Ø A three-member committee looking into the UPSC’s Civil Services
Aptitude Test (CSAT) issue has sought
one more week to submit its report, the government said in Rajya Sabha. The
government declined to give a timeframe for resolving the matter. The issue
would be resolved “as soon as possible” keeping in mind the sentiments of the
candidates.
Ø An influential Chinese journalist and a
crusading environmental lawyer from China are among this year’s winners of Asia’s Magsaysay awards. Among this year's six awardees is Hu
Shuli (61), founder and editor of Caijing, a business magazine famed
for its groundbreaking investigative reporting that has had a profound impact
on China. Another winner was Chinese lawyer Wang Canfa
(55), founder of the Centre for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which
has handled thousands of environmental complaints and beaten powerful
industrialists in court. Also honoured were Indonesian anthropologist
Saur Marlina Manurung, National Museum of Afghanistan director
Omara Khan Masoudi, Filipino teacher Randy Halasan, and
the Pakistani non-government group The Citizen’s Foundation.
Ø Union Steel Secretary G. Mohan Kumar said
disinvestment of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) would be taken up during
the current fiscal even as the unions decided to go on strike to stall the move.
Mr. Mohan Kumar, who was on a visit to RINL, told reporters after inaugurating
the modernisation of Blast Furnace-1 and sinter heat recovery power plant worth
Rs.900 crore that the disinvestment of the profit-making company was in the air
for quite sometime.
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