Washington: New US battle guidelines partly designed to counter the military challenge from China are attracting strong criticism at home and abroad as unnecessarily provocative of one of America's strongest economic partners. The AirSea Battle fighting "concept" intends to maintain military dominance in strategically important areas as the US reconfigures its global outlook more towards Asia. It is being gradually disclosed by the Pentagon, which has viewed China's military build-up...
01:47 AM, Jun 01, 2012
India has extensive forests which are an important resource. India thus requires scientific management of its forests. The British India Government recognized the need of a premier forest management service and constituted the Imperial Forest Service in 1867. The Imperial Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, presently & popularly known all over the world as FRI was established at Dehradun in 1906. Since then, the training program shifted to Dehradun. The subject...
03:54 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed that a five-member expert committee be set up to recommend guidelines for verifying those applying for prepaid mobile connections. A bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice AK Ganguly and Justice Swatanter Kumar, in its judgment, said the committee would be headed by the secretary, department of telecommunications (DoT), and have two members each from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)...
04:30 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said its attempt to frame guidelines for media for covering courts was aimed at making clear the "limitations" of journalists under the Constitutional scheme. The five-judge Constitution Bench deliberating on the issue got support from the Centre which said there was no constitutional bar on the apex court to regulate the reporting of judicial proceedings by media. "We want the journalists to know...
04:56 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Rome: There is worry for India in the Agusta Westland chopper deal with Italy. According to Italian newspapers, the government has begun a probe into the 51 million Euro commission to a Switzerland-based consultant. The firm, belonging to Guido Ralph Haschke, facilitated the deal of selling 12 VVIP choppers to India in 2010. The head of Italian aerospace and defence giant, Finmeccanica, is under investigation after a former top employee...
08:25 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Nearly 47 years after the movie was released, the love story is now being staged in the capital. ...
06:20 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: US defence major Lockheed Martin has bagged a deal expected to be worth over Rs 100 crore for supplying laser-guided bombs (LGBs) for the Jaguar fighter aircraft fleet in the Indian Air Force (IAF). The IAF plans to induct more than 100 bunker-buster LGBs for its Jaguar warplanes to destroy strongly fortified enemy targets. "We have emerged as the lowest bidders in the deal for supplying LGBs to...
09:40 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Kolkata: Dunlop India Ltd on Thursday moved an appeal before the Calcutta High Court challenging an order appointing a provisional liquidator on the assets of the company. A division bench comprising Justice KJ Sengupta and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi, taking up the appeal, directed that the provisional liquidator would work as special officer and make an inventory of the assets at the Sahaganj factory. It directed in an interim order that...
07:57 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Finally, I have my MP3 player. Buying an MP3 player is a no big deal, but it becomes when you look out for the best ...
03:27 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: Ahead of the mid-quarter monetary policy on March 15, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stepped in to ease the tight liquidity conditions in the system. It slashed the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 75 basis points to 4.75 per cent. The market was expecting a cut of 50 bps. This move is expected to pump in Rs 48,000 crore liquidity support into the market. CRR is the portion...
06:08 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom services provider Reliance Communications (RCom), in a consortium led by IT firm HCL Infosystems, is believed to have bagged the Rs 300 crore contract for government's national identity card programme, Aadhaar. According to sources, Anil Ambani-led RCom will provide network and telecom support for Aadhar as part of a consortium led by HCL Infosystems. The value of the contract carried out by RCom is expected to be...
06:50 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The high profile Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is in the news once again and for all the wrong reasons. An IRS officer working for the project has moved court against a colleague, an IAS officer at the authority's Hyderabad office, over alleged sexual harassment. She was forced to approach court after the UIDAI didn't act against the officer despite orders from the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)....
07:17 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) has begun two-pilot projects that would allow public sector oil marketers to make LPG transfers as well as getting mobile connectivity easier and transparent for consumers, its chairman Nandan Nilekani said on Thursday. "We are running a pilot programme in Mysore using the Aadhar platform for giving LPG connections. One could get an LPG connection through the use of an Aadhar number. Similarly, in...
07:39 PM, Feb 16, 2012
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