Daily News Notes

· The death toll in Sunday's earthquake in the country has gone up to 85, fifty three in Sikkim, 20 in Bihar and 12 in West Bengal.
· the reactors of Koodamkulam nuclear power plant that would begin producing 1000 MWatt by the end of this year have been proved safe as the same type of reactors have been set up at Russia, China and Bulgaria have not reported any problems till now, explained by govt. official to the protester.
· Karnataka Governor H R Bharadwaj has accepted the resignation of Lokayukta Shivraj Patil today, who was facing allegation of violating Housing Society by-laws.
· In Andhra Pradesh, public transport has been paralyzed when about 10,000 buses remained off the roads in the Telengana region for the second day as part of the ongoing indefinite strike on the statehood issue which entered eight day today with employees continuing to stay away from duties.
· Remembering life and work of Maharao Shekhaji the president said that is work of respect of women averment and communal harmonies prevalent and present time also. 6 hundred year ago Maharao Shekhaji sacrifice his life for respect of a poor women it is a lesson. Thus President Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil said that, ill practices like dowry, female foeticide and child marriage are adversely affecting the development of the country and the society should come forward to stop them.
· Government of WB has ordered immediate culling of birds and destruction of eggs and feed material to control further spread of the disease, as the samples from the region forwarded to the three laboratories have tested positive for H5 strain of Avian Influenza or Bird Flu.
· Civil Aviation Minister today said that government may infuse fresh funds to revive the position of Air India while the government has already injected around 2000 crore rupees into the fund-starved national carrier in the past two financial years. The airline has to repay a debt around 43 thousand crore rupees.
· The rupee was down by 44 paise at a fresh two-year low of 48.25 rupees per dollar in early trade today.
· Trade imbalance (In the 60 billion dollar worth of bilateral trade between India and China last year, the trade imbalance was as much as 20 billion in Beijing favour)will be high on the agenda when planning commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia leads a high level team to Beijing for the first India China strategic economic dialogue from the 24th to 26th of this month as to ensure that the bilateral trade reaches the set target of 100 billion dollars. The decision to establish the strategic economic dialogue, similar to the mechanism that exist between Bejing and Washington was taken during the visit of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in December 2010. The Minister was asked to comment on the recent incursions by Chinese troops in Ladakh and the objection raised by it over oil exploration by Indian companies in South China sea .
· The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a week-long visit to the United States from tomorrow to attend the Annual IMF World Bank meetings.
· Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves New Delhi tommorrow on a five day day visit to New York, to attend the United Nations General Assembly Session.
· Veteran Kannada Poet, and Former-vice chancellor of Hampi Kannada University Dr. Chandrashekhara Kambar has been selected for the 2010 Jnanpeeth award. The country's highest literary honour instituted in 1961. He has become the eighth Kannadiga to have won the award. Among those from Karnataka, who have bagged the award include Kuvempu, D. R. Bendre, Shivaram Karanth, Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, V.K.Gokak, Girish Karnad and U.R.Ananth Murthy.
· An auto journey (by Sanjay Sharma, an IT teacher) across the world to raise funds for cancer patients came to an end in New Delhi today which was began from Nottingham in England and has driven over 10,500 kilometers so far.