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BHOPAL: The liberal manner in which the representatives of leading business houses of the country showered praises on the MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan at the 'Global Investors Summit' held at Indore (Oct 28-30) has given rise to the hope that most of them will make massive investment in the State. A government spokesperson claimed that a total of 1018 MoUs worth Rs. 3.56 lakh crores were signed during the three-day summit.

It was an impressive win for the US President Barack Obama who will begin his second innings at the White House in January 2013. Americans have preferred continuity than change. He has created history again by defying the undertow of a slow economic recovery and high unemployment to beat his Republican opponent Mitt Romney. Obama became the second Democrat to win a second four-year White House term since World War II.

All over the world hard wood becomes a scarce commodity. The furniture manufacturers are vigorously searching for an ecofriendly alternative to wood. The National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) at Thiruvananthapuram, a constituent laboratory of CSIR has developed the technology to make wood substitute from natural fibre polymer composites. It has been a pioneer in the research of natural fibre - composites for more than two decades.

Unbelievable as it may seem, the registrar of West Bengal University of Health Sciences has filed a special leave petition against the judgement of the High Court of Calcutta High on 28 September in the case of Dr. Amit Banerjee vs State of West Bengal & Ors. (A.S.T. 38 & 39 of 2012) quashing the dismissal of Dr Banerjee as the Vice Chancellor of WBUHS. The dismissal was on the plea that Dr Banerjee failed to join the news within a date, arbitrarily fixed by the department of health and family welfare, Government of West Bengal. He did neither seek approval from nor inform the VC, his controlling authority before filing the SLP.

Their’s is the voice that gets drowned in the cacophony; their emotions swamped by the battle-cry for “self-determination” on the one hand and the gun shots of militants and security forces on the other.