1. Anna Hazare ready to campaign for Mamata Banerjee
Social activist Anna Hazare on Monday said he would campaign for Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha elections if West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agrees to work on a 17-point nationalist programme suggested by him.
“I wrote a letter to every party asking them whether they are ready to work on 17 issues that India is facing today. No political party is thinking about changing the economic system. Only Mamata Banerjee agreed to implement those 17 agendas if voted to power. I will campaign for her party if she commits to these issues in written,” he said. Hazare said he would meet Mamata on Tuesday to discuss the 17-point agenda.
“We will meet tomorrow to discuss how to go about the 17-point programme in detail,” he said. The Gandhian activist refused to comment on erstwhile co-campaigner Arvind Kejriwal’s stand on corruption but added that the former Delhi Chief Minister should present proper proof before calling anyone corrupt. “What can I say about him? It is his personal opinion. But one must provide concrete evidence before releasing a list of corrupt people otherwise it is useless,” he said.
2. Nirbhaya Fund gets additional Rs 1,000 crore in budget
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday allocated an additional Rs 1,000 crore to the Nirbhaya Fund for the safety and empowerment of women.
"In order to make it clear that the (Nirbhaya) fund will be a prominent fund, I intend to declare the grant of Rs 1,000 crore as non-lapsable and in order to support more proposals, I propose to contribute to the fund another Rs 1,000 crore next year," Chidambarams said while presenting the interim budget in Parliament.
In January, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a Rs 1,405-crore project to track and monitor public transport and provide alarm buttons for alerting authorities.
The government set a deadline of February 20, 2014, for public transport vehicles running in major cities with a population of over 10 lakh to install GPS devices.
3. Brendon McCullum becomes the first cricketer of New Zealand to score a triple century (302) in Test cricket.
He achieved this feat against India in the 2nd test of the bilateral series.
4. Tamil Nadu transport department creates Guinness world record for organising the largest blood donation camp.
The camp saw 53,129 volunteers donating a total of 18439 litres of blood. It was organized to Celebrate CM Jayalalithaa's birthday. The previous record was held by a camp organized in Haryana where 43732 people had volunteered to donate blood in 2010.
5. Abdul Basit is to replace Salman Bashir as the new High Commissioner of Pakistan to India.
6. Rakesh Maria appointed as new Police Commissioner of Mumbai
The Mumbai Police on Saturday got a new police commissioner. Senior IPS officer Rakesh Maria, who was the head of the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad was appointed as Mumbai Police Commissioner on Saturday.
Rakesh Maria, who belongs to the 1981 batch of the Indian Police Service, played a key role in arresting most of the accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
He has headed probes into 1993 Mumbai blasts and 26/11 attacks on the city. The decision to appoint Maria was taken after a high-level meeting in Mumbai chaired by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and attended by Home Minister RR Patil.
7. India to host its maiden World Bridge Championship both for men (Bermuda Bowl) and women (Venice Cup) in October 2015.
The biennial event is the biggest event of card games in the world.
8. Google purchases Israeli security start-up SlickLogin - which has developed a sound based password alternative.
9. Tendulkar, Sehwag nominated for 'Cricketer of the Generation' award
Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag will be amongst the nominees for the 'ESPNcricinfo@20 Cricketer of the Generation' award, with the cricket news website on Monday announcing two more categories to its seventh annual awards.
10. Matteo Renzi nominated to become Italy's youngest PM
Italy's Matteo Renzi was on Monday nominated to be the European Union's youngest prime minister and immediately outlined an ambitious reform plan, promising "energy, enthusiasm and commitment" to revitalise the eurozone's third largest economy.
11. Pakistan militant Maulana Masood Azhar resurfaces, ignites fears of attacks
Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistani Islamic hardliner blamed for an attack on India's parliament that brought the nuclear rivals to the brink of war has resurfaced after years in seclusion, setting off alarm bells in New Delhi.
Twice since the end of December, authorities have issued an airport security alert, warning of an attempt by members of a Pakistan-based militant group called Jaish-e-Mohammad, or Army of Muhammad, to hijack a plane, with smaller airfields most at risk. Officials have said the alerts followed reports of increased activity by Masood Azhar, the leader of the outlawed militant group. Azhar was named by a court as the prime suspect in a 2001 attack on parliament aimed at taking top political leaders hostage.
Fifteen people were killed, most of them security guards as well as the five men who stormed the complex. Tensions between the old enemies spiralled after the attack and up to a million troops were mobilised on both sides of the volatile border.
Pakistan refused to hand over Azhar to India. The portly and bearded cleric has remained mostly confined to a compound in his home city of Bhawalpur in Pakistan's Punjab province for years, but three weeks ago, he addressed supporters and said the time had come to resume jihad, or holy war, against India.
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