Formation of employment ministry under study: Prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday announced that his government was considering formation of a ministry of employment to create 10 crore jobs--one core a year--over the next decade. The prime minister was inaugurating Intensive Rural Employment Generation Programme (IREGP) of the Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The prime minister said the jobs would be created in the rural and small scale sectors to provide people a livelihood at their doorsteps. Yukogawa-Bluestar to enter simulators segment: Yukogawa-Bluestar would make a foray into supplying simulators and providing training to operators and maintenance staff of power plants. With the announcement by YEC that it has acquired Techcomm, a power plant simulator and training company of Australia's Utility Service Corporation, the joint venture company would automatically get simulators and facilities fromthe new company to train the staff of power plants, J P Singh, the company's chairman-cum-managing director said.
Opposition charges BJP with double standards: BJP charged Congress and other Opposition parties with adopting "double standards" by opposing President's rule in Bihar and said they should join a nation-wide debate on use of Article 356 of the Constitution. It was strange that political parties which had earlier "blatantly" used the article were now opposing it, BJP general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters. A nation-wide debate on the issue would clearly expose the double standards of various political parties, he said.
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