The budget mania!

Today's budget resembled more like an election sop than a serious one. What is evident to most of the people is that the ruling party is doing its bid to expand their votebank.
The budget gave sops to most of the farmers of India and also gave the middle class a breather as regards the income tax. With the industry terming the budget lacklustre are looking at this issue with jaundiced eyes.

Kargil fund was not paid by Pratibha's bank?!?

The Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank, set up by UPA presidential candidate Pratibha Patil, collected Rs 4,556 from its employees for the Kargil war victims but failed to deposit the amount in the national fund.this is unheard of.if they had no intention of depositing the money then why on earth did they collect it in the first place.was it all just a scam?the bank directors owe the people of India an explanation.this bank of prathibha's seems to have been involved in some pretty shady deals.wonder what else we are gong to find if we were to lift the rock further.some of the people are going around saying that mud slinging is going on because certain sections cannot stomach a woman president.i can honestly say that nothing can be further from the truth.these questions have been raised by ms Prathibha Patel's behaviour and the behaviour of her family members especially when they were members of the board in this bank.what is more since president Abdul J Kalam has categorically said that he is not standing for elections we as the public feel that the person who is going to be the next president of India should be a person who is above reproach and does not raise so many bogey's whenever her name comes up!

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NAM matters a lot!

NAM,the non aligned movement co founded by India,got a rude jolt as the U.S condoleeza rice decided to come out and say that the NAM movement has lost all relevance in the modern world.but the entire world knows that the U.S has always been hostile to the very idea of NAM.NAM was started as a counter balance to the power polarities in the world at the time,the U.S and that of the U.S.S.R.the russians very adroitly managed to get friendly with India and thereby had assured that the NAM policies were always friendly to them,much to the chagrin of the U.S.
Today although the power scenario may have altered with the demise of the U.S.S.R a new power struggle happens to be taking place,between that of the U.S and the asian giants with Europe sitting on the sidelines and cheering the asians on.the asian giants,China and India believe in a multi polar world and as such the trilateral conferences between the current Russia,the NAM and the ASEAN just suits their purposes fine for this.the U.S knows that it could never totally dominate the world and make itself the sole reigning power.what is more most of the world central banks have started changing their reserver currency as the U.S dollar gets weaker and weaker.this worrying trend could also9 be as a result of the U.S policies and their aggressive attitude towards other world powers.as far as China,Russia and India are concerned,they seem to think that a multi polar world is much needed and they are making steady progress towards that end.as far as the U.S is concerned,they see themselves losing all relevance in this modern world as they and their economy gets more and more outdated.their aggressive polices may have well suited the time of kennedy's and nixon's.but today economy speaks volumes and services matter more than just mere muscle.gone are the days of muscle power and say hello to the power of money and hi tech wizardry!

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