Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

HEADLINES

• Yeddyurappa bail plea hearing adjourned. Will celebrate diwali in Jail.
• Amar Singh gets bail, but Kanimozhi's bail plea adjourned though the prosecution did not oppose bail
• CBI examines BSNL records on Maran's exchange.

NATIONAL NEWS

• Union cabinet to take up company bill.
  • It will help in developing a strong corporate governance practice that is responsible to the business of the world and responsible to the society says veerapa Moily.
  • India is ranked 163^rd in the corporate governance rating index

• Modi accepts China invitation
  • To visit China for strengthening investment relationship
  • To discuss the possiblities of HUAWEI, China's biggest telecom firm, investing in Gujarat.
  • Planning a Gautama Buddha circuit to attract tourism in Gujarat
    
    
• India spending feverishly on health care.
  • A new study on out of pocket expenditure in the health sector has revealed a four fold increase in hospitalized care and two fold increase in non hospitalized care.
  • The survey was done in Rajastan, Assam, Jharkand, Uttrakand and Tamil nadu.
  • India has the 42^nd highest out of pocket expenditure in the world.
  • The extremely high expenses has a lot of negative consequence with a large number of patients not seeking treatment at all or preferring unqualified people
    
    
• Job's for three lakh youths in Naxal hit areas.
  • Apart from appointing 18,000 panchayat officers and as many junior engineers, the central government has drawn a blue print to provide 3 lakh jobs in the 60 Naxal affected districts.
  • This is a part of the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for those districts.
  • For better implementation of the MGNREGS, each panchayat will be appointed with a Panchayat development officer and a Junior engineer for a period of 10 years.
  • The cost will be shared in the 75:25 ration between the centre and the states.

• India leads in rotavirus infection deaths :Lancet
  • Nearly one lakh people die of rotavirus infection accounting to almost 22% of the total deaths reported.
  • Five countries (India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Congo, Nigeria account to more than half of the total deaths.

• Health minister suggests setting up a GOM for Japanese encephalities.
  • Acute encephalities Syndrome (AES) can be addressed only through a multi pronged approach and need interventions from ministries of drinking water and sanitation, Social Justice and empowerment, and women and child development.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• The Democratic People's republic of Korea (DPRK) and the US start talks in Geneva
  • The closed door talks focuses on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

• Moderate Islamists lead in Tunisia.
  • Moderate Islamist leader Ennahda leads in Tunisia's first democratic elections since the end of the french colonial rule.
  • More that 90% of the registered voters have voted.

EDITORIALS, OPINIONS AND COLUMNS

• A brilliant write up on CAG and its allegations of overreach.
• Editorial on Encephalities
• India's new approach to Nepal – An editorial

ECONOMY & BUSINESS NEWS

• The top Indian IT companies likely to maintain their investment grade ratings even if demand weakens according to standard & poor's Ratings services report.
  
  
• Foreign airlines may be allowed to pick up stake in domestic carriers.
  • In a bid to liberalize the skies, the commerce and industry ministry has floated a draft for inter ministerial consultations, to increase the foreign investment in the Indian domestic carriers to 26%.
    
    
• Cabinet to consider manufacturing policy today.
  • The proposed national manufacturing policy will come up for consideration and approval before the cabinet today.
  • The new policy aims at developing mega industrial zones with world class infrastructure and flexibility in labour and environmental laws.

People in News

• The only authorized biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson released.
• Indian American Bobby Jindal reelected as the governor of California