Videocon Mobile Services, which has permits to operate in seven circles out of the country's total 22 circles, has plans to expand services pan-India in a phased manner. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Infosys has partnered with India Post for developing a service delivery platform that will allow more than 1,30,000 rural post offices to offer online services. ...
08:21 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The government has put on hold the notification on changing UPSC exam norms. This came after there was uproar in Parliament over the proposed changes in the Union Public Service Commission examinations. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 15, 2013
There is controversy over the change in the UPSC civil services exam. English test marks will now be included and only those who have graduated in a regional language can write the paper in that language. CNN-IBN spoke to those affected. ...
01:11 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Accusing the central government of trying to impose Hindi by making changes in the civil services exam norms, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw the notification as it would filter out candidates from rural India. ...
06:13 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad are among the top five airports in the world providing international standard services. Airports Council International (ACI), a global body of airports, has adjudged Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport as second best after Seoul's Incheon airport in the category of airports handling 25-40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) for their service quality for the year 2012. ...
10:42 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The new UPSC exam rules will close down linguistic concessions offered to all vernacular languages and will take into account the score of the English language paper in the final selection for top jobs. IAS Officer Srivatsa Krishna shared his perspective on the pros and cons of such steps. ...
05:23 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The government will get around Rs 3,639 crore from the 2G spectrum auction for CDMA services, which ended on Monday with Russian conglomerate Sistema's Indian unit SSTL being the only bidder. ...
01:40 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The government has received bids worth Rs 3,639 crore from lone bidder Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) till the second round of the 2G spectrum auction for CDMA services. Sources said bids were received for three blocks in each of eight circles, including Delhi. There was no bid for Mumbai, they added. ...
12:53 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Lone bidder Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) on Monday bid for eight circles in the 2G spectrum auction for CDMA services. The second round of auction is underway and it is expected that it will end by the third round, which could be the shortest online sale of radiowaves in terms of time consumed. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said the government wants to introduce the Direct Tax Code (DTC) bill in the Budget session of Parliament. He also said that Goods and Service Tax (GST) would become a reality within 2013, if all state governments come on board. ...
10:59 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The Cabinet has given the in-principle approval to the Bill providing for time-bound delivery of services. This effectively means that bureaucrats will now have to face the music for delay in dispensing services like pensions, passports, caste certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and police procedures. ...
01:40 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to a bill providing for time-bound delivery of services. This effectively means that bureaucrats will now have to face the music for delay in dispensing services like pensions, passports, caste certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and police procedures. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 07, 2013
In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including its Google social network, said Vint Cerf, a senior Google executive known as a "father of the Internet." ...
06:23 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Telecom operator Videocon Mobile Services today said it has selected European telecom gear maker Nokia Siemens Network for rolling out 4G services network in the country. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Services won the 67th Santosh Trophy by beating hosts Kerala 4-3 on penalties at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. ...
10:12 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said he is hopeful that the much delayed Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be implemented across the country no later than next year while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. ...
10:27 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Services came back from behind through a late goal and struck twice in the extra time to beat Punjab 3-1 to set up a title clash against Kerala. ...
10:36 PM, Mar 01, 2013
In January 2009, in what is widely referred to as 'India's Enron', 300,000 shareholders of Satyam Computer Services (now Mahindra Satyam) came together and sued the company. Satyam's founder Ramalinga Raju had confessed to misstating accounts, and the company stock plummeted. The shareholders claimed damages worth Rs 5,000 crore. ...
02:55 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday expressed confidence that the present uncertainty in the telecom sector will be resolved and spectrum will be auctioned. "For the present there is lot of uncertainty about auction but I am sure that this uncertainty will be resolved and spectrum will be auctioned. If the spectrum is auctioned we should get the money," Chidambaram said. ...
01:24 AM, Mar 01, 2013
