Dubai: The growing number of suicides on metro tracks in India could be avoided if a new advanced technology and communications system, which provides for driverless trains and quick response to prevent such accidents, is put in place. Thales Group, which has an impeccable track record in Dubai and other cities - where it provides supervision, communications, and security and fare collection facilities, has offered India its advanced Communications-based train...
01:19 PM, May 27, 2012
Islamabad: Three senior officers of the Pakistan Navy have been penalised after a court martial found them guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty during a deadly Taliban attack on a key naval airbase in Karachi last year which also destroyed two US-made surveillance aircraft. The navy's media arm confirmed that the three officers were tried "under the naval law and were accordingly penalised." It did not identify the officers...
12:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Condemning the outbreak of violence in Afghanistan, India on Monday conveyed its "profound concerns" to President Hamid Karzai and hoped for restoration of normalcy in that war-torn country. "India believes that Afghanistan will have to sort out its issues amongst themselves in a civilised manner without resorting to mindless violence and it is India's open desire that normalcy will be restored in Kabul and Afghanistan. "And Afghanistan will...
07:38 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New York: A reporter's job figures among the ten worst professions, alongside the likes of butchers, waiters and dishwashers, as per a new study by the US-based consultancy CareerCast, which has named a software engineer's occupation as the best for the year 2012. The annual study has ranked a total of 200 jobs from best to worst on the basis of five core criteria such as physical demands, work environment,...
02:30 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Beijing: Chinese mobile phone market, the largest in the world has achieved yet another milestone by crossing the one billion subscriber mark, officials said on Friday. The number of Chinese mobile phone users reached record high of 1.01 billion last month, registering a 20.67 per cent increase, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced. The MIIT said in a statement that the number of 3G mobile phone...
06:10 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Bangalore: The body of Bangalore-based jeweller who was allegedly kidnapped by some persons was found on the roadside at Dobbaspet in Tumkur on Wednesday, police said. Nitesh, owner of BRN Jewellers in Chickpet was allegedly kidnapped by some persons on Tuesday. Police said the man had called his wife before he disappeared from his shop and asked her to hand over 100 grams of gold and whatever cash was there...
09:15 PM, Mar 28, 2012
San Francisco: Chipmaker Intel Corp is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the effort. The world's top chipmaker plans to create a "virtual cable operator" that would offer media companies' TV channels in a bundle over the Internet, the WSJ said. An Intel spokeswoman declined to comment on the story. The product...
12:07 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: India ace Saina Nehwal will have to put behind her quarter-final finish at the All England Championships and gather herself quickly to defend her title at the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, which starts with the qualifiers at Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday. World number four Saina will open her campaign against Sayaka Sato of Japan in the women's singles competition. The 21-year-old Indian has a 2-1 record against...
06:31 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Washington: The US is strongly supportive of India's investment in the civil nuclear power, and its support to the NGOs goes for development and democracy programmes, the Obama Administration has said. "We are supportive as a government of India's investment in civil nuclear power. That's not what we support NGOs to do in India," the State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday. "Our...
12:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Kabul: Afghan officials said on Friday that at least seven people were killed in protests around the country against the burning of Qurans at a US air base, bringing the overall death toll after four days of demonstrations to 20. The fresh protests were evidence that President Barack Obama's apology has not calmed Afghans enraged by the incident at Bagram Air Field earlier this week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, parliamentarians...
11:20 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Bagram: More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran and other religious items, Afghan officials said. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up the demonstrators, some of whom were chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones. Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor's spokeswoman, said Korans had been burnt inside...
05:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Initially in support of the coup in Maldives, India has now changed it's position and wants early elections in the island nation. But initially, the speed with which the largest democracy in the world abandoned the youngest democracy in Maldives has left many bewildered. what has prompted this change? When Mohammed Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, he opened the doors for New Delhi...
09:55 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Vijay Pratap Singh has not just made farming easier but also helped in facilitating micro-finance for the those who need it. ...
09:46 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: As the process of carrying out a caste-based census kicked off in the capital on Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit backed the effort, contending it would help formulate more inclusive policies by identifying the weaker sections. Talking to reporters after chairing a cabinet meeting in Delhi, Dikshit said India was a developing nation and both economic and caste aspects were important for evaluation. Asked her opinion about...
03:53 PM, Jan 16, 2012
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