New Delhi: An all party meet convened to reach a consensus on the Land Acquisition Bill remained inconclusive on Tuesday with no headway being made at all. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AIADMK and CPM gave their suggestions, other parties are expected to follow suit by April 15. After all the suggestions are made, there will be another round of meeting on April 18, by when there is likely...
03:39 PM, Apr 09, 2013
In 'Accidental India: A History of the Nation's Passage through Crisis and Change', noted journalist-analyst, Shankkar Aiyar, examines India's ascent through the paradigm of seven game changers: the economic liberalization of 1991, the Green Revolution of the sixties, the nationalization of banks in 1969, Operation Flood in the seventies, the mid-day meal scheme of 1982, the software revolution of the nineties, and the passing of the Right to Information Act...
03:27 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Shares in Tata Consultancy Services rose as much as 2.2 per cent on Tuesday after the company announced it will buy privately-held Alti SA of France for 75 million euros. The acquisition signals Indian software service exporters' interest in diversifying its revenue base, and the acquisition could potentially help increase profits at TCS, analysts said. TCS shares were up 2 per cent as of 12:36 pm. ...
02:55 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New York: Consumers are multitasking and using other electronic devices such as phones and tablets while they watch television, according to a survey released on Monday. The online poll of 3,501 consumers in France, Brazil, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States showed that an overwhelming majority, 90 per cent, said they watched some video content over the Internet, with the tablet seeing the biggest increase. "Consumers can't...
09:52 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The government will convene an all party meet on Tuesday to iron out the controversial Land Acquisition Bill. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has called the meeting as the party meet could not reach a consensus by March 7. While the Left wants the Land Bill to be sent back to the standing committee, the Trinamool Congress has completely rejected it. Earlier in April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
07:40 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the allocation of funds for her state for 2013. Mamata hopes to get a hike of 25 per cent in the plan size compared to 2012's 16 percent. Mamata is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the CPI(M) claimed the trip...
07:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: India wants to be part of the solution and not part of the problem in Afghanistan though there are some quarters who view New Delhi as the latter, said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday. "India has not and must not be a bystander and aloof of what is happening in Afghanistan," Khurshid said, giving a talk on the release of a report on Afghanistan. "What is...
06:40 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Watch the full movie 'Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley', a 2008 BBC Four TV drama based on the early political career of Thatcher who passed away on April 8, 2013 at the age of 87. ...
06:31 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking framing of guidelines for restricting hate speeches by politicians and leaders of social and religious organisations. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir also issued notices to the Governments of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh which, in the recent times, witnessed incidents of alleged speeches. The PIL submitted that speeches targeting religion, region, caste...
01:40 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Rumours have it that mobile messaging service WhatsApp may be Google's next big buy. Digital Trends is quoting "inside sources" as saying that WhatsApp is "playing hardball" and eyeing an acquisition price that's "close to $1 billion". The negotiations reportedly began four or five weeks ago. If this is true and the deal does come through, Google will have a force to reckon with on its side in the...
01:39 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), India's state-run top power equipment maker, reported on Monday an 8 per cent fall in provisional net profit for the fiscal year ended on March 31. India's power sector has been badly hit by shortages of coal and gas supplies, delays in environmental approvals for power and mining projects and drying up of funding - severely denting the demand for equipment. Provisional net...
01:25 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Orleans: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, one of the nation's most prominent Republicans and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, has fallen out of favor with local voters, and his bold plan to scrap the state income tax is running into trouble. Jindal was re-elected to a second term with two-thirds of the vote in 2011. But his Louisiana approval rating was down to 38 per cent in a recent poll,...
11:32 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Market regulator SEBI has incurred initial costs of more than Rs 55 crore in its humongous task of facilitating Rs 24,000-crore refund to bondholders of two Sahara firms after verifying their credentials and Saharas would have to clear all these bills. The final expense bill of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in this high-profile case could be much higher, as just two contracts - for...
03:17 PM, Apr 07, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Andrew Barisic struck twice to help East Bengal climb to the top of the table with a 4-2 win over Tampines Rovers in their group H AFC Cup match. ...
09:55 PM, Apr 03, 2013
About one-fourth of 1.6 crore households missed the deadline of television digitisation on Monday in 38 cities. But they may get a short transition period for switchover to Set Top Boxes depending on local conditions. ...
12:36 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Three atheist bloggers in Bangladesh were on Tuesday arrested here on charges of defaming Islam, as the government set up the country's first cyber crime tribunal to prevent exploitation of religion on the Internet. The crackdown as well as the announcement came two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the Internet. ...
09:00 AM, Apr 03, 2013
An undertrial was shot dead and a lawyer along with a small girl was critically injured when unidentified assailants opened fire at Hapur court premises in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The dead undertrial has been identified as Ashok Bhati and he was a member of the notorious Sunder Bhati gang. ...
05:23 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Defence Acquisition Council is expected to approve changes to procurement rules on Tuesday and sources said the new rules will give domestic industry, both public and private, the right of "first refusal" before the import option is exercised. ...
01:48 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Scientists claim to have developed new contact lenses that can restore age-related loss of near vision when worn by the user every night. Most people have age-related declines in near vision (presbyopia) requiring bifocals or reading glasses. ...
05:02 PM, Apr 01, 2013
