Sanjeev Saran elected chairman SRTEPC
Mumbai: Sanjeev Saran, MD of Reeti Exim and Application (P) Ltd (REAL) and director of Santosh Fine Fab, has been elected chairman of the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC). Saran is also the managing director of Chargeurs Interlining India.

He will take over from R.L. Toshniwal, chairman and MD of Banswara Syntex.
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Mamata Banerjee ends fast
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ended her 25-day old fast on the Singur issue. She ended the fast at the behest of President A P J Abdul Kalam, BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister Singh ''in the hope of getting justice'' for her demands to protect interests of farmers affected by the Tata Motors small car project at Singur.

A day later Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said to have had a telephonic talk with West Bengal chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee though the contents of the talk are unknown.
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DGCA plans to hire 250 foreign pilots
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to reduce the period for acquiring a commercial pilot licence (CPL) from 16 to 12 months, and will grant CPL to about 250 foreign pilots in Q1 next year.

It will also introduce an multi-engine pilot licence (MPL) in 2007.

A new pilot training institute in Gondia near Nagpur will also be opened for which expressions of interest (EOIs) have already been invited from foreign companies for collaboration.

Currently, about 500 pilots are needed per year, whereas only 200 pilots are being produced in India. With these measures, DGCA plans to increase the availability to about 400 pilots.
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Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executed
Quoting Iraqi state television the US daily The Washigton Post's online edition has reported that deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed early Saturday morning in Baghdad.

Hussein is reported to have been hanged to death. He had been tried for 'crimes against humanity' for the death of 148 Shiites in town of Dujail in 1982 by security forces.(See: Guilty of what?)

Hussein, who rose from humble beginnings to become president built a modern, secular Arab nation, was deposed by a joint Anglo-American military coalition backed by some European countries.

Hussein's fall has unleashed a violent sectarian conflict that threatens to tear the country apart even as the US and the UK wrestle to find a solution that would enable them to withdraw their troops from Iraq without the stigma of having blundered militarily. (See: Moment of truth in Iraq)
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