India will soon have GPS and geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN) operationalized. Releasing the GAGAN certification documents, K N Srivastava, secretary, ministry of civil aviation, said that market GAGAN beyond aviation was large and stressed on th
Telecom service providers owe the government Rs 39,800 crore in terms of outstanding amount for spectrum usage charges, licence fees, penalties and interest, according to a news report published in The Hindu. Public sector telecom o
ITI Ltd, a state-run telecom equipment maker, may soon get the much-awaited Rs 4,100 crore revival package from the government. According to a news report published in Mint, Telecom department has almost finalized the note on the revival p
Amidst reduced demand for credit, rising NPA worries and slump in the banking sector, one of the public sector banks in the country, Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), is on an expansion mode. The bank is set to open its 3000th branch in Vaniankudi in Ta
With tremendous growth in technological outreach and internet, more consumers are drawn towards availing services and buying products online. India’s e-commerce market has grown to $14 billion by 2012. About 75% of this is travel-related (ai
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has surprised many, within his party and outside, by writing to the prime minister, seeking a review of the food security legislation. In his August 8 letter the PM, he has termed the food secur
Innovation may be the toast of entrepreneurship everywhere, but how much are companies, small and big, engaging with it? Planning commission member Arun Maira believes innovation in India, even as the country completes the first quarter of its Inn
Background India, the largest democracy in the world, is home to nearly one-third of the world`s population living below $1.25 a day. Poverty is an endemic in India where a whopping 650 million (53.7% of country’s pop
With the supreme court dismissing the petition of former Bihar chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who sought to change the special CBI judge in Ranchi hearing the fodder scam case, there is a strong possibility of political equations in Bihar underg
At a time the Kishtwar riots were rocking the Lok Sabha, an actor-turned-TDP MP used his theatrical skills to good effect to draw attention towards the Seemandhra stir. Dr Siva Prasad, representing the Chittoor Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh, tu
Affairs of men often proceed like a Mexican wave and all human beings are imitating animals in some respects. So, there is hardly any reason to find fault with Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his full-throated invocation of "we can&q
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took the attack to the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress party in particular when he said the party that has ruled for nearly 50 years in 66 years of an independent India cannot govern the
Senior IAS officer, Ashok Khemka, in a report submitted to the Haryana government, has alleged that Robert Vadra, son-in-law of congress chief Sonia Gandhi, used false documents and executed a series of sham transaction for the sale of a 3.5 acre
Transparency: Everything in public domain The real estate bill mandates that the developers get their projects registered with the real estate regulator and obtain all the necessary clearances befo
The external affairs ministry (MEA) has terminated the services of noted Chennai-based industrialist A C Muthiah as honorary counsul of the Kingdom of Belgium in Chennai. The termination letter dated July 24 [attached below] was sent
The microfinance bill, facing an uncertain fate now, will only emerge the better from collective wisdom, as the parliamentary standing committee on finance has been holding extensive consultations over it. Meanwhile, the microfinance sector needs
The story could be apocryphal but has been passed down the generations, so we will go the whole nine yards, as they say. The year was 1845, and Hyderabad was ruled by the 4th Nizam, Nasir Ud Daula. On a warm and sunny day at almost this time of th
To understand the establishment and evolution of a charismatic personality in India, we have to approach the issue from religious, historical and contemporary politics perspectives. Going by the paradigm of religion, charisma can be locat
Two minutes before your plane touches down at Agartala airport, it passes through the international border of Bangladesh, separated merely by a boundary wall. And there is a distinct feeling of entering a different time zone in reality, not metaph
Maybe a little clichéd, but the expression sums up Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar – a gentleman among chief ministers and the chief minister among gentlemen. Among the political class, he is the dhoti-clad so
