The race for control of Kuwait-headquartered Zain Telecom has quickened with the Indian consortium led by Delhi-based Vavasi group saying it is willing to give a majority stake in the consortium to state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, depending on which company gets government approval to go ahead with the deal.
Keen to expand its operations abroad, state-owned telecom operator MTNL on Tuesday said it is keen on entering Africa either by getting a new licence or buying out an existing operator.
BK Modi-promoted Spice Group and British Virgin Mobile have bid for MTNL's franchise deals to offer 3G services in Mumbai and Delhi.
Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif claimed on Monday that there was a major breakthrough to resolve the Kashmir issue with India during his premiership but the gains were "turned upside down" by the subsequent military regime of Pervez Musharraf.
The colourful branding for next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi has left architects hopping mad.
"Our electoral rolls revised according to the newly delimited constituencies will be ready by August 31," the CEC told reporters when asked whether the commission was ready to conduct Lok Sabha elections as per the redrawn constituencies.
Tax experts said that in FY17 around 80,000 people had reported incomes of over Rs 1 crore
The body of Lt Kiran Shekhawat was on Thursday recovered from the fuselage of the ill-fated Dornier aircraft of the navy.
Activists have been meeting all important people concerned with the construction to explain them the environment risks involved in the project but they have been shocked to see the involvement of some big names of New Delhi behind the project.
The order of Speaker Raghubir Singh Kadian came on a petition filed against Lal seeking that he be disqualified as a legislator since he had voluntarily given up the membership of the Congress on whose ticket he was elected and formed a new party along with his son and parliamentarian Kuldip Bishnoi.
To assist Greg Chappell and Ian Frazer, the RCA has roped in five local coaches, all ex-Ranji Trophy players who have since passed the Level 2 coaching exams conducted by the board: Sharad Joshi, Krishnakumar, Vijay Asawa, Harish Joshi and Kuldip Mathur.
The prize is awarded by BioMed North Limited, a not-for-profit agency for the management and commercialisation of intellectual property generated within the state of New South Wales.
State-run telecom major BSNL's plans to expand the GSM network has again come across a hurdle with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) refusing to accept its share of the 22.5-million-lines contract due to price differences.
Kuldip Singh, a Tanda Ram Sahay village farmer, claimed Gurinder Singh is the son of his younger brother Mohinder Singh. He claimed that the boy's mother Dapinder Kaur, who is fighting a divorce case, was involved in "human trafficking" and took the boy with her to Malaysia in August 2007.
The judgment will grant relief to several parliamentarians, including the prime minister who was elected to the Upper House of Parliament from Assam, which is not his state of domicile.
'Shastri told General Chaudhuri, 'I want to reach Lahore before they enter Kashmir'.' 'Today, many regard this initiative of Shastri as the first surgical strike.' A revealing excerpt from Dr Sandeep Shastri's Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics And Beyond.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Indian ODI Players in the 2018-19 season so far.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
Army veterans in Punjab have stepped forward to fight a legal battle on behalf of Gurmehar Kaur.
Rediff.com asked experts, analysts and some people who knew her well for their views on what kind of a prime minister she would have been in 2007. The result is a very inspiring picture with a touch of mystique.
Nayar urged the court to takeup the matter at an early date in view of the high number of vacant seats likely to be filled in the near future.
According to secret government papers written 30 years ago and released on Friday at the National Archives in Kew, west London, Britain had firmly rebutted a claim made by Pakistan for the jewel in 1976.
Kuldip Singh Nag was attacked on his private property and has sustained several injuries.
Folk artist from Chhattisgarh Teejan Bai, Guelleh, Naik and theatre actor from Maharashtra Balwant Moreshwar Purandare will be honoured with Padma Vibushan.
A 26-year-old Sikh man was on Friday jailed for 10 years in London for making an attempt on the life of Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar, who led the 1984 Operation Bluestar to flush out extremists from the Golden Temple.
'Magnanimity and appeasement have no place in the world of realpolitik as India has learned the hard way,' notes Vivek Gumaste in the first of a two-part column.
Noted columnist Kuldip Nayyar on Friday said former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri may have indeed died of a heart attack at Tashkent in Russia but he was still 'not too sure of that.'
590 cricketers -- including 370 Indian players and 220 overseas players -- will go under the hammer during the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
Sikh groups demand that the report should be made public in two weeks.
'It had to be a surgical operation, one that caused the minimum damage but it had to be as quick as possible because once word got around...' General K S Brar looks back at Operation Bluestar.
'It had to be a surgical operation, one that caused the minimum damage but it had to be as quick as possible because once word got around...' General K S Brar looks back at Operation Bluestar.
A General Court Martial found Col Sehgal of the Directorate of Ordnance Services guilty of three of the four charges against him, sources said.
'Not unlike politicians who gravitate towards whoever is in power, mafia dons too have a great survival streak, switching loyalty to the party in power,' observes Virendra Kapoor a week after gangster Vikas Dubey was slain in an alleged encounter.
The duo put on 193 runs for the unfinished third wicket as Tamil Nadu amassed 261 for 2 against Delhi on day 1 in the Ranji Trophy match.
Sethi is the main accused in a 1997 kidnapping and robbery case.
General K S Brar tells Amberish K Diwanji about his feelings as a Sikh who sent soldiers into his religion's most revered site.
'Every army chief has told the government that it is not in the interest of the army for it to enter civil situations,' says General K S Brar.
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