Rahul Khullar is IAS officer with an excellent reputation in Delhi circles. He’s reputed to be honest, frank (even blunt) and very efficient. But the TRAI chairman’s latest suggestions on Bharti Airtel’s separate-billing-for-VOIP data scheme do not paint a full picture of the situation. In an FE interview, he seems to have made broadly two […]
The mortality rates of Swine Flu or H1N1 infection in India has risen alarmingly to one-fourth of all infections this year, according to government data. The rate of death climbed to 24.5% of all patients in the first eleven months of this year, compared to 13.3% in the previous year and 8.0% in 2012. It […]
Indian roads are of poor quality and this affects the movement of goods trucks, the ministry of road transport and highways told the Parliament quoting a third-party study. “Indian roads are of poor quality, lacking maintenance and pedestrians and animals having uncontrolled access to roads, resulting in low average speed of vehicles, break-downs and accidents,” […]
China has started work on examining if it can modernize two railways stations in India – Baiyyappanahalli in Bangalore and Bhubaneswar in Orissa – under an agreement signed in September, the ministry of railways said. In September, China and India signed an agreement facilitating Chinese help in increasing the speed on India’s railway network, modernizing […]
HCL Infosystems, the India-focused arm of the HCL group, said it has been named in a charge sheet related to alleged irregularities in the award of a contract to supply computer hardware and related services under the National Rural Health Mission in 2009. The chargesheet has been filed in a special court in Ghaziabad, the […]
A district forum in Karnataka faulted Bharti Airtel Ltd for failing to convert a corporate mobile connection into a personal connection despite the ex-employee producing a no-objection certificate from his ex-employer. The Tumkur forum also dismissed Bharti Airtel’s contention that it represented the ‘Telegraph Authority of India’ and it cannot be subjected to the proceedings […]
Wipro will cut one third of its employee base. Tata Consultancy Services to apparently let go off 25,000 senior employees (according to Business Standard). Infosys is in the middle of a transformation aimed at limiting the number of employees and increasing the use of automation. Is the golden age of Indian Information Technology over? More […]
A number of students and young people were arrested by the police for holding Kiss of Love protests in Calicut even as they were opposed by splinter right wing groups. On the face of it, there seemed to be 200 protesters in favor of Kiss of Love in Calicut, more than in Kochi. A smaller […]
The Reserve Bank of India will need to watch the Indian rupee’s movement closely in the coming days in light of the recovering US economy and strengthening dollar, CARE Ratings said. “While the RBI has brought about order in the balance of payments and several components like imports, ECB flows, and FII funds, it would […]
Ask the majority of the supporters of AAP why they back the young political outfit and you’ll get answers that include words like change, positivity, progress, clean, liberal etc.. Most people who support the party do so for two reasons – 1) they are sick of the existing political set-up and parties, and 2) they […]
Three of the top four stocks held by mutual funds in India are bank stocks – ICICI Bank Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd and State Bank of India, with Infosys Ltd being the sole exception. ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank were the top holdings, with ICICI alone accounting for about Rs 14,300 crore, or about 5% […]
With wholesale inflation dipping to record lows, industry asssociations have renewed their calls for an immediate cut in interest rates. ASSOCHAM for example has sought a repo rate cut of up to 50 basis points (bps) in its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy review scheduled on December 2nd, if monsoon forecast for 2015 is normal, crude […]
In an especially strong attack against perceived threats to its Internet-based business, the Times of India group has sought regulatory intervention to ensure what is popularly called Net Neutrality, or the concept that internet service providers must charge only from the end consumer. In other words, the Times of India group wants TRAI to ensure […]
The millions of engineers who pass out from Indian colleges every year looking for IT jobs will have to either learn specialised skills, or look for other sectors, a new report said. The report said recruitment by IT companies in India will halve over the next four years. “Incremental recruitment by the information technology (IT) […]
India is the fourth most vacation deprived nation globally, according to Expedia’s 2014 Vacation Deprivation. 67% of Indians said they feel very or somewhat vacation deprived, the annual analysis of vacation habits said. 35% of the global respondents said they would take a cut in salary for extra vacation – highest among those in India […]
Tentative global recovery notwithstanding, Indian companies continue to look abroad for greener pastures investing as much as USD 17.6 billion in April-September this fiscal while outward investment in the fiscal 2013-14 was USD 36.9 billion, an ASSOCHAM study has found. Although Indian firms have invested overseas in the first half of the current fiscal, almost […]
“Police detained the 50 protestors against moral policing, and only some got to lock lips on the way to police vans,” said the DNA Newspaper in its day-after story on the Kiss of Love event that happened in Kochi. The DNA article on Kiss of Love was titled “Under khakhi shadow, Kiss Day dies in […]
Liberals and conservatives faced off each other at the Marine Drive walkway at Kochi in Kerala over whether two people have the right to kiss each other in public. Things got violent at an event called Kiss of Love which was organized via Facebook after BJP’s student wing ransacked a restaurant alleging that a couple […]
The government of India, through Ministry of Consumer Affairs, has written to all consumer disputes redressal bodies asking them not to reject consumer complaints against telecom operators as many of them have been doing for years. Consumer forums, including state-level bodies, have regularly dismissed complaints against companies like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance Communications and […]
Vodafone and Bharti Airtel have been told to compensate a customer after Vodafone disconnected a customer who ported from Airtel saying that the customer did not pay Airtel’s bills. The North 24 Parganas district consumer forum found that Bharti Airtel guilty of issuing ‘vague bills’ to a customer who had already ported out of the […]
