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Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 23:26

Govt slaps notice to BHEl asking to pay Rs 25 Cr as penalty

Karnataka government has slapped a notice on BHEL asking to pay Rs 250 crore as penalty for supplying faulty power generating equipments at the Raichur Thermal Power Station, Minister for Energy, Shobha Karandlaje said today.

Karnataka government has slapped a notice on BHEL asking to pay Rs 250 crore as penalty for supplying faulty power generating equipments at the Raichur Thermal Power Station, Minister for Energy, Shobha Karandlaje said today.

The eighth unit of the RTPS, the contract of which was awarded to BHEL, developed technical snag since about a year ago and the company has not been able to rectify it, she told reporters here. The government had also decided to recover the losses caused to the state following failure to generate power by BHEL in the last one year, she said.http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/govt-slaps-notice-to-bhel-asking-to-pay-rs-25cr-as-penalty_743990.html

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Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:22

CNN, Time magazine suspend Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism

Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse.

Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse.

Zakaria, was suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted that he had plagiarised portions of an article he wrote on gun control for Time, from the New Yorker magazine.

He issued an apology saying he had made a "terrible mistake" and his lifting a paragraph from the article by Harvard University professor of American history Jill Lepore was an "ethical lapse".

Zakaria, 48, a Yale and Harvard graduate, had written the column on gun control that appeared in the August 20 issue of Time magazine.