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Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal has appointed RA Mehta as the Lokayukta of Gujarat, in spite of protests of the state government. The appointment had been challenged in court. On January 2, the Supreme Court upheld the appointment. Predictably, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reacted strongly to the verdict. Kamla Beniwal is a former member of the Rajasthan unit of the Congress(I).

LUCKNOW: Ming He Group of China has evinced keen interest in setting up a big lead acid battery manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh.

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board’s (FIPB) latest year-end decision to summarily reject the joint venture proposal of Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India’s most reputable technology companies, with Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd to manufacture high-tech defence equipment in the country, without assigning a good reason, is not only shocking, but also exposes the government’s age-old mindset against the domestic private sector playing a key role in state-of-the-art arms and security equipment manufacture.

Jharkhand is in a political crisis once again after the resignation of the BJP-led Arjun Munda government this week. The state, which consists of rich natural resources, is fated to have instability since it was created in 2000. In the last 12 years, it remained a shining example of horse-trading and has seen eight chief ministers. President’s rule was imposed twice. In all probability, it may be heading towards the President’s rule once again if no other government could be formed.

NEW DELHI : Three Indian scientists, two of them NRIs, are among 25 worldover who have been awarded Fellowship for 2012 by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s most trusted Quality teaching and training house.

A specific song by Honey Singh has been ‘discovered’. The tragic incident at Delhi created the fertile ground for this. If the discovery was supposed to raise awareness against the contents of the songs and thereby censure Honey Singh, that scheme has failed miserably. The number of online views of the said song has shot-up steeply ever since the free publicity. So much for sensitisation! Honey Singh has since then denied having to do anything with the song. Many people and groups, who, till yesterday had hardly heard of Honey Singh or this song, have assembled his paper and cloth idols to consign them to flames in public amidst much supportive sloganeering.