New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved starting a passenger bus service to Myanmar and increasing the number of flights to the neighbouring country. "The Cabinet has approved the proposal for introduction of bus service in its meeting today," a source said. The proposal, mooted by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, is for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the neighbouring country for the introduction of passenger...
07:46 PM, May 24, 2012
Athens: Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead it to new elections on June 17 and bankers sought to calm public fears after the president said political chaos risked causing panic and a run on deposits. Greeks have been withdrawing hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) from banks in recent days as the prospect of the country being forced out of the...
06:45 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: There is a clash between the Ministry of External Affairs and the Home Minister over a visit of eight ambassadors from European Union countries to Nagaland. The Home Ministry has written a letter to the MEA, claiming it was not informed by the ministry of the delegation visiting the north eastern state. According to the letter, the Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau had no knowledge of the...
05:00 PM, May 14, 2012
Even as trade unions the world over are celebrating May Day with rallies, holidays and discussions, questions are being asked about the role of labour outfits in the changed liberal and globalised scenario. "Trade unions everywhere are losing their revolutionary character and are seen degenerating into litigation committees, striking deals and bargains with managements. Their preoccupation is no longer waging a class struggle or sharpening the political consciousness of their...
01:25 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: International Labour Day (also known as May Day or International Workers' Day) celebrates the various labour and left-wing movements across the world. It is mostly observed by holding street marches and demonstrations by working class people and their labour unions. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is also celebrated unofficially in many other countries. Labour Day has its origins in the eight-hour...
12:43 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: The NYSE-listed Western Union Company, a global leader in money transfer services, on Wednesday announced that it has opened its 5,00,000th agent location in New York and its 100,000th location in India. Western Union opened its 100,000th location in India at Dena Bank's Sandhurst Bridge branch here. Western Union services are offered through Dena Bank via Weizmann Forex, the company's principal agent. "Western Union locations in India now accounts...
04:40 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Naypyitaw: Myanmar's reformist rulers are looking forward to an eagerly awaited easing of European Union sanctions on Monday but celebrations will be muted over a political stalemate delaying Aung San Suu Kyi's historic parliamentary debut. A protest by Suu Kyi's party over a swearing-in vow for its would-be parliamentarians will dent an image of transformation the government wanted to show off on Monday, when the European Union is all but...
09:58 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: High drama was witnessed at the Team Anna Core Committee meeting in Noida on Sunday with the group expelling one of its members Mufti Shameem Kazmi for allegedly recording its proceedings even as he claimed that he quit the movement as it was turning anti-Muslim. Despite what both sides are saying, sources say there is a growing rift over the Ramdev, Anna Hazare tie-up. "I was the lone...
09:42 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Noida: Team Anna on Sunday decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers, whom they had named as "corrupt", seeking their responses to the allegations before going ahead with agitation seeking legal action against them. This was decided at a meeting of Team Anna's Core Committee, attended by Anna Hazare and other prominent members. "We have decided to send notices to 14 Union Ministers facing serious allegations and whom we...
08:03 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Washington: Amid growing criticism from various quarters over the proposed retrospective changes in the tax law, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that changes in the legislation would be just "clarificatory" in nature. During his meeting with the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Giethner on Thursday, Mukherjee clarified that the proposed legislation was not aimed at opening up old cases. According to an official statement released after the meeting, the US...
06:22 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: By conceding the demand of Indian Union Muslim League for a fifth ministerial berth in the Congress-led UDF government, both Congress and Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy have landed in a tight spot with several of its leaders coming out against the decision. Though the issue would not immediately in any way affect the 11-month-old government, which has only a wafer thin majority in the assembly, voices of differences...
10:25 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Mumbai: Air India unions on Thursday night appeared to have reservations over government's plan to hive off the carrier's engineering and ground handling services into two wholly owned subsidiaries as part of its turnaround strategy and they plan to have a meeting on Friday. A meeting of 7 unions under a joint front comprising pilots, engineers, a ground handling staff, technical staff etc will meet on Friday, a Air India...
03:40 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister and DMK MP A Raja on Thursday told a court, trying the 2G spectrum case in New Delhi, that his first priority was to present his case before a judicial fora instead of attending the Parliament. Raja said he could only plead his case with the court and not before the Lok Sabha Speaker or the Prime Minister as such he was in the hands...
05:56 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is also likely to take up amendments to the Lokpal Bill at Thursday's meeting. The UPA government has promised to bring the Bill to Parliament in the next session, under pressure from key allies like the Trinamool Congress and NCP to remove the mandatory state Lokayukta clause. The Bill was passed in Lok Sabha last year but got stuck in the Upper House amid immense...
09:26 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Car sales in India rose just 2.2 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March, a year to forget for automakers marked by demand-smothering high interest rates and rising fuel costs, but are seen posting double-digit growth this year. Sales rose an annual 19.7 percent in March, a fifth straight monthly increase, but still lower than the 30 percent growth seen in the 2010/11 fiscal year, before...
05:51 PM, Apr 10, 2012
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