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Govt revises air quality norms; uniform std for all areas
In a major move to check air pollution, the government today revised its norms, putting in place uniform standards for residential and industrial areas.

Sesa Goa earmarks Rs 1,500 cr capex for next two years
Vedanta Resource group firm Sesa Goa today said that it will spend about Rs 1,500 crore in its mining business during the next two years to reach the annual production capacity of about 50 million tonnes.

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Raj Bhavan hopes
Three states, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal, don’t have governors. ND Tiwari resigned and vacated the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad recently. Gopal Krishna Gandhi quit the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata and Jaipur is vacant after the death of former foreign secretary SK Singh. The result is that various people in the race are making rounds of politicians they think will give them a leg-up to the post. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s residence is obviously one pilgrimage centre. Watch this space for more on this front.
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PM to meet ailing Basu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going to Kolkata tomorrow to see ailing former West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu. Singh would be leaving for the West Bengal capital in the morning and there was a possibility of the scheduled Union Cabinet meeting being postponed till the evening, official sources said. - Shyamal Majumdar: The missing scientists">Shyamal Majumdar: The missing scientists - PM reviews economy with Plan panel - Basu"s son deplores rumours - TRS chief meets Chidambaram to discuss Telangana issue - Basu on ventilator, condition "very critical" - Did not facilitate access for gatecrasher: Indian Embassy The condition of 95-year-old Basu, admitted to a Kolkata hospital with pneumonia, remained critical today. CPI(M) leaders Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat are also likely to leave for Kolkata by tomorrow.


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