Daily Newsletter | Thursday, September 03, 2015 | | | Govt plans unilateral OROP 'deal' this week | | With no resolution of the one rank, one pension (OROP) logjam in sight, the government is preparing to unilaterally announce a “new deal” for veterans over the next few days to avoid the model code of conduct for Bihar assembly elections that is due to be announced any time after Saturday. |
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| Trade union strike in Bengal turns violent | | The first countrywide strike called by trade unions since the change of government last May turned into a show of strength with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) claiming more than 15 crore workers in the organized sector struck work, and the Union labour ministry contending it wasn’t the success it was being touted to be. |
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| | Goa tops list of crimes against and by foreigners | | With 73 cases, Goa stands unflatteringly at the top of the list of India’s 28 states for crimes committed against foreigners in 2014. It has also topped the list for the highest number of foreigners, 27, arrested under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act last year. |
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| Delhiites stranded as autos, taxis stay off roads | | Students, commuters and office-goers in the capital faced a tough time reaching their destinations on Wednesday as a large number of auto drivers and cabbies struck work in protest against the AAP government's scheme to introduce low-fare city taxis. |
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| Kolkata: Gangs buy arms with drugs money | | The CID probe into the blast on a train at Titagarh and the Kolkata police’s investigation of the recent Tangra clash between two groups, allegedly backed by Trinamool factions, have thrown up a common link: Criminals operating around railway tracks of the city and suburbs and even central Kolkata (Entally-Jorasanko-Jorabagan) are using the proceeds from drug sales to buy bombs and single-shotters from Murshidabad and Nadia. |
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| | | | Singapore's GIC invests 2k cr in 2 DLF projects | | Singapore's sovereign wealth funds GIC and DLF Home Developers, a subsidiary of India's largest real estate developer DLF, entered into a joint venture to invest in two upcoming projects in Delhi's Moti Nagar. |
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| | Rani will deliver in South Mumbai hospital | | It is confirmed that Rani Mukerji is pregnant with her first child. Close family members, like her sister-in-law Jyothi Mukerji have reportedly confirmed the news to the media. |
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