'We flew all missions in the first part of the war at low levels; that is at 300 to 500 feet above the ground.' 'These sorties were no doubt stressful since the pilots and crew had to look out for birds and obstructions as well as enemy gunfire.'
Spain's unprecedented success at the World Cup finals is helping people forget the country's economic woes, captain Iker Casillas said on Friday.
The finance ministers of 16 nations that use the euro Sunday night sealed a 110-billion euro bailout package for heavily indebted Greece over three years after the country's government agreed to a new round of tough austerity measures.
Thomas Isaac has been in and out of the national news in his role as Kerala's finance minister since 2018 for various path-breaking tax initiatives. But it is 2020 that he has become more prominent, principally in the GST council.
On September 7, 2009, the government had instructed all its departments not to travel first class within or outside the country on government account.
Jeremy Corbyn is a most unusual politician in these times.
Affluent politicians in India are obviously upset with what the affluent corporate Indian is permitted to legitimately take home as a pay package.
Exorbitant executive pay packets have come under fire from different quarters internationally, with many even blaming the practice for the ongoing financial turmoil.
They will fawn over a prize catch who has brought a rich dowry of Gwalior-Chambal politicians. But in the end, all BJP members are prajas of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Sunder Navalkar devoted her whole life to the cause of workers' rights, remembers Sanober Keashwaar.
If you spot a politician or civil servant seen to be violating the austerity guidelines, why don't you shoot a photograph and/or video and send it to us? We shall post the best images and videos on rediff.com
Congress president Sonia Gandhi may advocate austerity in these tough times but not everyone shares her enthusiasm for tightening the belt, it seems.Certainly not Ashwini Kumar, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, who was flown in a chartered flight to Surat for the November 29 wedding of Shreyansh Govind Dholakia.The Dholakias are well-known diamond brokers from Surat with offices all over the world.
Many argue there's a mismatch between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focus on international exposure and his government's diktat to officials on limiting travel.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has learnt that humour has no place in Indian politics. George Joseph meets the newly-cautious Tharoor, and finds out why the satirical novelist enjoys being part of the Indian government.
During deleveraging the income falls more than reduction in debt due to the austerity measures.
Presenting his first budget policy before the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Medvedev said for the first time in a decade Russia would be spending more than its revenue.
By replacing just 50 per cent of proprietary software with open source in desktops and servers in 2010, India can save close to Rs 10,000 crore.
Tharoor has nearly 175,000 followers on Twitter. An account that he started when he launched his election campaign now may now cost him dear as voices urging him to log off Twitter keep getting louder by the day.
Determined to imbibe austerity in its policies, the government has asked various departments to scrap or downsize expenses on insignificant activities by up to 10 per cent when they submit proposals for Budget 2010-11.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, partner in the United Progressive Alliance government, has also adopted austerity as its slogan with its Union minister Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday travelling by economy class of an Air India flight from Chennai to New Delhi
A relevant question that needs to be answered is what actually triggered the Manmohan Singh government's austerity move?
In view of the government's austerity drive, Union External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Sunday decided to forego travel by private aircraft which he is entitled to use on visits abroad and said he will go by commercial flights.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday sought to downplay the controversy over austerity measures that had kicked up a row in the cabinet meeting on Thursday saying it could be due to some misunderstanding.
The UPA government's drive has come under some questioning from an ally with a mind of its own.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor are ready to vacate their luxury hotel rooms following Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's call for austerity.
'Insulting the law, instigating violence, living ostentatiously and preaching godliness?' 'This vulgar hypocrisy needs peoples' rejection and a revolt.' 'If people can't speak out, then it will be a hypocrisy that they expect the government to act and speak for them,' says Tarun Vijay.
Silver met with resistance and fell by Rs 200 to Rs 36,000 per kg.
The Greek stock market has been shut since last week.
For Africa's Test-playing nations, administrative turmoil has defined the dying days of the 2010s.
Perched in the hills of Darjeeling, the factory was set up in 1874, but has remained shut since 2001. Efforts to reopen the colonial era establishment are now on a war footing.
Staff on Air India One, the Prime Minister's official aircraft, was reportedly given advance instructions to trim the contents on offer in the official menu.
News is already out that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's delegation has been pruned for his trip to Pittsburgh. The staff on Air India One, the prime minister's official aircraft, were reportedly given advance instructions to trim the contents on offer in the official menu. The staff did not serve expensive biscuits and eliminated caviar, but in a concession to the media accompanying the delegation, served all those on board the choicest of liquor en route to Frankfurt.
While austerity is the current fad, the United Progressive Alliance government has splurged over Rs 93 crore in the last five years on renovation and maintenance of the sprawling bungalows of ministers and Members of Parliament, in the posh Lutyen's zone. In reply to a Right To Information query filed by a resident of Mumbai, Chetan Kothari, it was revealed by the government that in the last five years, an expenditure of Rs 93.53 crore has been incurred.
'It's a rare privilege, within a matter of months, I have changed my residence, my profession, my daily thrust of work, and it's in some ways quite invigorating,' Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for external affairs, tells Aziz Haniffa in an exclusive interview.
On tap to keynote the 26th annual Convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Originarguably the largest and most influential ethnic professional organization in the United Statesin Las Vegas next week, is Indian Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, who AAPI leaders say has confirmed he will attend despite rumors to the contrary because of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's austerity drive discouraging his ministers from foreign travel.
Banks bore the brunt of the sell-off.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of Minister of State for Tourism Sultan Ahmed staying in a five-star hotel for six months and questioned who would foot the bill of Rs 37 lakh.
'In a serious fiscal situation like this, an ostrich-like focus on annual budgeting, event management and defensive rhetoric will only make matters worse,' warns Rathin Roy.
A shorter tournament will mean a smaller share from the shrunken central pool of revenues for the eight IPL franchises, not to mention a reduction in gate receipts. Cricket Australia stands to lose some A$300 million ($174 million) should the coronavirus outbreak derail their high-profile home test series against India later this year.
AIBOC in a letter to the Prime Minister, has said the government should not expect the banking fraternity to "join the political campaign of #MainBhiChowkidar" unless issues related to merger of banks, salary revision and staff recruitment, among others, are addressed.
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