The government is worried about the economic slowdown and at a two-hour meeting today, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told top bureaucrats from the Commerce and Finance ministries to implement plans with a focus on speed; More than 10,000 schools across the country have been asked to conduct psychological tests of their teachers along with police verification, by the Central Board of Secondary Education. The rule -- which came amid nationwide concern about of safety of students following the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur at a school in Gurgaon; When Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar, the brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, was picked up from his home in south Mumbai late on Monday, he was busy watching the "Kaun Banega Crorepati" show and eating biryani, Thane Police Commissioner Parambir Singh said today; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.
