New Delhi: The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal blocks is likely to finalise its recommendations with regard to the 31 mines allocated to public sector firms by October 20. "Coal Secretary SK Srivastava has recently conveyed it to Public Accounts Committee that the recommendations of the IMG as far as coal blocks allocated to public sector firms would be finalised by October 20," an official in the Coal Ministry told...
12:13 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Beijing: As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content. According to State Internet Information Office, authorities closed the accounts over the past seven months, Xinhua reported. To curb lewd content from spreading via the Internet and cellphones, authorities banned 164 pornographic publications, the office said. A total of 287 Internet companies were probed and punished...
01:06 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Amid furore over coal blocks allocation, the government will place its views before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by September 14 on the observations made by CAG. "The Coal Ministry will submit its comments to the PAC on CAG's observations on coal blocks allocations by September 14," a top Coal Ministry official told PTI. The PAC, chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has decided to examine the...
12:20 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Third largest lender ICICI Bank today said it is working towards allowing its customers to make transactions through social networking site Facebook. The Mumbai-based bank's chief technology officer Mukesh Kumar Jain said the bank has Facebook likes close to 8 lakh and claimed that ICICI is the only bank in the world which has an application to see bank statement, as well as put some servicing request on Facebook....
07:29 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Pushed by India, Twitter has removed six micro-blogging accounts which resembled that of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) amidst government's assertion that action would be taken against those allowing objectionable content. In a communication to the PMO, Twitter has said it has "removed the reported profile(s) from circulation due to violation of our Terms of Service regarding impersonation". This communication has been sent in response to a complaint...
08:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
While Twitter agreed to block fake PMO accounts, the Government is under the fire for blocking Twitter accounts of some journalists also. Meanwhile, the Home Ministry and Telecom Ministry seemed confused on whether to block sites or not. ...
11:14 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Microblogging site Twitter has agreed to block all fake accounts in the name of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The development comes after the government set a deadline of 12 hours deadline for Twitter and other social media websites to remove objectionable content or face a shutdown in India. But there is major confusion in the government over blocking of Twitter handles and social networking websites pages. The...
03:05 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government has learnt to have ordered blocking of 80 more Internet pages and user-accounts on Sunday on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to avoid panic among Northeast Indians. All these sites were found hosting inflammatory and hateful content, spreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the Northeast Indians, government sources said. On Saturday, the government had issued instructions to block 76 Internet sites, which included...
08:47 PM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will meet on August 24 to discuss the CAG report on coal, power and airport scams, Chairman and BJP member Murli Manohar Joshi said on Sunday. Joshi refused to speak on the reports. He further defended the CAG which had come under attack from the government after the reports were tabled. ...
01:29 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: The Corporate Affairs Ministry has ordered an inspection of the account books of debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines after receiving complaints from stakeholders alleging violation of company law like provisions on debt-equity ratio, sources said. The Registrar of Companies, Bangalore, has been asked to carry out inspection of the books of accounts of Kingfisher Airlines under section 234 of the Companies Act, it said. The RoC has sought information from...
03:24 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New York: Google Inc has started the roll out of custom URLs for a limited number of verified users of its online social network Google+. A custom URL is a short, easy to remember web address, and will make it easier for people to find a brand or a profile on Google+. The feature is already being offered by Twitter and Facebook. The Custom URLs have been rolled out for...
01:58 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Hyderabad: In a setback to companies owned by Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the High Court on Wednesday imposed exemplary cost of Rs 1 lakh each to three miscellaneous petitions filed by Jagati Publications, Janani Infra and Indira Television Limited relating to a case of freezing of certain accounts by the CBI. It directed the company to pay the costs to AP State Legal Services Authority within seven days....
12:48 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Social network Facebook has said there are now more than 83 million fake users on the website, BBC reported on Thursday. The company said 8.7 per cent of its 955 million active users might not be real. Duplicate profiles made up 4.8 per cent of the users while 1.5 per cent of users were described as "undesirable". In total, the company said it estimated there were 83.09 million fake...
02:07 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New York: Actress Katie Holmes and her lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, went out on a dinner date. "The 33-year-old actress was dining with advocate Jonathan and his wife, Renee," people.com quoted a source as saying. Since filing for divorce from actor Tom Cruise last month, Holmes has embraced the single life and she's already landed a role in the Broadway play Dead Accounts. ...
11:58 AM, Jul 30, 2012
The Defense Accounts Department has a history which is more than two hundred years old. IDAS is one of the Group A Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority is the Ministry of Defense. The selected candidates' training grounds are at Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Meerut and Pune. Cadre size: 418 posts (direct recruitment, promotion, and lateral entry). Functions and Organization The Defense Accounts department serves the three Defence...
07:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) was formed in the year 1929. IRAS is one of the Group A Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority for IRAS is the Executive Director. Cadre size: 500 posts (direct recruitment: 50%, promotion: 50%). Organization of Department The Finance and Accounts functions are integrated with the executive at all levels in the Railways. Apex level hierarchy: Financial Commissioner (Railways) is assisted...
06:34 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The IP&TASFS was formed in the year of 1972 and the first batch was recruited in 1974. It is one of the Group a Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority for IP&TASFS is Member Finance, Telecom Commission of India. The selected candidates go through a number of training sessions in different institutes. i. Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Missouri: 4 month foundation course. ii....
06:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The Indian Audit and Accounts Department has a history of more than hundred years old. The Audit Department was formed in 1860 and Government Accounting and Auditing functions were placed under the Auditor General of India. The Auditor General was given statutory recognition in 1919. The status of the Auditor General was further enhanced in 1935. The Auditor General was redesignated as the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India...
05:54 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday froze three bank accounts of Essar Oil Ltd (EOL) in Jamnagar following Gujarat High Court directives to expedite recovery of over Rs 8,000 crore in sales tax dues. "Three bank accounts of EOL have been frozen in Jamnagar district as part of the due recovery process," a top finance department functionary said. The division bench of Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Mohinder Pal last...
09:41 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Washington: Bharatiya Janata Party would make public the names of 800 Indian account holders in Swiss Banks if it comes into power in the 2014 general elections, senior party leader Yashwant Sinha has said. "Of course, we will do. Of course, we will do," Sinha told a small audience at an event organised by a recently formed Washington-based Indian American think-tank Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS). "Will...
05:53 PM, May 30, 2012
