Wednesday, Nov 23rd, 2011

HEADLINES

• Left, Bjp moves UPA on tenterhooks as parliament is adjourned
• Rupee touches all time low.
• Chidambaram guiltier than Raja says Swamy

NATIONAL NEWS

• India looks to Buddhism to boost flagging China tourism
  • Indian Government has launched a tourism campaign targeting the world's fastest growing Buddhist population with a direct salest pitch “Visit India and reconnect with your faith”.
  • India has so far failed to grab a slice of the thriving Chinese tourism industry which is said to $40 billion every year
  • India is promoting the Buddhist circuit train which covers several pilgrimage sites in north India.

• More needs to be done to check inflation – Pranab
  • The centre admitted that more needs to be done to bring the Inflation down to 6-7% by march end.
  • He attributed the price rice to the demand – supply mismatch, the depreciating rupee, and the easy monetory policies followed by some countries.
    
    
• Special courts mooted to try cases of damage to public property
  • The supreme court has indicated that it may ask the centre to set up special courts to try cases of damage to public property in agitations.
  • These special courts will be asked to dispose of the cases in three months
  • The supreme court bench has given government three weeks time to come up with concrete suggestions for preventing rail roko agitations and resultant damage to railway property
    
    
• Telecom honchos seeks PM intervention on 3G issue
  • The three leading mobile companies demanded refund of spectrum auction payments if roaming is disallowed by the doT
  • The three companies allege breach of contract by the government in the Intra circle roaming which is now deemed impossible

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Millitary has its way; Haqqani quits over memogate
  
  
• Russian war ships in Syrian waters
  • The rift between Russia and the west widened as Russia has sent warships to syrian shores in order to show support to the regime of president Bashar Al Assad and slammed new US sanctions against Iran.

EDITORIALS, OPINIONS AND COLUMNS

• An op-ed on the educational system
• An editorial on the latest Opera findings of the new neutrino particle and the controversies surrounding it.
• An opinion on a rare isotope that helps to track an ancient water source

BUSINESS/ECONOMY NEWS

• India to launch maiden bid round for shale gas exploration
  • India will launch its maiden bid round for exploration of shale gas during XII plan to meet its rising energy needs.
  • Shale gas or natural gas is trapped in sedimentary rocks beneath earth surface