‘Expedite cbi probe against maran’
New Delhi: AIADMK on Monday demanded speeding up of the CBI probe on the illegal telephone exchange created by former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran at his residence. Raising the issue in lok Sabha, the party leader M Thambidurai said the CBI probe on this regard was going very slow. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assured the agitating AIADMK MPs to look into the issue as early as possible.
GADKARI urged TO SPEED UP border ROADs work New Delhi:
Army chief General Bikram Singh on Monday met Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari here and urged him to speed up implementation of road projects in areas along the China border in ladakh and northeast. During the 40-minute-long meeting, the Army chief discussed road projects of strategic importance in these areas, officials said. There are 73 strategic roads which are to be built in these states but they are delayed due to reasons like environment clearances and difficulty in taking heavy road building machinery in inaccessible areas.
Smaller version of brahmos being made
New Delhi: Indo-Russian joint venture firm BrahMos Aerospace on Monday said it is developing a smaller version of the 290-km supersonic cruise missile for enabling its deployment on submarines and smaller fighter aircraft such as MiG 29K. Addressing a gathering while launching his book ‘The Path Unexplored’, BrahMos Aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai said the firm was preparing for the test-firing of the air- launched version of the missile by the end of this year.
Monkey menace brings laughter to RS
New Delhi: Mention of monkey menace in the corridors of power and how it can haunt even the high and mighty evoked peals of laughter in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, even as a Congress member blamed the simians for mysterious disappearance of files. Members burst into laughter in course of a serious debate on destruction of Home Ministry’s 11,100 files when Rajeev Shukla (Congress) condemned the act and said the situation was so bad that files were kept scattered in the corridors, where monkeys create havoc.