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Nation
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Centre
plans catch-them-young programme for bureaucrats
What is India News
Service, August 19, 2004, 2200 hrs IST
The Manmohan Singh government has proposed a
programme that envisages an entrance exam at the undergraduate level
for civil services aspirants.
If the proposal fructifies, civil service aspirants will be put through a specialised, hold-all course,
and will not have to bank on private tutorials. The long-term objective,
sources said, was to \93professionalise\94 governance instead of approaching it in an ad hoc manner.
By reducing the eligibility criteria to Class XII level, the plan is to hold
an all-India entrance exam on the pattern of the exams held by the National Defence Academy, medical and law colleges, and
the IITs. But passing the entrance will not guarantee a job.
Students who pass the entrance would join a national academy for a five-year course. At the end of three years, those who complete the course get a graduate degree. But only 90 per cent would be given service allotments on the basis of their performance; the remaining 10 per cent at the bottom of the merit list would have to quit.
Centre keen to resolve Manipur issue: The Centre today indicated that it was ready to take \93more measures\94 to keep the oil prices under check. Finance Minister P. Chidambram told UPA Coordination Committee meeting, held at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of the steps taken by the government to curb the rising oil prices in view of the spiralling prices of crude.
Sorority swamps judiciary: It was an all-women's day in Nagpur on Tuesday with not just the police but also the judiciary bowing to their demand that the five women arrested in connection with the lynching of local goon Akku Yadav be released on Wednesday itself.
No-confidence
move defeated: The opposition National Conference-sponsored no-confidence motion against the Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council, Abdul Rashid Dar, was defeated.
Centre seeks report from Bihar on Taslimuddin:
The union government has sought a report from the Rabri administration on a criminal case registered against the
agriculture minister.
Court to frame charges afresh in Best Bakery retrial:
The special court conducting the Best Bakery retrial today said it would frame charges afresh and asked
the Gujarat police to publish in newspapers photographs of those
absconding.
Govt tries to pacify tempers on Savarkar:
The Shiv Sena and the BJP do not want to ease up on the V D Savarkar issue so soon. It is, after all, election time in Maharashtra and it could potentially turn into an emotive campaign issue. The Congress-led Government is also treading a cautious path.
SC commutes death sentence:
The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a convict from Maharashtra in the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl within a week of it rejecting the plea of Kolkata\92s Dhananjoy Chatterjee in an almost identical case.
Cable
TV back: Cable TV operators today decided to suspend their indefinite strike till the end of the Olympic Games next month.
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States
882 illegal colonies in Punjab:
The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority has provided the police with a list of 882 illegal colonies spread across Punjab
so that they may take action.
BangaloreOne portals by Dec:
Citizens can access information about all services provided by government and semi-government organisations at these portals.
Dither over truth team:
The CPM seems in a dither over instituting the promised inquiry into the role of party functionaries in the Merlin Park sex
scandal.
Naidu
condemns killings: Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Chandrababu
Naidu has said that his party cannot be cowed down by the "killing spree" of the Congress Government. He has appealed to the police to be non-partisan.
Eight months on, aye to Calcutta:
Government attitude, talent pool, infrastructure and telecom links
have impressed banking major HSBC. From a hesitant \93no\94 to a resounding \93yes\94,
it took eight months to effect a 360-degree turnaround.
Neighbours
Aziz wins both seats by huge margin: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz has won both the Attock and Tharparkar seats of the National Assembly by a heavy margin, according to unofficial results.
Provinces\92 share reduced:
The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Tuesday decided to impose a 10 per cent cut on provincial water shares for the remaining period of the Kharif season and projected that water might not be available in dams for the Rabi season.
Maoists blockade affects Kathmandu:
Two days after forcing multinational companies, including some Indian firms, to shut down their businesses in Nepal, Maoist rebels today enforced an indefinite blockade cutting off Kathmandu from the rest of the country. India believes that the situation arising out of the blockade of is "worrying" and has
taken up its security concerns
with the Nepalese Government.
Li defends massacre:
Chinese ex-Premier Li Peng, dubbed the Butcher of Beijing for declaring martial law days before troops crushed the 1989 Tiananmen protests, has defended his role in the massacre.
Raids on seminaries continue: Law-enforcement personnel continued raids on Madressahs in the federal capital on Wednesday in search of the Imam of the Lal Mosque and his brother, wanted by police for their alleged links with Al
Qaeda.
Lankan unions flay Indian investment in oil sector:
CPC workers paralysed island's petrol distribution in protest against a deal with India's Bharat Petroleum, reports PK
Balachanddran.
Rush for free mobile connections:
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat this week to accept an offer of free mobile phone connections, a sign of
pent-up demand.
Karzai urges neighbours to stop militants: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday called on neighbouring countries, particularly Pakistan, to stop militants crossing into Afghanistan through poorly monitored borders and cooperate in the \93fight against terrorism\94.
View from
abroad
British troops to get Indian curry and rice:
An army marches on its stomach and the British troops will soon have Indian curry, chicken balti and pulau rice on its ration instead of tinned cheese, stodgy casseroles and stale biscuits.
In the biggest change to the armed forces' rations for 40 years, a new generation of meals
is currently being tried out. It is not only supposed to taste better, but embrace healthy eating as well, a spokesman of the ministry of defence
has said.
'Population to
touch 295m mark by 2050': Pakistan's population is currently at 159 million and is expected to rise to 295 million by 2050, says a US-based research institute.
Bobby Jindal in strong position to enter US Congress:
The boy-wonder is ahead of Republican and even Democratic candidates in the race.
Overall:
Centre thought of a plan to get
good administrative talent: It
will propose a national exam to train young students so that they
can get into the civil services.
Bangalore set up a one-stop portal:
The site will tell citizens about all available government services.
British army chose Indian menu: Their soldiers will now eat
food with an Indian flavour.
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