New Delhi: Asking civil servants to take bold decisions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the government would not indulge in "witch hunting" against them in the name of fighting corruption and was committed to protecting the honest. He also said they should not be affected by the "nature and colour of the political leadership". "..it should be our endeavour that there is no witch hunting in the name...
12:58 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Congress leader Ambika Soni said that the Opposition is not co-operating on allowing any discussion. ...
05:39 PM, Apr 20, 2012
San Francisco: Google is offering to provide a monthly report to people who want to keep track of their activities on some of its most popular services. The tool unveiled Wednesday includes a breakdown of Gmail correspondences and search requests entered while logged in. The summary also lists the Web browsers and operating systems used during logged-in sessions. Google Inc. also is reporting the countries where logins originated. These details...
10:41 AM, Mar 29, 2012
San Francisco: If you're amazed - and maybe even a little alarmed - about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet's most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its more than 1 billion users. Google says the changes will make it easier for consumers to understand how it collects...
10:25 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Washington Suggesting that rising powers like India, China and Brazil were putting economics at the centre of their foreign policies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocates Economic Statecraft to champion US businesses abroad. "America's economic strength and our global leadership are a package deal. You're not going to have one without the other," she said in a keynote at a State Department Global Business Conference on Tuesday. "Rising powers like...
12:24 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Washington: Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of US lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday Google, whose offerings include its flagship search engine, Gmail, YouTube and Google+ products, announced last week that it was unifying 60 of its privacy policies. When the new policy...
11:15 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Bangkok: Thailand is welcoming Twitter's new policy to censor tweets in specific nations where the content might break laws. Technology minister Anudith Nakornthap said Monday the new policy was a "constructive" development. The Southeast Asian country routinely blocks websites with content deemed offensive to the Thai monarchy. Anudith said it was good that Twitter "felt responsible to cooperate with governments to make sure basic rights are not violated through the...
12:17 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Ludhiana: CPI(M) on Saturday said there was no scope any understanding or alliance with the Congress unless the UPA changed its economic policies. "Unless and until they (UPA) make amendments in the present economic policies (there can be no such accord)," CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said in reply to a question from reporters. He said if the UPA wanted any understanding with the Left, the Congress-led alliance would...
12:50 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Bangalore: Google Inc plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could attract greater scrutiny from anti-trust regulators. In an online blog post, Google said it expects to roll out the revised guidelines in over a month's time, consolidating more than 60 separate privacy policies it uses...
11:39 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Tata Group's Chairman Ratan Tata on Monday said that the government's anti-inflation steps hit growth and demand and India was fortunate to show continued economic growth despite global slowdown. "Anti-inflation measures tightened money supply, restricted credit. Anti-Inflation steps hit growth and demand. Political conflicts and policy uncertainties have hit investments," Tata said. "2011 was a year of great conflict within India. Investments have slowed down in infrastructure. Tata...
05:34 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Thursday alleged "wrong economic policies and poor governance" were responsible for the "bad situation" in the country. "The country's present situation is not good and wrong economic policies and bad governance are responsible for it. Our GDP growth rate has gone below seven per cent and the state of agriculture growth is forcing farmers to commit suicide", BJP President Nitin Gadkari said. Speaking at a function...
12:17 AM, Dec 02, 2011
San Francisco: Facebook is finalising a settlement with federal regulators over changes to its privacy policies enacted two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported. The proposed settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission would resolve charges by privacy advocates that Facebook engaged in deceptive behavior. The settlement, which is awaiting final approval by commissioners, would require Facebook to obtain consent from its users for "material retroactive changes," according to...
08:36 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Indore: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said faulty policies of the UPA government were responsible for price rise. Because of the government's policies, prices are rising each day adversely affecting the life of the common man, he told. Singh said UPA government's justification for the rising inflation was ludicrous and did not appeal to anybody. On politicians and those belonging to the corporate world cooling their heels in...
12:07 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Mumbai: The IMF on Monday again revised downwards the country's growth outlook for 2011 to around 8 per cent on the back of high inflation and overall global economic outlook, clouded by rising commodity prices led by oil. "As new downside risks have emerged across the globe, and particularly in Asia Pacific economies with many of them overheating, we revise downwards our growth for the region and also for India,...
09:44 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has said the Left, which provided outside support to the UPA-I, was aware that Mani Shankar Iyer was shifted out of the Petroleum Ministry in 2006 as he was pursuing energy policy which the Americans did not like. Karat said the Left parties, which conveyed their displeasure to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for pursuing pro-US policies, however, did not come public on the...
02:11 PM, Mar 27, 2011
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