Posts Tagged ‘India’
Website to unearth black money in India
Anti-graft organisation Transparency International-India TII will run a WikiLeak-style website in India to unearth and recover thousands of crores of black money stagnating both within and outside the country A ‘Star Action Team’ of lawyers, jurists and bureaucrats will upload data regarding black money after collecting and verifying [...]
Will make honest efforts, says PM
The four-and-a-half hours including a 70-minute dinner that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani shared in Mohali on Wednesday has broughtin a fresh impetus to the re-engagement between the neighbours and stressed the primacy ofdialogue to address all issues including sighting a forward movement on the [...]
India, Pak agree to set up anti-terror hotline
India and Pakistan have agreed to set up a "hotline" to share information about militants, a joint statement said on Tuesday after talks between their home secretaries in New Delhi "Both sides agreed to set up a hotline between the home secretary of India and the interior secretary of Pakistan to facilitate real-time information sharing with [...]
India among the most corrupt nations: Survey
India finds itself bracketed with countries like Philippines and Cambodia, rated as the fourth most corrupt nation among 16 countries of the Asia Pacific region surveyed by leading Hong Kong-based business consultancy firm PERC0 with the high end being the worst case of corruption scenario and ahead of the Philippines 6 countries reviewed in its [...]
Somalia assures India it will free sailors from pirates
Somalia today has assured India that it will do everything possible to get 53 Indian hostages released from pirates in that country, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said00 Somalian pirates that are under custody here, a issue that was discussed in today's meeting, Krishna said the law of the land will take its own course
AOL cuts 20 per cent jobs, 400 in India
AOL said it would lay off 1,000 employees on Thursday in the wake of its acquisition of news and commentary site The Huffington Post The cuts, which represent 20 per cent of AOL s work force, also include reductions in its operations in India The changes we are making are not easy, but they are the right changes for the long-term health of [...]
IndiGo places ‘largest’ aircraft order in aviation history
In the single largest aircraft deal in global aviation history, no-frill carrier IndiGo will acquire 180 A-320s worth an estimated USD 1580 single-aisle aircraft50 would belong to the eco-efficient 'neo' series, which are yet to be produced, and the remaining 30 are the standard A-320s6 and 202552 billion euros00 A-320s when the total order was [...]
India launches 1st aerostat radar
India has taken a step forward to have an indigenous aerostat for border surveillance with scientists successfully demonstrating its capability in the last three days The indigenous aerostat — a giant helium-filled balloon tethered to the ground — carried electro-optic and COMINT communication intelligence payloads, said officials from [...]
India gets first of six Super Hercules airlifters
The first of India's six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters, considered the world's most advanced transport aircraft, purchased from the US in a $1 billion deal has been delivered to the Indian Air Force30 Programmes30 family1, while two more will arrive in early summer and the last two will be delivered in late summer of 201130J-30s would provide [...]
Veena Malik ‘threat’ to Islam: Pak clergy
Pakistani actress Veena Malik may be upping the TRPs by being part of the Bigg Boss household in India, but in her country she is being seen as a "threat" to Islam In a recent television show, ex-Bigg Boss contestant Ali Saleem aka Begum Nawazish Ali had to bend backwards to defend himself and his colleague Veena who was accused of being a threat [...]
Mobile number portability to start from today
The launch of mobile number portability 5 working days," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement900 Based on this, they will get a unique porting code as SMS from the existing service provider The customer can then make an application in the prescribed form mentioning the code to the selected new service provider for [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9650 out to CDMA Users in India
With so many new GSM network services cropping up in India, sometimes one can forget that CDMA technologies still do exist2MB in this model, thus ensuring that BlackBerry spankin' new OS 6 runs smoothly5 mega-pixel sensor, which is somewhat disappointing since most high-end phones these days sport at least 5 megapixel sensors Mbps [...]
India records sharp drop in polio cases: WHO
According to recent estimates by the World Health Organisation polio is only 16 this year as compared to 51 last year, while type-3 cases stand at 23 against last year's 343, according to the WHO cases are of type 1 polio cases and 343 type 3 polio strains and type 2 polio viruses0 and high-risk areas in the country have received two [...]
Julia Roberts to adopt child from India?
Julia Roberts, who recently converted to the Hindu faith, is now trying to adopt a child from India, according to sources The 42-year-old, who already has three children with cameraman Danny Moder – twins Hazel and Finn, five, and Henry, three, suffered from complications during her previous pregnancies but is still keen to add to her [...]
India, RIM working on glitches in email access
India and Research in Motion RIM have hit technical glitches in their talks on access to corporate email, but access to the messenger services is satisfactory, a government source said on Friday "Messenger service is working fine, so far We are getting manual reports, we are satisfied," the source said "Some technical glitches have come up, [...]
India to raise US visa fee hike at trade dialogue
A steep hike in US work visa fee for IT professionals and Ohio state ban on outsourcing is expected to figure prominently at a key India-US trade dialogue here ahead of President Barack Obama's India visit0B and L1 visas to raise $600 million for securing the US-Mexico border and Ohio state ban on government offshore outsourcing, India is also [...]
Chandigarh becoming North India’s preferred IT Hub
As Chandigarh is gearing up for the forthcoming mega ICT event e-Revolution 2010, it's time to acknowledge that the region is rapidly emerging as one of the hot and preferred destinations for ICT companies in the country to set up their facilities With a rich history of successful entrepreneurship which comes naturally to the local residents, [...]
A song on her lips, a style of her own, Asha Bhosle turns 77
She has sung more than 12,000 songs in 18 languages, been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan and is still raring to go9578 languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali and Malay3-14, I used to spend the entire night reading under the street lights [...]
India set to be king of web world
India will see its number of internet users triple to 237 million from the current 81 million by 2015, according to a report5 - well over three times the number of internet users in Japan and the US combined0 million Internet users5, driven predominantly by young users who will form the digital-market eco-systems that will be in place for [...]
India to build world’s largest solar telescope
India is inching closer towards building the world's largest solar telescope in Ladakh on the foothills of the Himalayas that aims to study the sun's microscopic structure50 crore million0-metre optical telescope at Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the largest, the Indian instrument will be the largest among solar telescopes6 metres in Kitt Peak [...]
