New Delhi, Sept 30 : The ''Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations'' was formally unveiled here today by the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Admiral Sureesh Mehta.

Authored by the Headquarters Integrated Defence Staffs, Doctrine Branch, the document covers the organisational set up and special characteristics of the Special Forces, and highlights their suitability for various roles, ranging from strategic and operational level tasks to unconventional warfare and counter insurgency or counter terrorism tasks.

New Delhi, Sept 30 : Underworld don Babloo Shrivastava was on Tuesday held guilty and awarded life imprisonment under Section 302 (murder) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC by a Kanpur District Judge in the city''s TADA court.

Shrivastava is a gangster who allegedly hatched a plot to kill LD Arora way back in 1993. Arora was an assistant custom collector, who was shot dead near his residence in Allahabad on March 24, 1993.

Shrivastava’s two assistants, Manjit Singh alias Mange Sardar and Kamal Kishor Saini, were also found guilty in conspiring of Arora''s murder and have been sentenced to life imprisonment.

New Delhi, Sept 30 : Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A. Raja today asked public sector BSNL to give top most priority to the growth of cellular and broadband services.

Speaking at the 15th Heads of Circles Conference of BSNL here, Raja expressed worries over the dwindling market share of BSNL in the mobile telecom segment.

He called upon BSNL officials to workout a strategy to restore BSNL’s market position.

New Delhi, Sept 30 : The National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) Limited has won the Golden Peacock Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance for the year 2008.

The award was received by A. K. Rastogi, Company Secretary, NTPC in London from Dr. Ola Ulsten, Former Prime Minister of Sweden and Chairman of the World Council for Corporate Governance.

C. B. Bhave, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was also present on the occasion.

New Delhi - India's benchmark Sensex stock index recovered from early losses Tuesday after market regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India assured that the US financial crisis will not affect domestic bourses.

The 30-share-sensitive index plunged by 442.20 points soon after opening to a near two-year low of 12,153.33 - a loss of 3.5 per cent -amid heavy selling in stocks of banking, metal, realty and IT sectors.

The Sensex later pared its losses and was trading at 12,612.28, up 0.13 per cent, at 12:15 pm (0645 GMT).

The broader S&P CNX Nifty index of the National Stock Exchange also recovered and was trading at 3,846.10, down 0.10 per cent, around the same time.