The Ministry of Defence says it has received an anonymous letter demanding information on Orica's fate, which was issued to the Ministry of Defence on Friday.

The letter asks for a detailed report to be delivered to defence ministry chief of staff and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mary Ng.

It also asks for documents showing what action was taken to resolve the dispute between the Ministry of Defence and the defence ministry and whether the Ministry of Defence has paid the Defence Department of around $4 million.

The letter has also asked the ministry to provide a status report as to the outcome of an investigation into the orica case and the actions of the Ministry of Defence in the interim.

It also asks for information on the costs of Orica's upkeep and any steps taken to make it better.

On March 1, the Ministry of Defence confirmed it had made an offer to purchase the submarine in return for a large lump sum payment of $15.3 million.

Under the deal, orica would then be taken off the order for up to 18 months and the company would also have to invest a substantial amount of money to replace the submarine's engine and navigation equipment.

In exchange for the money, orica's future would be assured, and Orica would be given a choice if it wanted to leave and pursue a competitive tender with the Singapore Government for a more affordable contract.

But orica, founded in 2002 by Singaporean businessman and naval enthusiast Sunu Boon, filed a defamation lawsuit claiming it had been defamed and had been deliberately defrauded.

In its defence, Orica claimed that the contract had been negotiated in good faith between Singaporean and Malaysian businesses.

The court of arbitration for commercial disputes in the East China Sea had set aside the award issued to it and ordered a new arbitral panel be set up to rule on the matter.

Under the arbitration tribunal, an arbitrator will hear each case separately as the case is registered before the body.

But the court has yet to rule on Orica's motion to lift its award and a decision on whether orica's request to lift the contract from the contract with Singapore was accepted is currently pending.

If Orica wins the arbitral award, it will be banned from entering into any more maritime contracts.

Citrus canker inquiry to take evidence in emerald-green tea court

1.03pm: A complaint has been lodged with the Central Board of Secondary Education about the alleged sexual harassment, abuse and assault against a Class 7 student in Hargobind. The complaint says the girl's parents also lodged a complaint. This is after an FIR filed in connection with a similar incident reported from February, but there are conflicting accounts of what was said in that case. Both parents of the girl say she was raped by her classmates in a private room. It is alleged in the complaint that the girl had said she would commit suicide but after they did, she was kept by friends in the room. A girl's brother reportedly said the girl's parents are trying to bully her but they have no proof of their claims.

12.56pm: An incident in a private room has been reported on February 4 from Madhya Pradesh and it seems that the girl had gone to her house with a couple of friends after finishing her examinations. The girl's family says there is no proof of any sexual assault of the girl in a private room. The girl's parents had also alleged that the boys were keeping her at a room that was separate from the family's.

12.49pm: The Central Board of Secondary Education had earlier ordered a probe into the matter. The school's secretary has said that after investigations, the matter is yet to be reported to the higher authorities.

12.34pm: The Uttar Pradesh government will investigate the case. The Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, "In case there's a rape, this will also be investigated. There was talk in a private room and now a child is in trouble for it."

12.25pm: The girl's mother has alleged that the girl had a boyfriend at school, she then arranged to meet him in an apartment but he refused to give her permission. She had then asked him to "give a reason". He apparently said he didn't want a child involved. The girl said it was her "own decision to bring this up". When her mother came to complain, the boyfriend took out a gun and asked the girl to come out. He also kept demanding that she leave the apartment as she didn't want them to take her there," the girl's mother told ANI.

12.10pm: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that he will take action against the accused, who he called "a gang of killers". "My thoughts and prayers are with the families and students of this incident. The investigation will take a few hours. If the case is passed by judicial scrutiny, the accused can face trial," Singh said.

12.02pm: The victim's father has alleged that the girl was bullied an

Sydney: Is there a difference?

Barry Ginn: The difference between going to work and having a baby is that I could look forward to taking care of my family and doing the most amazing job I possibly could in a busy and hard workplace and just let it all hang out. I can't take that away from them. They know they're doing what they have to do to get ahead.

Barry Ginn is the former president and CEO of Bayswater Resources, a publicly traded Australian firm. The son of a miner and an ex-smelter worker, Ginn rose through the ranks in Australia's iron mining industry before leading the charge to combat climate change. His success story is widely known but his personal struggles are a different story.

He tells Rolling Stone that when he got to work a little more than a decade ago, he faced a number of downsides, including:

⢠High inflation on a national scale.

⢠The end of his family.

⢠He couldn't find work.

He says his job experience has been inspirational, even as he's struggled, but it's time for a personal awakening.

"I've been told I'm lucky and I'm not. They want you to know that you don't have to do what I did. In many ways, I'm still doing the same things I was before. But I think it's time for me to let it go. I'm a man and I've worked all my life, and I'll have done it again by the time I'm 80 or 90 years old."

How does Barry Ginn approach his own journey to retirement?

It starts with my wife, Marisa. We haven't lived together since I was a child. She went to the hospital. There are no words to describe how bad it feels. As we get older, things start to go out of whack for me. I'm able to talk to her more and feel more confident about myself.

I start to look forward to the future. A lot of my relationships and career successes are based on having kids, but I think the key is to have relationships that last even longer. To that extent, I have a lot of faith in myself and the company that I built at the beginning. I have so much respect for those who came before me â people like my wife, my brothers and my sisters.

That feeling of being the luckiest individual in the world, even though, as a parent, that is very challenging, has made me stronger as a human being and a father, which is exactly what you need when a child has a very heavy burden.

Barry

Govt playing politics over warship claims minchin says is nothing to do with China

Minchin says there is no problem between China and India at all

China has "no desire" to intervene in the internal affairs of India, despite the row over the disputed Brahmaputra basin.

Foreign Affairs Secretary S Jaishankar met with the defence chiefs of the two countries on Monday and had informed them that "an Indian deployment in the waters off Chinese territory is nothing to do with the territorial disputes between the two countries".

Jaishankar also pointed out that China's claims over the region are not rooted in territorial disputes, but they were "conceived by China's leaders to be a way of showing its power. They are designed to embarrass India. They are designed to make our Indian leadership look weak", he told reporters in New Delhi.

"There is no reason why India should have to exercise military control over the international space. That is already their responsibility. They have done it for 20 years and they have been winning, but they never really exercised that authority that way] or exercised that authority to the extent in the past," Jaishankar said, referring to the 1962 war with China which broke out when Chinese forces landed in the Bay of Bengal to try and seize control over the entire peninsula from India.

Jaisankar said India has been "very clear that we will not deploy vessels to the disputed waters to assert Indian sovereignty over them" but they have always been directed to respect Indian territorial waters which China claims in a way that is beyond the reach of Indian sovereignty, and if India wants to assert its sovereignty over those waters, it should also exercise its sovereignty to what extent it wants, not just what the Indian government has authorised".

"In other words, they will stay out of Chinese waters, if they need to be with the intention of making a territorial claim or making a military claim. If it's a case where you have a need for surveillance to protect Indian sovereignty, if it's a case where you need to exercise certain degree of restraint, we have no objections if the Chinese do that. That's their call and responsibility and to us, it's none of our business," he added.

China claims the islands at least in part because the land on which it is build is owned by India. Chinese construction company BDA has proposed the construction of a new road on one of the islands and is preparing to construct a second road to the island of Tso Shan, on the other side of the disputed territory, to cut through the contested and uninhabited land, the Indian Embassy in Beijing has said.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not react to Jaishankar's statement.

Jaisankar also claimed the Chines