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A wide range of discretionary powers enjoyed by ministers at the Centre are being abolished, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee disclosed here today.
Mukherjee, who chaired a Group of Ministers (GoM) on dealing with corruption, said that the group had submitted its
recommendations.
Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Ajay Maken disclosed that he was working on having an ombudsman or Lokayukta for sports "who will work as a regulator for transparency and honest running of
the sports federations".
The names of Indian Army war heroes will soon be on the lips of children across the country. The Indian Army has taken a cue from the Western concept of narrating tales of war heroes to its young ones.
India’s 1.3 million-strong Army - the second largest in the world - intends to hire professionals who will tell wartime stories through illustrated storybooks (comics) and animation.
India
and Bangladesh today inked a key agreement aimed at enhancing quality of
border management and ensuring cross-frontier security through measures
like joint vigils to deal with human trafficking and smuggling of drugs
and weapons.
A British-born Sikh lawyer, who advised that British intervention in the Iraq war was unlawful, has been appointed a judge of the High Court in London.
History has been created with the appointment of Mr Justice Rabinder Singh who becomes the first Sikh.