Jairam-Industry fight goes on

It was meant as an opportunity to find the middle ground between a worried industry and an activist environment minister, but the interactive function organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) only highlighted the conflicting positions of the two. While FICCI heavy-weight and JK Paper MD Harsh Pati Singhania pointed […]

RHEL6 comes to free clone world

Free clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been increasingly left behind by the Debian-based Ubuntu, primarily because of the up-to-date nature of the latter. For example, Red Hat’s RHEL 5, on which most of the free clones such as CENTOS are based, was released almost four years ago. In comparison, Ubuntu refreshes itself every […]

Lavasa stop work to continue

The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has ordered the embattled Lavasa Corporation to continue to abide by its earlier ‘status quo’ order, according to highly placed sources in the ministry. The ministry was supposed to reach a decision on the matter after conducting a site visit and inform the Bombay High Court as well. […]

Shourie hits back at Sibal

Former telecom minister and BJP leader Arun Shourie hit back at telecom minister Kapil Sibal for raising aspersions at his stint as the telecom minister in 2003. Shourie mocked Sibal for trying to defend his jailed predecessor A Raja and said such efforts only served to drag the Prime Minister into the net. “He is […]