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No tax on fliers to North East and J&K
Domestic passengers flying in and out of the northeast and out of Jammu and Kashmir will not have to pay the 10.3% service
charge on airfares. The new cess for both business and economy domestic travellers will be Rs 103 or 10.3% of gross ticket
value, whichever is lower. For economy class international flyers, it will be Rs 515 or 10.3% of ticket value, whichever is less.
India has just one operation theatre per one lakh people
A latest study by the Harvard School of Public Health has found that while the South-East Asia region has just 2.6 OTs per 1
lakh population, the number is as low as 1.3 OT per 1 lakh population in India and Pakistan. What’s worse, the surgical facilities
that are available don’t have the basic safety equipment necessary for safe surgery — such as oxygen monitors.
Eastern Europe has the highest number of OTs per 1 lakh population — 25.1 — followed by Asia Pacific (high income countries)
24.3, Central Europe 15.7, Western Europe 14.7, North America and Australasia 14.3, Central Asia 11.7 and the Caribbean 10.4
OTs per 1 lakh population. South-East Asia comes right at the end of the heap with 2.6 OTs. The worse are Oceania at 1.9, sub-
Saharan Africa (central) 1.2, sub-Saharan Africa (east) 1.1 and sub-Saharan Africa (west) 1.
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Seven-year jail term for “Dr. Death”
A Indian-born U.S. citizen Jayant Patel (60) surgeon dubbed “Dr. Death” in Australia for a string of botched operations
was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing three patients and permanently harming another.
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RNRL-RPower merger at 4:1 swap
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) company Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) will merge with Reliance
Power (RPower), another group firm, in a 4-for-1 share swap deal. After the merger, shareholder of RNRL will get one share of
RPower for every four shares of RNRL held on the record date.
RNRL is the company which is mandated to supply gas to RPower that will run the latter’s electricity generation plants.
Analysts feel that post merger, the combined entity will enjoy economies of scale since the supply of gas and also its usage will
be controlled by one company.
Facts:
RNRL shareholders will get one share of RPower for 4 shares
RPower to derive substantial benefit from RNRL’s gas supply pact with RIL
Push for RPower's plan to set up up to 10,000 MW gasbased plants
RPower to benefit from gas from RNRL’s 4 CBM blocks
Enhanced reliability and cost efficiency for RPower through RNRL’s coal supply logistics and shipping business
RNRL shareholders to benefit from RPower’s planned generation portfolio of 37,000 MW and substantial coal
reserves
RPower to have over 6 million shareholders, the world’s largest shareholding family
Food inflation dips to 12.92 per cent
Food inflation declined, by 3.98 percentage points, to 12.92 per cent for the third week of June, as the rate of rise in the
prices of cereals and vegetables dropped owing to a high base effect.
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Perelman rejects award
Russia's math whizz Grigori Perelman has finally turned down a $1,000,000 prize he won for having solved a century-old
puzzle. The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) in March awarded its Millennium Prize of $1 million to the reclusive
mathematician for proving the 106-year-old Poincaré conjecture, a theorem about the nature of multidimensional space.
DEaths
Industrialist, philanthropist Obul Reddy passes away
P. Obul Reddy, industrialist, philanthropist and patron of the arts, passed away. He was 85. Mr. Reddy, who was one of
the first industrialists from the South to enter into the television business, was the proprietor of the firm that sold the
popular Dyanora TV sets. He was also the former managing director and founder of Nippo Batteries, and was the
managing director of Panasonic India, formerly the Indo Matsushita Company.
Journalist dead
M. Kunhikannan, journalist, social worker, and Gandhian, died. Born on July 9, 1926 in Kannur district, he became a
Congress worker in 1945. He was elected president of the Kannur District Congress Committee in 1960. He joined
theMathrubhumi daily as a reporter in Wayanad in 1970. He was former president of the Wayanad Press Club.
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Wimbledon 2010 Tennis
Men’s Singles- Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Women’s Singles- Serena Williams (USA)
Men’s Doubles- Jürgen Melzer (Austria) and Philipp Petzschner (Germany)
Women’s Doubles- Vania King (USA) and Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan)
Mixed Doubles- Leander Paes (India) and Cara Black (Zimbabwe)
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