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
New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been selected by Deutsche Bank as a strategic partner for their production management transformation initiative, within their capital markets business unit, the software development firm announced Monday. "To achieve this transformation, TCS will deliver a global service desk, service operations and all other ITIL (IT infrastructure library) services to the bank at locations across seven countries - USA, UK, Germany, Hungary, Philippines, Singapore...
03:08 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Shunglu Committee has faulted the sacked chief of Commonwealth Games organising body Suresh Kalmadi and his aides over award of contracts saying there was "extreme concentration of powers at the top" and "conflict of interest" among OC officials. The two-member High Level Committee, headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General V K Shunglu, in its fresh report, also upbraided several government agencies for causing losses of over...
04:56 PM, Mar 31, 2011
Celebs talk about some of the weird ones they've come across. ...
11:39 PM, Feb 17, 2009
Satyam Computer Services Ltd won 15 outsourcing contracts. ...
12:45 PM, Feb 03, 2009
Three Indian companies were barred from receiving bank contracts. ...
11:15 AM, Jan 12, 2009
LONDON: Chris Tremlett has been called up to England's World Cup squad as a travelling reserve following a spate of injuries in the bowling attack. Tremlett has recently recovered from a side strain and is in line to deputise for any of the teammates who also suffered injuries during the seven-match one-day international series in Australia, which England lost 6-1. National Selector Geoff Miller said: Whilst the injured bowlers in...
10:05 PM, Dec 11, 2007
TCS has signed $140 mn contract with BSNL, is hiring freshers to fill positions. ...
11:59 AM, Aug 31, 2007
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