Today's News

National

• Empowering the investigating agencies, the Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that the fingerprints or specimen handwriting of an accused taken by an Investigating Officer during probe into a case was admissible as evidence even though a permission from a magistrate was not taken.
• The Supreme Court wants Parliament to relook the “baffling” law of allowing a trespasser to take over private land if he had squat on it for just 12 years. The squatter can become owner of the land without paying a penny to the true owner.

International

• Anwar al-Awlaki got killed by American drone attacks.

India & The World

• Mrs. Pratibha Patil's Switzerland Visit
• Micheline Calmy-Ray  - Swiss President
• European Organisation for Nuclear Research(CERN) invented world wide web

Business

• Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Bill, 2011, mandates coal companies to share 26 per cent of their net profits towards people residing in their project areas and non-coal miners to shell out money equivalent to royalty. The Bill also envisages setting up a regulator to monitor the mining sector’s growth, while allowing states to invite bids for known mineralised areas. Read More
• FDI cap increased to 26% in FM Radio sector while excluding education and old age homes from the conditions imposed in construction sector.
• India's overseas investment is at $103.9 bn at the end of June 2011, all time high.
• Health insurance has become portable.
• Fiscal deficit is at 2.73 lakh crore. Read More
• CAG has been appointed as the external auditor for UN organisations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
• Rajya Sabha MP Ram Dayal Munda, an eminent educationist and a key player in the formation of Jharkhand, lost his battle against cancer on Friday