Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

HEADLINES:

• ·         Further consultations needed for Telengana says Pranab Mukerjee
• ·         CVC, CBI against disturbing the present set up.
• ·         Bhatt arrest a warning in the Zakia case says the rights organisation.

NATIONAL NEWS:

• ·         Kakodhar for research parks in Varsities.

·         Former atomic energy commission chairman Anil Kakodhar has called for the presence of research parks and laboratories in the university campuses

• ·         Can MCOCA(Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act) be slapped on  Hasan Ali?

·         A special MCOCA court has directed the Mumbai commissioner to investigate whether there is any ground on which the act could be slapped on Hasan Ali.

• ·         Technical Managerial hands to be inducted in LWE (Left Wing Extremist) districts.

·         Union government has decided to induct in the 60 terrorism hit districts, technical and managerial hands to bridge the trust, governance and developmental deficits.

·          A new post and three person will be appointed in each of the 60 districts.

·         They will comprise mostly of personalities from educational and social institutions.

·         Also, legal assistance to be provided to the tribals help in the land dispute cases.

• ·         T.M Krishna to perform in northern Sri Lanka

·         Indian effort to reach out to people of the war ravaged region through carnatic music.

·         He will perform a series of concerts in the war torn districts of Jaffna, Kilinochi and Vavuniya.

• ·         Hopes fading on finding God particle

·         The hopes of detecting the God particle were fading after the closure of the National Fermi’s Laboratory Tevatron near Chicago says D.G Birla science centre.

·         This particle is called God particle because it was thought to endow mass to all the other particles in the universe.

·         It is also called as higgs boson after the british scientist who originally conceived the idea Peter higgs.

• ·         Manmohan for reinforcing maritime security

·         Incidents of piracy and armed robbery against our ships are an area of serious concern : PM

·         Government has set up National Transport Development Policy under Rakesh Mohan to provide useful suggestions on seamless integration of various modes of transport.

• ·         A must read article on Gandhi and his views on Environment and biodiversity

• ·         Illegal quarrying threatens wildlife in Bandipur.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• ·         Death for Salman Taseer’s assassin

·         An anti terrorism court has handed over death sentence to the murderer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer.

• ·         TULF(Tamil nadu United Liberation Front) wants new land registration scheme scrapped.

·         They claim that the process is flawed and would leave most of the Tamils landless.

·         Have appealed to the President to intervene.

ECONOMY and BUSINESS NEWS

• ·         Strike ends in Maruthi Suzuki plant in Manesar.

·         MSIL to take back suspended 18 employees.

·         Workers have agreed to sign a good conduct bond.

SPORTS

• ·         Sports science institute to be based on the Chinese model.

·         A national institute of sport science will be set up at the Nehru stadium by the union sports ministry.

·         First it will be set up as a society and then will be converted in to a institute of national importance.

·         A hockey institute is to be set up in the Major Dhyan chand stadium  by SAI (Sports Authority of India)

• ·         Minister welcomes IOA ‘s initiative

·         The IOA (Indian Olympic Association)has taken a decision to resolve the hockey issue between Hockey India (HI) and Indian Hockey Federation(IHF)