India to sell myanmar sonar equipment
New Delhi: India will sell sonar equipment to Myanmar the contract for which is valued at 29.24 million USD, Defence Minister AK Antony said on Wednesday. Bharat Electronics limited signed a contract for the supply of three “hull-mounted sonars” with Myanmar on January 16, 2013, he said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
No dip in overseas remittances
New Delhi: Remittances from overseas Indians touched USD 67.6 billion in 2012-13, up from USD 66.1 billion the previous fiscal. Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi told lok Sabha that there has been no decline in remittances from the approximately 25 million members of the Indian diaspora. The amount was 55.6 billion US dollar in 2010-11. Gulf countries followed closely by North America accounted for the maximum amount of remittances with the former adding USD 24.93 billion to the Indian kitty in the previous fiscal.
nsg to enhance security cover
New Delhi: The National Security Guard, which guards some of the most high-risk VVIPs in the country, will enhance the security of its protectees akin to the level rendered by the Special Protection Group (SPG) which secures the Prime Minister. NSG chief Jayanto N Choudhury said the elite commando force has recently written to the Ministry of Home Affairs with an intention that the counter-terror force should undergo an “audit” of its functioning alongwith VVIP security tasks as done annually in the case of the SPG. The ‘black cats’ of the force, at present, guard 17 ‘Z+’ category VVIPs.
action sought against crpf, Delhi police
New Delhi: Members in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday demanded stringent action against Delhi Police and CRPF personnel for assaulting and detaining two left MPs and several students protesting growing attacks on Northeastern people in Delhi last week. They also demanded that the issue be taken up by the Privileges Committee of Rajya Sabha and lok Sabha and action initiated against these personnel.
‘Busy’ minister gets embarrased in lS
New Delhi: Minister Preneet Kaur was on Wednesday caught in an embarrassing situation in the lok Sabha when Speaker Meira Kumar and some others had to ask her a number of times to lay the papers she was supposed to. Kaur, who had earlier tabled papers listed against the name of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, was seen engrossed in a conversation with her ministerial colleague MM Pallam Raju when the Speaker called her name to place another set of papers listed in the order paper.