Daily News Notes

• ·         The country has received three percent more rainfall so far this season.
• ·         The country will achieve over 80 to 85 per cent literacy by the year 2015.
• ·         The Assam Government has re-constituted the State Commission for Minorities with immediate effect.
• ·         In Assam, a major world class IT park over an area of about 100 acres of land is being developed in the public private partnership mode by the state government near the Borjhar airport at Guwahati.
• ·         US President Barack Obama has extended by one more year the national emergency with regard to certain type of terrorist attacks.
• ·         In Hockey, Indian Men will face arch-rivals Pakistan in the finals of the Asian Champions Trophy at Ordos in China tomorrow.