News Bits - 19 Feb 2015

  

1. Faced with the unenviable task of persuading recalcitrant Opposition leaders to help the government convert six ordinances into Acts of Parliament, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has called an all-party meeting on Sunday , Bills have to be passed within six weeks of the opening of the session.
2. India-Israel ties out in the open, says Ya’alon.
3. Stressing on the need for domestic manufacture of defence equipment to equip the country for the future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon foreign defence manufacturers to become strategic partners as he inaugurated “Aero India 2015” in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
4. Framing of charges not enough to bar candidates from contesting polls: SC
5. Opposition parties avoided harsh criticism of the Union government on Wednesday after a Coast Guard official said it was he who ordered his troops to destroy a Pakistani boat on New Year’s Eve night off the Gujarat coast and those in the vessel did not blow it up themselves as was said earlier. The Defence Ministry had maintained that the four persons in the boat “blew it up” after the Coast Guard spotted them. However, a recent video shows Deputy Inspector-General, Coast Guard, B.K. Loshali saying he had ordered the destruction of the boat.
6. The Centre plans to develop three municipal corporations in Maharashtra as models for minority empowerment.
7. Modi suit gets Rs. 1.21 crore bid.
8. The oil major ONGC is planning to develop DWN-98/2 offshore block in Krishna-Godavari Basin on fast-track which start production by 2018-19.
9. Egypt drops U.N. bid for military intervention.Egypt said Wednesday a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Libya submitted by Arab states makes no mention of the international military intervention against jihadists that Cairo originally proposed.
10. Industry leader Deepak Parekh, on Wednesday, said that impatience was creeping in among businessmen as nothing had changed on the ground in the first nine months of the Modi government. 

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