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Move expected to affect a large number of Indians Saudi Arabia might restrict foreign workers’ stay in the country to a maximum of eight years under a proposed law to create jobs for its citizens, a move expected to affect a large number of Indians. The proposed law has been floated by the Labour Ministry which is studying new proposals to expand the Nitaqat law in its bid to reduce the number of foreign workers and dependents besides creating more jobs for citizens with higher salaries.

Stations are a major hub of human trafficking Known to be major transit points for human trafficking, railway stations will soon get Child Protection Committees (CPCs), as per the standard operating procedure developed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). The committees are being instituted in compliance with a Delhi High Court directive on safeguarding child rights.

Point man was sent to Damascus to assess situation India says it is ready for the international conference on Syria, which begins in Geneva on January 22, even as Iran’s participation hangs in the balance following remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. In preparation for the Geneva II Conference, India sent its point man for West Asia, Sandeep Kumar, to Syria late last month. The aim was to get a firsthand assessment of the developments, official sources said.

Pune-based outfit suggests tax reforms to BJP leader Gadkari One of the several tax reform proposals before the BJP Parliamentary Board recommends abolition of the more than 30 local, State and Central level taxes levied at present. The proposal recommends that from the present tax system only import duties should be retained. The proposal received by former BJP president Nitin Gadkari from a Pune-based tax research outfit recommends replacing the present tax system with a single 2 per cent levy per receipt in bank accounts.

“The Gangotri glacier is retreating like other glaciers in the Himalayas and its volume and size are shrinking as well,” a report, titled ‘Estimation of retreat rate of Gangotri glacier using rapid static and kinematic GPS survey’, by scientists from the Almora-based G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development has stated. The institute has been monitoring the Himalayan glaciers, particularly the Gangotri, since 1999. According to the report, “Recessional moraines and broad glacial terrace-like features provide sufficient evidences of shrinking of the glacier in the recent past between Gaumukh and Bhojbasa.” The Gangotri, one of the largest Himalayan glaciers, is in Uttarkashi district. Originating at about 7,100m above sea level, the glacier is 30.2km long and has a width that varies between 0.5 and 2.5km. The Bhagirathi,one of the main tributaries of the Ganga, originates from the glacier, which has retreated more than 1,500 metres in the last 70 years.

Jains could soon become the sixth designated minority community of the country. An indication to this effect was given by Union Minister for Minority Affairs K. Rehman Khan in an interview to a media house on Tuesday. The Law Ministry and the Attorney-General had cleared a proposal to this effect, Mr. Khan disclosed in an exclusive interview to  India Today  . Officials in the Ministry said a Cabinet note had been circulated and the political leadership was keen on seeing it through at the earliest. No legislation is needed and an announcement can be made through an executive order.

Construction of the 2,800-MWe nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Haryana will begin soon, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laying the foundation stone on January 13. An expert panel under the Ministry of Environment and Forests has given the green signal for the project.

Internet giant Google on Tuesday made a formal presentation to the Election Commission proposing a tie-up with it for voter facilitation services ahead of the Lok Sabha election. Google proposed providing its search engines free of cost to voters during the general election. It also proposed free online voter registration.

The first shipment of chemical material has been removed from Syria under a deal to rid the country of its chemical arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disarmament said on Tuesday. “A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel,” the joint UN-OPCW mission said. 

Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs T.B. Jayachandra on Tuesday said that the a Joint Session of the legislature would commence here on January 22. He said that the legislature would meet on eight working days and tentatively close on January 30 but may be extended by a day, if there was any important administrative or legislative measure to be completed.

A committee appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday recommended a Universal Electronic Bank Account (UEBA) for every Indian resident above 18 years of age by January 1, 2016. The account would provide citizens with access to credit and investment options.