Vladimir Putin “We discussed this important issue yesterday over a beer...”
Mahatma Gandhi “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
$23 billion amalgamation deal with South Africa’s MTN call off by Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel today. The discussion for the amalgamation stretched for four long-month.
In a year this is second time when Mittal has been forced to abandon amalgamation talks with MTN. It was supposed to be a complex deal which even required clearance [...]
A South Pacific tsunami killed this morning shortly before 7 a.m. local time over 100 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga caused by a magnitude-8 earthquake, which was located about 204 km southwest of Samoa. A number of coastal villages were swept away and warnings have been prompted that waves may also hit Japan [...]
Air India has agreed today to pay the productivity-linked incentive, in short called as PLI, to all sections of its employees on 7th of October.
Jitendra Bhargava, the executive director of Air India said on Tuesday, “Air India will pay the August PLI payable in September on October 7.”
Bhargava also said that the September [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India is committed to voluntary unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing.
Singh said that the country is proud of its non-proliferation record. He added further that India is committed to the global efforts for the prevention of the proliferation of all weapons that is of mass destruction.
Singh was addressing to The [...]
China today asked both the countries, India and Pakistan, to look for Kashmir issue solution through peaceful and friendly consultations. China also says to be playing a “constructive role” in resolving this long time disputed “bilateral issue”.
Hu Zhengyue, the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs in China said that his country would be happy to [...]
Air India today cancelled twelve domestic and two international flights from New Delhi. The cancellation is due a section of the agitating executive pilots who refused to accept the proposal of the management in setting up a committee to look into their grievances and continued with their stir.
The twelve domestic flights cancelled were to Bangalore, [...]
S M Krishna, External affairs minister is holding talks today with the Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in New York. 26/11 Mumbai terror attack investigation is the main agenda. It is expected with Krishna to demand speedy action against perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack.
Bolth the ministers met each other earlier at the New York [...]
The Haryana assembly election is slated for next month following Hooda Government’s decision to dissolve the assembly seven months in advance. It is tipped to become a bigger contest than in the past with nominations filled by 1,874 candidates. Of the 1,874 nominations, a whopping 432 nominations have been rejected during scrutiny on Saturday. That leaves 1442 candidates still fighting for a seat [...]
India’s start to the Champions Trophy 2009 campaign in South Africa did not go as desired and has put down all the fans. Team India played Pakistan in their first Group A Match at Super Sports Park, Centurion. It was not an easy victory for Pakistan, but nothing can be more upsetting for an Indian fan [...]
There has been trace of water found on moon. Chandrayan-I has discovered it and this discovery has prompted the ISRO scientists to again think on the experiments that will be carried out by its sequel mission known as Chandrayan-II. It is scheduled for launch by 2013. Then ISRO have plans of landing two rovers on [...]
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi again arrived in Uttar Pradesh without any pre-note and spent night in a poor Dalit’s hut on Wednesday in a remote village named Shravasti.
Gandhi took his party colleagues and also the state administration in Uttar Pradesh. He flew back on Thursday evening and the stay has attracted harsh comments [...]
16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 was successfully launched along with 6 nano European satellites today in 1,200 seconds.
The satellites were launched through Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- C-14) from Sriharikota. The launch started at 11.51 hours and it ended by 12.06 hours.
The Oceansat-2 wighed 960-kg and the 6 nano satellites together wighed 20 kg.
Four [...]
Vijay Mallya owned Kingfisher Airlines, one of the biggest carriers in India, may raise as much as $175 million or Rs.840 Crores by selling its shares and global depository receipts to repay the big debts it had accumulated over the years.
The carrier is planning to seek between $80 million and $100 million in a rights offer [...]
To get over to the problematic situation after the ‘cattle class’ remarks Union Minister Shashi Tharoor met today Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He shared his thought with an explanation remarks about his comments and action when asked by the party to be cautious. He met amid of resignation demands as [...]
Parts of Assam experienced a major earthquake today at 1426 hours. The earthquake measured 6.3 on the Richter scale. It triggered panic in the entire region and this is the fifth earthquake tremor in the last 45 days.
The earthquake cracked buildings in Guwahati. The centre of the quake was a little-populated eastern region of [...]
If you are a heavy GPRS user, you might as well like to go for Tata DoCoMo that is now offering unlimited GPRS. Tata DoCoMo also promises of faster speeds at all times.
Tata DoCoMo confirmed that the GPRS connected phones would be able to transfer unlimited data at all times. There are two packs – [...]
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, taped on Friday, President Barack Obama said that the US economy is on the start of growth again but jobs may not be created until 2010.
Obama said, “I want to be clear, that probably the jobs picture is not going to improve considerably — and it could even [...]
Rakhi Sawant got her partner. Thanks to NDTV Imagine. Now it’s the turn of Rahul Mahajan to find one. After the great success of Rakhi Ka Swayamvar, NDTV Imagine wants to bake the cake on the same concept. The channel is likely going to air in December or beginning of next air Rahul Ki Swayamvadhu. [...]
Kalawati, the name which became popular by just a speech of Rahul Gandhi in the parliament, is on the way to get identity among farmers of Vidarbha. She will be contesting the Maharashtra assembly polls.
Kalawati Bandurkar, 48, is a poor widow whose name Gandhi mentioned on July 22 trust motion last year speech. She will [...]
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has put himself in trouble for a Twitter message that he posted. In this social network site he said sarcastically replying to a query that he would travel “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!”.
Jayanthi Natarajan, the Congress spokesperson, termed this phrase of Shashi [...]
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