The Kerala government has set up a web site, keralarescue.in, to coordinate relief and aid for the floods-affected people. It has also set up a website for online transfer of donations towards flood relief.
The government expects the pension sector to overtake insurance segment once it is opened up to private players.
The government plans to consider the issue of merger between BSNL and MTNL on the basis of suggestions made by a financial consultant appointed by the centre, chairman and managing director of BSNL A K Sinha said.
The board will also provide modern shelters made of pre-fabricated material, J&K Governor Sinha added.
Central Para Military Forces personnel were guarding the EVMs, stored in 41 counting centres and securitymen in adequate strength would be deployed inside and outside the counting centres to ensure its conduct in an orderly and peaceful manner.
State-run BSNL is likely to place a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) mobile telephony order with the two winners of the contract - Ericsson and Nokia - by second week of May to increase the capacity of its network.
Azad had, on Sunday, called on the Governor to stake claim to form the new government in Jammu and Kashmir, replacing Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the chief minister.
One man was shot dead for pointing a toy pistol at a BSF officer.
CRPF personnel donate one-day salary for quake victims
Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
One representative of the government as well as that of the Indian Banks' Association have been included in the expert committee which will advise the government on the new company law.
On October five a court had issued a arrest warrant against Taslimuddin on a complaint filed by a dealer of an automobile company.
BSNL also launched a pre-paid card with lifetime validity for Rs 949 which includes preloaded talk time of Rs 99.
He is scheduled to meet top state leaders and security officials to assess the ground situation in the Valley, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the state later this month.
Internal security columns of the army, which were deployed in the curfew-bound areas, were seen staging flag marches, while dozens of persons were taken into preventive custody to maintain law and order.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam on Tuesday announced a major reduction in the international long distance call rates for Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Gulf and SAARC countries to Rs 12 per minute from the existing Rs 18 a minute.
The 'charri mubarak', carried by around 500 saints led by its custodian, Mahant Deepinder Giri, reached the shrine, 143 km from Srinagar, around 0845 IST.
Paolo Castagna who took over as the managing director of Fiat India in March this year, is trying to revive its fortunes.
"The e-donations can be made from any of SBI ATMs across the country. Money can be easily transferred from any account to the Mata Vaishnodevi account," Chief Manager, SBI, Chand Tickoo said.
Addressing the 28th Annual Convention of vice-chancellors of the Indian Agriculture Universities Association in Srinagar, Sinha said this would be possible with the successful implementation of the roadmap formulated for the purpose.
The yatra would now be on for 45 days from the existing 30 days.
Reliance Industries' plans to raise $500 million from overseas markets may suffer a setback after the government decided to "discourage" all external commercial borrowings above $100 million.
Foreign direct investment in many other sectors may be hiked to 100 per cent and procedures for External Commercial Borrowings would be further simplified, a senior finance ministry official indicated on Tuesday.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Friday said the concept of 'One India', entailing single tariff for local and STD calls, was welcome from the consumers' point of view but its impact on companies' finances would have to be assessed.
Listed cos begin appointing women directors
The operationalisation of the new pension scheme, scheduled to have started from April, is to be delayed as the appointment of fund mangers is being deferred till July.
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