Foreign consultant roped in for Vikrant
The ambitious Rs 76-crore plan to convert the Vikrant into a maritime museum will be executed with the help of foreign consultants. The navy has zeroed in on the Texas-based retired Admiral Jamie Scott to execute the project.

New Rent Act will be a please-all
The draft Maharashtra Rent Control Bill may not, after all, make rental accommodation more attractive, if that's what the new act is meant to do. While finalising some key proposals, the state Housing Department has tried to please all sections but not really helped rental housing.

Air monitoring of Naxal activities now
In the wake of confirmed reports that the outlawed People's War Group (PWG) has been conducting a full-fledged military training camp in the deep jungles of Malkanagiri in Orissa for the past six months, police is contemplating air surveillance followed by joint action to flush them out.

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