New Delhi, Mar 5 : The Company Law Board (CLB) on Thursday asked the government to appoint four nominee directors on the board of Maytas Infra.

One of the four nominees would be the chairman of the board, it said.

The CLB has rejected the government's petition to supersede the Maytas Infra board.

The Law Board said that Maytas Infra authorizes the central government to appoint four nominees directors on the board of the company.

New Delhi, Mar 5 : The National Annual Conference of Chief Registrars of Births and Deaths began here today.

In his opening remarks, the Registrar General of India, D. K. Sikri said that National Population Policy 2000 has mandated cent percent level of registration of births and deaths by 2010.

"The current level of registration is 68 per cent for births and 63 per cent for deaths. The level of registration has steadily gone up over the years," he said.

New Delhi, Mar. 5 : Six years ago, the use of insulin pumps, a diabetes treatment device that promised to give insulin-dependent diabetics a normal lifestyle free from constant insulin injections, found few takers in India. The reason was the prohibitive cost.

As some doctors said then, each pump cost as much as a small car.

New Delhi, Mar 5 : A pre-poll tie-up with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have taken place, but the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has denied joining the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Party chief Chandra Mohan Patowary said the relationship is confined to the sharing of seats only.

"We are not part of NDA. But we will fight elections together to defeat the UPA. It is only a seat sharing arrangement with the BJP," Patowary said.

Patowary also made it clear that both parties would have separate manifestos.

New Delhi, Mar 5 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced a pre-poll tie-up with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) for upcoming general elections.

"BJP would contest eight seats from Assam, while the AGP would try its luck in the rest of the six seats," BJP president Rajnath Singh said on the sidelines of a joint press conference.

BJP prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani, Sharad Yadav, Shushma Swaraj and AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary were also present at the press conference.