It is of course true that a lot of low-income people can indeed afford mobile phones today, as handsets cost no more than Rs 700.
Mukherjee will travel to Pakistan on January 13 to invite President Pervez Musharraf for the SAARC summit to be held here in early April and hold 'substantive talks' with Kasuri.
The pipelines will be from Iran to India through Pakistan, from Turkmenistan to India through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh, Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
The Kazakhstan government has assured India that it will consider allowing ONGC Videsh Ltd to acquire a share in the assets of Canadian oil company Petrokazakhstan, a top government official said.
Union sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar lashed out at the Indian Hockey Federation, saying "it is a matter of shame that a team which has been part of the Olympics for the past 80 years and won several gold and silver medals failed to qualify for the Beijing Games". Eight-time champions India lost 0-2 to Great Britain on Sunday night in the final of the second Olympic qualifier in Santiago, Chile, and failed to make it to the quadrennial event for the first time in 80 years.
The government will end Gas Authority of India's monopoly over laying natural gas pipelines by allowing private sector firms in gas transportation business, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.
In the wake of opposition from the law ministry and the Department of Public Enterprises, the petroleum ministry
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has blamed bureaucrats in his ministry for the fiasco over appointment of additional government directors on ONGC board, saying legal opinion should have been taken instead of doing 'guess-work'.
State owned refiner Indian Oil Corporation has proposed merger of its subsidiaries Indian Oil Blending Ltd, IBP Co Ltd, Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd and Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd with itself, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said
India's petroleum minister has that the proposed $7.4 billion gas pipeline from Iran through Pakistan was a risky proposition and could face financial problems.
Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was appointed chairman of the reconstituted Apex Committee for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
The government is considering allowing private firms to sell subsidised domestic cooking gas LPG, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday.
India on Wednesday said 'it was unfazed' by the United States' opposition to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, adding it will continue to pursue gas imports from Iran to meet its energy requirements.
India on Wednesday said 'it was unfazed' by American opposition to the Iran-Pak-India pipeline, adding that it would continue to pursue gas imports from Iran to meet its energy requirements.
'I don't feel useless,' says Mani Shankar Aiyar.
India and China should follow the path of cooperation and not confrontation in their quest for overseas energy sources, Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.
As hard as it is to believe, the impact of information technology is far greater in rural areas than in cities, says a survey on e-governance project by management and ICT consultancy firm Skoch.
Undoing Mani Shankar Aiyar's move to exercise greater control on public sector oil firms, the petroleum ministry has restricted the number of government directors on boards of public sector oil companies to just two.
Enhancing cooperation in the hydrocarbon sector, vital for the energy security of the two fastest growing economies in the world, will be high on the agenda of talks Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will hold with Chinese leaders.
India on Thursday called for developing an Asian oil market and putting in place longer supply contracts to provide stability and security of supplies to major consuming countries.
95% of investments in domestic sector, won't pay special dividend: Raha.
India on Monday said that gas imports from Iran by pipeline passing through Pakistan was indispensable to its economic growth and will enter into trilateral dialogue on the pipeline early next year.
The government is reviewing the previous NDA regime's ambitious programme to run automobiles on ethanol-doped petrol, a project which was launched to cut the country's dependence on imported crude oil.
India will use the services of its former diplomats in its pursuit of energy security through acquisition of oil and gas properties abroad particularly in West Asia, Africa and Central Asia.
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