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Road accidents and automobile pollution emerge biggest challenge

   By Vijay Darda | 22-03-2021 Government has announced the vehicle scrap page policy, let’s hope that this policy proves to be effective..! Vijay Darda Of course, the newly-announced Vehicle Scrap page Policy of the Central Government kindles a ray of hope that perhaps everything will be hunky-dory in the years to come! But a question also arises as to

Spirit of freedom should run through our veins

   By Vijay Darda | 15-03-2021 Next year, India will be celebrating 75 years of its independence; we all need to understand the value of freedom. Our country is going to complete 75 years of independence on August 15, 2022. Just 75 weeks before this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the ‘Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav’ from Sabarmati. A Dandi

Porn movies enter households under the pretext of web series

   By Vijay Darda | 08-03-2021 Porn industry is constantly exploring new ways to circumvent the law, now is the time to rein it in The proliferation of pornography has reached to such an extent that even the Supreme Court had to make scathing remarks about the sexual content being served by the producers in the name of web series.

Another chance for Pakistan to mend fences with India

   By Vijay Darda | 01-03-2021 Despite umpteen ceasefire agreements, Pakistan continues to provoke us This is not the first time that India and Pakistan have signed a ceasefire agreement on their borders to give peace a chance. After the fierce Kargil War of 1999, there was peace on the border for sometime, but it was short-lived. By 2003, when

Care for your and others’ lives too

By Vijay Darda | 22-02-2021 Government should also provide vaccines for the private sector and initiate strict action against careless people As the New Year dawned, it looked like that the corona virus pandemic was now tapering out. The number of Covid positive patients was declining rapidly and the death count was also going down, but by mid-February, reports of

Let this bonhomie percolate to politics

  By Vijay Darda | 15-02-2021 Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prime Minister Modi’s speeches in Rajya Sabha displayed the highest level of parliamentary maturity My friendship with Ghulam Nabi Azad might be some three decades old and the biggest reason for this closeness is his charming personality. Another major reason is his preoccupation with the development of the country. Ghulam

Imran’s promised neverland

By Vijay Darda | 08-02-2021 Pandering to extremists, ruining economy, Pak PM is running out of time There was euphoria when Imran Khan left the cricket field and came to bat on the political pitch — the world felt that Pakistan had found a politician with the ability to get the country out of the quagmire it was in. Just

Fruits of Budget must reach the common man

By Vijay Darda | 01-02-2021. The Covid-19 pandemic has picked everybody’s pocket and ruined the economy. Let’s nurse a hope for a better future Preparing this year’s Budget must not have been an easy task because the Covid-19 pandemic has ruined the country’s economy. Industries, which have been stagnant for months, have still not recovered. Crores of people have not

Temple of democracy should always be open

  By Vijay Darda | 21-12-2020. No matter how serious and extraordinary the circumstances, it’s not proper to suspend any session of Parliament. The government’s announcement that the winter session of Parliament will not be held has shocked one and all. Naturally, opposition parties have flayed this move in one voice but it does not appear that the government is

Why has muscle power politics become a norm?

  By Vijay Darda | 14-12-2020. There is no place for violence in a democracy but the history of violence is being repeated in West Bengal. The present state of politics in West Bengal is quite frightening. The language of ‘lathi and not democracy, is being spoken there. During the leftist’s era, street violence had become a norm but this