New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Google’s Chief Business Officer and senior vice president Nikesh Arora has resigned as independent director from the board of telecom service provider Bharti Airtel and he was replaced by Dinesh Kumar Mittal, a former bureaucrat, a company statement said here Thursday. Mittal retired as secretary, department of financial services, in 2013. […]
Erode (Tamil Nadu), March 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday criticised the DMK’s decision to field 2G scam tainted ministers A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran in the general elections. Addressing a rally here, around 400 km from Chennai, the AIADMK general secretary said that at a time when the general view is that […]
Erode (Tamil Nadu), March 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday said the “anti-farmer” Congress party should be voted out of power and added that her government’s policy is to see that the farmers are not affected by any project. Addressing an election rally here, around 400 km from Chennai, the AIADMK general secretary, […]
Nagpur (Maharashtra), March 13 (IANS) AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal Thursday cancelled a public meeting in Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency due to ill health, leaving hundreds of enthusiastic farmers disappointed. “Kejriwal was unable to travel to Chandrapur as planned due to ill health. The meeting will be conducted under the leadership of Anjali Damania along with Raju […]
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Sahara group chief Subrata Roy will stay in Tihar jail for some more time as the Supreme Court Thursday declined his plea for release on a personal bond with an assurance that he will not leave the country. The apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice J.S. Khehar reiterated […]
Lucknow, March 13 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will interact with party leaders in Uttar Pradesh through video conferencing March 15, a Congress spokesman said Thursday. The Gandhi scion, hard pressed for time owing to his election campaigns elsewhere in the country, decided to take the electronic route for crucial interaction, sources said. Apart from […]
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Telecom Secretary M.F. Farooqui Thursday said the information and communication technology (ICT) manufacturers should meet the standard norms of developing countries if they want their businesses to multiply manifold. He said the telecom industry has grown by leaps and bounds in the past three decades but the manufacturers should start reinventing […]
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Prakash Javedkar Thursday said that the party is witnessing a “scene in contrast”. “Today we are witnessing a scene in contrast as leaders after leaders and ministers after ministers are refusing to fight on the Congress ticket”, Javedkar told media at the BJP national headquarters here. […]
Patna, March 13 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad has turned to vaastu shastra ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to rid himself and his family of misfortune and ill-luck and to ensure good electoral performance of his party. With over a dozen of his senior party leaders, including a Rajya Sabha member, half a dozen legislators […]
Hyderabad, March 12 (IANS) India, which is poised to become the third largest aviation market in the world by 2020, offers tremendous opportunities for foreign investors, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said here Wednesday. Inaugurating India Aviation 2014, the country’s largest civil aviation event here Wednesday, he underlined the need for increasing international collaboration in the […]