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The road to e-vehicles
- Jharkhand CM announced: his government has introduced electric vehicles for official use.
- State government is taking the lead in switching to evehicles
- Climate change
- Fuel price
- “Clean mobility powered by clean energy is our most powerful weapon in our fight against climate change,” –Mr. Modi
- Public transport is integral to the future of mobility in India.
- 2030 target of India: all public vehicles and 30% private vehicles will be EVs
Tricky call ahead
- October 3-5: Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is set to meet
- Objective: to decide RBI’s policy stance
- U.S. Federal Reserve
- August 2018: Rupee depreciation, 12% plus.
- Friday: Brent futures closed at $82.73 a barrel
- Rate hike: compelling
- MPC: unequivocal inflation-targeting
- Food prices that, surprisingly, have remained benign, helping slow overall CPI inflation, could also start hardening once the impact of the higher payout on the minimum support price for kharif crops kicks in.
- September 23: the RBI issued a one-sentence press release that along with the capital markets regulator it was “closely monitoring” developments in the financial markets and they were ready to take “appropriate action”.
- Four days later, on September 27, it announced a relaxation in the Liquidity Coverage Ratio for banks in a move to soothe concerns about adequacy of liquidity.
- free up close to ₹2.5 lakh crore
In Parliament’s court
- Criminalization of politics: No political party is free of this problem.
- Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR): 179/543 MPs are facing some sort of criminal charges against them.
- 100 MPs: crimes against women and kidnapping
- In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court has left it to Parliament to legislate on the subject.
- SC recommended that Parliament: to make it difficult for tainted and criminal minded people to entre public life.
- However, the court made it mandatory for political parties and candidates themselves to make public disclosure through print and electronic media. Election Commission Parliament Public opinion
Gandhi: a fox or a hedgehog?
- Opinions and views about his person and his nonviolent technique of struggle remain deeply divided.
- In the minds of people around the world, Gandhi represents two different and contradictory characters.
- This is the man Albert Einstein lauded as “a leader of his people, unsupported by any outward authority, a politician whose success rests not upon
craft nor the mastery of technical devices, but simply on the convincing power of his personality.”
- The second Gandhi is the Ashramic Gandhi who is more of a mystic than a politician, who used fasting as a method of struggle, and who Rabindranath Tagore considered as the “Mahatma”, the “Great Soul”.
- Gandhi claimed that his life was his message, simply because he extended his practice of satyagraha to all walks of life.
- Gandhi was a dialogical thinker who was open to other horizons of thinking.
- He also believed that all religious traditions are an unstable mixture of truth and error.
- Finally, he encouraged inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue, so that individuals could see their faith and culture in a comparative and critical reflection of the other.
- For both Gandhi and Tolstoy, it was clear that neither society nor the individual can live without a moral vision of the world.
- As a dreamer who looked for a harmonious universe, Gandhi was a hedgehog, but as a pragmatist who had a devastating sense of reality, he was a fox who knew many things about the insane world of human beings filled with hatred, revenge, greed for power and violence.
Important News
- Quest for peace not at the cost of self-respect:PM
- India chases away Pakistan copter breaching airspace
- Indonesia tsunami toll rises to 832
- earthquake and tsunami
- New CEA to be appointed only after poll
- “We issued the advertisement for the post of CEA about three months ago, and since then we have not received the number of applications we were expecting,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
- S-400, Kamov on the agenda of Modi, Putin
- The big focus during Mr. Putin’s visit on October 4-5 is the proposed ₹39,000-crore deal for five S-400 air defence systems as the prospect of U.S. sanctions looms large with U.S. officials warning against it.
- Abdul Gayoom freed on bail
- Maldives ex-President was serving a 19-month prison
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