Popular posts
- Travel India Saputara - abode of the Snakes
- Travel India Dalchini (Cinnamon)
- Travel India Pudina (Mint)
- Travel India Kesar (Saffron)
- Travel India Ganpatipule
- Travel India Kolhapur
- Travel India Sariska Tiger Reserve
- Indian Cheetah
- Digha
- Travel India Sunderban - Journey to nowhere
Powered by FireStatsFireStats
- Pages displayed : 109214
- Unique visitors : 26711
- Pages displayed in last 24 hours : 162
- Unique visitors in last 24 hours : 95
Powered by FireStats
Haryana ex-DGP S P S Rathore Convicted
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Bureaucracy, Current Issues, Insensitive, Miscarriage of Justice, Public Issues, Supreme Court
It took the legal system 19 years and 400 hearings
to convict and sentence the former DGP to 6
months imprisonment and fine of Rs. 1000 for
molesting a teen……..who was driven to commit
suicide
S S Rathore, (who retired as Director General of Police, Haryana) then a senior police officer and President of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association molested Ruchika Girhotra, a 14-year-old tennis player in August 1990. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (2)
read comments (2)Flamingoes in Mumbai - December 2009
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Birds, Conservation, Endangered Species, Forests, Islands and Beaches, Mangrove Forests, Nature, Travel India, Wildlife
After the monsoons, Flamingoes - the lesser and the greater ones - and a lot of other migratory birds come to the coastal mudflats of India from the North.They feed on the mudflats during the next five or six months and return to their homelands in April or so.
They also come to Sewree in Central Mumbai in large numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
Justice Dinakaran - Strange Case of
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Current Issues, Legal Dilemma, Public Issues, Supreme Court
The appointment of Chief Judges of different High Courts of India and Judges of the Supreme Court is made by the President of India (read Home Ministry) on the recommendation of a collegium of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India.
In August 2009, the collegium comprising K.G. Balakrishnan, Chief Justice of India, Justice B.N. Agrawal, Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Altamas Kabir, recommended the names of Justice P.D. Dinakaran, Read the rest of this entry »
the most popular week end get away
for Kolkatians (Calcuttans)
In 1780, in one of his letters to his wife, Warren Hasting wrote about Digha as the “Brighton of the East”.
Indian Cheetah
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Conservation, Current Issues, Endangered Species, Public Issues, Wildlife, national parks
Reintroduction in India
The Cheetah is the fastest land animal on earth.
The word “cheetah” is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘chitraka’, meaning “speckled”.
Asiatic Cheetah
Delhi High Court Rules Gay Sex is Legal
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Public Issues
Land Mark Judgement in favour of the gays
Capital Punishment
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Miscarriage of Justice, Public Issues
Bandra-Worli Sea Link (Mumbai)
Posted by Binoy Gupta in Public Issues
Panna National Reserve was created in 1981 (from the former Gangau Wildlife Sanctuary created in 1975).
It was upgraded to a Project Tiger Reserve in 1994 - the 22nd in the country.
The Reserve forests and some protected forests in Chhatarpur district were the hunting preserves of the erstwhile rulers of princely states of Panna, Chhatarpur and Bijawar.
The official figures of tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve were as follows:
| 1993 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
|
| |
|||||
| |
23 |
| |
22-27 |
| |
23-28 |
| |
22-24 |
| |
21 |
Around that time, a field researcher submitted a report that some 23 tigers had died or gone amissing in the Panna Tiger Reserve over the past two-and-a-half years.
The Director, Tiger Project, Govt. of India, New Delhi poo poohed the report and insisted there were 32 tigers.
In June 2009, Madhya Pradesh Congress demanded formation of an all-party MLAs
committee to probe into the reason behind the disappearance of the big cats from the reserve.
The same month Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, said the government will fix accountability for the exaggerated projection of the tiger population in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna forest reserve.
What is needed is not enquiry by expert or in-expert committees, but fixing of responsibility.
How is it possible that the officials in charge of the Panna Reserve were not aware of the vanishing tigers?
They should have been the first to point this out.
And how could the Director sitting in his cosy office in Delhi discredit a researcher’s findings instead of trying to ascertain the facts.
Responsibility should be fixed and stringent action should be taken fast.