Tag: Manmohan Singh

Punjab Govt rejects to hang Rajoana, Chandigarh court to hear on Rajoana’s execution today

rajoana 247x300 Punjab Govt rejects to hang Rajoana, Chandigarh court to hear on Rajoanas execution todayIn an interesting twist in the Balwant Singh Rajoana row, the chief minister of Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal said in Punjab Vidhan Sabha that the Punjab Government will not hang Rajoana.

Meanwhile, Balwant Singh Rajoana is a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) militant and was given death sentence on charges of assassinating former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh

On the other hand, a trial court in Chandigarh is likely to decide on the execution of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s co-assassin today.

The state Chief Minister said Punjab Govt will stand-with the SGPC petition seeking conversion of Balwant Singh Rajoana’s death sentence to a life term.

Reading his note in the house, Chief Minister Badal revealed the written as well as the House assembled for a debate on the Governor’s address. Eh further said in Vidhan Sabha that he would meet the President Pratibha Patil and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek their intervention to save Rajoana from the gallows. Read more

India offers to launch satellite for South Korea

Nuclear Summit2 India offers to launch satellite for South KoreaAs a move to boost the relations with South Korea, India has today announced that it is ready to launch a satellite for South Korea and invited its businesses to invest in the country, mostly in the communications sector.

Talking to media, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “I offered to launch Korean satellite on Indian space launch vehicle.”

The Indian PM was talking to media along with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak after bilateral talks.

Further, both the leaders showed their great interest as to boost the bilateral trade following the signing of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in 2011 and establishing a target of achieving USD 40 billion trade by 2015. Read more

Cabinet finally brings 7% hike in DA of government employees

ManmohanSingh 300x260 Cabinet finally brings 7% hike in DA of government employeesOver four million workers of central government will go home with a growth pay packet from now, as the union cabinet has yesterday announced a growth in the dearness allowance [DA] to 65 percent of the basic salary from the present 58 percent with immediate effect from 1 January 2012.

The growth of about 7 percent from the existing rates will also be applicable to central government pensioners.

Meanwhile, the hike in the DA will cost the central government an extra burden of Rs 7,474.53 crore per year, as per the decision taken at the cabinet meeting headed by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. Read more

Government lost Rs10.67 lakh crore by not auctioning coal

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) deals bad allegations indirectly that it was behind the leakage of the 110-page draft report of the coal ministry’s decision to approved 155 coal acreages without bidding for allocation of coal blocks between 2006 and 2009 that led to lose of Rs 10.67 lakh crore “revenues” to private and public firms.

Clarifying the denial report called “preliminary observations” that refused to be as per an initial draft, the CAG wrote a letter to the Prime Minister saying,” In the extant case the details being brought out were observations which are under discussion at a very preliminary stage and do not even constitute our pre-final draft and hence are exceedingly misleading…”

It said, the news report was “exceedingly misleading” and calling for investigation to know the source of the leak. Read more

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