New Delhi, Jan 31 – The V.K. Shunglu committee, probing financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games, Monday submitted an interim report on alleged irregularities in awarding of broadcasting rights during the Oct 3-14 Games held last year. The panel submitted the interim report to the Prime Minister’s Office, official sources said.
Chennai, Jan 31 – The leather industry is one of the engines of India’s economic growth with 75 percent of the industry output contributed by micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector. Inaugurating the 26th India International Leather Fair (IILF) here Monday, union Minister for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Vir Bhadra Singh, said: ‘The MSME sector contributes 40 percent of the country’s exports. It would continue to play a major role in the future also providing majority of the employment opportunity.’ He assured the leather exporters that the government would do what ever the industry requires for growth.
Colombo, Jan 31 – Two Sri Lankan fishermen were killed and three taken hostage by Somali pirates after their vessel went adrift, the ministry of fisheries said Monday. The fishermen clashed with the pirates Jan 27, about two weeks after leaving port to fish off the south coast of Sri Lanka, according to information received by the ministry. A ministry spokesman said the men’s family members had been informed, and diplomatic efforts were under way to trace the hostages.
Kochi, Jan 31 – India Monday said it was ‘closely’ monitoring the situation in Egypt but sees the developments there as an internal matter of that country. ‘We are closely monitoring the situation. The view of government of India is that developments in Egypt are an internal matter of that country,’ External Affairs Minister S.
New Delhi, Jan 31 – A man who cheated people using ATMs by withdrawing money from their cards on the pretext of ‘securely locking their accounts’ has been arrested, police said Monday. Paras Luthra, 30, was present in an ATM centre in Adarsh Nagar in west Delhi. A couple after completing the transaction was on their way out when Luthra warned them that they had not locked their account properly.
New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Delhi Police Monday registered a case accusing a junior resident doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences of molesting an eight-year-old boy who had come to the hospital for treatment, an official said. The FIR has been filed on the basis of a complaint registered by the boy’s father. The First Information Report has been filed under sections 377 (unnatural offence), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 511 (attempting to commit offence punishable with life imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code.
New Delhi, Jan 31 – With Egypt plunging into political turmoil, British Navy Chief and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope Monday said all sea-faring nations should worry about the fate of the Suez Canal through which a majority of the world’s trade passes. ‘It (Suez Canal) is a really significant issue. We as military men and anybody worth their salt should be talking about it.
New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday called upon the US authorities to remove the radio tagging monitors of Indian students who had been defrauded by a ‘sham’ university in San Francisco and said that the officials responsible for this ‘inhuman treatment’ should be punished. In a memorandum to the US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer, activists of the party’s human rights cell said the US State Department should take lenient view because the students were innocent and were not at fault.
New Delhi, Jan 31 – Two of India’s top state-run oil and gas companies, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), will be without a permanent chief from Tuesday, with the government only giving additional charge for three months to senior officials succeeding them. Both IOC Chairman B.M. Bansal and ONGC Chairman R.S.
It has workforce strength of 20 correspondents, reporters and stringers spread all across the country. A motivated workforce of 25 personnel is associated with the company.
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