1. Parliament today gave its seal of approval to the National Highways Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2012 with the Lok Sabha agreeing to amendments suggested by the Rajya Sabha.
2. After nearly a gap of three years, India and Japan will resume their negotiations on the civil nuclear pact tomorrow in Tokyo.
3. New murder charges have been registered against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. The latest charge relates to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, during the eight-day siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque in 2007.
4. India and South Korea have decided to further expand and deepen the Strategic Partnership and agreed to step up cooperation in the spheres of maritime and cyber security. The decision came during the 3rd India - Republic of Korea Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue held in Seoul today.
5. Almost one-third of sitting Lok Sabha members and an equal number of MLAs in various states are facing criminal charges, a study by an NGO favouring electoral reforms has said.
6. Aerial studies of the Earth’s surface could help predict in which areas earthquakes and landslides may occur, scientists say.
7. Seven million Syrians, or nearly one-third of the population, have been displaced by the country's civil war, but international aid to them has been a "in the sea" of humanitarian need, a top UN official said today.
8. Turkey's former army chief and more than 100 other suspects went on trial today over a 1997 bloodless coup that toppled the country's first Islamist head of government.
9. Siert Bruins, a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS is going on trial in Germany today on charges he executed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.
10. The origins of human tuberculosis have been traced back to hunter-gatherer groups in Africa 70,000 years ago, an international team of scientists say.
2. After nearly a gap of three years, India and Japan will resume their negotiations on the civil nuclear pact tomorrow in Tokyo.
3. New murder charges have been registered against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. The latest charge relates to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, during the eight-day siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque in 2007.
4. India and South Korea have decided to further expand and deepen the Strategic Partnership and agreed to step up cooperation in the spheres of maritime and cyber security. The decision came during the 3rd India - Republic of Korea Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue held in Seoul today.
5. Almost one-third of sitting Lok Sabha members and an equal number of MLAs in various states are facing criminal charges, a study by an NGO favouring electoral reforms has said.
6. Aerial studies of the Earth’s surface could help predict in which areas earthquakes and landslides may occur, scientists say.
7. Seven million Syrians, or nearly one-third of the population, have been displaced by the country's civil war, but international aid to them has been a "in the sea" of humanitarian need, a top UN official said today.
8. Turkey's former army chief and more than 100 other suspects went on trial today over a 1997 bloodless coup that toppled the country's first Islamist head of government.
9. Siert Bruins, a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS is going on trial in Germany today on charges he executed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.
10. The origins of human tuberculosis have been traced back to hunter-gatherer groups in Africa 70,000 years ago, an international team of scientists say.
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