Daily News Notes:

· The Delhi High Court today granted bail to Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, in the 2008 cash-for-vote case
· India Nepal bilateral trade has registered a quantum jump of 36 percent in the last fiscal. Exports from Nepal to India have also grown by over five percent.
· The Centre recently announced high altitude allowances to ITBP personnel at par with the Army and will provide modern weaponry and latest communication facilities to the Indo Tibetan Border Police Force. The facility of hiring porters and animal transport for carrying the load to high altitude post has also been sanctioned. Director General of ITBP Ranjit Sinha said that besides border security, ITBP also provides protection to VVIPs and takes part in anti-Maoist operations. ITBP was set up in 1962 with four batallions to guard the Indo- China border. At present the force has 49 batallions with a total strength of over 55 thousand soldiers deployed across the country. Besides border security management, the force also plays a primary role in disaster management.
· In Madhya Pradesh, unaccounted assets worth crores of rupees have been allegedly unearthed during a raid in Bhopal at the house of , a Superintending Engineer with the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board.
· The first -ever Indian Formula one team ,Force India's lead driver Adrian Sutil (from Germany) and his British teammate Paul di Resta have done well in the second half of the season
· A Bangalore-bound Kingfisher flight, carrying 100 passengers on board, made an emergency landing at the Goa Airport today after the air crafts windshield developed a crack.
· On the occasion of World Polio day today, Government has prepared an Emergency Response Plan to give polio vaccines to children in all high risk areas and decided to treat any fresh case of polio as a public health emergency. About two and a half decades back it is only in this year that so far only one fresh case has been reported.
· In Turkey, more than 200 people have been killed in yesterday's earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. It was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks. Turkey is vulnerable to earthquakes as it sits on major geological fault lines. Two earthquakes in 1999 with a magnitude of over 7 on the Richer scale had killed around 20,000 people.
· European Union leaders (all 27 EU nations in Brussels) have reached an agreement on the broad outline of a comprehensive strategy to resolve the euro-zone debt crisis which include waiving of Greek debts, recapitalisation of banks which will suffer losses on their Greek bonds and an effective implementation of the euro-zone crisis fund, the European Financial Stability Facility.
· In Chattisgarh,the district administration of Koriya has entrusted the task of running grocery shops (249 shops) across the district to women Self Help groups (under the 'Koriya Mahila Grih Udyog' and ‘Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana’). About 3000 women of Koriya district took a step towards their economic empowerment and the benefits of forward as well as backward linkage for the production and marketing of their produce being supported by the district administration.
· The European Union has threatened more sanctions against Syria if the government crackdown on dissent continues (to repress the civilian population). The European bloc already has an embargo on crude oil imports from Syria, has banned investment in the country's oil sector and has forbidden EU-based operators from participating in joint ventures with Syrian companies or providing credits and loans.
· Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out for a parade to mark the All Blacks' victory on home soil in the rugby World Cup. New Zealand defeated France and take the trophy for the first time since the tournament began in 1987.