August 31, 2001

• Gold production up in July
• Textbooks need revision: Dr. Joshi
• New National Tourism Policy to be finalised in State Tourism Ministers’ meet
• Needle injury to Kanpur Doctors treating suspected HIV/AIDS patients
• Validity period and fee of licence for manufacture and sale of drugs and cosmetics revised
• 274 awards to be given away on Teachers’ Day
• Arun Jaitley introduces Major Port Trusts (Amendment) Bill, 2001
• President’s assent to a Bill
• Law Minister introduces Companies (second amendment) Bill on formation of cooperative business as companies
• Revision of Pay Scales of Subedar-Major and Havildar
• Acquisition of military equipment from Russia
• Foreign Defence personnel's training in defence establishments
• Simulators for IAF
• Space for storing inventories in Ordnance Depots
• Live storage of important reservoirs in the country
• Reforms by Sports Federations
• Afro-Asian Games Organising Committee signs MoU with Air India
• Inflation rate and All India Consumer Price Index for industrial workers increases
• Feed stock costs in fertilizer industry
• Compensation amount of Bhopal gas tragedy
• 1/11 Gorkha Rifles Forty Second Raising Day
• Interactive session by transparency internationa
• Production of Pulses
• No discrimination against the farmers in WTO agreement
• German technological assistance for pollution check
• Illegal felling of trees
• Targets for forest cover
• Cities covered under Ganga Action Plan in Uttaranchal
• Bina Refinery Project
• Maintenance of Elephant Sanctuary at Chandaka
• Encouraging response to the first ever bidding for the Coalbed
• Outbreak of gastroenteritis in Surguja central team visits the affected area
• Finance ministry invites public views on E-commerce and taxation
• India Post and UTI bank sign MoU for marketing value-added financial products
• Shri Paswan to release commemorative postage stamp on Jagdev Prasad
• Basic telephone licenses for Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka issued
• Encroachment of Defence land
• Sale of Lakshya
• Setting up of exhibition centres abroad
• Anti-dumping measures not targetted at imports from any country
• Communication Convergence Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
• R.N. Malhotra takes over as Chairman Railway Board
• Be customer friendly and meet the challenge of liberalisation - Shri Malhotra’s message to railwaymen
• Finance Ministry invites public views on E-Commerce and Taxation