Rising rupee is good for India. Vested interests are opposing the rise of the rupee. Exporters want a week rupee. Exporters have benefited over the years. The cost of dollar went up from 3.36 to 4.76 to 7.50 to 49.09 rupees. At the time importers suffered losses. No attention was paid to them. Now dollar…
Month: November 2007
Death penalty prevents murders
I received two comments for my article “UN General Assembly and death penalty”. The Writers questioned the source for my statement “Every death penalty for murder prevents three to eighteen murders.” The source is an Associated Press report dt. 11 June 2007 that can be accessed on www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19160965. The report points to a series of…
UN General Assembly and death penalty
It is bad that a committee of UN General Assembly voted in favour of a resolution for suspension of death penalty worldwide: 99 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 52 against and 33 abstained. European countries, mainly Italy, led the charge against death penalty. Murders take place all over Europe. Mafia is active in…
Thoughts on 10/11/2007
It is for the couples to decide when to have their first child. Couples generally prefer to have their first child within first year of marriage. Satara Zilla Parishad’s scheme asking couples to delay their first child for two to three years and offering Rs.5,000/- and Rs.7,500/- for staying childless for two and three years…
Pratibha Patil and death penalty
Pratibha Patil became the President of India on 25/7/2007. Since then three months have passed. There is no news of mercy petitions of murderers sentenced to death. K. R. Narayanan did not reject any mercy petition. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam rejected one mercy petition. In spite of Home Ministry’s decision to reject mercy petitions…