Air conditioned buses for labourers

T here has to be a law that forces contracting companies to provide air conditioned buses for the labourers they transport! This is heartbreaking, honestly. There are around 60 to 70 people on those big buses and the poor men who work outside in this heat then have to get on a steaming hot bus. Even though they don’t work for two hours in the afternoon, the humidity is unbearable. They should at least provide decent air conditioning in their transportation. From Mr Anas Kamel Dubai

Still watching the screen

I n technology, Japan has reached its highest peak and is producing the last video cassette recorder (VCR) (Poll analysis: How do you watch movies?’, Gulf News, July 24). Before VCR production, the video cassette player (VCP) had a good market in the world, but people started using the VCR when it took the market with huge demand for it. The developments in technology have forced us to bring in new products and the whole world is now throwing away the old stuff.

Of course, everyone is crazy for new products and buying the latest. At a later stage, the DVD replaced the VCR. Without buying or getting cassettes on daily or monthly rent, you couldn’t imagine watching a movie without going to the cinema.

I have used all of the above products and still I have all the products here as well as in my home country. Every day I used to watch a movie and every week I used to go to the cinema.

Now I have stopped watching movies and replaced it with television series on various channels. I prefer to watch old movies since old ones have some sort of standard. That crazy appeal I used to have for watching movies has diminished, but I’m still sitting in front of a television. From Mr Thottikamath Balaraman Dubai

Stopping the fraud

T he authorities have been aware of this criminal offence for a while and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is on track with eliminating the risk (‘Beware of odometer rollback in used cars’, Gulf News, July 24). I have seen them write on the passing paper the number kilometres, and so it’s not possible to roll back from that number. They are doing a wonderful job, they are always ahead

when this fraud begins to happen and they simply don’t pass the vehicle. From Mr Praveen Krishnan Dubai Facebook comment

Inspections help

E very year when a car comes in for the annual inspection the odometer reading must be filed and also the oil change history since there is a chance of manipulation between the 12-month periods. The data is being updated to the RTA website. From Mr C. I. UAE Facebook comment

Happened to me!

I t happened to me when I bought a 2011 hatchback with 40,000km on it. After six months, I went to the dealership for servicing and they said the car, according to their system, already passed 90,000km when it was last serviced. They asked why it’s 60,000km now. I explained that when I bought the car it was at 40,000km and they told me that the previous owner must have reversed the odometer. Now the person I bought the car from is nowhere to be found. From Mr Gohar Aziz Dubai Facebook comment

Disrespectful taxi drivers

T axi services play a major role in the lives of many as they provide transportation to those who don’t have access to it. The worst part is that some taxi drivers have no patience and respect for the passengers. I have one such story that I would like to share.

Once when I got into a taxi to go to some place in Sharjah with my brother, the driver was mean and angry with us. The reason why he was angry with us was because he missed a roundabout. I didn’t understand why he was angry with us for this! He started tapping the brakes and beating the steering wheel very hard, and I feared the car was about to crash.

The driver’s behaviour filled us with rage and we got out of the taxi and went back to our home walking.

We reported the incident to my mum, and I told her the driver’s name and his taxi code. She called the taxi call centre to complain about this incident and, to my surprise, they did nothing about this, and they didn’t take this matter that seriously.

Taxi drivers should be given proper training to deal with the passengers, and they should be disciplined and should have respect towards the passengers. From Mr Austin Prakash UAE

Creating a ruckus

T he incident of assaulting four lower caste youths in the Indian state of Gujarat, followed by a strike and agitations are some of the latest developments in India (‘Ruckus in Indian parliament over Dalit flogging case’, Gulf News, July 21). Opposition parties and the old Congress party are blaming the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government for their late police action against this incident only after media exposed it on video.

However, this incident is a highly condemnable one. The acts of the Dalits killing the cow and the people having taken the law in to their hands are both unacceptable.

Suppression of the lower caste and Dalits is still a big issue in India. This is mainly due to lack of humanitarianism. When will this change? From Mr K. Ragavan Bengaluru, India

Difficult to cope

T he housing rents and school fees in Abu Dhabi should be decreased. It is really difficult to cope with our income unchanged. From Mr M. A. Mannan Abu Dhabi

Terrorist’s terror

I slamic terrorist groups may have different names, but they all have one aim - to spread terror among people under the guise of faith, of Islam. They want to spread fear among people, they are not portraying a religion, but instead defaming it. It’s not about faith, it’s about

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power and terror. It’s common sense that religion doesn’t permit us to kill any innocent human beings. How can they say that they are following the religion of Islam when they are killing their own Muslim brothers and sisters? Aren’t the attacks in Muslim countries like Syria, Libya and the attack in the second holiest place Madina is enough to believe that terrorism has no religious basis?

I have read that if a person kills another person, two people die — the victim and the humanity inside the killer. These terrorists have killed thousands of people, how can we call them humans? I feel sad for the Muslim community because of the terrorists the religion is taken in the wrong way.

However, Islam represents harmony, peace and love. From Ms Omnya Mohammad Izzeldin UAE

Islam misinterpreted!

I slam is being hijacked by the terrorist group Daesh. Stop the hijacking, it leads to Islam’s reputation being misinterpreted. We need to call out an ‘S.O.S.’ to the heads of the Muslim majority countries in the world.

Caring two hoots about the sanctity of neither the Mosque of the Prophet [PBUH] in Madina or for the month of Ramadan, the members of the so-called Muslim outfit named Daesh perpetrated a heinous unpardonable crime some time back by detonating bombs.

Where cruelty is bliss, it is folly to be soft! I most humbly and respectfully appeal to the heads of those Muslimmajority countries in the world to wake up, unite and devise a way and means of crushing the aforesaid human serpents. From Mr S. M. Pasha Chennai, India

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