New Delhi, April 13 : A document released by the Information Office of the State Council, China, has aimed to cut the country’s sulfur dioxide emission by 2010.

According to the document, in 2010, China’s amount of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the emission of sulfur dioxide will be 10 percent lower than those in 2005.

Mumbai, Apr. 13 : The government-appointed Satyam Board on Monday will conduct the final bidding for the sale of 31 percent stake of the embattled IT company.

“We have entered the final stage of the bidding process, and on Monday we will conduct the financial bidding in Mumbai to find the highest bidder for a 31 percent stake in Satyam Computer,” Satyam Board Chairman Kiran Karnik said.

The interested bidders submitted their bids by 9 am on Monday, after which the technical evaluation is being held.

Opening of the financial bids is expected to follow soon.

Thus far, foreign countries had marrow donor registries, but now, India has also registered its name in the same list.

India’s Mumbai first became the first to join the league with the Marrow Donor Registry India (MDRI).

MDRI will be a database of bone marrow donors and the donor marrow can be used treating patients fighting life-threatening blood disorders in India or abroad.

Bone marrow transplants are still a rarity in India, mainly because no there’re no registries.
 

New Delhi - Eleven security personnel and four Maoist rebels were killed in a 10-hour gunbattle after the rebels laid siege to India's largest bauxite mine in the eastern state of Orissa, police said Monday. A group of 100 armed Maoist rebels laid siege to the state-run National Aluminium Company's bauxite mine at Panchpatmali in Koraput district, some 370 kilometres south-west of Orissa's capital Bhubaneshwar late Sunday.

Lahore, Apr. 12 : While India has taken a tough stance scrapping all bilateral talks with Pakistan in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks ,former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he would have initiated talks with the neighbouring country if such an incident had occurred on his own soil.