As Ashok Gehlot enters his final year as the Rajasthan Chief Minister, he is at the centre of a major sandstone mining scam. He is facing allegations of awarding contracts to his close relatives at throwaway rates. He allegedly even altered mining contract norms in 2012. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Franco-American telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA has won an eight-year deal valued at more than $1 billion to manage Indian carrier Reliance Communications Ltd's networks in the east and south of the country. ...
02:51 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Tendulkar, Dhoni, Sehwag and Gambhir are among those to get retainers of Rs. 1 crore for 2012-13. ...
01:55 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Keeping with its promise that "reforms are here to stay", the UPA government is planning to introduce more reforms in the country. The latest being the 26 per cent FDI in pension and 46 per cent in insurance, which the Cabinet is expected to clear on Thursday. But as the government is preparing for the second round of reforms, the Opposition is getting ready to stymie the move....
05:18 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Former players, including Wasim Bari and Abdul Qadir, have been told that their contracts with the PCB have ended. ...
11:24 PM, Jul 01, 2012
While Ed Cowan missed out, out-of-favor paceman Mitchell Johnson was awarded a contract. ...
11:08 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Also, players who haven't signed the central contracts offered would have to forgo the monthly retainer. ...
09:11 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Hafeez, Malik and Ajmal are among the eight players who said to have signed the central contracts. ...
09:22 PM, Jun 04, 2012
The batsman's troubles with alcohol and indiscipline have led to him losing a contract with the New Zealand board. ...
03:18 PM, May 30, 2012
The second list included the name of Bismillah Khan who was banned for a year for serious misconduct. ...
09:43 PM, May 27, 2012
SLC promoted Prasanna Jayawardene to category 2 from 3, while Chanaka Welagedara is promoted to 4 from 5. ...
07:47 PM, May 25, 2012
The fast bowler figures along side Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Dilshan and Samaraweera. ...
11:26 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill that seeks to regulate government purchases of above Rs 50 lakh through a transparent bidding process. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the public procurement bill that has a provision to debar bidders found engaged in corrupt practices, sources said. Currently, there is no overarching legislation governing public procurement by the central government and central public sector...
01:28 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Bhopal: The Chhattarpur district administration on Sunday cancelled all sand mining contracts in the district after media outrage over IPS officer Narendra Kumar's killing and a second attack on a sub-divisional magistrate and police officials in Panna. IPS officer Narendra Kumar was allegedly crushed to death under a tractor that was loaded with illegally-mined stones in Morena, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar had tried to stop the tractor. The tractor...
12:29 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Kolkata: A woman was on Wednesday arrested for impersonating as personal assistant to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The woman named Seema Malhotra was arrested for impersonating as the personal assistant of the chief minister and promising people contracts in the railways. Police arrested her on the basis of a complaint made by a person whom she had cheated recently. The woman has been arrested earlier as well. ...
11:34 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Buffalo: Facebook and its founder will try to have a man's lawsuit claiming part ownership of the USD 50 billion social networking website thrown out of court after securing proof the contract on which it's based is fake, a Facebook attorney said. Experts determined that the ink on the document, which Paul Ceglia of New York claims he and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signed in 2003, is less than two...
04:54 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million, 10 times its estimated price, two months after the death of high-profile co-founder Steve Jobs. The contract, sold with another document that removed one of the company's initial three partners after just 11 days, was the subject of fierce bidding by six people taking part in the auction over...
10:14 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 and another document, signed 11 days later, that removed one of the partners are expected to fetch up to $150,000 when they are auctioned next week by Sotheby's. The December 13 auction of books and manuscripts will also include a letter from Franz Kafka complaining of writer's block, a set of cartoons from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner...
10:53 AM, Dec 10, 2011
New York: An April 1976 contract establishing Apple and signed by the technology giant's three founding partners - Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayen - will go under the hammer at auction house Sotheby's here next month and is expected to fetch about USD 150,000. The "two typed documents" of the three-page "Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement" dated April 1, 1976 will be auctioned by Sotheby's on December 13....
01:38 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Telecom equipment-maker Ericsson today said it has signed a five-year deal to provide managed services for Bharti Airtel's India operations for an undisclosed amount. Under the five-year, multi-vendor, multi-technology managed services agreement, Ericsson will operate, maintain and provide services across 15 of Bharti Airtel's networks in India, Ericsson said in a statement. In addition, Ericsson will also take responsibility for the intelligent network that manages Bharti Airtel's pre-paid...
04:41 PM, Nov 28, 2011
