Explained: Why is Chennai under water?

It is not "could be man made". It is "100% man made".

Explained: Why Is Chennai Under Water? #ChennaiRains
Posted by Indian Express on Friday, December 4, 2015

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Wanna get a gas connection in Bangalore?

I am basically from Bangalore but did not had gas connection till now due to non-availability of proper place to keep one. Now, I have moved to new house in Jayanagar and want to get a gas connection. Since, ration card is mandatory and had old address in ration card, government gas agency did not gave me gas connection. So, I got the address changed in ration card and got a new one after 2 months of process from chamrajpet food department. Now, when I approached Indane gas agency (Thilaknagar), they told a new process which they initially did not tell me:-
1. Person on whose name the Ration card has been issued should come to their office
2. After paying the fee, they will give some number (connection no.)
3. We should then go to Food department with that number and get it printed on to ration card -> which inturn means canceling the just got ration card and get a new one again
4. Then, provide the zerox of that new ration card to Indane gas agency
5. and next day the gas will be in the house

The service and response of that gas agency and Food Department is good. I was astonished to find such a service in a government office (food dept.). Usually our perception over a government office will be non-cooperative, rude, tortoise's progress, lazy and finally not people(citizen's) friendly.

Lead India - Critics

Lead India – an initiative by TOI.

A quite good initiative by Times of India (TOI), called Lead India to create a true leader and politician. I was very much inspired by it. It is a very unique, quite inspiring and thought provoking initiative. This was my opinion before and at the beginning of the program.

But, as the program started few things made me really upset. Some of those that I am going to mention here have been stressed by TOI itself in its newspaper once upon a time. But, now they are doing the same mistake which they identified in the existing system.

1. To select the candidates, they asked the people to vote through sms. They came up with code for each candidate so that sms votes can be grouped among the respective candidates. But, SADLY they did not provided the option to vote NO BODY. Yes, I meant "NO BODY". It represents that a person who wants to vote did not like any of the candidates.
   
   This will show us the weightage of the candidatures among the public, selected to contend in the program.
   
   If vote for "NO BODY" is more than the votes voted for individuals candidates, then all the candidates have to be dropped of the program and a new set of candidates have to be picked up again.