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: 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
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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
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
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: 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
Chennai: Slamming the UPA Government for the latest petrol price hike, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said it amounted to adding insult to injury as the people were already suffering due to spiralling prices. "The Centre is frequently hiking fuel prices, especially at a time when its wrong economic policies and mismanagement has resulted in spiralling prices of all commodities," she said. Lambasting the Centre for the...
05:32 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Kolkata: UPA ally Trinamool Congress on Thursday night expressed unhappiness over the petrol price hike and said the party has called an emergency meeting of its parliamentary party on Friday to discuss the issue. "We are unhappy over the hike of petrol price," Trinamool Congress General Secretary Mukul Roy said. Roy said an emergency meeting of the Trinamool Congress parliamentary party has been called on Friday to discuss the issue....
03:59 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Cannes: On a day when state-run oil companies hiked petrol prices, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that the price of the fuel is not fixed by the government. "The petrol price is a decontrolled price. Those prices are not set by the government," Ahluwalia said in an interview to private news channel on the sidelines of G-20 meeting IN Cannes. State-run oil marketing companies Indian Oil, Hindustan...
02:11 AM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: Petrol prices are slated to go up by Rs 1.82 per litre from Thursday midnight. The price has been hiked by Indian Oil and other firms are expected to follow suit. It is the fifth hike in petrol prices since December 2010. Less than two months after raising fuel prices by a whopping Rs 5 per litre, the State-owned oil companies had been pressing for Rs 1.82 per...
08:19 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Washington: At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp. Computers belonging to these companies were infected with malicious software known as "PoisonIvy," which was used to steal information such as design documents, formulas and details on manufacturing processes, Symantec said on Monday. It did not...
11:58 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Chicago: Google Inc has spoken to at least two private equity firms about possibly helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core business, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Google and prospective partners have held preliminary discussions but have not come up with a formal proposal, and Google may end up deciding not to pursue a bid, the source said....
08:08 AM, Oct 23, 2011
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