Daily News Notes

· In Chhattisgarh, three jawans were killed today in a landmine blast on the National Highway 63 by the Naxalites in the Bastar area.
· Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has assured that the Centre will set up a Committee to look into safety aspects of the Koodankulam Atomic Power project being set up in Tamil Nadu. He informed that the Committee will consist of representatives from the Centre, the State and members protesting against the project.
· An expert committee has recommended that there should be no negative marking in the proposed National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS courses from the next year.
· Food inflation, as measured by Wholesale Price Index, rose to 9.41 per cent for the week ended September 24 on the back of costlier vegetables, fruits, milk and protein-based items.
· The Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange, that surged 481 points to regain the 16,000 mark in opening trade, was trading 451 points up at 16,243 in afternoon deals. The Rupee had closed 6 paise higher at 49.34 rupees per dollar in yesterday's trade.
· The United States senate has postponed voting on the much-debated currency bill until next week. The bill envisages to make it easier to impose penalties on goods from countries keeping their currencies artificially low.
· The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet yesterday. Transtromer's most famous works include the 1966, “Windows and Stones," in which he depicts themes from his many travels and "Baltics" from 1974.
· Imports of sensitive items ( include milk and milk products, fruits and vegetables, pulses, poultry, tea and coffee, spices, foodgrains, edible oils, automobiles, cotton and silk among other things ) has registered a whopping increase of over 37 percent in April to July this year.
· The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said Turkey should accept responsibility for the genocide of more than a million Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Sarkozy said this while speaking on a visit to Armenia. Turkey insists that those who died in 1915 were casualties of war, not victims of a deliberate campaign of genocide