Washington, Jan 31 – Pakistan has doubled its nuclear arsenal in the last several years and now has more than 100 deployed weapons, more than that of India, the Washington Post reported Monday. The Pakistanis have significantly accelerated production of uranium and plutonium for bombs and developed new weapons to deliver them, the influential US daily reported citing estimates by non-government analysts. After years of approximate weapons parity, Pakistan has now edged ahead of India, its nuclear-armed rival, experts cited by the Post said.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – India’s largest power generating company NTPC Limited Monday reported a marginal increase in its net profit for the third quarter of the current fiscal year, which stood at Rs.2,371.48 crore. ‘The unaudited Q3 PAT (profit after tax) of Rs.2,371.48 crore is also an improvement over unaudited PAT of Rs.2,364.98 crore declared over the corresponding quarter in the previous year,’ the company said in a statement. The company reported an increase of 12.53 percent in its net profit of Rs.2,371.48 crore in the third quarter as compared to Rs.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – Defence Minister A.K. Antony Monday said the government has taken serious note of clandestine activities of some Chinese nationals in India and the central agencies were conducting probes to get to the truth. ‘The central agencies are inquiring into the details (of alleged Chinese spies) and the government is taking the issue seriously.
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Gaya (Bihar), Jan 31 : Doctors and interns of Bihar went on an indefinite strike on Monday in protest against firing on medicos by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Surender Yadav’s bodyguards at Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital in Gaya on Sunday evening. The security guards of Surender Yadav fired at two doctors of the Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital, after a heated argument over the treatment of a patient belonging to Yadav’s family. Shubh Prakash Das, an injured doctor, told reporters on Sunday that the arguments between the junior doctors and Yadav’s supporters had heated up, and resulted in an altercation.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 : Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said appropriate action will be taken against all those held guilty as per the findings of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Adarsh Housing society scam. “The CBI has given the report to the Mumbai High Court. Let it come out, and let them give their official report to our ministry, and then we will examine the details.
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Kozhikode (Kerala), Jan 31 – Even as the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Kerala government examines if a re-investigation is required in the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex scandal case, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Monday dubbed the move as a conspiracy to malign the party. The case of sexual abuse of a minor girl, which involved former state industry minister and IUML leader P.K. Kunhalikutty, was closed by the courts in 2006.
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Gumla (Jharkhand), Jan 31 : Maoists set a bus on fire to mark the shutdown in Jharkhand’s Gumla District on Sunday. Tasleem Khan, the bus driver, told reporters that the road was blocked with stones, and the Maoists opened fire following which he stopped the bus. “When they fired at me, I stopped the bus.
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Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), Jan 31 – Twentyfive child labourers from Chhattisgarh were rescued here Monday and a man was arrested for forcing them to work at a brick kiln, police said. The child labourers – aged between 10-13 years – were rescued from the brick kiln in Adilpur village in a joint operation of the police and district officials. ‘Acting on information of an NGO, we raided the brick kiln and freed the children.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Right to Education Act which promises free and compulsory education to children between the age of six and 14, is in tune with the Gandhian philosophy, speakers at a conference on Child Rights from the Gandhian Perspective said Monday. Organised by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) in association with the NGO Aashiana, the conference was held to mark the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi which was on Jan 30. Oscar Fernandes, MP and chairman of the parliament’s standing committee on the human resource development ministry, said: ‘One of the core ideas of Mahatma Gandhi was that every child should get education, therefore the Right to Education is based on his philosophy’.
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