Retirement at 60 means a relaxed life for most people. Not so for 70-year-old P Mukundan, managing director of Servals Automation Pvt Ltd, though. He did retire from his busy business life at 60 but chose to become a social entrepreneur after that. He started a social enterprise that is 'for-profit' but that touches the lives of those who live in rural areas all over the world. In 2002, Mukundan started manufacturing...
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Blood on the Internet by Latha Jishnu
Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped? It’s a bit of Iraq and Afghanistan out there on the Internet. Just like the invasion of Iraq was lies, deceit and regime change as George W Bush chased illusory weapons of mass destruction in that hapless country, on the Internet, too, there is an element of fabrication and duplicity...
More »Food inflation eases to 7.78%
-The Times of India Food inflation eased to a six-week low on the back of improved supplies of vegetables and pulses in mid-June but fuel inflation inched up sustaining the price pressures on the economy. Data released by the commerce ministry showed that food inflation slowed to 7.78% in the week to June 18, declining from the previous week's 9.13%. Food inflation has been volatile in the past few months...
More »Arvind Kejriwal, a member of the joint drafting committee for the Lokpal Bill, interviewed by Thufail PT
Arvind Kejriwal, a member of the joint drafting committee for the Lokpal Bill, is disappointed at the way the government has treated the suggestions made by the civil society for the new Lokpal Bill. In an interview with Thufail PT, he talks about the future of the campaign, the charges of the right-wing bias in the campaign and why it is okay to take funds from corporates for such campaigns....
More »Delhi Lokayukta is waiting for CWG Organising Committee to settle a bill by Sobhana K
Among the people who are waiting for the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) to settle their accounts is the Delhi Lokayukta, Justice Manmohan Sarin. Justice Sarin and the OC are in a dispute over the security deposit for a house in Panchsheel Enclave that he had rented out to accommodate foreign delegates. Justice Sarin has not returned Rs 5.36 lakh out of the refundable security deposit of Rs 8.25 lakh to the...
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