The CRPF jawan who shot dead his senior colleague at the residence of the Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran was remanded to judicial custody on Friday till September 2 by a Delhi court.
Telecom Minister A Raja is likely to brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a day or two on the changes he wants in BSNL's mega tender to add 45.5 million GSM lines, which was approved by his predecessor Dayanidhi Maran.
French telecom giant Alcatel will invest up to Euro 500 million ($600 million) in India over the next four years and take headcount at its research and development facilities here to 2,000.
Anil Ambani on Wednesday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Home Minister Shivraj Patil presumably to brief them about the settlement of Reliance empire with the elder scion of the Ambani family, Mukesh.
Selvi was known for her proximity with DMK chief Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi and political observers feel it might have been one of the reasons for naming her as the Union Minister to fill the vacancy created by Maran's exit.
She is the widow of Venkatesa Pannaiyar, an alleged don who was killed in an encounter by police a few years ago in Chennai.
The entire lot of 1,84,000 multi-access radio relay phones connecting rural areas in the country would be replaced within the next 18 months as they have been found to be "faulty", Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Union Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday asked the BSNL workforce to try to be more customer friendly so that it could increase its share of the telecom market.
Expressing concern over decline in the share of public sector companies BSNL and MTNL in overall telephones during the last five years, the government on Friday asked them to plan for an additional 100-150 million lines over the next three years.
The state-owned MTNL on Wednesday announced expansion of its GSM cellular capacity by an additional four lakh lines each in Delhi and Mumbai, from the current 2.25 lakh lines each in the two metros.
The government on Wednesday said it has begun the process of scrutinising the names for appointment of advisors to synergise operations of the telecom PSUs -- BSNL and MTNL.
The government is considering buying back shares of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd from the market as one of the options to pave the way for its merger with Bharat Sanchar Nigam, which is not listed on the bourses.
The government said on Wednesday there will be no unbundling of BSNL and MTNL's fixed line networks for laying of broadband lines by private operators.
In an apparent lack of desired response to its much hyped OneIndia tariff plan for fixed line services, state owned BSNL on Tuesday lowered its rental to Rs 225 a month from Rs 299 and also offered 25 free calls in a month. \n\n
MTNL on Tuesday launched its long distance services between Delhi and Mumbai, opting Tata-owned VSNL as its preferred carrier for STD calls -- a move that could bring down call rates.
The government on Wednesday said that a consortium of overseas Indians is expected to take a final decision on whether to set up a semiconductor chip manufacturing facility in India or not by the end of this year.
Heralding a new era of low-cost computing with full functionality, IT company HCL Infosystem in partnership with Microsoft and microprocessor company AMD on Thursday launched a sub-Rs 10,000 computer.
The department of telecom will issue guidelines on raising the foreign direct investment limit to 74 per cent from 49 per cent next week.
While 30 of them were suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, three were suspended pending the report of the Privileges Committee.
Is the unusually and unbearably scorching Sun and the general laxity, bordering on laziness, among voters, responsible, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The total number of telephone connections in India now stands at 10.02 crore.
Software exports from Bangalore, India's IT hub, has jumped by 35 per cent to Rs 22,000 crore (Rs 220 billion) in 2004-05
India's IT and ITeS exports are poised to touch the $50 billion mark by the year 2008, IT and Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran said on Thursday.
The IT industry is expected to contribute 30 per cent of all foreign exchange flows into the country by 2008, Minister for IT and Communications, Dayanidhi Maran said.
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) MPs, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in Parliament premises on Wednesday over the alleged discrimination against opposition-ruled states in the Union Budget.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the CBI to go ahead with its probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal without waiting for necessary sanction against an official "holding high position" in connection with irregularities in the case arising out of 2G scam.
His maiden tweet read "citizens should voice own views for a strong Tamil Nadu and integral India".
Pradip Baijal, former chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), spoke to Nivedita Mookerji on what made him write the book, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telling him to cooperate with then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, being hounded and harassed during the UPA years, questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation, and more.
Most of the members, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were seen wearing face masks. However, members had crowded the Lok Sabha chamber, while hardly a handful of others, including union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal, were seen seated in the Rajya Sabha chamber.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi on Monday renominated former telecom minister and 2G scam accused A Raja for the April 24 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu. He also sent a strong message to rebels in the party by denying a ticket to his son M K Alagiri.
The INDIA bloc has 95 MPs in Rajya Sabha of which 45 were suspended on Monday.
Chidambaram was competent to give approval of upto Rs 600 crore but he gave the approval which was worth approximately Rs 3,500 crore
In private, questions are being raised about the wisdom of a 'dual-SIM' leadership during the long run-up to the 2026 assembly polls where 'family rule' could become an election issue, reports N Sathiya Moorthy.
Joshi, however, clarified that he did not support the banned practice and that his remarks were on the tradition of 'Jauhar'.
If the BJP has to work as a junior partner of Vijay's TVK, then either the party will have to change the state leader, or the latter should change himself. Incidentally, ever since Vijay started talking politics and elections, the pro-BJP/Hindutva social media had stopped dragging his name into any non-existing issue.' In particular, they have stopped referring to him by his Christian name, 'Joseph Vijay', observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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