Moscow: India said yesterday it would assess the situation arising out of a sharp increase in ceasefire violations by Pakistan on the border in Jammu and Kashmir as it develops and leave it for the time being to the two directors general of military operations who have been tasked to restore peace.
“The DGMOs are in touch and they have spoken to each other.. It is for them to find a way, they have been tasked to do this,” an informed source said as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow for an official visit.
The source said that the DGMOs, who speak on the hotline installed between the two capitals every Tuesday, have spoken but not met as yet.
During the September 29 New York meeting between Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, both sides had agreed to have their DGMOs meet regularly in order to maintain peace on the Line of Control.
Four Indian women in Fortune’s Power 50
Washington: Four Indians led by ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar figure among Fortune magazine’s list of world’s top 50 women business leaders, while India-born PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi is ranked second in a separate US list.
Kochhar has been ranked fourth, followed by National Stock Exchange (NSE) chief Chitra Ramkrishna at 17th, Axis Bank’s Shikha Sharma at 32nd and HSBC’s Naina Lal Kidwai at 42nd place among the Indians on the international list.
Kochhar, managing director and CEO of India’s largest private sector bank, has moved up one position from her fifth position on the 2012 list, while NSE’s Ramkrishna has made it to the list for the first time.
Coal scam status report tomorrow
New Delhi: The CBI is likely to submit in the apex court tomorrow its status report in the alleged coal block allocation case, including the recent first information report (FIR) against a top industrialist and former bureaucrat, said informed sources here yesterday.
“The agency will file the progress details of all the 14 FIRs in which Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Hindalco and former coal secretary P C Parakh have been named,” said Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources.
IANS
