Best Bakery case: PR Vakil appointed public prosecutor
Mumbai: The re-trial in the Best Bakery case is scheduled to start in Mumbai later today with the Maharashtra government appointing senior lawyer P R Vakil as the Public Prosecutor in the case.

On April 12, the Supreme Court had ordered the Bombay High Court to set up a special court for retrial of the 21 accused in the case who were acquitted by a fast track court in Gujarat after the witnesses in the case turned hostile. The Gujarat High Court had also endorsed the lower court order acquitting them.

Zaheera Sheikh, a prime witness in the case had moved the Supreme Court seeking re-trial of the accused outside the state on the ground that she had been intimidated. Fourteen people were killed in a carnage in Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002.
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Small savings up Rs62,884 crore for fiscal 2003-04
Mumbai: Small savings in India recorded a sharp rise of Rs 62,884 crore in the fiscal 2003-04, from Rs 3,11,782 crore in the end of March 2003, to Rs 3,74,666 crore in end March 2004, according to RBI data.

The total receipts in March 2004 were the highest for the entire fiscal at Rs 16,286 crore, followed by Rs 13,369 crore and Rs 13,336 crore in January and December respectively, the central bank added. MIS saw a rise of Rs 32,830 crore in the period under review to end FY-04 with outstandings of Rs 1,13,372 crore.
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IIM-A increases scholarship amount
Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has said it would raise the amount of need-based scholarship from Rs 25 lakhs to one Rs crore while the fee-structure would remain the same as last year. Need-based scholarship has been raised four times to accommodate more number of students and the fees structure would remain the same as last year which is Rs 1.5 lakh, according to the Chairman of IIM-A Narayan Murthy.
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