Tejinder Singh Bedi

I witnessed five generations of motherhood, from my great grandmother to my wife and daughter. I know being a mother and running a home is a true test of individual skills and team spirit.

It will fight both pollution and congestion on roads.

Beware of banks.

It must also help officials move into the private sector with ease.

The issue drives a stake through the very heart of our democracy.

Occupational safety needs to consolidate parallel, overriding or conflicting provisions under various legislations.

With coalition politics here to stay, it is important to ensure the office is not misused for making and breaking holy and unholy alliances.

An 80-90 per cent deficit in the recovery of bad loans for four years straight highlights connivance between banks and some 'preferred customers'.

It's time we realise that fasts, whether indefinite or symbolic, have to give way to better forms of protests.

Such ornamental changes would actually work only if the status of women is strengthened in the first place.

All bank deposits above Rs 50,000 have since long required PAN card details, and even then failed to control the growth of black money.

It is strange that even 70 years after Independence we are continuing to live with such loopholes in laws.

Not all well-meaning citizens will appreciate the social activist's repeated indefinite hunger strikes.

It's not a subsidy, as the apex court observed.

The first step should be to cover the entire workforce of the construction sector under the provisions of the Employees State Insurance Act.

The finance ministry should ensure that smaller frauds too are detected to make the banking system secure.

Apex court has ruled that passive euthanasia is permissible with guidelines.

Projects that are identified as delayed or headed for cost escalation should be reprioritised and pushed for early completion.

We are still far behind both China and the US in absolute terms and constant bank frauds need urgent fixing.

The basic aim of this exercise should be to eliminate the 'ease of doing embezzlements' by the corrupt and the corruptible.

Names of all wilful defaulters must be made public by all the banks to stop them from duping other private lending agencies.

Political parties must come together to devise ways to build a transparent system to ensure the use of black money in elections is stopped.

It is now 15 months since every penny due to him as pensionary benefit has failed to reach his account.

Let's examine the tax benefits that the elderly actually got in the 2018 Budget.

The interest of senior citizens, however, does not seem to have been addressed holistically.

Faster growth, creation of jobs and doubling farmers' income by 2022 are areas awaiting government action.

The glaring inequalities have existed for centuries and a government which has just come to power can't wish it away overnight.

Interest rates on saving schemes such as the Public Provident Fund and Kisan Vikas Patra have been falling consistently.

According to Central Statistical Organisation data, economic growth is expected to slow down to 6.5 per cent in 2017-18.

It is strange that the judiciary tasked with protecting citizens' right fears a violation of its own rights.