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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011



HEADLINES
  • UP NRHM scam cases registered by CBI
  • Former telecom minister Sukhram sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment
  • New Tatkal scheme from today – Booking day reduced to one day
NATIONAL NEWS
  • Black money : Pacts with 42 nations soon
    • India will sign agreements with 42 nations to bring back the black money stashed away abroad.
  • Brahmos hypersonic missile in five years.
    • Brahmos Aero space limited is on the job of making a hypersonic missle Brahmos that could travel at the speed of Mach 7
    • The present BrahMos travel at the speed of 2.8 – 3

  • Aadhar MGNREGA experiment launched in Ramagarh
    • The ministry of Rural development has launched it pilot project of linking payments under the MGNREGA with the Aadhar number.
    • The ministry has been forced to picking Ramgarh a left wing extremist affected area, for the pilot project as it
    • Connectivity is the biggest problem as there are about half a dozen gram panchyat that are not connected through wireless and as many as 65 of them lack WIMAX(Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access).

  • Gillard expresses Uranium sale with Manmohan
    • Australian PM has told Dr. Manmohan Singh that she will push for Australia lifting the ban on Uranium supplies to India.
BUSINESS/ECONOMY NEWS
  • Foreign exchange reserves decline to $314.339 billion
    • It has declined $326 million from the last weekend, the RBI release said.

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