With the Global Partnership for Enduring Growth Summit, scheduled to be held under the aegis of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Agra Jan 27-28, 2013, drawing close, a preparatory meeting was held here Thursday.
As, CII office bearers and senior state government officials at the meeting termed “the summit as a great opportunity to showcase the novel initiatives and policies of the state government for facilitating investment in Uttar Pradesh”, Industrial and Infrastructure Development Commissioner (IIDC) Anil K. Gupta directed officials concerned for time-bound preparations to successfully organise this summit.
The government said that all policies related with investment and industrial development as well as relevant information must be compiled and collated well within time. Gupta said that list of guests including entrepreneurs, academicians and officials proposed to be participants in Uttar Pradesh-centric sessions should prepared timely so they could be invited for the event.
Policies to be highlighted at the summit include of recently announced infrastructure and industrial investment policy, information technology policy, food processing policy and a few other policies which are in offing, including poultry, bio-tech and solar policy.
Special Secretary, Industrial Development, K.R. Sharma said that it was proposed to invite industrialists and entrepreneurs from all sectors to partake in this event. Specially, those entrepreneurs who have substantive presence in the State or propose to invest in near future will be invited to share their experience.
He added that diplomats of countries, which were prominent business partners of India, would also be invited to this summit.
Bank robbers inspired by ‘Ocean’s 11′ arrested in Kanpur
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Kanpur, Dec 27 (IANS) Four people, including two students, who carried out a sophisticated robbery – inspired by Hollywood film Ocean’s 11 – at a bank here last month, have been arrested and most of the stolen Rs.23 lakh recovered, police said.
Announcing the solving of the case, Kanpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Yashaswi Yadav said that out of the Rs.23 lakh looted from the Bank of Baroda branch in Nirala Nagar here, Rs. 19 lakh had been recovered from the three persons – Anshul, Shailendra and Jitendra, who were arrested earlier in the day.
Their accomplice Atif was picked up by a team of Kanpur police from New Delhi.
Yadav told IANS that what had even stunned the cops was the robbers’ modus operandi – use of technology and social networking sites in the crime.
“The robbers had put tape on their fingers so as not to leave any finger prints, they were wearing helmets and goggles to prevent identification and talked to each other on ear phones,” he said, and said that soon after the bank robbery, they broke and threw away their SIM cards and separated.
During interrogation, the trio told cops that they had taken inspiration from Hollywood flick “Ocean’s 11”, a film on robberies in Las Vegas casinos.
One of the bank robbers is a computer science engineer and other an information technology (IT) engineering student. One of them had also used some of the looted money to pay his college fees.
The police team that cracked the case has been awarded Rs.50,000 by the inspector general of police (IG) and the district police chief said he would be additionally giving them Rs.10,000 as a reward.