New Delhi: TRAI chief Rahul Khullar on Tuesday is expected to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is looking into the 2G spectrum scam. This is in connection with the Telecom regulator's recommendations to the government which Telecom companies are pressuring the government to nullify. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times of what carriers had...
07:18 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government is understood to have approved the appointment of Rahul Khullar, at present the Commerce Secretary, as Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Khullar, a 1975 batch IAS officer of Delhi cadre, would succeed JS Sarma, sources said. Sarma's tenure ended on Sunday. Khullar will head TRAI at a time when the regulator is in the line of fire of telecom operators for its...
05:34 PM, May 13, 2012
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, as heavy street fighting between insurgents and security forces came to an end after 18 hours. Battles which broke out at midday on Sunday gripped the city's central districts through the night, with large explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and streets. "The fact terrorists were able...
08:33 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan Taliban said on Sunday that coordinated attacks in several provinces in Afghanistan, including multiple assaults on Western embassies and NATO headquarters in Kabul, were the start of an insurgent spring offensive. "These attacks are the beginning of the spring offensive and we had planned them for months," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters. In a text message to the reporters, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said, "Today, afternoon,...
07:40 PM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: India on Friday said it will explain to the US the reasons behind its decision to put import restrictions on certain poultry products, as Washington has dragged the country to the WTO on the issue. On March 6, the US dragged India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against New Delhi's ban on imports of certain American poultry products, including meat and eggs. The US has called the...
07:02 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition challenging the death penalty given to militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. His mercy plea was rejected last year after he was given death penalty in a 1993 car bombing case. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Mobile handset market leader Nokia, with manufacturing facility in an SEZ near Chennai, plans to revamp its business in India by infusing fresh investment of Rs 250 crore in the next three years, with potential to create 500 new jobs. The company has furnished the information with the Commerce Ministry, seeking permission for its restructuring plan. Since the handset manufacturer has a facility in the Special Economic Zone(SEZ),...
02:20 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Already battered by corruption scandals, and less than a week after an embarrassing policy U-turn, the Indian government admitted on Friday that it had accidentally inflated this year's export figures by more than $ 9 billion. The cause was a glitch in the computer system that collates the trade data, Trade Secretary Rahul Khullar said. Months of export and trade deficit data have had to be revised. "How...
07:46 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan took further steps toward normal trade and travel ties with India on Tuesday, agreeing to open most commerce with its larger neighbour by February in the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the nuclear-armed rivals. At a bilateral meeting in Delhi, the two countries' trade secretaries agreed Pakistan will notify India by February of a 'negative list' of items that it cannot trade with its...
06:53 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear Khalistani militant Devender Singh Bhullar's mercy petition on Tuesday. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha Patil in January, which was rejected in May. Bhullar's counsel had argued that the death penalty should only be handed out by a...
07:30 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Kabul: The Taliban vowed to keep fighting until all foreign forces left Afghanistan in a statement on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the US military campaign in the country. The group's fight in the last decade, "even with scarce weapons and equipment...forced the occupiers, who intended to stay forever, to rethink their position," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in an English-language statement. President Hamid Karzai and his Western...
05:10 PM, Oct 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government to explain the reasons for delay in deciding on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy plea. The apex court said it wanted to know what happened between 2003 and 2011. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi asked the Centre to file an affidavit by October 10, explaining the delay in deciding Bhullar's mercy plea of 2003, rejected by the President...
01:39 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Devendar Pal Singh Bhullar's amended plea for mercy on Wednesday. The Khalistani militant was sentenced to death for masterminding the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. His counsel has allowed to argue that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench and not if there is a split verdict. The apex court had earlier dismissed Bhullar's...
07:42 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed Devender Pal Bhullar, who has been given a death sentence, to amend his clemency petition. Bhullar was convicted in a Delhi car bomb blast case and sentenced to death. Bhullar's counsel has been allowed to plead that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench of the apex court and there should be no death penalty if there is...
12:32 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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