eBiz portal launched

 

Commerce and Industry Ministry has launched eBiz portal to provide Government-to-Business (G2B) services for India’s investor and business communities. The portal was developed by Infosys in a publicprivate partnership (PPP) mode. Infosys has been selected as the concessionaire/ project implementation partner, and is responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of the eBiz solution. The online single-window concept was visualised to enable businesses and investors to save time and costs and improve the business environment. “The project aims to create a business and investorfriendly ecosystem in India by making all business and investment-related regulatory services across Central, State and local governments available on a single portal.

India, Bangladesh sign extradition treaty, new visa regime

 

India and Bangladesh has signed a liberalised visa agreement and a landmark extradition treaty that would pave the way for the deportation of jailed ULFA 'general secretary' AnupChetia and other wanted "criminals". The treaty would not be applicable for persons accused of offenses of political nature and only those with charges like murders, culpable homicide and other serious offenses would come under the purview of the deal. The offenders of small crimes awarded with less than one year jail will also not be wanted under the treaty. The two countries agreed to ink the extradition treaty in December 2012 alongside an agreement to liberalise visa regime while New Delhi earlier promised to put in efforts to track down two absconding and convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and hand them over to Dhaka as two of them were believed to be hiding in India.

Zeman is first directly elected Czech President

A former left-leaning Prime Minister staged a big return to power by winning the Czech Republic’s first directly elected presidential vote.

With all the votes counted, Milos Zeman won 54.8 per cent of the vote for the largely ceremonial post, the Czech Statistics Office reported. His opponent, conservative Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, had 45.2 per cent.

Since Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993, the Czech Republic has had two Presidents elected by Parliament — Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus.