7 Indians On Death Row Languishing In Dubai Jail

As many as seven Indians are among 24 death row convicts who are currently languishing in Dubai’s jail with execution yet to be carried out,a media report said. Of the seven Indians, Paul George Nadar, now 64, who is in Central Jail since 1985, has become the longest-serving convict on death row in the Emirate. Like him, another Indian, Anil Motyati Adho, 38, has been in Dubai’s prison since 1999, the Gulf News publication ‘Xpress’ reported. In fact, Nadir’s case dates back to October 10, 1985, when he got into a fight with some people of Pakistani origin. The Indian carpenter, working for a firm, doused their shanty walls, in which two women and seven children were killed.

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HP To Get Another Tranche Of ADB Loan For Hydel Plants

Himachal Pradesh will soon get another tranche of a multimillion-dollar loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the construction of four hydropower generating plants in the northern Indian state, a senior official said here today. “ADB would soon release the second installment of $59.1 million under the Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Programme. An agreement to this regard was signed in New Delhi on Friday,” Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation (HPPCL) Managing Director Tarun Kapoor said here. He said the second tranche was part of the ADB’s sanctioned loan of $800 million. Earlier, the lender bank had sanctioned $150 million to HPPCL.

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CPI To PM: Don’t Table Biotech Bill In Parliament

Saying that the biotech Bill is all “wrong and retrogressive”, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautioning him not to introduce the “draconian” Bill in parliament. In the letter dated March 11, of which IANS has a copy, the party’s national secretary vehemently criticised the bill’s main proposal to set up the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) under the ambit of the Ministry of Science and Technology which has drafted the bill. “The Bill that is now available in public domain is extremely retrogressive and poses serious questions on the very intentions behind the drafting of such a bill....the proposed Bill is flawed in many fundamental ways and should not even be mooted from the ministry that has drafted it at present and should not be tabled in parliament,” Raja said in the letter.

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Security Forces Keep Vigil On Riot-Hit Bareilly; No Violence

BJP team led by Maneka Gandhi prevented by authorities from going to the city hit by communal violence

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Govt Likely To Rake In Rs 200 Crore As Taxes From IPL’s Third Edition

Break Up: Rs 100 cr each under direct (income tax) & indirect (service tax) categories

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CBI May Move SC On Sohrabuddin Case Again

The CBI may approach the Supreme Court for directions to the Gujarat government after it declined to give details of the killing of a man believed to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter. The CBI is mulling this move after it had approached the Gujarat government for details of the police encounter involving Tulsi Prajapati, an undertrial who was lodged at Udaipur jail. The premier investigating agency has been directed by the Supreme Court to investigate into the fake encounter in which Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi were killed in 2005.

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Engineering Goods’ Exports Begin To Look Up In Punjab

The economy is showing some positive signs in the engineering goods segment of Punjab, where the exports have grown by 7 to 11 per cent in the beginning of this calendar year. As per the information provided by the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC), Jalandhar, the export scenario is improving and new orders are being placed by the buyers. The EEPC is also organising direct buyer-seller meets in state in order to facilitate the exporters and positive results are coming out, said Opinder Singh, Assistant Director, Engineering Export Promotion Council. The international markets are now picking up and exporters from Punjab are also getting good response in the fairs and exhibitions being organised in other countries. The markets that are showing good response are Middle East, and Latin America, where the demand is for handtools, diesel engine pumps, auto parts and bicycle parts, he said.

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Maharashtra ATS Arrests 2 For Pak-Linked Terror Plot

The duo had conducted recce of three targets — ONGC headquarters, Thakkar Mall and Malgaldas Market — and were planning to carry out attacks

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