
HYDERABAD: Tightening its noose around Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddys neck, the CBI on Tuesday reportedly froze the bank accounts of his three companies - Jagathi Publications Pvt Limited, which publishes Saakshi Telugu newspaper, Indira TV, promoter of Saakshi TV, and Janani Infrastructure Ltd, which owns the premises used by both Jagathi Publications and Indira Television.The charge against the three companies is that huge amounts of money were invested...

11:19 AM, May 09, 2012

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the economic uncertainty, fresher recruitment and salary levels have seen an upward trend in the IT and ITeS sector during the January-March quarter of 2012 compared to other sectors in the same period, shows a survey. The survey findings reveal that IT and ITeS Sector had recruited 24 per cent freshers in the last quarter of FY'12 of their total hiring, a surge of 9 per cent...

08:30 PM, May 08, 2012

Mumbai: Tata group firm TCS on Wednesday replaced Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries as the country's most valued company in terms of market capitalisation, as investors rallied behind the shares of the IT giant. At the end of Wednesday's trade, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) commanded a market value of Rs 2,48,116 crore, higher than Reliance Industries' Rs 2,43,413 crore. While RIL shares fell 0.25 per cent in an overall lacklustre market,...

04:23 AM, May 03, 2012

New Delhi: The government has in a fresh order asked all foreign outfits in India to furnish it with updated details of their workers and nature of their work, at least once a year. The close watch on foreign entities in India follows the revelations that anti-Kudankulam nuclear stir in Tamil Nadu was funded by NGOs in the US. According to a circular from the union home ministry, foreign companies,...

05:00 PM, Apr 12, 2012

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMR) has selected a Spanish consultancy firm, Eptisa Servicios de Ingenieria, through international competitive bidding as consultant on safety matters. Based on the combined technical and financial score, Eptisa Ingenieria with its quote of Rs 1.30 crore has been preferred to Bureau Veritas, a French consultancy firm, which quoted Rs 1.48 crore. The selection was made by the HMR Tender Committee for Major Works...

08:41 AM, Apr 02, 2012
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Chennai: American travel firms are wooing South India and tourists from Chennai in particular, as the United States expects the Indian travel market to grow by 90 per cent. James Golsen, Principal Commercial Officer at the US Consulate, told City Express that South India, including Chennai, would be the factors that would help spearhead the growth in the travel industry. Although no concrete statistics were available, Nicholas J Manring, Chief...

08:47 AM, Mar 07, 2012

New Delhi: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday claimed to have in possession 'millions' of Stratfor mails that establish its links with Dow Chemicals, one of the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Stratfor is a US-based intelligence firm. WikiLeaks alleged that it had proof that Stratfor monitored and analysed online activities of the Bhopal activists, reportedly on Dow's asking. One of the activists, Rachna Dhingra said that she...

07:21 PM, Feb 27, 2012

London: Top internet firms like Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr are able to read personal text messages and photographs sent via smartphones because many mobile phone apps give their developers the right to go through such content. Many phone users do not know that when they agree to the terms and conditions, they are actually giving developers the right to inspect their personal information, the Daily Mail reported. In some cases,...

05:14 PM, Feb 26, 2012

Bangalore: Even as people gear up to celebrate St. Valentine's Day Tuesday, spammers are working overtime to hack into computers of online users on the romantic occasion with spam mails having catchy words in the subject line, warns global computer security firm Kaspersky Lab. "Beware of e-mails with attractive words or deceptive offers to lure online lovers on Valentine's Day as they could be from unknown source or spammers on...

11:56 AM, Feb 14, 2012

Davos: With HCL Technologies announcing 10,000 jobs for locals in the US and Europe, India Inc on Thursday chose the WEF meet to send a strong message that Indian IT firms are creating and not stealing jobs in troubled western economies. Also, a message emerged from British Prime Minister David Cameron's advice to the European Union (EU) that instead of being a threat, the emerging economies like India can be...

08:03 PM, Jan 26, 2012

New Delhi: India on Wednesday cleared a Euro 950 million deal to procure 500 air-to-air missiles from a French firm for IAF's Mirage 2000 aircraft fleet. A Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the deal to procure 490 MICA missiles manufactured by French firm MBDA for Euro 950 million, Defence Ministry sources said. The missiles would be deployed on the 51 Mirage 2000...

07:56 PM, Jan 04, 2012

Frankfurt: Patent firm IPCom has sued German retailers for patent infringement for continuing to sell phones made by HTC, the No. 4 smartphone maker globally. A court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled in February 2009 against HTC in a patent fight with IPCom, allowing an injunction against sales of HTC phones using UMTS technology and setting a penalty of up to 250,000 euros ($326,000) each time the injunction was violated. All...

11:13 AM, Dec 23, 2011

Brussels: The European Union's "growing fear" regarding Iran's nuclear programme on Thursday prompted the 27-member bloc to slap fresh sanctions on 180 Iranian companies. "The council agreed to broaden existing sanctions by examining, in close coordination with international partners, additional measures including measures aimed at severely affecting the Iranian financial system, in the transport sector, in the energy sector," said a statement of EU foreign ministers after their meeting in...

12:23 AM, Dec 02, 2011

New Delhi: In a bizarre incident in the Capital, the director of an entertainment company was allegedly thrashed by its chairman, and threatened of rape, when she demanded her due salary. The victim, Jennifer (name changed on request), is a resident of Greater Kailash and has been working as director with an entertainment company situated in Malviya Nagar. The accused, identified as Bharat Kumar Bharmer, has been arrested. A senior...

11:58 AM, Nov 23, 2011

New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday alleged that the hike in petrol prices was yet another act of "midnight deceit" by the UPA and insisted that the common man would not spare the dispensation led by the "economist" Prime Minister for its arrogance. "This is yet another midnight deceit with the people of India. The Congress party has unleashed a terror of a different kind on the common man. While...

06:40 AM, Nov 04, 2011