India Digest Nov 25 2008

Malegaon case: Court rejects ATS plea In a setback to the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad in the Malegaon blast case, an MCOCA court on Monday rejected the agency’s plea for granting it custody of the accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar, after they alleged that they had been tortured. P 12 India not facing recession: FM Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said India does not face recession despite the global financial meltdown. “India is nowhere near recession,” he said at the Economic Editors’ Conference in New Delhi. P 17 GH mixes up bodies: In a horrible mixup, the body of an accident victim was wrongly handed over to the family of another patient, who died of a chronic liver disease at the Government General Hospital on Monday. P 3 AI, Kingfisher to cut fares: State-run Air India is working on a plan to cut fares by 12-15% from next month, while Kingfisher Airlines has decided to follow the move. P 17 Accenture increases working hours: Accenture India will move to longer working hours, up to nine hours from eight hours a day. Technology firms are increasing working hours in a bid to squeeze more out of employees in these difficult times. P 17

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