*Cabinet approves bill to protect whistleblowers :
A proposed legislation to protect whistleblowers and provide for severe punishment to those exposing the identity of people disclosing information was approved by the Government on Monday.
*PM calls for report on Mumbai oil spill :
Concerned over the oil spill following collision of two cargo ships off Mumbai coast, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for a report from the Shipping Ministry on the incident.
*In the largest-ever loan it has given to any foreign country, India has signed an agreement with Bangladesh to extend a USD 1 billion credit line to Dhaka for developing 14 infrastructure projects, mostly in the communications sector.
*The Japanese city ofNagasakiwill commemorate Monday the 65th anniversary of its atomic bombing amid a mounting momentum to seek a world without nuclear arms.Nagasakiwas destroyed in an atomic inferno three days afterHiroshima, in twin nuclear attacks that madeJapanthe only country that has ever been hit with atomic weapons.