NEW DELHI: State-owned telecom MTNL on Tuesday raised the bar for competitive tariffs by announcing a half paise-per-second plan for mobile calls on its 2G as well as 3G network in Delhi and Mumbai circles. For calls made to other networks, the tariff is 1 paise-per-second, MTNL chairman and managing director RSP Sinha said. Under [...]
Paris : The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has now become the target of a shoe thrower himself. While speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a shoe thrown by what appeared to be another Iraqi [...]
NEW DELHI: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed with him the situation in Afghanistan and further steps required to bring peace and stability in the country. During the “brief conversation”, the two leaders also discussed the forthcoming summit on climate change in Copenhagen, the Prime Minister’s Office [...]
Ceiling fan languidly rearranging the stuffy air, tiffin box in a corner, large, shiny, black rotary dial telephone, call bell to summon an orderly to dust the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi. This pretty much sums up the office room of the top Indian executives of about half a century ago. Today’s CEOs work in far [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Economists call Kerala a ‘money order economy,’ precisely for the reason that every third house in Kerala has a man working in the Gulf. It’s this Malayali’s dream to making it big in the Gulf that is in the line of fire when the markets tumbled in Dubai due to the Dubai World debt [...]
MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Monday snapped the two-day 3.3 per cent losses, to close with a significant gain of over 294 points or 1.71 per cent, driven by the more than expected GDP growth at 7.9 per cent amid easing tension in the Dubai debt crisis. The Sensex, which had lost [...]
Mumbai: When “Paa” came her way, Vidya Balan was excited about sharing screen space with superstar Amitabh Bachchan, but was equally looking forward to working with Abhishek again. The actress is all admiration for Bachchan junior, who she says is an “instinctive” actor and has “something so magical about his eyes”. “When ‘Paa’ came to [...]
New York: The Forbes, best known for its rankings of the richest and the most powerful the world over, has put Ramalinga Raju, the founder-chairman of Satyam Computers (now Mahindra Satyam), fourth among the “world’s 10 most outrageous CEOs”. Giving Raju company in what the US business magazine called “This year’s C-Suite Hall of Shame”, [...]
NEW DELHI: Food inflation rose to 15.58 per cent for the second week of November from 14.55 per cent in the previous week as potatoes and pulses turned costlier. On an annual basis, potato prices more than doubled, pulses became expensive by over 35 per cent, while onions rose by 27 per cent. Price rise [...]
NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Petroleum has wrested a 50% premium to allow Oman Oil Company to re-enter its Rs 11,397 crore Bina Refinery project. Oman Oil has returned to pick up 26% equity in the project for an additional Rs 1,220 crore, sources said. The six-million tonne per annum refinery in Madhya Pradesh was originally [...]
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