New Delhi, Dec 11 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said an effective cooperation was needed between security agencies and the telecom industry to combat terror attacks.

Inaugurating the India Telecom 2008 conference, here, Dr. Singh that it is very important that there should be effective cooperation and coordination between the agencies whose responsibility is to safeguard the security of the country and producers, all actors in the industry of technology.

New Delhi, Dec 11 : The Union government is in the process of setting up a National Investigating Agency and a bill is being introduced in the current session of Parliament.

The Centre is also proposing to introduce a set of bills to strengthen other legal provisions relating to the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of terrorist acts.

New Delhi, Dec 11 : Minister of State for Home Affairs today informed that 10 Commando Battalions for R

New Delhi, Dec 11 : Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath today said that the Government would consider another financial assistance package for the export sector next week.

Addressing a news conference here Nath said, "The package which will be announced will generate further demands. Our growth is domestic demand driven. We will have to ensure that our domestic demand continues and government will be taking all the steps including greater investment to ensure that demand in the domestic economy continues in a healthy manner."

Kathua (J-K), Dec 11 : The extended polls in Kashmir being held in seven phases have boosted the business of transporters whose vehicles are in great demand for election campaigning.

Transporters in Kathua district as elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir are a happy lot with the demand for their vehicles having grown after almost two-months long slump due to the Amarnath shrine land row.

New Delhi, Dec 11 : India’s inflation rate continued its southward movement and declined to eight per cent for the week ended on November 29 from 8.4 per cent in the previous week.

This was the slowest rise since mid-April when inflation was at 7.95 percent.

Inflation fell for the fifth consecutive week to a seven-and-a-half-month low of 8 per cent due to cheaper food items.

In fact, the rate of price rise in all certainty is expected to moderate substantially with cascading effect of fuel price cut and four per cent across the board excise duty reduction getting mirrored in the data in subsequent weeks.