Correspondent
Centre mulls unit to check phone tapping
New Delhi, Feb. 15: The Centre is planning to set up a central monitoring unit under the department of telecom to monitor all cases of phone tapping authorised by it and enable secrecy during lawful i
Koli death confirmed, Pandher plea pending
New Delhi, Feb.15: In one of the shortest hearings in an appeal on the capital punishment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence to Surendra Koli in one of the sixteen cases of “Ni
‘Bugged’, AC passengers stop train
Coimbatore, Feb. 15: Bitten by hordes of bugs that invaded the AC Coach of the Mangalore-Jammu Tawi Express, sleepless passengers brought the train to an unscheduled halt at the Coimbatore station for
Petrol price not to be hiked: Jaipal
New Delhi, Feb. 15: The Union minister for petroleum and natural gas, Mr Jaipal Reddy, on Tuesday revealed that the government does not intend to raise the prices of petrol and diesel despite the inte
EPF interest 9.5%, 4.71cr will benefit
New Delhi: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation on Tuesday stuck to its decision to pay interest of 9.5 per cent on provident fund deposits for 2010-11, a one per cent increase over the existing
Cabinet clears 2G JPC probe
New Delhi, Feb. 15: The government on Tuesday appeared to have agreed in principle to constitute a joint parliamentary committee to investigate the alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam. Sources said a
2G: CBI grills MD of Unitech
New Delhi, Feb. 15: The CBI, probing the 2G spectrum scam, on Tuesday questioned seven top officials of different private telecom companies and confronted them with the documents seized by the agency
DMK man was Devas deal whistleblower
Feb. 15: Indian space scientists have left it to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to take a “political call” on dumping the contract for allotment of high-value and scarce airwaves to Devas Multimedia Ltd, but have also provided him “potent” particulars which could well send relations between the Congress and the DMK into a tailspin.
World Bank finds food prices at alarming levels
Feb. 16: Now it is the World Bank that is worried about the rising food prices. The development institution says that the rising food prices of the past year have pushed 44 million people around the w
War of words on BSY kin grips court
Bengaluru, Feb. 14: The 23rd additional city civil and sessions court, also Lokayukta special court, on Monday witnessed war of words on the issue of right of audience to the Chief Minister, B.S. Yedd
