New Delhi: As many as half a billion Indians would need new homes in the country's various cities over the next decade, a requirement equivalent to all of China, North America and Western Europe put together, a report on Sunday said. The report -- 'Urban Infrastructure in India' -- prepared by industry body Ficci said the country's population is slated to grow to 1.7 billion by 2050 and rapid urbanisation...
10:45 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Played entirely using smart phones and tablets, the Rave iBand's jazz version of Sheila Ki Jawani is a cool rhapsody that does not dilute the experience of campy music. The band, by their own description on YouTube, comprises "serious musicians who play music using smart phones and tablets (the guitarist uses a guitar app, drummer uses a drum app)". The vocalist sings into a smartphone using a microphone...
01:06 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Following India's whitewash by Australia, ICC president Sharad Pawar says the time has come to shift the focus on the development of youngsters. ...
04:33 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday expressed desire to double trade with India to USD 14 billion by 2014 and forge maritime partnership to develop seaport at Dawei, a strategic location on the southwestern coast of Myanmar. Addressing leaders of Indian industry at the luncheon meeting hosted by ASSOCHAM, FICCI and CII in New Delhi, Shinawatra said, the two countries can also have cooperation in developing the...
04:48 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the monetary policy review by RBI, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Monday made out a strong case for lowering of interest rates in the wake of industrial slowdown. "We are of considerate view that interest rates for investment for industry should be lowered. We have taken up with the Finance Minister who is receptive and positive particularly for small and medium enterprises," Sharma told...
05:03 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: India's big screen will meet the fine print at the capital's 20th World Book Fair, the biggest carnival of books in the Afro-Asian region, when the 100 years of Indian motion pictures is celebrated with the theme, 'Literature and Cinema'. The Feb 25-March 4 fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) every two years, aims to boost the publishing trade, promote reading and create a new segment...
02:09 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of the 6 directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital will end on Thursday. The directors were arrested after a massive fire in the hospital's basement led to the death of 93 people, mostly patients. The Kolkata police on Tuesday announced compensation for families of the 29 of those dead. The rest would be given compensation after due verification of documents, it said. Meanwhile, industry body FICCI...
08:10 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Families of victims who lost their lives in the tragic AMRI hospital fire incident in Kolkata have decided to form an association. 22 families have come together to form the Human Health Rights Forum and they will move to High Court to demand justice for the victims. The West Bengal government on Tuesday released its first batch of compensation, with 29 families being distributed cheques. The association is...
06:23 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Kolkata: Three weeks after the directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital were taken into custody after a fire in the hospital's basement claimed 90 lives, industry body FICCI has slammed the arrests as 'anti-industry', and not 'completely non-discriminatory'. "Those not responsible for day-to-day operations of any business should be released immediately. This is only fair and will also prevent the spread of any negative sentiments within the domestic investor community," FICCI...
07:37 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Speaking to news reporters on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at FICCI saying the state did not want an industry that killed people. "A chamber has said that the directors of AMRI should be released. I want to tell them that we want industry here, but we do not want industry that will kill people. "A murderer's identity is that of a murderer, a terrorist...
03:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Bangalore: The opposition Congress in Karnataka will complete the process of identifying probable candidates in 150 Assembly segments in the state by March-end in anticipation of a snap poll this year. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President G Parameshwara said observers from All India Congress Committee (AICC) are already on the job. "Simultaneously, our process is also on (in identifying candidates)", he told reporters. "We are paying attention to 150 constituencies...
02:20 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Paromita Guha Thakurta, the daughter of one of those who died in the AMRI fire tragedy has asked for strict punishment to the hospital staff saying they were highly irresponsibly in carrying out their duties. ...
01:53 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Three weeks after the directors of Kolkata's AMRI Hospital were taken into custody after a fire in the hospitals basement claimed 89 lives, industry body FICCI has slammed the arrest of 7 hospital directors as anti-industry, and not 'completely non-discriminatory'. In a strongly worded statement, FICCI demanded the immediate release of those who were not responsible in the day-to-day operations of the business. It said it would prevent the...
10:12 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Legendary Filmmaker Yash Chopra Wednesday requested the central government to take steps to end the menace of piracy. "Whenever a film releases, the first to get benefit out of it are film pirates. Our existence is at stake due to this. The center needs should do something," Chopra said. Chopra regretted that most of the government officials don't know how to use the law for dealing with the people...
10:29 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Algiers: A lawyer for Muammar Gaddafi's daughter said on Wednesday he had written to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to ask if an investigation had been launched into the killing of her father and brother. A copy of the letter, said that Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were "murdered in the most horrific fashion with their bodies thereafter displayed and grotesquely abused in complete defiance of Islamic...
01:30 AM, Dec 15, 2011
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