India not ‘legally’ bound under unfcc
New Delhi: India not “legally” bound under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and it has been “coordinating” with like-minded countries for protecting its own interest in the climate change negotiating fora, the Government on Tuesday said. “The national action plan on climate change (NAPCC) was released in June 2008 to outline India’s strategy to meet the challenge of climate,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the lok Sabha.
Govt has no record of nizam’s fund transfer
New Delhi: The Government has claimed that it has no records of the six-decades-old Hyderabad Funds case in which over one million pounds of the Nizam’s wealth lying in a bank in England was transferred to the then High Commissioner of Pakistan in london in 1948. Surprisingly, Press Information Bureau had issued a press release in 2008 claiming that the Union Cabinet has cleared for an out-of-court settlement with Pakistan over the issue. The CIC has now directed the MEA to disclose whether any negotiation process was started between India and Pakistan over the treasure, worth over a million pounds which is now estimated to be 30 million pounds, lying in a bank account in london.
‘No proposal to probe spying on bose family’
New Delhi: Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose during the Nehru era, the Government on Tuesday said it has no plans to conduct any probe into such reports. “There is no proposal to probe into the spying as referred to in the question,” Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary told lok Sabha today.
Sc refuses to stay swan telecom trial
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the ongoing trial against Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, who along with former Telecom Minister A Raja and others were charge-sheeted by Enforcement Directorate(ED) in a 2G scam-related money laundering case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Hl Dattu, however, fixed in August the hearing on their pleas challenging framing of charges by the special court.