Breaking News – Weekly Newsletter for March 1-7, 2011
National Food Security Bill to be introduced in Parliament
NEW DELHI - Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday announced that the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) will be introduced in the Parliament during the course of this year.
Presenting the Union Budget 2011-12 in the Lok Sabha, Mukherjee said that the government is close to finalization of this bill after detailed consultations with all ... Read more »».
Breaking News – Newsletter for March 3, 2011
2G scam: Sibal moves motion for JPC in Rajya Sabha
NEW DELHI - Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal moved a motion in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday for setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into 2G spectrum allocation.
There will be 30 members in the committee including 20 from Lok Sabha and ten from the Rajya Sabha.
Sibal said that the JPC will look .... Original article : 2G scam: Sibal moves motion for JPC in Rajya Sabha.
Breaking News – Newsletter for March 2, 2011
National School of Drama to get regional centres
NEW DELHI - Union Minister of Culture Kumari Selja Tuesday said her ministry was working on a proposal to set up five new regional centres of the prestigious National School of Drama (NSD) at Bengaluru and Kolkata and in Maharashtra/Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast.
The minister said the proposal to create the ... Read more : National School of Drama to get regional centres.
Breaking News – Newsletter for March 1, 2011
UK company claims it can 'grow diesel'
NEW DELHI - A Massachusetts company, Joule Unlimited, has claimed that it can produce diesel using the same ingredients that make grass grow.
A biotechnology company, based in Cambridge, has created a genetically engineered organism capable of producing diesel fuel or ethanol, which can be used to run cars and jet engines, reports English.news.cn.
The organism that .... Original article : UK company claims it can ‘grow diesel’.
Breaking News – Monthly Newsletter March 2011
Freed American female hiker summoned to Iran to stand trial over spying charges
TEHRAN - Sarah Shourd, An American woman who was released last year after spending 14 months in an Iranian jail, has been asked to stand trial in Tehran over spying charges.
Shourd and two American men were arrested by Iranian border guards in the country’s north in July 2009.
The BBC quoted Iran’s judiciary spokesman Gholam ... Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Freed American female hiker summoned to Iran to stand trial over spying charges.
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