Nautiyal, B P Kulkarni, R Kannan, Mrs Sowmya Srinivas, Rakesh Khanduja, Ranjan Kr Dutta, K N Kishan, Mrs Sangeeta Sanyal, T H Radhakrishnan, Dhayanbrata Sanyal, Suhas Yaswant Jadhav, B Elisha Lakra, R B Umrakar, Mrs K D Sepoy, S Blessed Singh Jacob, S K Kaundal, B A Kishore Kumar, Gagan Chhabra, P K Amre, R Prabhu Chandra, K L Gothwal, Ms Deepika Jasuja, R K Minhas, R Srinivasan, K Vishwanathan Panyam, P M Mangtani and Niket Garg.

S S Majumdar appointed Director, NIAB
Subeer S Majumdar has been appointed as Director, National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad.

M K Pandey appointed Member, SSC
Manoj Kumar Pandey has been appointed as Member, Staff Selection Commission (SSC). He is an IIS Officer.

P K Sharma posted as Secretary, AR in Delhi Govt
Pawan Kumar Sharma has been posted as Secretary (AR) with additional charge of Secretary (IT) in Delhi Government. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ms Tanuja Mittal posted as PD, Commercial Audit, Mumbai
Ms Tanuja Mittal (IA&AS-1996), Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board-III, New Delhi has been transferred and posted as Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board -II, Mumbai.

R K Gupta appointed IG, Assam Rifles
R K Gupta has been appointed as Inspector General (HQ), Assam Rifles on deputation.

Ms R Bhama appointed as PrCIT in PrCCIT office, Delhi
Ms R Bhama has been apointed as Principal CIT (OSD) in the office of Principal CCIT, Delhi. She is an IRS-IT officer.

Chavan Transferred from Ambajhari
Dr. R.S.Chavan, a 1991 batch IDAS officer has been transferred from Ambajhari to AirForce, New Delhi as IFA.

Brig Sudhir Bahl to be promoted to Acting Rank of Maj Gen
Brig Sudhir Bahl, ARMD, has been approved for the promotion to the Acting Rank of Maj Gen in the Command & Staff stream and Staff only stream.

17 ACPs transferred in Delhi Police
Delhi Police have transferred 17 ACPs on Thursday. They have been posted at different places. Two of them belong to DANIP.
(We said this on June 17)

B P Sharma is also Secretary, Ayush
Bhanu Pratap Sharma has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Ayush till July 1, 2016. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Eight Indian Postal Service officers promoted to Member grade
As many as eight officers of Indian Postal service have been promoted to the grade of Member, Postal Services Board. They are: Maj Gen Amil Kumar Shori, Anant Narayan Nanda, Ms Meera Handa, Dilip Kumar Shivabhai Chauhan, Maj Gen Ms Meena Datta, Tilak De, Ashok Kumar Dash and Ms Achla Bhatnagar.

Vacancy of Joint Secretary, MHA arising in July
A vacancy of Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs is arising in July.

3 IAS officers promoted to Principal Secretary grade in Bihar (UPDATED)
Three officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service of 1992 batch have been promoted to the grade of Principal Secretary in Bihar. The officers are: Deepak Kumar Singh, Chanchal Kumar and Harjot Kaur Bamhara.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Maharashtra (UPDATED)
As many as four IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Maharashtra. Accordingly, Dheeraj Kumar, Collector, Bhandara has been posted as Commissioner, Education, Pune while Abhijeet Chaudhari, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Aurangabad, was posted as Collector, Bhandara and M G Ardad, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Hingoli is now Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Aurangabad. Besides, K B Phand, Additional Collector, Chairman, Caste Verification Committee, Mumbai Sub-urban District, Mumbai has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Hingoli.

Vinayk Garg deputed to ITDC as CVO (UPDATED)
Vinayk Garg has been relieved to join India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Delhi under the Ministry of Tourism as Chief Vigilance Officer at the Director level. He is an IRSEE officer.

15 IRTS officers get SAG (UPDATED)
As many as 15 officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service have been granted Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) on non-functional basis. The officers are: Arun Jatoh Rathod, SCR; Mandeep Singh Bhatia and Vikas Chaube of RB; Praveen Pandey, IRITM; Kamal Kishore Sinha of WR; Alok Badkul of CR; Amitabh Prabhakar of ECR; Ity Pandey of WR; Narendra Anandrao Patil of CR; Arvind Kumar Rajak of ECR; Vijoy Kumar Singh of NAIR; Ms Rita Raj of NR; R Murugaraj of SR; Ashish Kumar of RB and Manoj Kumar Sharma of NR.

NBCC observes International Yoga Day (UPDATED)
On the occasion of International Yoga Day on June 21, 2016, NBCC, the State-owned Navratna CPSU, organized Yoga Sessions and Seminars at its Corporate Office and the offices across the country. At Corporate Office in New Delhi, Yoga Sessions were organized in the morning under the trained Yoga Teacher invited from Morarji Desai Institute of Yoga, New Delhi. Anoop Kumar Mittal, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Senior Executives and the Employees of the Company attended the sessions and performed various Yoga asans.

K Gopal repatriated to his parent cadre (UPDATED)
K Gopal, Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), under the Ministry of Textiles, has been accorded premature repatriation to his parent cadre. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

CORPORATE

Lerwill resigns as Non-Exec Director of ITC Ltd
R E Lerwill has resigned as Non-Executive Director of ITC Ltd citing health reasons.

Koticha appointed Independent Director of APTECH Ltd
APTECH Ltd has appointed Asit Koticha as Non-Executive Independent Director of the company.

Ms Parmar resigns as CS of Jindal Worldwide Ltd
Ms Ankita Parmar has resigned as Company Secretary of Jindal Worldwide Ltd.

Sirdeshmukh appointed as Head of Amazon India's Fashion business
Arun Sirdeshmukh has been appointed as Head of Amazon India's Fashion business.

Moghe resigns as CFO of SVC Resources Ltd
Tushar Moghe has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of SVC Resources Ltd.

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DEBATE (1)

Narendra Modi can not be termed as dictator. Real dictator was Sonia Gandhi because her PM was like a bonded labour. Modiji is quite different from Sonia Gandhi.

Sawai Singh Sisodia

DEBATE (2)

CM of Rajasthan is not a dictator. But a defunct one. The dictators are her office people.

Tallen Kumar

Modi should give importance to professionals

Unfortunate in the Modi Government that bureaucrats are holding the technical portfolio in the ministries and professionals are made to work as slaves. Modi should also consider the professionals for Secretary, Additional Secretary and other posts in the ministries for the overall development of the country.

Subramanian N

Taxing with Love

Message of PM was loud and clear in Rajasva Gyan Sangam to create tax friendly environment. Trust is one of essential elements of the system and has to be created. Forced implementation to achieve the targets is not good approach. It can be seen from old days by implementing Family Planning with force to achieve targets resulted in disaster. It is alleged that too much interference of Police even for civil administration is not liked which gives feeling of Police Raj. See the results of persuasion by PM to surrender gas subsidy has crossed figure of 1 crore. Even in International Forum Yoga has been accepted by more than 190 countries only by persuasion and celebrating Yog Diwas. So persuasion works and gives better results. Let the people be persuaded similarly instead of targeting and chasing. NMS is working fine but needs improvement as per the present time. See Intel develops a new processor every year like dual core, core2, i3, i5, i7 etc. to meet the need of the hour. So the system has to be continuously evolved on real time basis. Non-filers of various categories can be divided/sub-divided depending upon their age (below 60 & above 60), working, non-working, retired and assumed income etc. to understand the case better. There may be many categories. Each category may require different approach to deal the case. Technology is available and can easily be integrated with present system for analysis to give direction for approach to be adopted. Lot of time and man power can be saved for structured approach which can be used for some other focused areas. For example, there may be category of professionals earning more than 10 lakhs, have to treated differently and so on. Taxpayers and non-filers are already part of the system. Too much chasing to achieve target may not give desired results. So a friendly environment has to be developed in tax department with tax payers/non-filers. Litigation cases can be reduced by mutual understanding and trust. Better results will be available by voluntary compliance.

N Prakash

Unprecedented opposition to IAS getting edge over others natural

Unprecedented opposition to the IAS getting edge over other services is not unexpected. The IAS class has been exploiting the exchequer by bullying and intimidating the other services since ages and now when they have been pushed to the wall , the outburst is obvious. They are in no manner superior , intelligent or more motivated than others. Rather majority of them survive on arrogance and falsehood and public by and large has no respect for this class. In a state like Tamil Nadu the choice of educated youth for civil Services is dwindling as more and more candidates prefer other professions rather than choosing civil services . In fact most of the youth with whom I interact for feed back have hatred for this class. According to this survey the IAS sit in their rooms idle by putting red - busy - beacon outside their rooms and enjoy the sufferings of those who come for audience for some work but are forced to wait hours and days together. Some of them are so arrogant that they dont even bother to inform the petitioners if the arrogant IAS will be meeting them at all. When the individual who requested for appointment tries to find out the status, he is told to send mail again after few days as Sahib is busy this week. While he can gossip for hours together with his relatives or friends in his room, he has no time to dispose of the pending request of audience. He is not answerable to any one and no one can do anything to him as even if a complaint is lodged, the same gets back to him.

It is high time for our Prime Minister to do away with the class who claim indispensability when they are none . Prime Minister should induct more and more talent straight from the market rather than promoting the same old pattern of breaking the civil service examination. However it will be wrong to paint every one with the same bursh. Some of the IAS are brilliant and down to earth. However their number is equally dwindling.

O P Sharma

Bars must be banned in city

I agree that there should be restricted sale of Liquor from a very few outlets. Liberal opening of Bars in the city of Delhi attracts our youth who ultimately get addicted to Liquor and whereafter if they have less money they resort to cheap Drugs. These Bars must be banned in the city and allowed only in 5 Star hotels. This control would go a long way in controlling the menace of Liquor/Drugs, Crime, Road rages, Accidents etc and put our youth to productive work.

Deepak Singh

Selection of RBI Governor

Raghuram Rajan would have been the best choice as never before and never again.

However best would have been asking Raghuram Rajan to continue for another term.
It seems at the cost of country every thing is possible and require no thought as everything possible as everything politically motivated.

Rajesh Tenany

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