The December issue of Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine is announcing on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Verno Mikawa's Strange+ manga has been green-lit. This will be the first of Mikawa's works to be animated.
The slapstick gag manga centers around a detective agency. The story begins with a teenaged boy named Kō who came to the slums to search for Takumi, his missing big brother who ran away years ago. The brothers reunite, and it turns out that Takumi now heads the Mikuni Detective Agency. Kō wants to bring Takumi back, but he doesn't want go back home himself. So, he starts working at the agency, doing odds and ends.
Mikawa launched the manga in the inaugural issue of Zero-Sum in 2002, and has been drawing it ever since. Ichijinsha published the 13th compiled book volume of the manga in June. Spinoff chapters will run in the 36th issue of Zero-Sum Ward magazine on November 16 and on the Zero-Sum Online website on November 10 and December 10. Mikawa ran her Maka Maka manga in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace and 4-Koma Nano Ace magazines from 2009 to 2011.
New York [USA], Oct. 11 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India is capable of becoming a much cleaner and bigger economy amongst the other emerging economies, as it is capable of taking and implementing bold decisions.
"Amongst the emerging economies, India today has the potential for not only being a large market but being a much cleaner economy," said Arun Jaitley at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and US India Business Council (USIBC) at an event in New York.
Jaitley, who is on a week-long visit to the US along with delegation from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICII) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will attend annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. He is likely to hold discussions on national development programs initiated over the last three years, state of Indian economy, and recent structural changes relating to GST and demonetisation.
"No government in the past actually had the courage to make it a part of its political and economic agenda," said Jaitley on the recent cash reforms which have integrated an informal Indian economy into a formal one.
Hailing the recent structural reforms by the Centre, Jaitley said that "All the steps including financial inclusion, demonetisation, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to the direct tax incentive, each one of this falls into place where brick by brick you lay down the structure in order to integrate an informal economy into a much larger formal economy."
He also added that India's transition to GST has been fairly smooth despite attempts by the opposition to derail it.
"People can expect a lot of compression and changes of the rates in the times to come," Jaitley added
New Delhi [India], Sept. 3 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at 24 places, including Rohtak, Gurgaon, Delhi, Chandigarh and Panchkula, on the residential and office premises of various persons in an ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities in the purchase of land from farmers and land owners in Haryana's Gurgaon district and seized "incriminating" documents and materials, which they are scrutinising, said CBI sources today. Following the directions of the Central Government, on the request of the Haryana Government, the investigating agency had on September 15 last registered a case against unidentified public servants of the Haryana Government and unidentified private persons, and took over the investigation of an FIR, No.510 dated August 12, 2015, registered at the Manesar Police Station in Gurgaon district under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. It was alleged that the private builders in connivance with certain public servants of the Haryana Government, including important functionaries and others had purchased around 400 acres from farmers and land owners in Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula village in Gurgaon district at throwaway prices allegedly under the threat and false apprehension of acquisition by the government between August 2004-07, said CBI sources. In this process, initially, the Government of Haryana had issued notifications under various sections of the Land Acquisition Act for acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township, said sources, adding that as a result, a large number of land owners, in haste, had allegedly sold their land at throwaway prices. It was further alleged that about 400 acres had been grabbed from land owners by private builders under the threat of acquisition at meagre rates. An order was also allegedly passed by the Competent Authority in Government on August 24, 2007 for releasing the 400 acres from the acquisition process in violation of the government policy and the licences/CLU were issued to the private builders. An alleged loss of approximately Rs.1,500 crores was caused to land owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula, said sources. Further investigation is continuing. As per reports the CBI conducted raids at the residences and offices of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his close aides in Rohtak, Gurugram, Panchkula, Chandigarh and Delhi in connection with the Manesar land deal case. The close aides of Hooda include two former IPS officers and one serving IPS officer besides others. The former Haryana chief minister is facing a court case over land deals in Manesar. (ANI)