New Delhi: Bharti Airtel today launched a voice-based solution portal for value-added services that will provide information in the local language on activities such as agriculture, devotion, job updates, entertainment, education and health. ‘Apna Chaupal’, designed for the rural and [...]
New Delhi: Telecom regulator Trai has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. “Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, [...]
Mumbai: Investors can access Sebi’s toll-free helpline service for guidance and assistance on various matters on Saturdays and Sundays as well. Earlier, the service was accessible from Monday to Friday. “SEBI has extended its toll-free helpline service (1800 22 7575 [...]
New Delhi: Two new boys hostels were inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology today. In a statement, the Urban Development Ministry said that the Central Public Works Department executed the project which comprised of eight 5 to 9 storeyed [...]
New Delhi: Two months after hiking the freight, railways have increased the parcel and luggage rates by 25 per cent on all goods with immediate effect, in a move that is expected to add to the inflationary situation. With the [...]
New Delhi: British Airways today announced special discounts and offers for university students travelling to the UK, the US, Canada and some European destinations. Under the offer, students flying with the premier British carrier between tomorrow and October 30, 2012, [...]
Jhajjar (Haryana): Six new AIIMS with initial capacity of 1000 beds would start functioning next year in the country, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said today. The six new institutions modelled on AIIMS are located in Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Patna, [...]
New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO’s interest rate for its over 50 million subscribers for this fiscal could be higher than 8.25 per cent provided during 2011-12 “Suppose if our income goes up, it may be beyond 8.25 per also,” [...]
Mumbai: The cost of air travel from the city will go up by Rs 600 for those flying to overseas destinations and by Rs 100 for domestic travellers with the levy of development fee from Tuesday. The Directorate General of [...]
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it has agreed in-principle to deregulate diesel prices, but is not considering similar proposal for the cooking gas. “Government has, in principle, agreed to make the prices of diesel market determined,” Minister of [...]
New Delhi: Even before the holiday season has begun, all airlines have jacked up their fares on many busy air routes by 10-25 per cent over the past few days. One reason for the high fares was that the airlines, [...]
Jaipur: Rajasthan Cooperative Minister Parsadi Lal today assured the Assembly of setting up more centres for procurement of wheat at the Minimum Support Price. He said the government plans to procure 20 lakh tonnes of wheat from farmers in this [...]
New Delhi: Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines on Tuesday announced temporary suspension of operations from several cities and asked an undisclosed number of staff to stay at home till the time it gets fresh infusion of funds. Faced with a cash crunch [...]
New Delhi: Come April 1 and cheques and bank drafts will be valid only for three months, a development that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) thinks will help mitigate frauds related to such instruments. The RBI has directed that [...]
New Delhi: Steel cities of Jharkhand, Jamshedpur and Bokaro will soon figure on the country’s air map as the Airports Authority of India will set up airports there. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the AAI and the [...]
New Delhi: Headline inflation fell to a two-year low of 7.47 per cent in December 2011 on cheaper food items, a factor which may prompt the Reserve Bank to cut policy rates in the upcoming review. Headline inflation, as measured [...]
Jaipur: Forty-seven striking resident doctors today resumed duty here taking the total number of medicos who have rejoined work to 94 even as the situation remained grim in other cities where the strike continued. The 47 protesting doctors resumed duties [...]
New Delhi: Dense fog enveloped the IGI Airport this morning, leading to diversion of four flights and delaying 75 others. Two Jet Airway flights from Doha and Abu Dhabi and one Kingfisher flight from Dubai were diverted to Jaipur while [...]
Chennai: Nine flights bound for various destinations, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, were delayed due to heavy fog conditions in the national capital. These flights were delayed as a result of the delay in arrival of flights from Delhi, airport sources [...]
New Delhi: Petrol prices may be hiked by Re 0.65 per litre this week if state-owned oil firms manage to get political approval for the move. While a fall in the rupee to an all-time low of Rs 53.75 per [...]
NEW DELHI: Gold dipped below the psychological Rs 29,000-level in the bullion market here today on sustained selling by stockists in tandem with a steep fall in precious metals in global markets. Gold prices declined by Rs 100 to Rs [...]
NEW DELHI: The government said Delhi Metro can acquire land for property development also. “Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC) has the right to use the land acquired for the project for property development also,” Union Minister of State for [...]
New Delhi: The government has set an export target of USD 33 billion for the textiles sector next year despite the global economic slowdown, which it termed a “serious concern”, and said steps have been taken to address the “challenge”. [...]
New Delhi: The government today said high volatility in retail prices of kitchen staple tomato is not due to hoarding by traders’ cartel but because of seasonal factors. “No such issue about the cartel of traders stocking. But there is [...]
New Delhi: Oil weakened in Asian trade today as investors remained cautious despite backing from EU leaders for a deal aimed at saving the euro zone, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, dropped 18 [...]
New Delhi: Lead futures prices fell by 0.58 per cent to Rs 111.55 per kg today, as speculators reduced their positions amid a weakening trend in base metals on the London Metal Exchange (LME). At the Multi Commodity Exchange, lead [...]
NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro is not happy with the Airport Metro Express corridor and wants its operator Reliance Infrastructure to improve train speed, frequency and various other aspects within four months, failing which the operations will be taken over. The [...]
Panaji: German tourists visiting Goa want parity on the lines with their UK counterparts regarding relaxation in the mandatory two-month cooling period required between subsequent visits to India. Indo-German Friendship Society (IGFS), an institution of the likeminded people, has decided [...]
NEW DELHI: Railways have selected a Japanese consortium to explore the possibility of running a bullet train on the Hyderabad-Chennai high speed rail corridor. Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) and Oriental Consultancy along with Parsons Brinkhoff India has bagged the [...]
New Delhi: Railways have been directed to pay Rs 2,000 as compensation to a senior citizen, who fell ill after being stranded post midnight at a station in Karnataka, by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. A bench presided by [...]
Kolkata: Google will run a bus across West Bengal from tomorrow to familiarise people with the importance and usage of the Internet. “We had begun the Internet bus back in February 2009 and now the bus will tour the state. [...]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government today said the Centre has agreed to set up gas agencies at block levels in the state soon, to ensure adequate supply of the cooking fuel. “In order to provide adequate supply of cooking gas [...]
New Delhi: Metro commuters can buy India International Trade Fair tickets from 26 stations across the national capital beginning Monday. While the tickets for business days will be sold from Monday to Friday next, tickets for general public days will [...]
Google’s free online map service is letting shops, gyms, restaurants and other small businesses provide viewers glimpses of what lies behind facades seen on Street View. A test program launched in April of last year was bearing fruit in a [...]
In a move that could hit AirIndia’s international operations, over 100 pilots have threatened to quit the airlines, charging the management with adopting discriminatory attitude against them and stalling their career progression. The development comes four days ahead of the launch [...]
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