HEADLINES
- Yeddyurappa shifted to hospital for Jail after he fell sick
- Telengana bandh today against police excesses
- HISAR by poll results today
- Tamil Nadu gears up for local body elections
NATIONAL
NEWS
- India has seen the longest polio free period.
- Even though India is yet to be announced as a polio free county by the World Health Orgranisation, it is enjoying the longest polio free period. India has not seen a polio case for the last 220 days.
- Child labour act requires more teeth
- Nearly 20 years of campaigning against the child labour has only driven the practise underground (ie) The children in some villages near sivakasi are working from home.
- The factory owners cannot be blamed for this and the blame rests on the sub contractors.
- The powder causes nose bleeds, stomach pain, TB, and some hormonal problems for girls as well.
- Manmohan says the most burning issues of global concern will be on the IBSA table
- Prime minister Manmohan singh is attending the IBSA conference in South Africa. He will also have bilateral talks with the SA president Jacob Zuma and the Brazilian President Dilma Rousef
- The meeting will mainly concentrate on
- Global – political and social aspects of globalization
- South – South cooperation
- Intra ISBA trade
- Another important issue is to develop a largely common approach at meetings of Conference of parties under the UNFCC
- Japan Exempts India from ODA cuts
- Japan has confirmed the India will be exempted from the Overseas Development Assistance cuts which was enforced on other countries.
- India the highest receiver of Japanese ODA will thus maintain pole position.
- It means that despite the financial crises in europe and Japans own internal problems, the multi billion dollar Mumbai – Delhi corridor will remain on course.
- Officials are planning an India – US – Japan trilateral to focus on the maritime security issues in the south china sea.
- Minimum wages likely for NREGA workers
- The centre is likely to pay minimum wages to workers under the MGNREGA scheme.
- This is in compliance with the latest high court ruling that the Minimum wages should prevail over the MGNREGA wages.
- Earlier the PM has turned down the proposal of the NAC by linking NREGA wages to the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and delinking it with the minimum wages.
- The union minister of rural development also stressed on the minimum wages for the farm workers as notified by the states.
- He also said the wages would be revised annualy indexed to inflation and a full revision would be effected every five years in consultation with the states.
- The United States gravitational wave detection experiment looking at India as a possible sight
- The Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) has identified India as a potential site for locating its third inferometer.
- The GW research in India is coordinated by the Indian Initiative for Gravitational wave Observations (INDIGO).
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS
- World population to hit 7 billion.
- Protest's echo in London as anti capitalist movement started spreading to the european countries from America.
EDITORIALS,
OPINIONS & COLUMNS
- Spare a thought for Vaccines – an op-ed on vaccines and the policies surrounding them
- Editorial on the US's position and role in the current economic scenario
ECONOMY
& BUSINESS NEWS
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