Geneva: India has called on countries for creating a democratic Internet governance structure to ensure a balance between private, commercial and public policy interests. "The ability of the existing internet infrastructure to be used globally for delivering programmes for development requires a free and secure internet," Dilip Sinha, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said in a statement. "Creating a democratic internet governance structure will...
02:28 AM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: Reiterating her demand for an interest moratorium for the cash-strapped West Bengal government, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday gave the central government a 15-day ultimatum and warned that its "indifferent attitude" could become a "big issue". "We have not enough income to pay the interest for the debt burden bequeathed by the erstwhile (Left Front) government. We are repeatedly urging (the central government) that we do not need...
05:58 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: In a sigh of relief for commuters, Central Railway has announced that they have restored over 85 per cent of the services on Thursday. According to the officials, the signals from CST towards Kalyan have been fully restored, so no delays expected there. However the signals from Kalyan towards CST are yet to be fully restored. Trains shall be around 25-35 minutes late. As of early morning most have...
08:02 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Chennai: Joining her West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday attacked the Centre for its "arbitrary" action in reducing Central Sales Tax (CST) compensation to states by linking it with VAT rate revision. Though the Centre had agreed to compensate states for the revenue loss for 2010-11 also, the eligible compensation was "arbitrarily restricted" by deducting additional revenue realised through revision of VAT rate...
07:52 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Irked over Centre's approach over CST compensation, states on Monday asked it to either compensate them adequately for their revenue loss due reduction in the Central Sales Tax (CST) or increase the levy to earlier rate of 4 per cent. The state Finance Ministers, during their meeting, also finalised a negative list of 35 services which would not be taxed under proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. "If the...
06:01 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the Union Budget, the state Finance Ministers will meet in New Delhi on March 3 and suggest steps for increasing the ambit of the service tax net with a view to garnering more resources. The state Finance Ministers have decided on the negative list and are expected to sort out issues concerning definition of services so that more economic activities could be brought under the tax...
04:36 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Mumbai: The exceptionally low temperatures in northern India have led to the mercury closing in on single digits in the city in recent days. But the scorching, sweltering summers aren't far away and no one appreciates the malady more than a suburban rail commuter. Which is why an air-conditioned local train is the dream of most of the 69 lakh daily passengers on Western and Central Railways in Mumbai. And...
12:40 PM, Jan 25, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Vigilance court here seeking a probe against former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, former Taxes Secretary T Mara Pandian, Commercial Taxes Deputy Commissioner Muralidharan, and cashew dealers Abdul Salam and Rajkumar in the Central Sales Tax (CST) fraud committed by cashew dealers. The case has been posted for consideration on December 31. D Venugopal Nambiar, an educational activist here, filed the...
08:14 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Mumbai: Like any other normal day at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus commuters were busy tracking trains to their destination, until they saw something unique. A day after India observed the third anniversary of 26/11, 200 dancers were seen grooving to the 'Rang De Basanti' song on the station. 23-year-old Shonan Kothari employed with a CSR consultancy in Mumbai came up with the idea of a flash mob. She shared the...
05:02 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New York: A new play about Steve Jobs, the public's love affair with the devices he created, and the human cost of creating them, will go ahead next week despite his death, theater representatives said on Thursday. The off-Broadway one-man show, 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs', will open at The Public Theater in New York on October 17 with previews beginning next week. The Apple Inc. co-founder...
01:49 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: As the country witnesses a burgeoning air traffic, Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has been handling the maximum number of flight movements daily followed by Mumbai's CST Airport. While the airport in New Delhi handled an average of 741 flights each day between April and December last year, Mumbai's CST Airport handled 695 flights, official figures have showed. The flights include international, domestic and those of the...
09:13 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Washington: David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths. Nichols makes chemicals roughly similar to ecstasy and LSD that are supposed to help explain how parts of the brain function. Then he publishes the results for other scientists, hoping his work one day leads to treatments for depression...
03:41 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Hong Kong: On the leafy fringes of Hong Kong in a shabby film studio, a nude ponytailed actor stretched out on animal-skins with his lover as the cameras rolled in a set evoking a subterranean sex lair in ancient China. Turning away from a slightly blurred high definition TV screen as the actors writhed, director Christopher Sun shouted "cut" whilst yanking off his 3-D glasses. "Good" he yelled. No ordinary...
01:43 PM, Aug 16, 2010
An anonymous caller threatened to blow up around half a dozen targets. ...
12:24 PM, Jan 06, 2010
Porters, railway employees at CST station showed grit in face of terror. ...
01:16 AM, Nov 26, 2009
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