News Bits - 22 Feb 2015

   

1. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has told Bangladesh that breakthroughs will be achieved in the Teesta water-sharing deal and the Land Boundary Agreement, which have been hanging fire since she blocked them four years ago.
2. For the second successive day, China has protested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, calling the journey a breach of consensus that had been reached between the two countries on the boundary issue.
3. Leaders of the Janata Parivar will be in Patna on Sunday for the swearing-in of Nitish Kumar as Bihar Chief Minister, marking the end of the crisis in the JD(U).
4. Santanu Saikia, a former journalist and now an energy consultant running a website, who has been arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the Oil Ministry document theft case, said on Saturday that he was trying to uncover a Rs. 10,000-crore scam.
5. The BJP believes it has the backing of the States on the Land Acquisition Ordinance after holding meetings with several State revenue secretaries who all demanded that the process of acquiring land for major projects be made easier;Opposition parties are likely to unite in Parliament against the ordinance.
6. India and Russia have generally agreed upon the amount and division of work during the research and development (R&D) stage of the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) project.
7. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on Saturday that its Chairman, R.K. Pachauri, had expressed his inability to go to Nairobi next week for chairing its plenary session, apparently in the wake of a complaint of sexual harassment against him.
8. Pakistan may now be on the fast track to weaponising spent nuclear fuel through its plutonium reprocessing plant in Chashma in Punjab, according to recent satellite imagery, which indicates that all the ongoing construction around a tall building, suspected to be the reprocessing facility in question, has been completed.
9. Sri Lanka’s newly elected government will next month look to win United Nations backing for a domestic probe into alleged war crimes under former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, an official said on Saturday.
10. Zekra Alwach, a civil engineer and director general of the Ministry of Higher Education, becomes the first woman to be named as Mayor of Baghdad

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