| GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: News of the Day(1st September, 2012) Sep 1st 2012, 19:20 | GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012 | | The most comprehensive career education and test preparation forums in india. | | | News of the Day(1st September, 2012) Sep 1st 2012, 19:02 News of the Day 1st September, 2012. Friday - Pushed by an upset PMO, coal ministry has got into action to expedite the process of de-allocating the blocks ahead of Monday's inter-ministerial meeting.
- Political parites in Bihar have asked the Centre to take strong action against Raj Thackeray for his anti-Bihari remarks.
- After Bangalore police arrested a Hyderabad student in connection with terror crackdown, Maharashtra ATS nabbed four terror suspects from Nanded district today.
- BJP leader Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Saturday that the government should announce the cancellation of coal blocks and institute a fair and independent inquiry and only then they could have a discussion.
- The expert committee on General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) on Saturday recommended postponement of the controversial tax provision by three years and abolition of capital gains tax on transfer of securities.
- Six suspected workers of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) allegedly ransacked a theatre located at Grant Road of south Mumbai, protesting screening of a Bhojpuri film, police said.
- Facebook has ramped up efforts to get rid of "Likes" that aren't from people genuinely interested in giving a virtual thumbs up to pages at the world's leading social network.
- President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
- A special train left here on Saturday for Bangalore with the Northeast people, who have recently fled from the Karnataka capital following rumours of a backlash against them over the ethnic clashes in Assam.
- Fresh off its court victory over Samsung Electronics Co., iPhone maker Apple Inc. is asking a federal court to add four more of its rival's products to the list of patent-infringing products.
- Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has rejected an effort by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to end the impasse in Parliament over coal block allocation. When Mrs Gandhi spoke to Mrs Swaraj, she was told that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must step down.
- Author Siddhartha Deb has been named among the winners of the 2012 PEN Awards, considered the most comprehensive literary awards programme in the US, for his non-fiction work on India.
- Refuting BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's allegation that his phone was tapped by Union Minister P Chidambaram, Home Secretary RK Singh has said that central agencies can tap phones only with his permission.
- The Cook Islands announced the creation of the world's largest marine park. The 1.065 million square kilometre (411,000 square mile) reserve would help save one of the last pristine ocean eco-systems.
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