The Mumbai Consultate and New Delhi embassy of the US Government were extremely concerned at the use of an ‘American’ hotel in Dubai for the “brazen” wedding of Dawood Ibrahim in late 2005. The US officials in India asked for action against the US-based Hyatt group for letting the wedding take place at the hotel […]
Concerned over India’s galloping electronics import bill, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will recommend a phased introduction of ‘local sourcing’ rules of telecom operators in a week. The TRAI chairman JS Sarma said most of the final details on the recommendations, has been arrived at and the recommendations will be put out next week. […]
The lot of Dalits is unlikely to improve drastically under the UPA government as the alliance is dominated by upper caste Hindus, who don’t always care about the poorer sections, the then US Ambassador to India, David Mulford wrote in 2005. “While the UPA has focused on bettering the lot of the dalit community, it […]
In 2005 immediately after his visit to Pakistan Senior Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader,Lal Krishna Advani’s was on the verge of being sidelined,actually he was pushed to the corner. The reason was his charitable remarks on Jinnah in which he described him a secular leader. The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh(RSS),the parent organization of the BJP, reacted […]
Naxalism in India is unlikely to abate any time soon because the Indian government is not willing to take the tough steps to address the concerns of the poor and the marginalized, wrote the then US ambassador David Mulford in a 2005 cable released by Wikileaks. “Indian economic development has missed large portions of the […]
Novelist,Anuja Chauhan, of ‘The Zoya Factor’ fame is going to be a script writer. Taking a predictable route that most of the writers of non serious faction takes the dashing author of two novels will be writing a script for Nikhil Advani’s next film, ‘Guppie-Mein Liar Nahih Shayer Hoon’. ‘Guppie…’,a love story,will hit the floor […]
Having upgraded its urban network to high-speed CDMA, Reliance Communications today announced it is drastically cutting the tariffs in non-urban areas — which are still on the older CDMA technology. In such places, consumers can have unlimited internet access for just Rs 169 per month, about one tenth of the rate that existed before today. […]
India’s trade deficit for the first eleven months fell to $ 97.1 billion from $100.2 billion registered during the same period a year ago, thanks to booming exports and a dip in oil imports. India’s exports continued their outstanding performance in February, rising 50% during the month. During January too, exports were up by more […]
After Raja and ISRO, the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has chosen a much more glamorous victim for its latest enquiry. According to the audit report released today, most Indian film personalities and producers are less than completely truthful when it comes to declaring their income and paying tax. The CAG came to […]
The state of Bihar as emerged as the state with the most ‘out of control’ population growth, according to the Census 2011. It also reaffirmed its place as the state with the worst socio-economic indicators in India. According to the census, not only does Bihar have the fastest growing population of all the states in […]
ONGC Videsh, India’s government-owned overseas petroleum company, increased its stake in Block BC-10, a deepwater offshore block in Campos Basin of Brazil, by 12% to 73%, the company said, blocking a move by China’s Sinochem to buy a 35% stake in the block. The Campos Basin is considered a promising hydrocarbon reserve of the future, […]
With a view to counter the attractiveness of Reliance Communications’ emi scheme for Apple iPhone and clear out existing stocks, Samsung has also tied up with credit card companies and Ingram Micro to offer a unique buy-back guarantee scheme for its mobiles. Under the scheme, which also enables the user to buy Samsung mobiles on […]
Analjit Singh, Chairman of Max India Group, dispelled suggestions that he was not paid his due share when Britain’s Vodafone Plc increased its stake in the company’s Indian arm to 100%. Singh said his stake was routed through various companies that in turn had debt obligations. As such, he explained in a statement, the amount […]
Indian IT professionals are likely to earn less dollars per hour this year as some IT companies have opted to compete by passing on the benefits of rupee depreciation, DHL said, quoting Crisil Research. Billing rates are likely to fall to 74.7 dollars (Rs 4,600) per hour for onsite workers, while they are likely to […]
Tata Consultancy Services, which employs nearly 2.85 lakh people, said it would set up the world’s largest corporate training center in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, overtaking Infosys’s Mysore training campus in size. The 6.1 million square feet facility will be able to train 15,000 people at the same time. Infosys has a Rs 260 crore corporate […]
Flipkart has launched arguably the best convertible laptop-cum-tablet device in India – the HP Pavilion Touchsmart 11-H009TU. The Touchsmart 11-H009TU will compete against the Asus T100, which was launched two months ago. However, the two are quite different, though technologically of the same era. First, the Asus model costs only around Rs 33,000, while the […]
Snapdeal.com has launched a same day delivery service which will allow consumers to get products ordered from Snapdeal to be delivered on the same day. All orders booked by or before 1PM will be attempted to be delivered on same day, Snapdeal said. The move comes a month after Amazon India announced a next-day-delivery scheme […]
The bail plea of Prabhat Sharma, the Tata Steel official who has been booked for abetment to suicide, will come up for hearing in the Vasai sessions court on the outskirts of Mumbai tomorrow. The case was filed after Charu Deshpande, an ex-journalist who joined Tata Steel, committed suicide. It has been alleged that he […]
Vodafone Essar continues to hold on to its lead in the Mobile Number Portability statistics, according to the latest data shared by the Cellular Operators’ Association (COAI), the GSM interest group. Vodafone, which has been leading the list of ‘net gainers’ — operators who have seen more people join them than leave them — continued […]
Shopyourworld.com, a website that sells imported items in India, has become the first to launch Google’s Motorola Moto G smartphone in India, marking the return of the brand after a long hiatus. Motorola was once the number two mobile brand in India, ahead of Samsung and LG, and behind Nokia. However, the company, which was […]
