News Bits - 8 feb 2015

    

1. Trade across Loc Suspended after the J&K police arrested a truck driver from Pakistan for aleggedly smuggling in 305 packets of narcotics.
2. Despite high maternal mortality , India hopes to reduce to Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 by end of 12th Plan.
3. Veteran Marathi theatre artist and film actor Atmaram Bhende passed away.
4. LCA-NP2 , the fighter version of the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas being

The Hindu - News 8 Feb 2015

Support growing for Kasturirangan report

‘People misled by vested interests exploiting natural resources in excess’

The Pashchima Ghatta Samrakshana Horata Samithi and Jana Sangrama Parishad on Saturday termed the opposition to the implementation of the Kasturirangan Committee Report on Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) as efforts by vested interests to continue looting natural resources from the Western Ghat region.

K.V. Nagesh Angirasa of the samithi said that the implementation of the report would in no way affect the routine course of life, including agricultural and