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Digest of domestic news for the week

PM rules out immediate cancellation of coal block allocations, makes it clear that he was ready for debate with Oppn on the issue

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Saturday

Bangalore / Mumbai: Intensifying the crackdown on the "terror module" busted in Karnataka, police have arrested five more suspects in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, as a probe showed that a nuclear installation and several defence establishments were targeted for attack.

New Delhi: Even as her party demands the Prime Minister's resignation, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has asked the Government to announce cancellation of the controversial coal block allocations and institution of an independent inquiry.

Sunday

Mumbai / New Delhi: China's Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie commences a five-day visit to India during which he is expected to allay New Delhi's concerns over Chinese military infrastructure build-up along the border and discuss the revival of joint exercises halted four years back.

 

Patna / Mumbai: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lashes out at the Maharashtra government for not taking action against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his threat to throw Biharis out of Maharashtra.

Monday

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rules out immediate cancellation of 142 coal block allocations as demanded by BJP and made it clear that he was ready for a fight with the opposition on the issue.

Mumbai / New Delhi: MNS chief Raj Thackeray comes under all round fire for threatening to throw out Biharis from Maharashtra even as a case was filed against him in Nalanda for his hate speech.

Tuesday

New Delhi: Reflecting their keenness to improve mutual confidence, India and China decide to resume at the "earliest" joint military exercises, which had been put on hold since 2010 over visa row, and agreed to enhance tranquility at the borders.

New Delhi: CBI carries out raids in 30 locations across the country after filing cases against five companies for alleged criminal conspiracy to get coal blocks by fudging their net worth figures and misrepresentation of facts and named Congress MP Vijay Darda in one of the FIRs.

New Delhi: A proposal to provide reservation to SCs andSTs in government job promotions moved a step further with the Union Cabinet clearing a Bill which would circumvent the Supreme Court order quashing such a decision of Uttar Pradesh government in April.

Wednesday

New Delhi: A company named in CBI case in coal block allocation scam had allegedly projected a net worth of Rs one lakh crore by showing short term MoUs with two international power majors at the time of applying for blocks.

New Delhi: A US daily's trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has come under attack from Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni who plans to take up the issue with the External Affairs Ministry and oppose it "strongly".

Thursday

Mumbai: Anna Hazare says there was no need to form a party or contest elections but instead work for an "alternative".

New Delhi: Washington Post admits certain parts of its controversial article on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were taken from one-year-old edition of an Indian magazine as the PMO slammed the write-up as "unethical and unprofessional" conduct of the journalist.

Friday

New Delhi: Former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is indicted by a judicial commission for allowing illegal mining to continue unabated in the state resulting in amassing of wealth by certain individuals and companies at the cost of environment.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promises that issues raised in the CAG report over coal block allocation would not be "swept under the carpet" and necessary "corrective action" will be taken even as he lashes out at BJP for pursuing obstructionist politics.

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First Published: Sep 08 2012 | 12:00 PM IST

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