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AITUC, CITU,
HMS, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU, UTUC and federations of different
categories of workers and employees "having united for the first
time in the history of India" will participate in the general
strike, he said in presence of the senior leaders of these
unions including AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta in
Delhi on Friday. .
PM
to head council on tribal welfare
New Delhi: A national council headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
has been constituted to provide broad policy guidelines for
welfare of tribals and monitor schemes for their uplift.
Sachin becomes IAF's honorary Group Captain
NEW DELHI:
Senior Indian
batsman
Sachin
Tendulkar was on Friday conferred with the Indian Air
Force's honorary rank of
Group
Captain to honour his cricketing achievements and
contribution to the nation. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson
to be conferred a rank by
IAF
and the first personality with no aviation background to receive
the honour.
Centre sends add forces
NEW DELHI:
The
Union home
ministry has sent another helicopter and additional
paramilitary personnel
to Bihar to help the state cops in the ongoing operation to locate the three
policemen who are still inMaoist custody.
68 % births
registered
New Delhi:
A sustained five year campaign involving the government, a chain of NGOs and
UNICEF has resulted in 68 per cent of births being registered in the country.
The second report of Plan India's Universal Birth Registration Campaign ''Count
every child, as every child counts'', unveiled today, indicated that over 85 per
cent children were registered within 21 days of the launch of the scheme in all
the target areas
Army chief to
visit to Sri Lanka
Colombo:
Seeking to give a fillip to bilateral military ties, army chief General V K
Singh is set to undertake a five-day visit to Sri Lanka from Sunday to discuss
defence cooperation. During his visit, Singh is scheduled to meet
DefenceSecretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, his Sri Lankan counterpart Jagath
Jayasuriya and other senior defence officials. |
