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Letters
PANEL’S CONDUCT
SPARKS SUSPICION
With reference to the online report “AAP gets HC relief in
Office of Profit case” (March 23)
The detail about Election
Commissioner OP Rawat’s
recusal and the otherwise absent
Sunil Arora’s abrupt order in the
AAP MLA case have cast doubts
on the neutrality of the Election
Commission.
Is there the sleight of hand by
a master? The disqualification of
the MLAs on non-maintainable
grounds only lends credence to
ill-motives.
The recent conduct of the EC is
making many uncomfortable.
C. ChANDRASEKARAN
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Few namesake journalists Australia has given very tough right-thinking people. pleaded to give up any thought for fund transfer i.e. for internet
defame the profession punishment to all the three Doing politics by categorizing of retaliation, failing which he banking OTP gets generated and
With reference to the report “Journalism isn’t players involved and both Steve people as “us-and them” on would leave town. It is time we the same forwarded thru SMS
a glam job, it involves life threats” by Humra Smith and David Warner cried the basis of religion is fraught put humanity above politics and and this service is free in most
Quraishi (April 15)
Mediapersons do face risks. during the press conferences for with danger in a multi-religious religion and turn swords into of the banks as it falls under
But TV journalism has obvious reasons, as they know society like ours where disparate ploughshares. mandatory category whereas
glamour too! To serve the they have made a huge mistake religious communities live G david milton there are banks who do not
country, the government and may never play for their cheek by jowl. The manufacturer agree and they provide this
needs strong opposition to country again. of ‘religious hatred’ should be the Clear classification of facility only if customer opts for
run the democracy,. which is We all know that Australia last thing a secular democracy bank charges needed chargeable SMS services.
unfortunately missing. In such play cricket and for that matter has to be burdened with. The government is insisting Thus, we request RBI to
an absence it is media — the any other game hard way and The communal flare-ups to move towards digitization, classify the charges that will
journalists who are saving the do not want to lose come what in West Bengal, Bihar and be it in any sector whether it is be considered mandatory. The
democratic set up in India. may, but they should also know Rajasthan seem to have been financial, education or even for regulatory body should issue
Journalists are the eyes where to draw the line. triggered as part of a larger that matter agriculture. It has fresh guidelines to all banks
and ears of public. But it They should play the game design to prepare the ground for also asked to bring to its notice to upgrade their software
is unfortunate that some fairly and with the sport spirit. polarising people along religious the issues being faced by general on urgent basis and also put
journalists and media houses As they are the role-models not lines ahead of the 2019 general public so that reforms can be proper mechanism to monitor
carry news that are biased only for their own country’s election. initiated. its rightly implementation.
towards one or the other parties. youngsters but fans from across The clear signal is that the There are certain reform In other words, a dedicated
Sometimes such reports are the world. Hopefully, this ball Sangh Parivar is gearing up to matters which requires RBI department should start
carried as paid news! tempering episode will provide play the religious card in the monitoring or issuance of only monitoring this upgradation
absence of any worthwhile
administrative orders which in
after fixing an agreed timeframe.
a lot of food for thought to these
Some politicians, for example,
are running their own news Aussies. achievement on the economic turn will protect customers from This matter should be taken
channels too. How could their Coming to ICC, which front that has gone to improve hardships of policies which are up at all levels and forums so
reports be fair, especially if they handed out small punishment the living conditions of the framed and does not have any that suitable guideline get issued
to these players have shown impoverished masses to central regulations to protect without any further delay.
are against themselves or their inconsistency once again. It has showcase and woo the voters. the interest of general public
parties? to set its house in order and be Nowadays Hindutva rules particularly rural masses. Gd Binani
A few channels run paid news
but they don’t bother to mention non-partisan in all such cases the roost so much that the truth One of such issue is frequent Initial wave to fight
it clearly. Advertisements are irrespective of the nationality of that Muslims are a persecuted increase in SMS alert charges graft has fizzled out
the players.
by Banks and including
religious community in today’s
With reference to the report “How serious
being confused as news items. It is strongly perceived that India goes unspoken. mandatory SMS in chargeable governments are about checking graft?”
Editors no more enjoy
by Abdul Wasey (April 15)
Religious processions
liberty as to what to publish. The ICC is more harsh to Asian that should promote amity, category. There should be proper To tackle graft in a country
origin players than Australian or
classification of mandatory
content is now decided by the English players. The incident is peace and harmony are now and non-mandatory SMS and soaked in corruption needs
bosses of the mediahouses, who
humongous mass support.
have their own vested interests. also a lesson for BCCI, the richest undertaken to foment hatred internet banking OTP should Indians are either corrupt
A small section of the cricket body in the cricketing and violence. It was very sad be part of mandatory SMS and or conditioned to accept
should not be chargeable
world. Would it have reacted the
that the participants in the Ram
so-called journalists are not same way as Cricket Australia Navami rallies organized by Further we also feel disturbed corruption. Ours is a society that
only spoiling the name of
is systemically corrupt, with
their colleagues but also the did in case of a similar incident saffron outfits flaunted deadly at the unfair treatment that corruption embedded in every
weapons killing the very spirit of
bank customers suffer in the
here? Certainly not. So BCCI
profession as a whole. This is would do well to learn a thing or the festival. form of frequent, arbitrary and transaction, big or small.
We believe that even
quite unfortunate.
mahesh kapasi two from the Cricket Australia. It was unthinkable that a one-sided decision over bank entitlements do not come
After all, the game is bigger than rabidly communal bigot jailed charges and also not responding without illegal gratification. That
for hacking a man of another
to our emails i.e. maintain either
anything else.
BCCI must take lesson Bal Govind faith to death could be glorified silence or acknowledge it with being the case, it is a million-
from Australia incident
dollar question as to what extent
With reference to the report “Smith, Warner, in a religious procession. remarks that “response will be fair-minded people will support
Bancrift Smithgate: He who hasn’t sinned....” Time to turn swords Union Minister Babul forwarded to you soon” but they Hazare this time even as they
by Harcharan Bains (April 15) into ploughshares Supriyo, tasked to expedite never respond unless you chase
Shameful and disgraceful are Communal strife stoked by the BJP’s growth in West Bengal, them. are prepared to take the bull by
small words to describe the Hindutva forces in different threatened “to skin the police As you know there are so the horns.
whole episode. Indeed, Australia parts of the country to be and TMC workers alive”. many types of charges out of Last time, the idea was novel
has become laughing stock politically relevant and active At the same time, the which certain are considered and captured the imagination of
in the cricket world. But it is is a matter of extreme and imam of a mosque who lost as mandatory but these differs the masses. But the initial wave
also noteworthy that Cricket extraordinary concern for all his teenage son to the clashes from Bank to Bank. For example, of support fizzled out. v. lakshmanan
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