The Cabinet on Thursday approved levy of one-time spectrum charge on all existing telecom operators. The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accepted recommendation of an the Empowered Group of Ministers that all existing
Debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday reported net loss of Rs 754 crore for the July-September quarter, a sharp increase from Rs 469 crore in the year-ago period, and said it is working on a plan to resume services. The revenue plung
Corporate India has raised its voice against corruption again, this time at the World Economic Forum (WEF) conference now on at Gurgaon. The shared wisdom at this high table of world economic dialogue was that corruption chokes growth.
Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met L K Advani, who is apparently unhappy over the BJP President`s continuance in his post, to wish him on his birthday. Gadkari met Advani at his residence. The meeting between the two lasted for 15 minutes.
A full-page advertisement in national dailies, placed by the Delhi government, claiming cent percent power to citizens has raised many eyebrows. The Sheila Dikshit government claims that discoms (distribution companies) have met the peak d
Country’s richest civic body with an annual budget of Rs 25,581 crore for the year 2012-2013, the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no system of calculating water consumption data for its 24 ward boundaries, rendering water consu
The reserve price of Rs 14,000 crore set for airwaves is "too high" and the auction of 2G spectrum will be over on the first day itself, Bharti group Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said on Wednesday. "Reserve price is too high
If BJP president Nitin Gadkari comes to Gujarat for the election campaign, he would refocus the political debate on fugitive criminal Dawood Ibrahim. Nothing would be so embarrassing for chief minister Narendra Modi as Gadkari`s indiscretion, sinc
“We`re all in this together. That`s how we campaigned, and that`s who we are. Thank you. –bo” That’s how US President Barack Obama reacted on Twitter after news began pouring in about his victory in
The new oil and natural gas minister, M Veerappa Moily, is in a difficult position. In fact, every minister holding this portfolio is in so far as dealing with the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is concerned. Damned if you favour RIL and damned
More than 40 applications have been received by the cluster innovation centre of Delhi University (DU) for the first course under ‘meta university’. The course, which will take off in January 2013 nearly six months after its proposed d
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari survived in his post for one more day but with more leaders speaking out against him his future is more uncertain than ever. During a day that saw a series of meetings of the party top b
Among many disadvantages of being a city slicker is the level of expectation that comes almost guaranteed. A railway station, for instance, ought to have an enquiry counter. Or roads, for that matter, are thrown open to the public only after the s
Petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily has a knack to make government decisions ineffective without reversing them as he demonstrated when he was chief minister of Karnataka (though his term was cut short by the infamous "Moily tapes").
As was expected after he jumped into the political arena, Arvind Kejriwal has become the new untouchable. His résumé sounded attractive, in fact cool, as an RTI activist, only to become a hot potato in his present avatar as a politic
I am not sure whether I was Class VI or VII at the time. It was the time of the school annual day in the seventies and the title of the best debater was up for grabs. The topic for that year’s debate was, as predictable as school debate topi
Fair trade regulator CCI has rejected actor-producer Ajay Devgn`s complaint alleging abuse of dominant position by Yash Raj Films, saying that there are no violations of competition norms in the case. Ajay Devgn Films Pvt Ltd had moved the
