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New national steel policy in the offing

Fearing poor steel sector growth due to sky-rocketing prices of minerals and poor infrastructure for its transportation, the government is planning a new national steel policy, said Beni Prasad Verma, the Union minister of steel. He was speaking at a function organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on April 30. The policy will be finalised in the next two months. 

Nowhere to nest

On February 26, as night fell on the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled in. Using their rear flippers, they dug pits in the soft beach sand and started laying eggs, more than 100 at a time. Then they skilfully covered the nests with sand and zigzagged their way back to the ocean as if to confuse predators about the exact location of the nests.