NATIONAL
Centre seeks Rs. 41,000 crore more to recapitalise banks
The government on Thursday moved a proposal in Parliament for an additional Rs. 41,000 crore to recapitalise public sector banks, over and above the already budgeted Rs. 65,000 crore, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told a press conference.
Indigenous gun trials of Army to enter next stage by June
The development of the indigenously-designed heavy artillery gun, the Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS), has advanced to a stage where user-assisted trials of the gun are likely to start by June and the Army has begun finalising the Preliminary Specifications Qualitative Requirements (PSQR), a defence official said.
India rejects Pakistan’s claim over Jinnah House
India rejected Pakistan’s claim of ownership of the Jinnah House in on Malabar Hill in Mumbai was designed by architect Claude Batley in European style and Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah lived there in the late 1930s
All computers now under govt. watch
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an order authorising 10 Central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer.”
INTERNATIONAL
China’s Pak. investments take a military turn
the Pakistani Air Force and Chinese officials were putting the final touches on a secret proposal to expand Pakistan’s building of Chinese military jets, weaponry and other hardware.
N. Korea seeks removal of ‘all nuclear threats’
North Korea said on Thursday that its commitment to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula was bound up with a “complete removal of U.S. nuclear threats”. “[D]enuclearisation... means the removal of all nuclear threats — not only those from the North and the South but those aiming at the Korean peninsula from surrounding areas”, it said.AFP
BUSINESS
Now, China looks to India as key market
As its trade war with the U.S. intensifies, China has started looking at India as a major market to sell its products and machinery
COMMENTS