Mumbai: Flight operations of the near- bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines are likely to be severely hit with a section of its pilots and engineers deciding not to report on duty from tomorrow in protest against delay in salaries. While the airline has not paid salary to its staff since the past five months, a sizeable chunk [...]
Mumbai: A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading 225.14 points up around 11.30 a.m. Monday, as there was good buying spree in oil and gas, bank, capital goods and auto stocks as well as strong global cues after reports of a surge in US hiring. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay [...]
Effective use of the RTI Act is important as it will tell you what procedural hurdles your business is facing and how to go about solving them. Nupur Pavan Bang and Anuj Hetamsaria The Right to Information Act (2005) became effective in October 2005 to empower every citizen to ask questions from the Government. This [...]
WASHINGTON: Facebook’s latest figures showing growth in global users also suggest as many as 83 million may come from dubious sources — duplicate accounts, pages for pets and those designed to send spam. Facebook members grew to 955 million at the end of the second quarter, but some 8.7 percent may be dodgy, the company [...]
Users can turn the TV on or off, activate selected apps or search for and select content in the web browser — all without touching the remote.
It is important to check whether all facilities are in place before buying property rather than believing in the promised infrastructure.
Companies are also constantly working on research and development to bring out bikes with better features.
Money Matters Nupur Pavan Bang The department has made it really easy for taxpayers to file their returns. If you haven’t yet filed your income tax returns, you can do it without much hassle at www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. We will take you through the process of filing the income tax returns for a Salaried individual in this [...]
Seoul: South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Friday posted a record net profit of 5.19 trillion won ($4.53 billion) in the second quarter, powered by strong smartphone sales despite the global downturn. The company, the world’s biggest technology firm in revenue terms, also reported a record operating profit in April-June of 6.72 trillion won.The net profit represented [...]
Businesses will pay to develop apps wherever there is an increase in the efficiency levels of the firm and value addition to the customers.
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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