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- The Greek Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras are meeting again today to pick a new caretaker Prime Minister and Cabinet ahead of a eurozone Finance Ministers' meeting.
- The Jamaat-ud-Dawah, JuD, a front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba, LeT, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is not included in a new list of 31 banned extremist and terrorist groups released by Pakistan's Interior Ministry
- Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Uday Kumar Verma said that a National Centre for Excellence in Animation, Gaming and Visual Effects is being set up to meet the shortage of trained manpower in this sector.
- Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has sought an early discussion with the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to bring the wages paid under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, MNREGS, at par with the Minimum Wages applicable for agricultural labour in different states. This will increase the minimum wages under MNREGS in many states.
- Congress today called for the approval of final draft of the Lokpal Bill at the earliest. Lokpal Bill was introduced in Parliament in the Monsoon session and later referred to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice
- Former President A P J Abdul Kalam has said he is fully satisfied with the safety measures incorporated in the mega Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu
- An Indian origin scientist led team has discovered a radical way to knock out cancer cells and leave healthy ones unharmed. They claimed the finding could pave the way for new treatments for the most aggressive forms of the disease, such as pancreatic or breast cancer. Dr Srinivasan Madhusudan and colleagues at the University of Nottingham in U.K. said that blocking an enzyme which repairs genetic material in cells, enabled them to kill cancer cells containing faulty genes.
- Japan's Coast Guard has arrested a Chinese fishing boat captain, whose vessel allegedly intruded into Japanese territorial waters. The incident happened at the country's western coast.
- In Himachal Pradesh, a famous horse show was held as a part of the international Lavi fair in Rampur area of Shimla district
- In Uttarakhand, the State Advisory Board on the PCPNDT Act to prevent illegal sex determination techniques, has decided to launch a website to make available online information about the ultrasound centres
