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LIC’s ‘investments’
The Washington Post has reported that the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) invested wealth successful an concern radical successful India. If the LIC is assured that the allegations made are malicious, wherefore cannot it initiate ineligible action?
The LIC and the cardinal authorities beryllium the federation a convincing explanation, with a achromatic paper, connected each the investments made by nationalist assemblage companies, peculiarly the LIC.
Tharcius S. Fernando,
Chennai
The functional autonomy of nationalist assemblage undertakings has been nether a unreality owed to the cognition of interference by the government, particularly successful the past decade. Hence, it does not travel arsenic a astonishment that determination are reports of the ‘disturbing misuse’ of the LIC’s funds. It is troubling that the authorities appears to beryllium extending undue favour to a concern radical which is connected the radar of overseas agencies for assorted irregularities.
J. Anantha Padmanabhan,
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu
I americium definite that the LIC, with decades of concern absorption experience, would person regulator-mandated and committee approved risk-management policies. The large question is whether these hazard policies licence the LIC to beryllium the sole subscriber oregon adjacent the sole underwriter of issues.
There appears to beryllium systemic nonaccomplishment successful prudent governance by the Life Insurance Corporation of India and its regulators.
Sushil Prasad,
Hyderabad
There is an inescapable decision that an orchestrated run seems to beryllium connected to destabilise India’s robust system and to defame a prestigious instauration similar the LIC.
Seshagiri Row Karry,
Hyderabad
Safer driving
The remark made by a elder constabulary official, successful the ongoing probe into the Kurnool autobus tragedy, that “drunk drivers are terrorists”, underscores a harsh information — that drink-driving is not a mistake but a preventable crime.
There needs to beryllium accordant enforcement — regular intoxicant testing, swift licence suspension, and strict penalties for offenders on with beardown nationalist consciousness campaigns that dainty drink-driving arsenic a societal crime, and not a idiosyncratic lapse. Only steadfast laws and liable behaviour tin halt the needless nonaccomplishment of lives connected India’s roads.
As’ad Kabir Nagari,
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
A bequest successful advertising
Piyush Pandey, the originative genius down Ogilvy India, leaves a bequest that reshaped Indian advertising. He told stories that captured India’s psyche and his campaigns were vignettes of our lives, blending humour, heart, and taste truth.
In an epoch of algorithms, helium has reminded america that storytelling is an art.
Shreyan Kumar Mishra,
Kolkata
