Key BSNL, MTNL issues on Cabinet table NLCworkers held while trying to stage demo Arbitration law: Govt eases stringent timeline

New Delhi The Cabinet might take up issue of compensating lossmaking state-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL for surrendering CDMA spectrum auctioned in March this year, as well as the proposal of BSNL to hive off mobile towers assets.

Cuddalore (TN) Around 2,000 workers of public sector Neyveli Lignite Corporation were arrested on Tuesday after they tried to hold a demonstration near a mine in support of their demands. Regular employees of NLC are on strike since July 20 demanding a wage revision.

New Delhi In the face of stiff opposition, the law ministry is learnt to have eased the stringent timeline for the settling of commercial disputes proposed in the amendments to the arbitration law.The Union Cabinet will on Wednesday take a call on the proposed amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Last month, too, the issue was on the agenda of the Union Cabinet, but the matter was deferred. In the backdrop of a sharply rising price of onions, the Delhi government on Tuesday announced it would sell the vegetable at ~40 per kg through Fair Price Shops (FPSs) at 280 locations across the city from Monday. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Food and Civil Supplies Minister Asim Ahmed Khan said the government would also sell onions through mobile shops where FPS was not close to residential locations, so that the public does not face any inconvenience. “The department of food and civil supplies had begun its preparations to counter a possible rise in prices of onions in the rainy season since April,” Khan said.