India and Japan inked a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA),” short for a trade agreement that is just short of a free trade agreement. ” This Agreement is the most ambitious agreement signed by India so far and covers trade in goods, services and investment under its ambit,” the government of India said in a […]
Untitled document No MOU SIGNATORIES 1 Urea Manufacturing Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Mr. Mohamad S. Hidayat, Minister of Industry VS. Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers India H.E. M.K. Azhagiri, Minister of Chemical & Fertilizers 2 Development of Industrial Complex Based on […]
As Western governments are cracking down on those who use unprotected computers to steal data and send spam emails, many of these ‘botnet’ networks have been successfully transplanted to countries such as India, according to Kaspersky Labs. While the US and Western Europe have fallen drastically as the areas from which spam and harmful viruses […]
India is likely to soon have one more auction for wireless broadband spectrum, according to sources in the Department of Telecom. The Department on Wednesday released details of how much spectrum is available in all circles across all the three categories of 2G, 3G and 4G or wireless broadband. Only wireless broadband has close to […]
The state-owned explorer ONGC claimed to have struck the first prospective shale gas deposit on Thursday. It said natural gas, trapped in shale rock deposits, flowed out from the Barren Measure shale in its first R&D well near Durgapur at Icchapur, West Bengal. “Though the well is still under assessment, the breakthrough is significant as […]
A year after promising a $1 billion loan to clean up the Ganga, the World Bank is in talks with India to fund new environment-related project, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said. “Our government is clear about the need to reflect and factor in ecological concerns into our growth process so that the benefits of growth […]
Indian government has decided to life the ban on 3G video calls on the new networks set up by private operators, the Ministry of Communication and IT said. It said the matter regarding Carriage of Video Calls in the network of mobile service providers was under consideration of the Government. It said that the ban […]
The government has registered a case against members of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for holding an illegal terror training camp in Kerala. It was alleged that a secret training camp was organised by them at Thangalpara, Wagamon during Dec, 2007. National Investigation Agency re-registered the case as NIA Crime No. 04/2010 […]
Indian goods export created a new record in December last year, even as strong production numbers from Cairn India’s Rajasthan block reduced the oil bill to its lowest level in a year. As a result, India’s trade deficit narrowed to around $2 billion, the lowest number in several years and a fifth of the $10 […]
The government has raised the minimum wages under its ambitious job guarantee scheme, the National Employment Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) 17-30%, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The increase has been based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index for the agricultural labour, it said, adding that the total spend on the project […]
Pakistan and India may be traditional rivals, but that has not stopped the smaller neighbor from considering the import of a controversial product from India — the electronic voting machine or EVM. The Indian Election Commission said its Pakistani counterpart has asked for a demonstration of the Indian machine and will soon send samples to […]
The government unveiled the much awaited mobile number portability on Thursday. “It is the open season now,” declared telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled the long-awaited nation-wide number portability regime in the capital. Chandrasekhar, a recent entrant to the telecom ministry, seemed to almost echo the feelings of millions of telecom […]
The Indian Oil Corporation, which accounts for 50% of India’s petrol and diesel sales, has justified its recent increase in petrol prices, blaming the ever-rising international crude prices. It said, despite increasing petrol prices, it is losing Rs 159 Crore per day on the sales of other fuels like Diesel, LPG and Kerosene. “With the […]
After hectic talks between ministers and departments, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally announced his response to the food price crisis — and it promises more of the same. The new measures — including a scheme to sell onions at Rs 35 per kg — are similar to those announced by the government to beat […]
Hit by an onslaught of tablets as well as a bad economic climate, growth in computer sales this year will be only a fraction of what was predicted earlier, IT market research firm Gartner has said. It has downgraded the PC market growth for this year from 9.3% announced earlier to just 3.8% today. This […]
Good intentions cannot be a substitute for good judgement. The Indian media has, with some exception, discharged its duty well in keeping many scams and corrupt deals high on the public’s consciousness and bringing corrupt public officials to book. But the latest controversy over satellite transponder deal between ISRO and Devas Multimedia is a clear-cut […]
iBall, famous for computer peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, web-cam etc., has just launched the iBall Slide, a tablet very similar to the Spice Mi-720 tablet except for built-in 3G support. In addition, the iBall Slide also suffers from a higher price of Rs 13,995, compared to Rs 11,990 for the Spice Mi-720 and Rs […]
Debian Linux, the world’s largest volunteer software project that counts its contributors in the thousands, released the sixth iteration of its Linux version, called Debian Squeeze. Debian is famous for being the parent of the most popular Linux brand — Ubuntu, promoted by Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Thawte who sold his firm to Verisign […]
China leads the World in software piracy, according to the software industry ‘advocacy’ group, the Business Software Alliance (BSA). According the results of a study of 15,000 users in 32 countries, the Chinese had a software ‘pirate rate’ of 86%, followed by Nigeria with 81% and Vietnam with 76%. Interestingly, India, which too is suspected […]
After getting the outlay for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) from Rs 30,000 crore to 40,000 crore last year, the rural development ministry is seeking a further increase to Rs 64,000 crore for the next year. The government will also start kick off a Rs 2,500 crore programme to check fraud accounts by […]
