Ø Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami had called up
some Governors and conveyed the government’s desire that they step down. With
several Congress appointees in no hurry to step down as Governors, the NDA
government’s attempts to have its own nominees in Raj Bhavans could lead to a
full blown confrontation with the principal Opposition party. Uttar Pradesh
Governor B.L. Joshi resigned taking the hint from the Union government, but
Governors of Kerala (Sheila Dikshit), Assam (J.B. Patnaik) and Karnataka (H.R. Bhardwaj)
made it clear that they would not quit.
Ø In four years’ time, the world is likely to get
a new oral cholera vaccine that will have a greater impact at a significantly
lower cost. Hilleman Laboratories, a joint-venture partnership between pharma
major Merck and U.K.-based Wellcome Trust, on Tuesday announced a collaboration
with Gotovax AB. Gotovax AB is a University of Gothenburg Biopharma
company.
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Starting July 1,
all forest clearances for industry and infrastructure projects will go online,
to be followed by online environmental approvals from September 1, Anil Swarup,
Additional Secretary, Union Cabinet Secretariat said.
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