Jaitley says no to negotiations on Singapore issues – clarificatory process must continue More News
New climate prediction experiment for net users
LONDON -The UK Met Office's world renowned climate prediction model will soon be
used by Internet surfers around the world as part of new international climate experiment. climateprediction.net, launched today (Sept 12) at the London Science Museum and the BA Festival of Science in Salford, is an innovative project which aims to allow computer users anywhere in the world to participate in climate prediction work. More NewsPrice Stabilization Fund trust to help plantation sector growers becomes functional
The Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) set up by the government to alleviate the hardship faced by the growers of coffee, tea, rubber and tobacco due to continued low prices of these commodities and to safeguard the interests of the small growers of these commodities has become functional with effect from 11.9.2003 More News
Supreme Court Criticises Gujarat Govt for not punishing rioters:
New Delhi,Friday, September 12, 2003: In a scathing attack on the Gujarat Government for filing an "eye wash" of an appeal in the Best Bakery riot case, the Supreme Court today doubted the state government's intentions on punishing the guilty. In an unprecedented observation, the Supreme Counrt observed that the state government should quit if it cannot punish the rioters.
Flaring up after perusing the grounds of appeal filed in the High Court challenging acquittal of all the accused in the case, a Bench of Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice Brijesh Kumar and Justice S B Sinha questioned the "raj dharma" of the Narendra Modi Government.
"I have no faith left in the prosecution and the Gujarat Government. I am not saying Article 356. You have to protect people and punish the guilty. What else is raj dharma? You quit if you cannot prosecute the guilty," an anguished Chief Justice said.
The Bench then summoned the Chief Secretary of the State and the Director General of Police and directed them to be personally present before the Court on September 19 to answer as to "who has drafted such an appeal" to be filed before the Court. Additional Solicitor General Mukul Rohatgi appearing for the State Government said that it was not an earlier system in which the Chief Ministers depended on the mercy of others. "He is elected democratically". The Chief Justice shot back saying "democracy does not mean you will not prosecute anyone". -keralamonitor.com
Jaitley says no to negotiations on Singapore issues – clarificatory process must continue
New HRD Strategy for IT Development
The government has proposed to launch a new national programme for "Human Resource Development in Information Technology" and another on "Quality Text
Books" and "Technical Education". The programme for HRD in IT will have a bouquet
of several sub-programmes. These will form part of the new joint initiatives taken up
by the Centre for quality improvement in Technical Education, especially involving the
IITs. MoreMEDIA STATEMENT BY A GROUP OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ON
SINGAPORE ISSUESMinisters and representatives from 16 developing countries namely, Bangladesh (on
behalf of the Group of Least Developed Countries), Botswana, China, Cuba, Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Jamaica (on behalf of the Caribbean Community), Kenya, Malaysia,
Nigeria, the Philippines, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe met on 10
September, 2003 to discuss the Singapore issues viz., relationship between trade
and investment, interaction between trade and competition policy, transparency in
government procurement and trade facilitation.MoreNO INCREASE IN LPG AND KEROSENE PRICES THIS YEAR SUBSIDY PHASE OUT PERIOD EXTENDED TO 5 YEARS
The Cabinet, in its meeting of 11-09-2003, deliberated upon the issue of pricing of
PDS Kerosene and Domestic LPG and decided that the selling prices of these
products will not be increased by the oil marketing companies during the current
financial year More
