| Home Minister chairs meeting to discuss Model Police Act
Under pressure from the Supreme Court and with a majority of states expressing serious reservations about implementing radical police reforms, a high-level meeting was today chaired by Home Minister Shivraj Patil to discuss the nitty-gritty of the Model Police Act. The marathon five-hour meeting reviewed clause-by-clause the draft of the proposed legislation suggested by a panel set up to re-draft the 150-year Police Act. The meeting was attended by Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Home Secretary V K Duggal, Legal Affairs and Legislative Affairs Secretaries, D G Bureau of Police Research and Development, Director Intelligence Bureau, and Special Secretary (Interal Security). Taking note of factors like corruption and a police-mafia nexus affecting functioning of the police, the panel headed by noted jurist Soli Sorabjee, recommended measures for greater professionalism and insulating the force from undue pressures.
It's an Odd World!
SYDNEY: The Big Mac, the hamburger that for two decades doubled as a light-hearted barometer of global exchange rate trends, faces being displaced by a twenty-first century rival - the iPod music player.
An Australian bank this week unveiled a new indicator of future foreign exchange directions based on Apple's ubiquitous iPod that it says is more accurate than the Big Mac Index introduced by the Economist magazine in 1986.
The Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) iPod Index forecasts trends by assessing the price of Apple's portable music player, which has sold 88 million units worldwide since 2002.
"Simply, an iPod nano should broadly cost the same across the globe. If there were substantial price differences customers would switch their purchases to other countries," said CommSec chief economist Craig James.
Man found at scene of break-in arrested
Police arrested a Columbus, Ind., man a few feet from the Seymour convenience store he is accused of robbing Christmas morning.
Rex A. Clark, 24, was arrested about 8:30 a.m. Monday by Master Trooper Tommy L. Walker Jr. and Trooper David Owsley, of the Indiana State Police Seymour District, who found Clark sitting inside a stalled vehicle in front of the Tobacco Road store on Ind. 11.
The troopers were responding to an activated burglar alarm at the store. There, they found that the front door window had been smashed.
Clark initially told police the broken window was someone elses fault and that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, authorities said.
Further investigation found that Clark allegedly stole the vehicle from Columbus, drove to the store to break into it and steal multiple items, including lottery tickets, cash and pills, police said.
NFL's freshman class takes top honors
Rookies like Reggie Bush, Jay Cutler, and Vince Young are making a big impact on once-struggling teams. By Erik Spanberg | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NFL rookies once sat quietly in the corner of locker rooms, sang their college fight songs during hazing sessions, and served as understudies for a year or two before seeing significant playing time. That was your father's NFL. .
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