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NATIONAL NEWS
AUGUST 2012
Coalgate scam disrupts parliament 67% India defecates in open India donates rice to Yemen
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh visited Mexico and Brazil to participate in the G-20 Summit at Los Cabos and to attend the Rio + 20 conference on Sustainable Development at Rio de Janeiro, respectively.
NEWS FROM STATES
AUGUST 2012
Delhi Government has launched a scheme to end the use of kerosene as household fuel. Punjab has bagged the top position in country in the field of dairy farming with the production of 95.4 lakh MT milk annually West Bengal Assembly is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee. Germany agrees to give Rs 365 crore loan to develop urban infrastructure in Odisha.
JULY 2012
Shri Pranab Mukherjee elected 13 president of India, defeating P A Sangma. Special coins to be issued on 60 years of Parliament India signs new tax treaty with Norway India signs Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with Indonesia. International Cooperative Conference held at New Delhi on July 4, 2012. The Western Ghats of India included in the coveted list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. th JULY 2012
Kerala has passed a Right to Service Bill entitling the citizens to assert their right to all the services that each government department is supposed to provide them. Bihar economy grew at a rate of 16.71 per cent in comparison to its performance in the previous fiscal. The Rajasthan government has decided to ban the production, storage, distribution and sale of gutkha in State. About 18 lakh laptops and 26 lakh computer tablets will be distributed to students who passed out of classes 10 and 12 in Uttar Pradesh, during the current academic session. Govt has cleared the Rs.5,128-crore Kochi Metro Rail project for Kerala state.
JUNE 2012
India 10 in the list of wealthy countries, first three being US, Japan