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Chandigarh, February 08:In a major administrative reshuffle the Haryana government tonight issued transfer and posting orders of 25 IAS officers with immediate effect.

Among those transferred include Balbir Singh Malik, Commissioner Hisar division, who has been made Director environment, Haryana, an official release said here.

Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner R K Kataria has been made administrator, Haryana Urban Development authority Panchkula.

Deputy commissioners of may other districts were among those who were shuffled.

–PTI

New Delhi, February 08:With just two weeks to go for the budget session, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Monday expressed hope that parliament would function normally even as the opposition parties stuck to their demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam.

The government has convened a meeting Tuesday with all political parties to break the logjam on the issue.

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Monday there was no change in its demand for JPC.

New Delhi, February 08:Russia today signed a joint venture with India focussing on avionics and processors of frontline fighter aircraft like Sukhoi-30 and Mig-29 in Bangalore, two days before the beginning of Aero India show there.

The joint venture was signed between Russian defence firm Rosoboronexport and Axis Aerospace Technologies (AAT), an Indian company dealing into aerospace technologies.

Besides the existing frontline aircraft, the venture would also cater to the aircraft like MiG-35.

Kolkata, February 07:A high-level Election Commission team that toured West Bengal recently will again come to the poll-bound state to visit its trouble-torn areas, a senior official said Monday.

“The Election Commission has informed that the high-level team will be visiting several parts of the state between February 8 and 14,” said West Bengal’s Additional Chief Electoral Officer N.K. Sahana.

Bhubaneswar, February 07:Nearly 100 journalists staged a demonstration here Monday to protest the alleged attack by a ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and his supporters on a reporter of a vernacular daily.

Expressing their concern over the increasing attacks on their colleagues in the state, the journalists, gathered under the banner of ‘Media Unity for Freedom’, demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.

New Delhi, February 07:India today invited Austrian companies to set up base to produce for the market here as well as to use the market for exports.

Suggesting this to a Parliamentary delegation from Austria, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said India stands to benefit from the high-end technical knowhow possessed by that country.

New Delhi, February 07:The central government Monday told the Supreme Court that it has been “consistently” taking up the issue of release of Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails with the government in that country.

The matter was taken up in the course of the talks between foreign ministers, home ministers and foreign secretaries of both the countries at different points of time, the government told the apex court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice B.S. Chauhan.